Positions
Education
Teaching Areas
Undergraduate Programs
- English Studies
Research
Research Interests
The Canadian Short Story and “voice,” Matricentric Feminism, Creative Writing
Current Research Projects / Labs
- I am working on my fourth poetry ms., Life Force, Beyond Belief.
- I am also engaged in scholarship on Alice Munro.
- Creative writing: fiction and poetry. Founding member of NN WW (Near North Writers Workshop), started Summer 2023)
Open to Media Inquiries
Publications
Book Publications Academic Books
Psychologies of Mothering: Literature and Literacy. Edited by Laurie Kruk and Kristen Ferguson. Coe Hill, ON: Demeter Press, 2026.
The Future of Humanity: Revisioning the Human in the Posthuman Age. Edited by Pavlina Radia, Sarah Fiona Winters, and Laurie Kruk. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019.
Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story: Birdsell, Findley, Hodgins, King, MacLeod, Senior, Shields, Vanderhaeghe. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2016.
Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing the Motherland. Co-edited by Jane Satterfield and Laurie Kruk. Demeter Press, 2016.
The Voice Is the Story: Conversations with Canadian Writers of Short Fiction. Oakville, ON: Mosaic Press, 2003.
Poetry Collections
My Mother Did Not Tell Stories. Demeter Press, 2012.
Loving the Alien. Sudbury, ON: YSP, 2006.
Theories of the World. Windsor, ON: Netherlandic Press, 1992.
Journal Publications and Book Chapters (Selected)
Kruk, Laurie. “Innovation and Reflection in the New Millennium: The ‘Double Voice’ in Carol Shields’s Short Fiction.” Contemporary Women’s Writing (2011). https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpr018
“Good-Enough Friday,” “Lessons from the River,” “Widowmaker,” and “Vaudevillians of Time.” The Windsor Review 43, no. 1 (Spring 2010), Special Prophecy Issue. (Poetry)
Kruk, Laurie. “Mothering Sons: Stories by Findley, Hodgins and MacLeod Uncover the Mother’s Double Voice.” Atlantis 32 (2007): 34-44. Reprinted in Short Story Criticism, edited by Jelena Krstovic. Cengage/Gale, 2011.
Kruk, Laurie. “Storykeepers: Circling Family Voice in Short Stories by Tom King, Alistair MacLeod, Olive Senior and Guy Vanderhaeghe.” Journal of the Short Story in English, special issue, “Orality in the Short Story in English,” no. 47 (Autumn 2006): 111-126.
Kruk, Laurie. “‘Outsiders’ and ‘Insiders’: Teaching Native/Canadian Literature as Meeting Place.” In Home-Work: Postcolonialism, Pedagogy and Canadian Literature, edited by Cynthia Sugars. Reappraisals: Canadian Writers Series. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2004.
Kruk, Laurie. “Double-Voicing Family in Findley’s Short Fiction: Pinking the Triangle, Drawing the Circle.” Canadian Literature 212 (Spring 2012): 34-48.