About
Laura K. Davis is a writer and a professor who works in the areas of Canadian Literature and Writing Studies.She is engaged in writing both creative and academic writing, and has published books, articles, and reviews on Canadian writers such as Margaret Laurence and Joy Kogawa, and on educational topics such as how to teach writing. She is a full time faculty member in the program of English at Red Deer Polytechnic, Alberta, Canada, where she has been teaching since 2008. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Alberta, an M.A. from the University of Victoria, and a B.A. from the University of British Columbia. As well as teaching, researching, and writing, she enjoys spending time with her family, and teaching and practicing yoga.
In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.
Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness
My Work
My current research focuses on the Canadian writer Margaret Atwood and her involvement with environmental organizations and wetlands preservation in Canada. I'm also working on writing a novel, a project for the Creative Writing Graduate Certificate with the Humber School for Writers.
My most recent academic monograph, Alice Munro and the Art of Time, which was published by the University of Alberta Press in the Spring of 2025, analyses various short stories by the Canadian writer and Nobel prize winner, examining how the vicissitudes of time inflect narration and gender identities.
My academic work resides at the intersections of history, culture, and literature, and my approach to the study of literature emphasizes the material and intellectual contexts in which texts are produced. l aim to inspire in my students an appreciation for literature and expression, an understanding, through literature, of the complexities of their own lives and societies.
My most recent academic monograph, Alice Munro and the Art of Time, which was published by the University of Alberta Press in the Spring of 2025, analyses various short stories by the Canadian writer and Nobel prize winner, examining how the vicissitudes of time inflect narration and gender identities.
My academic work resides at the intersections of history, culture, and literature, and my approach to the study of literature emphasizes the material and intellectual contexts in which texts are produced. l aim to inspire in my students an appreciation for literature and expression, an understanding, through literature, of the complexities of their own lives and societies.