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Born and raised outside Montreal, I’m a settler scholar of French Canadian ancestry who moved to Ontario to pursue an MA in English at the University of Guelph, followed by a PhD in English at McMaster University. I have held a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Alberta, a Leverhulme visiting fellowship at the University of Worcester (UK), and visiting appointments at several more universities across Canada. Since 2010, I have taught courses in English, contemporary studies, youth and children’s studies, and social and environmental justice on Laurier’s Brantford and Waterloo campuses.
My first novel, entitled In the Key of Dale and telling the story of a queer sixteen-year-old music prodigy who starts writing letters to his late father, was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2022. I have also published an award-winning three-volume critical anthology, editions of the work of several early Canadian authors, book chapters and encyclopedia entries on various aspects of Canadian literature and children's literature, as well as short stories, journal articles, and reviews in a wide variety of periodicals.
Please visit my website for a full list of my publications.
Current projects include new fiction manuscripts, trade non-fiction studies of L.M. Montgomery’s writing life and of one hundred years of screen adaptations of Anne of Green Gables, and future volumes of The L.M. Montgomery Library (University of Toronto Press), a book series that reprints and discusses Montgomery’s short stories, poems, and miscellaneous pieces.
- PROSE Award for Literature, Association of American Publishers, for The L.M. Montgomery Reader, Volume 1: A Life in Print; Volume 2: A Critical Heritage; Volume 3: A Legacy in Review (University of Toronto Press, 2013–15), 2016
- Awards to Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP) subventions, from the Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences, for six books published by University of Toronto Press since 2010
- Marie Tremaine Fellowship, Bibliographical Society of Canada / Société bibliographique du Canada, for “A Reassessment of L.M. Montgomery’s Critical Reception,” 2013
- Leverhulme visiting fellowship, International Forum for Research in Children’s Literature, University of Worcester (UK), 2009–2010
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada postdoctoral fellowship, Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, 2007–2009
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada doctoral fellowship, Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University, 2004–2006
- Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture doctoral fellowship, Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University, 2002–2005
At Laurier:
- CT400Q/CT411I: Cinderella Stories: Fairy Tales and Contemporary Culture
- EN112: Literature and Love
- EN119: Reading Fiction
- EN201: Children’s Literature
- EN267: Contemporary Canadian Fiction
- EN285: Tween Literature and Culture
- EN286: Young Adult Literature
- EN324: Gender and Sexuality in Canadian Literature
- EN371: Creative Writing: Short Story
- SOJE485: The Politics of Cultural Production
- YC/SOJE326: Children, Toys and Media
Elsewhere:
- Adolescent Literary and Media Texts
- Canadian Children’s Literature and Cultures
- Children’s Classics in the 21st Century (graduate certificate course)
- Children’s Literature
- Fairy Tales and Culture
- Fairy Tales, Myth and Poetry
- Fiction for Children
- Laughter and Tears: Comedy and Tragedy
- Literature across Borders
- Literature and Identity: Personal, Categorical, National
- Studies in Children’s Literature
Contact Info:
Languages spoken: English, French
Pronouns: he/him
Personal website: benjaminlefebvre.com
L.M. Montgomery Online: lmmonline.org
ORCID: 0000-0003-2605-0316