Lydia Forssander-Song, MA

Awards & Honours

• University of British Columbia Scholarship
• Dean’s Honour List 1992 & 1994

Recent Publications

Selected Publishing

• Chapter entitled "Rushdie as Artist, Migrant, and Humanist in Imaginary Homelands and Step Across This Line." In Critical Insights: Salman Rushdie. Salem Press (EBSCO Publishing) (2013).
• Article entitled "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie." In Survey of Short Fiction (Fourth Edition). Salem Press (EBSCO Publishing) (2012).
• Article entitled "Agha Shahid Ali." In Critical Survey of Poetry (Third Revised Edition). Salem Press (EBSCO Publishing) (2011).
• Article entitled "The English Patient" by Michael Ondaatje. In Masterplots (Third Revised Edition). Salem Press (EBSCO Publishing) (2010).
• Article entitled "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie. In Masterplots (Third Revised Edition). Salem Press (EBSCO Publishing) (2010).
• Article entitled "Shirley Geok-lin Lim." In Encyclopedia of American Immigration. Salem Press (EBSCO Publishing) (2010).
• Article entitled "Michael Ondaatje." In Great Lives from History: The 20th Century. Salem Press (EBSCO Publishing) (2008).

Book Reviews

• "The Numbers Tell a Story": Review of Derek Mascarenhas' Coconut Dreams and Bindu Suresh's 26 Knots. Canadian Literature (2020).
• "Strange Encounters": Review of Barry Freeman's Staging Strangers: Theatre and Global Ethics and Ven Begamudré's Extended Families: A Memoir of India. Canadian Literature (2018).
• "Narratives and Ethics": Review of Deborah Bowen's Stories of the Middle Space: Reading the Ethics of Postmodern Realisms. Canadian Literature (2010).
• Review of Lorna Crozier's The Blue Hour of the Day. Canadian Book Review Annual Online (2008).
• Review of Susan McCaslin's Lifting the Stone. Canadian Book Review Annual Online (2008).
• Review of W. H. New's Along a Snake Fence Riding. Canadian Book Review Annual Online (2008).
• Review of Roger Nash's Something Blue and Flying Upwards. Canadian Book Review Annual Online (2007).
• Review of Oana Avasilichioaei's Abandon. Canadian Book Review Annual (2006).
• Review of Amanda Lamarche's The Clichéist. Canadian Book Review Annual (2006).
• Review of Elizabeth Bachinsky's Home of Sudden Service. Canadian Book Review Annual (2006).
• Review of Douglas Barbour and Sheila E. Murphy's Continuations. Canadian Book Review Annual (2006).
• Review of Dionne Brand's Inventory. Canadian Book Review Annual (2006).
• Review of Tanis MacDonald's Fortune. Canadian Book Review Annual (2005).
• Review of Sina Queyras's Teethmarks. Canadian Book Review Annual (2005).
• Review of K. I. Press's spine. Canadian Book Review Annual (2005).
• Review of Genevieve Lehr's The Sorrowing House. Canadian Book Review Annual (2005).
• Review of Peter Culley's Hammertown. Canadian Book Review Annual (2004).
• Review of Jacqueline Baldwin's A Northern Woman. Canadian Book Review Annual (2004).
• Review of Keith Garebian's Reservoir of Ancestors. Canadian Book Review Annual (2004).
• Review of Heather Haley's Sideways. Canadian Book Review Annual (2004).
• Review of Laura Moss's Is Canada Postcolonial? Unsettling Canadian Literature. Canadian Book Review Annual (2004).
• Review of Maggie Helwig's One Building in the Earth. Canadian Book Review Annual (2003).
• Review of Amanda Marchand's Without Cease the Earth Faintly Trembles. Canadian Book Review Annual (2003).

Conferences

• Conference presenter on “Incarnational storytelling in Joy Kogawa’s Obasan and Yann Martel’s Life of Pi” in May 2007 at the annual Conference on Christianity and Literature hosted by Trinity Western University, Langley, B.C., Canada
• Panel chair of the session “Trauma and Transcendence in the Twentieth Century North American Novel” in May 2007 at the annual Conference on Christianity and Literature hosted by Trinity Western University in Langley, B.C., Canada
• Conference presenter on “Storytelling and Faith: Religious exercise from a pluralistic viewpoint in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi” in October 2004 at the biennial International Society for Religion, Literature, and Culture conference hosted by the University of Uppsala, Sweden
• Conference presenter on “Postmodern faith and fiction in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi” in May 2004 before the Christianity and Literature Study Group at the annual ACCUTE conference hosted by the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Editing

• Editor of Karl Petersen’s children’s novel The Kingdom of What-Is (Wipf and Stock, 2017)
• Editor of Karl Petersen’s memoir Reformed: Confessions of a Preacher’s Kid (Wipf and Stock, 2019)

Affiliations & Memberships

• ACCUTE (Association of Canadian College & University Teachers of English)
• Christianity and Literature Study Group
• International Society for Religion, Literature, and Culture