Fonds F0474 - Ray Ellenwood fonds

Ray Ellenwood, professor, translator and academic, was born in Edmonton and educated at the University of Alberta, where he received his BA (1961) and MA (1963) in English. After completing his MA, he worked as an Assistant d’anglais at Lycée Victor Hugo in Narbonne (Aude), France (1963-1964), as an Assistant Master of English at Palmer’s Grammar School for Boys in Grays’ Essex, England (1964-1965), as a full-time lecturer in English at the University of Alberta (1965-1967) before attending Rutgers University in New Jersey, where he received his PhD in Comparative Literature in 1972. He taught English at Atkinson College, York University, where he was Assistant Professor (1972-1975), Associate Professor (1975-1991), and Professor with the School of Arts and Letters at Atkinson College (renamed the Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies) from 1991 until his retirement in 2005.

Ellenwood is the author of "Egregore: A History of the Montréal Automatist Movement" (1992) and its updated French version, "Égrégore : une histoire du mouvement automatiste de Montréal" (2014), co-author of "The Automatiste Revolution : Montreal, 1941-1960" (2009), editor (with Betty Bednarski) of "Jacques Ferron hors Québec" (2010), and co-editor of "Trans/Acting Cutlure, Writing, and Memory: Essays in Honour of Barbara Godard" (2013). His work as a translator includes "Vanishing Spaces" (1980), a translation of Guillaume Charette's "L'espace de Louis Goulet", "Refus global/Total Refusal" (1985) by Paul-Émile Borduas, and "The Vampire and the Nymphonaiac/Le vampire et la nymphomane" (2022), as well as works by Jacques Ferron, Marie-Claire Blais, Claude Gauvreau, Gilles Henault, Fernand Ouelette, and Thérèse Renaud. He was awarded the Canada Council Translation Prize in 1982 and has served on the jury of the Governor General's Award for Translation on three occasions.