Montgomery Scholars Waterston and Litster to Deliver New Course at UPEI

The L.M. Montgomery Institute is offering a special condensed version of English 333, The Literature of L.M. Montgomery, in June. "L.M. Montgomery: The Journals, the Novels and the Mystery of Creativity" will be delivered jointly by Dr. Elizabeth Waterston, world-renowned Montgomery researcher and co-editor of The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, and Dr. Jennifer Litster, an up-and-coming researcher and popular conference speaker from Edinburgh, Scotland. "Those familiar with the study of Montgomery will recognize these women as scholars at the forefront of the research being done on L.M. Montgomery's life and works," says Institute Director, Elizabeth DeBlois. "To have them both here at UPEI to deliver a course like this is a huge coup."

The course begins on June 15 and is being offered in association with the L.M. Montgomery Institute's 7th international conference, "Storm and Dissonance: L.M. Montgomery and Conflict," which runs from June 21 to 25. Students will have five two-hour classes with Waterston and Litster and will then take part in the conference, having the opportunity to hear speakers from around the globe address the theme of conflict in relation to the life and works of the Island author. "This will truly be an international course in every way," says DeBlois "from the instructors to the conference speakers right through to the participants in the class. We even have a woman traveling from South Africa to take this course."

The class, like the conference, is open to the public and interested individuals are encouraged to visit the LMMI website at http://www.lmmontgomery.ca/ or to contact the L.M. Montgomery Institute directly for more information at (902) 628-4346.