Linda Morra is a Professor at Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke, Quebec where she teaches Canadian, American, and Indigenous literatures. 

She served as the 2016-2017 Craig Dobbin Chair of Canadian Studies at University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland, and previously was awarded a Sproul Fellowship from Canadian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

She has won several notable research and teaching awards and has served as President of the Quebec Writers’ Federation. As if this isn’t enough, she also sits on the advisory boards of Guernica Press, Canadian Literature, and Studies in Canadian Literature. 

We met at her office at Bishop’s to talk about Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland, Letters, a book she edited with Laura K. Davis.