Joseph J. Pivato

Professor, Literary Studies

• Email: pivato@athabascau.ca
  Phone: 780-497-3418
• Ph.D. (University of Alberta)
  M.A. (University of Alberta)
  B.A. (Combined Honours, York University)

Joseph Pivato is the founding professor of the Literary Studies Focus Area in the MA-IS degree in the MA-IS program. Between 2001 and 2011 he created and expanded the  Canadian Writers site into an international resource. He also produced the first creative writing courses, the first Comparative Literature courses and the first literary theory courses in the Language and Literature program. He has supervised many student research projects and graduate theses.

Since 1982 his research has been instrumental in establishing the academic recognition of Italian-Canadian literature and other ethnic minority writing in Canada. He has produced eight books on Canadian Literature. Prof. Pivato’s essays have been published internationally.

A professor of literature at  Athabasca University for many years he has been a visiting professor at the University of Toronto (1984-5), York University (1987-8), Macquarie University (1991), University of Wollongong, Australia (2004), and the University of Udine, Italy (2005).  Joseph Pivato was the first president of  the Association of Italian-Canadian Writers.

• Literary Studies Focus Area in MA-IS
• Ethnic Minority Writing and the History of Italian-Canadian Writing.

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