About
Janice Liedl:
I’m an associate professor of history at Laurentian University in Ontario, Canada where I’ve been on faculty since 1991. I received my doctorate in European History that same year from the University of Toronto. My research has focused on early Tudor humanist texts and Henrician reformers with occasional forays into gender history. I’m excited by the intersection between historical memory and popular culture in various time periods as with some recent work on the posthumous treatment of Henry VIII’s third queen, Jane Seymour. Currently, I’m writing about late 19th century Canadian and American interest in the Vinland settlement. I teach a range of subjects from the Ancient Near East through contemporary Western Civilization.
Recent publications: “The Battle for History in Battlestar Galalctica” in Space and Time: Essays on Visions of History in Science Fiction and Fantasy Television edited by David C. Wright and Allan W. Austin (Jefferson, NC: McFarland Press, 2010), 189-207.
“Carlisle Cullen and the Witch Hunts of Puritan London” in Twilight and History edited by Nancy R. Reagin (Hoboken: Wiley, 2010), 145-162.
I’ve been blogging since 2001 and have experimented with Blogger, Movable Type, WordPress, Vox and Livejournal as blogging platforms. I’ve been interested in web design and issues of online community much longer, having presented “Gender, Technology and History: Understanding Women’s Use of the Internet,” to the Women on Wall Street Conference (Global Partnership Network for Women) in October of 1999.
I’m very happily married (over sixteen years now) and the mother to two amazing young women. We share our home with a miscellany of pets including two dogs, two rats and various other creatures. I’m a long-time gamer who can occasionally be found in the Warhammer Online though I have also frequented World of Warcraft, Everquest, Dark Age of Camelot and other MMORPGs in my time. I’ve recently taken up cycling again but that will go on hold now that winter’s nearing. In my copious free time (hah!), I do counted cross-stitch. I’m a dual citizen of the United States and Canada. I swear that one of the reasons I settled in the north on a permanent basis was that nobody in my home state knew how to brew a decent cup of tea.
