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Tim Struthers

J. R. (Tim) Struthers has won wide recognition for his efforts as a bibliographer, interviewer, critic, editor, and publisher. He completed a Ph.D. in English at the University of Western Ontario with a specialization in Canadian literature, was awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada post-doctoral fellowship for study of the works of Hugh Hood, then joined the Department of English at the University of Guelph on July 1, 1985. He is the editor of three critical books: Before the Flood, a volume of criticism on Hugh Hood; The Montreal Story Tellers, a collection of autobiography and criticism; and New Directions from Old, a volume of criticism on Canadian short fiction. He has also prepared the two-volume anthology The Possibilities of Story and, with John Metcalf, the collections Canadian Classics and How Stories Mean. As an editor for The Porcupine's Quill and as the publisher of Red Kite Press, J. R. (Tim) Struthers has arranged for and supervised the publication of a considerable number and variety of books of criticism and literature.