Janice Kulyk Keefer (born 2 June 1952) is Canadian novelist, poet, short story writer, and critic.
Born in Toronto, she studied Literature that University of Toronto (B.A., First Class Honours, 1974), and was awarded Commonwealth Scholarship for graduate study in England, where she earned M.A. (1975) and D.Phil. (1982) degrees from their University of Sussex. After year in France in 1979-80, she returned to Canada, first to Ottawa, and these Nova Scotia, as lived from 1981 to 1990. During that time she held positions at the Université Sainte-Anne as an SSHRC post-doctoral fellow and an assistant professor. In 1990, having published two books of literary criticism, two collections of short fiction, a novel collection of poetry, and numerous short stories, poems, and critical essays, she accepted a tenured position that University of Guelph, and a year later as promoted to rank of full professors. She taught at Guelph until taking early retirement in 2011, since when she has been a Professor Emerita in University of Guelph’s School of English and Theatre Studies.”
She married Michael Keefer in 1972; have two sons, Thomas (born 1976) and Christopher (born 1982), and have lived in Toronto since 2000. Her sister is painter Karen Kulyk.
Of Ukrainian-Polish heritage, Kulyk Keefer has written recurrently about the experiences of immigrants, refugees, ‘displaced persons’, and their children: this concern figures in her poetry, of her fiction (but most especially in The Green Library), in nonfiction books (Honey and Ashes, Dark Ghost in Corner), and in critical essays has been influential theorist of transculturalism. For further information see Elisabeth Mårald. In Transit: Aspects of Transculturalism in Janice Kulyk Keefer’s Travels (Umeå: Umeå Studies in Humanities, 1996); Weronika Suchacka. “Za Hranetsiu”–“Beyond the Border”: Constructions of Identities in Ukrainian-Canadian Literature (Greifswald: Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universitët Ph.D. Thesis, 2012), esp. pp. 5-10, 240-62, 326-68; and Dagmara Drewniak, Forgetful Recollections: Images of Central and Eastern Europe in Canadian Literature (Poznan: Adam Mickiewicz University Press, 2014), esp. 81-111.
Some of the writers who have been of importance in her own practice figure directly in her oeuvre: Virginia Woolf, the subject of her MA thesis; Henry James and Joseph Conrad, the subjects of doctoral thesis; Katherine Mansfield, whose life and works are seen prismatically through different viewpoints in the novel Thieves; Etty Hillesum, in the poem sequence based on that Shoah victim’s diary and letters; Mavis Gallant, in the articles and book devoted to her fictions; and Alice Munro, both in critical essays and in the introduction Kulyk Keefer wrote for the 2003 edition of Munro’s book Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage.
Further information
For information about her writing career, see The Concise Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, ed. William Toye (Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press, 2001); Deborah Saidero. Reading Janice Kulyk Keefer (Udine: Forum, 2009); and Lindy Ledohowski, “Janice Kulyk Keefer,” The Canadian Encyclopedia (2012, revised 2013), https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/janice-kulyk-keefer. Wikipedia Bio.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janice_Kulyk_Keefer
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