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Pam Perkins is a Professor at the Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Manitoba. She specializes in 18th–19th century women's writing, Scottish literature, travel writing, and the representation of the North in literature.
- Education: PhD (English, Dalhousie University, 1991), MA (English, Dalhousie University, 1987), BA Honours (English, University of Utah, 1986)
Research Interests include travel narratives around the North Atlantic rim (Orkney, Shetland, Iceland, Newfoundland), early 19th-century Scottish women travelers, literary editing, and women's book history. Her current projects focus on the journals of Newfoundland Governor Sir Thomas Cochrane and Scottish female travelogues.
Research Trends from her publications show a focus on gendered travel writing, Scottish Enlightenment, colonial narratives, and manuscript analysis across literary and historical contexts. She has contributed to transatlantic studies and periodical press analysis.
- Scientific Awards: SSHRC-funded postdoctoral fellowship
Teaching encompasses courses on Gothic literature, supernatural fictions, and Arctic themes in 19th-century British literature.
