18 Facts About Margery Fee

Margery Fee was born on 1948 and is a professor emeritus of English at the University of British Columbia.

From 2015 to 2017, Fee was the Brenda and David McLean Chair In Canadian Studies at UBC.

Margery Fee publishes in the fields of Canadian, postcolonial and Indigenous studies and Canadian English usage and lexicography.

Two years later, Fee was hired as director of the Unit, replacing W C Lougheed.

Margery Fee helped obtain a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council grant to continue the expansion of the corpus.

In 1992, Margery Fee compiled a collection of essays titled Silence Made Visible: Howard O'Hagan and Tay John.

Margery Fee published The Fat Lady Dances: Margaret Atwood's "Lady Oracle", a literature review of Margaret Atwood's work in 1993.

Margery Fee was hired as an associate professor at the University of British Columbia in 1993.

Margery Fee came to UBC with the purpose of teaching First Nations literatures.

Margery Fee served as Associate Dean of students from 1999 to 2004.

In 2005, Margery Fee was awarded the Margaret Fulton Award for her contribution to student development and the University community.

Margery Fee served as director of the Arts One Program and director of the Canadian Studies Program from 2005 to 2008.

The year she left her position as director, Margery Fee was honoured as a distinguished scholar in residence at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies and was the recipient of the Dean of Arts Award.

From 2007 until 2015, Margery Fee was an editor of Canadian Literature, a quarterly journal of criticism and review.

Margery Fee led the team that established CanLit Guides, an open-access resource for the study of Canadian literature.

In 2015, Margery Fee was selected as the Brenda and David McLean Chair In Canadian Studies at UBC.

Similarly, Margery Fee became a co-Investigator with Daniel Heath Justice and Deanna Reder on a SSHRC-funded project called The People And The Text.

In 2016, Fee published Tekahionwake: E Pauline Johnson's writings on native North America, which detailed the life of the early North American Indigenous poet and fiction writer.