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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’ve 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, and my first trade non-fiction book, The Glory and the Dream: L.M. Montgomery’s Writing Life, will be published by Dundurn Press in February 2026. Additional publications include 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.
Current projects include new fiction manuscripts, a trade non-fiction study of L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables on screen, 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.
Please visit my website for a full list of my publications.
Book-Length Fiction
In the Key of Dale. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2022. 304 pp.
Book-Length Non-Fiction
The Glory and the Dream: L.M. Montgomery’s Writing Life. Dundurn Press, forthcoming in 2026.
Reimagining Anne: L.M. Montgomery’s Literary Icon on Screen. Dundurn Press, forthcoming in 2027.
Critical Anthologies
The L.M. Montgomery Reader, Volume 3: A Legacy in Review. U of Toronto P, 2015. x + 453 pp. Paperback edition, 2020. De Gruyter, https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442660861.
The L.M. Montgomery Reader, Volume 2: A Critical Heritage. U of Toronto P, 2014. xii + 451 pp. Paperback edition, 2020. De Gruyter, https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442668607.
The L.M. Montgomery Reader, Volume 1: A Life in Print. U of Toronto P, 2013. xiv + 450 pp. Paperback edition, 2020. De Gruyter, https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442668560.
Collections of Essays
Textual Transformations in Children’s Literature: Adaptations, Translations, Reconsiderations. Routledge, 2013. xvi + 223 pp. Children’s Literature and Culture. Paperback edition, 2015. Taylor & Francis Online, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203098479.
Anne’s World: A New Century of Anne of Green Gables. Edited jointly with Irene Gammel. U of Toronto P, 2010. x + 263 pp. De Gruyter, https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442690233.
Critical Editions
Schooled with Briars: Collected Serials, 1903–1913, by L.M. Montgomery. U of Toronto P, forthcoming in 2025. The L.M. Montgomery Library.
Twice upon a Time: Selected Stories, 1898–1939, by L.M. Montgomery. U of Toronto P, 2022. The L.M. Montgomery Library. xx + 332 pp. De Gruyter, https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487544140.
A World of Songs: Selected Poems, 1894–1921, by L.M. Montgomery. U of Toronto P, 2019. The L.M. Montgomery Library. xx + 140 pp. De Gruyter, https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487531522.
A Name for Herself: Selected Writings, 1891–1917, by L.M. Montgomery. U of Toronto P, 2018. The L.M. Montgomery Library. xxvi + 454 pp. De Gruyter, https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487519308.
Trade Editions
Rilla of Ingleside, by L.M. Montgomery. Edited jointly with Andrea McKenzie. Viking Canada, 2010. xxvi + 390 pp. Paperback edition by Penguin Canada, 2011.
The Blythes Are Quoted, by L.M. Montgomery. Viking Canada, 2009. xvi + 527 pp. Paperback edition by Penguin Canada, 2010. Penguin Modern Classics Edition, 2018. xx + 521 pp.
Edited Book Series
Early Canadian Literature. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2014–.
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Languages spoken: English, French
Pronouns: he/him
Personal website: benjaminlefebvre.com
L.M. Montgomery Online: lmmonline.org
ORCID: 0000-0003-2605-0316