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Carol Acton Associate Professor (English) Office: STJ 3004 Phone: (519) 884-8111, ext. 28238 send an email

Education:

B.A. Honours (Trinity College (Dublin)), M.A. (University of Kent at Canterbury), Ph.D. (Queen's University)

Publications:

Acton, Carol. 2004. "Bodies Do Count: American Nurses Mourn the Catastrophe of Vietnam." In The Memory of Catastrophe, ed. Peter Gray and Kendrick Oliver, 158-70. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Acton, Carol. 2004. "Diverting the Gaze: the Unseen Text in Women's War Writing." College Literature 31 (2): 53-79.

Acton, Carol. 2001. "Dangerous Daughters: American Nurses and Gender Identity in World War One and Vietnam." War, Literature and the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities 13 (1&2): 87-113.

Acton, Carol. 1999. "Writing and Waiting: The First World War Correspondence Between Vera Brittain and Roland Leighton." Gender and History 11 (1): 54-83.

Administrative Service:

• Grievance Officer (2005-)

Community Service:

• Board of Directors - John Howard Society of Kitchener/Waterloo