George Melnyk, Contributor
Banff Centre Press

George Melnyk is an Alberta author and professor of Canadian Studies in the Faculty of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary. His teaching focus is Canadian film. He has published numerous books on regional, national, and international topics, including Canada and September 11 (Detselig, 2002) and Canada and the New American Empire (University of Calgary Press, 2004). George Melnyk is well known as an essayist, of which his latest collection is New Moon at Batoche, also published by the Banff Centre Press (2000). His pioneering two-volume Literary History of Alberta (University of Alberta Press, 1998, 1999) has become a benchmark for cultural studies in Canada. He has continued his innovative work in cultural studies with his groundbreaking One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema (University of Toronto, 2004).

Contributor to:
My Mother is an Alien (author)
First Chapter (contributor)
New Moon at Batoche (author)

Publications:
New Moon at Batoche: Reflections on the Urban Prairie, Banff Centre, 2000
The Literary History of Alberta: Volume Two - From World War Two to the End of the Century, University of Alberta, 1999
The Literary History of Alberta: Volume One - From Writing-on-Stone to World War Two, University of Alberta, 1998
Ribstones, Ekstasis Editions, 1996
Urban Prairie: The Art of Western Canadian Cities (co-author), Fifth House, 1993
Beyond Alienation: Political Essays on the West, Detselig, 1993
The Search for Community: From Utopia to a Co-operative Society, Black Rose Books, 1985
Radical Regionalism, NeWest Press, 1981