Linda Hutcheon

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Linda Hutcheon (born 1947) is a Canadian academic, literary theorist, and feminist. She is University Professor in the Department of English and of the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, where she has taught since 1988. In 2000 she was elected the 117th President of the Modern Language Association, the third Canadian to hold this position, and the first Canadian woman.

She specializes in theories of postmodernism. She has published numerous books, including The Politics of Postmodernism (Routledge, 1989). Hutcheon is also credited with coining the term historiographic metafiction, a descriptor for literary works she believes characterize postmodernism in fiction.

[edit] Publications

A Theory of Adaptation. (NY and London: Routledge, 2006).

Opera: The Art of Dying. Harvard University Press, 2004 (with Michael Hutcheon).

Rethinking Literary History: A Forum on Theory. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002 (with Mario J. Valdés).

Bodily Charm: Living Opera. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000 (with Michael Hutcheon).

Opera: Desire, Disease, and Death. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996 (with Michael Hutcheon).

Irony's Edge: The Theory and Politics of Irony. London and New York: Routledge, 1995. Portuguese translation (Belo Horizonte, Brasil: Editora UFMG, 2000); final chapter reprinted in New Contexts of Canadian Criticism (Peterborough: Broadview P, 2001).