Michelle D. Elleray

Michelle D. Elleray is an Associate Professor at the College of Arts, School of Theatre, English, and Creative Writing, University of Guelph, Ontario. Her research focuses on the intersection of popular culture, empire, and missionary culture, particularly in Victorian boys’ adventure texts set in the South Pacific.

• Studied historical relationships between Victorian adventure texts and missionary organizations
• Examines dynamics of evangelicalism in shaping imperial masculinity
• Key authors: Frederick Marryat, R.M. Ballantyne, W.H.G. Kingston, Robert Louis Stevenson

Her recent projects include analyzing 19th-century juvenile missionary periodicals and Pacific Island missionaries. She supervises graduate research in Victorian prose, gender, children’s literature, the detective novel, sensation fiction, and New Zealand/Pacific studies.

Contact: melleray@uoguelph.ca