Irene Gammel is a Professor of English and previously held the Canada Research Chair in Modern Literature and Culture at Toronto Metropolitan University. She is also the director of the Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre, which is dedicated to the study and preservation of early twenti...
Irene Gammel is a Professor of English and previously held the Canada Research Chair in Modern Literature and Culture at Toronto Metropolitan University. She is also the director of the Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre, which is dedicated to the study and preservation of early twentieth-century modern texts and artifacts. She is the author and editor of ten books, including the internationally-acclaimed Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada and Everyday Modernity: A Cultural Biography (2002). Irene Gammel is well-known for her scholarship on gender and modernism. Her research has helped uncover the earliest roots of modern and feminist performance art, contributed to the consolidation of L.M. Montgomery Studies as an academic field, and claimed women's confessional discourses as a sub-discipline of autobiographical studies.