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(with Corey Frost, Karen Weingarten, Doug Babington, and Maureen Okun) The Broadview Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation (Peterborough: Broadview, 2024)

Contributing editor, with Nora Ruddock and Helena Snopek) Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems and Letters (Peterborough: Broadview, 2023)

(co-Managing Editor) The Broadview Anthology of American Literature, Beginnings to Reconstruction, (Peterborough: Broadview, 2022)

(with Corey Frost, Karen Weingarten, Doug Babington, and Maureen Okun) The Broadview Guide to Writing: A Handbook for Students (Peterborough: Broadview, 7th Canadian edition, 2022)

(co-editor, with D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke and Genevieve Kirk) Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness, 3rd Broadview edition, 2020)

(co-editor) Popular Culture: A Broadview Topics Reader (Peterborough: Broadview, 2019)

(with Laura Buzzard and Maureen Okun) How to Be Good with Words (Peterborough: Broadview, 2017)

(co-editor) The Broadview Anthology of Expository Prose (Peterborough: Broadview, 3/e, 2016)

(with Doug Babington and Maureen Okun) The Broadview Pocket Guide to Writing (Peterborough: Broadview, 4/e 2016)

(co-editor with Catherine Nelson-McDermott and Laura Buzzard), Science and Society: An Anthology for Readers and Writers (Peterborough: Broadview, 2014)

(with Laura Buzzard) The Broadview Pocket Glossary of Literary Terms (Peterborough: Broadview, 2013)

“Introduction to Poetry,” pages 855-878, The Broadview Introduction to Literature, edited by Lisa Chalykoff, Neta Gordon, and Paul Lumsden (Peterborough: Broadview, 2013).

(co-editor with Sara Levine and Marjorie Mather) The Broadview Anthology of Short Fiction (Peterborough: Broadview, 3/e 2013)

(with Joseph Black, Leonard Conolly, Kate Flint, Isobel Grundy, Roy Liuzza, Jerome McGann, Anne Prescott, Barry

Qualls, and Claire Waters) British Literature: A Historical Overview (Peterborough: Broadview, 2010)

(co-editor with Joseph Black, Leonard Conolly, Kate Flint, Isobel Grundy, Roy Liuzza, Jerome McGann, Anne Prescott, Barry Qualls, and Claire Waters), The Broadview Anthology of British Literature (Peterborough: Broadview, 2006 [new editions of various volumes 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011])

Common Errors in English (Peterborough: Broadview, 5/e 2003)

English Checklist (Singapore: EPB Publishers, 1990) [Singapore edition of Common Errors in English]

A Cognitive Revolution in Western Culture: Shakespeare and the Birth of Expectation (London: Macmillan, 1989).

Academic Papers and Presentations

“The Exhibition of Chloé Down Under: Nakedness on Display in 1880s Melbourne and Adelaide,” presentation at the annual conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association, 15 November 2025.

N.B. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the annual conference of the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada conference in Regina, Saskatchewan, 24 May 2025.

“Creating a Half-Human Voice: Writing the Character of Bonbon in Lucy and Bonbon,” presentation at the annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, October 25–29, 2023, Portland, Oregon.

“‘Freedom’s Journey’ and ‘The Army of the West’: Ethical and Political Paradoxes in the Writings of Thomas D’Arcy McGee,” paper presented at the annual conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association, March 3–6, 2022, Vancouver, British Columbia.

“‘A Sight More Appalling and More Appealing’: Photography and Famine Relief in Ireland and India,” paper presented at the annual conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association, October 17-19, 2019, Columbus, Ohio.

“‘A Sensation All Over England’: The Impact of Photographs on Fundraising for Famine Relief,” paper presented at the annual conference of the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English, June 1-4, 2019, Vancouver.

“The Civil War and Slavery in Blackwood’s Magazine: John Blackwood and the Role Played by ‘Disinterested Outsiders’ in Shaping Public Opinion,” paper presented at the annual conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association, October 11-14, 2018, St. Petersburg, Florida.

N.B. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the July 2018 meeting of the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada conference in Victoria, BC.)

“Canine English: Communication in André Alexis’s Fifteen Dogs,” paper presented at the annual conference of the Northeastern Modern Language Association, April 12-15, 2018, Pittsburgh.

“‘Torture in the Way of Business’: Educating Victorians about Animal Food,” paper delivered at the joint conference of the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada and the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States, Vancouver, British Columbia, April 28-29, 2017.

“Neigh Sayers: Communication in Equine-Human Society in Black Beauty,” paper delivered at the annual conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association, Phoenix, Arizona, November 3-6, 2016.

“Intimacy, Suspense, and the Transformation of Emotion in Elizabeth Gaskell’s ‘The Crooked Branch,’” paper delivered at the annual conference of the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, April 22-23, 2016, Winnipeg.

“Reading Animals and Eating Animals,” (co-authored with Maureen Okun of Vancouver Island University), paper delivered as part of a “Literature that Sparks Social Change” panel at the annual conference of the Northeast Modern Language Association, Hartford, March 17-20, 2016.

“‘Our Fellow Creatures’: Who Are They?” (co-authored with Maureen Okun of Vancouver Island University), paper delivered at the annual conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association, London, Ontario, November 13-15, 2014.

“Complicit Comedy and the Moral Community of Cranford,” paper delivered at the annual conference of the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, Banff, Alberta, April 26, 2014.

“The Secrets of Little Buttercup: Resolving the Comedy of H.M.S. Pinafore,” paper delivered at the annual conference of the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Victoria, June 4, 2013.

“Leaving the ‘Other’ Out: Lewis Gompertz, the Victorians, and Human Animals,” paper delivered at the conference of the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, Vancouver, April 27, 2013.

“Eating Suffering” [Review of Donald Stull and Michael Broadway, Slaughterhouse Blues] Alberta Views magazine, January 2013.

“‘Your suff’rings, sinless things’: Changing Attitudes Towards Non-Human Animals and the Cattle

Plague of 1865,” paper delivered at “Non-human,” the 2012 conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA), Milwaukee, September 27-29, 2012.

[a revised version of the paper delivered at the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada conference, Banff, April 29-31, 2011]

“Dickens’ ‘The Story of Little Dombey’: A Case Study in Literature and The Medium of Performance,” paper delivered at the annual conference of the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, Victoria, April 27-29, 2012.

“Performing Food: Non-human Animals in Advertising,” paper delivered at the annual conference of the Midwest Modern Languages Association conference, St. Louis, November 2-6, 2011.

“Janet Hamilton’s ‘Lines on the Summer of the Cattle Plague’ and Victorian Attitudes Towards Non-Human Animals,” paper delivered at the annual conference of the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, Banff, April 29-31, 2011.

“‘Working Like a Nigger’: Women and Entrepreneurship in Amy Levy’s The Romance of a Shop,” paper delivered at the joint conference of the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada/Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States, Vancouver, October 15-17, 2009.

“Coverage Between the Covers: Approaches to Annotating and Introducing Sensitive Subject Matter in Anthologies of British Literature,” paper delivered at the annual conference of the Modern Languages Association, San Francisco, December 29, 2008.

“Beauty and War: Tennyson’s Maud and the ‘Blood Red Blossom’,” paper delivered at annual conference of the North American Victorian Studies conference, Yale University, November 15, 2008.

“Tennyson’s Maud and the Materiality of Poetic Sound,” paper delivered at the annual conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association, Victoria, British Columbia, October 10-13, 2007.

“Gender Issues and Book Publishing in Eighteenth-Century Studies,” Panelist’s Presentation, “Publishing Eighteenth-Century Studies: An Informational Forum,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 33rd Annual General Meeting, Colorado Springs, April 6, 2002.

Literary Writing, Journalism, Public Lectures

“These three books portray the realities of poverty and the working class across decades,” Book Review, The Globe and Mail, July 6, 2022.

“The Green Party Is Poised for a Breakthrough,” The Walrus, 24 September 2019.

“Sharing at a Time of Thanksgiving,” published in the inaugural issue of New Orbit Magazine (2017)

“Historian Daniel Vickers had a brush with Hollywood,” Obituary, The Globe and Mail, February 28, 2017.

“Unfair interpretations of ‘fair use’ damaging publishing industry,” Commentary article, The Hill Times, April 6, 2016.

“Cruelty at Mealtime,” Review article, The Literary Review of Canada, March 2016.

“Why authors don’t need copyright protection long after death,” Commentary article, The Globe and Mail, July 16, 2015.

“How Much Does Free Cost?”, joint presentation with Writers’ Union of Canada Executive Director John Degen, Book Summit 2013, Toronto, June 20, 2013.

“How Publishers Read,” Public Lecture to open a series on academic writing, University of Calgary, January 7, 1998.

“Purple Loosestrife” (poem), The Peterborough Review vol. 1, no. 4, summer 1995.

“Medieval and Modern: Thought Process and Literacy” Public Lecture, The McLuhan Centre, University of Toronto, October 1990.

two poems, Quarry, spring 1973.

Art

Solo Exhibition, Feb 29-March 6, 2008, Brooklyn Artists Gym, New York

Joint exhibit, Sugar Gallery, Calgary, fall 2001

Web exhibit, donlepan.com, 2008-

Web exhibit, artsight.net, 2002-2004

Political

Candidate, New Democratic Party, Calgary Centre Constituency, 2000 Canadian federal election

Treasurer, New Democratic Party Riding Association, Peterborough, 1991-92

Volunteer:

World University Services of Canada, overseas volunteer, 1982-85

New Democratic Party of Canada (numerous elections, 1979-2017)

New Democratic Party of Ontario, 1987-1992

Inn from the Cold (agency providing support to the homeless), Calgary, 2006-09

Acorn (Home Clean-out Program), New Orleans, fall 2007

Loaves and Fishes (Nanaimo Food Bank), 2012-2015

Green Party of Canada (2019, 2121 and 2025 federal elections)

Serauxmen Stadium Amateur Baseball Association, Board Member, 2019-

Co-founder, “Eating for a Greener Planet” Action Group, Green Party of Canada, 2020