Robert Lecker is Greenshields Professor of English at McGill University, where he specializes in Canadian literature. Lecker was the co-editor of the critical journal Essays on Canadian Writing from 1975-2004, and the copublisher at ECW Press from 1977-2003. In his work at ECW Lecker was responsible for acquiring and producing hundreds of works of criticism devoted to Canadian literature, and, with his partner, Jack David, he conceived of the multi-volume reference series entitle The Annotated Bibliography of Canada’s Major Authors (8 vols.) and, with Ellen Quigley, Canadian Writers and Their Works: Essays on Form, Context, and Development (24 vols.) Lecker extended his editorial work through the creation of several anthologies, most recently Open Country: Canadian Literature in English (2007). He also acted as the general editor for Twayne’s Masterworks Series and Twayne’s World Authors series (Canada) and was also the general editor of G.K. Hall’s Critical Essays on World Literature series. In 2004 he established the Robert Lecker Agency in Montreal. Lecker is the author of numerous books and articles, including On the Line (1982), Robert Kroetsch (1986), Another I (1988), Making It Real (1995), Dr. Delicious (2006) and The Cadence of Civil Elegies (2006). In 1985 Lecker received the H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching at McGill University.
Dr. Delicious (2006), and The Cadence of Civil Elegies (2006)
English-Canadian Literary Anthologies: An Enumerative Bibliography (1997)
Making It Real: The Canonization of English-Canadian Literature (1995)
An Other I: The Fictions of Clark Blaise (1988)
Robert Kroetsch (1986)
On the Line: Readings in the Short Fiction of Clark Blaise, John Metcalf, and Hugh Hood (1982)