Albert Braz teaght English and comparative
literature at the University of Alberta. He specializes in Canadian literature in both its national and
inter-American contexts, and is particularly interested in literary representations of the encounters
between Natives and newcomers in Canada and the rest of the Americas. His other areas of
research include authorship, historical fiction, hybridity, translation, and transculturation. In
addition to numerous articles, his book publications include The False Traitor: Louis Riel in
Canadian Culture (2003) and, with Marie Carrière, he is co-editor of a bilingual thematic issue on
Comparative Canadian Literature, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne
de Littérature Comparée.
