Rishma Dunlop is a professor in the Faculty of Education at York University, Toronto, where she teaches courses on The Literary Imagination and the Curriculum; Women, Education and Literature, and Arts-Based Research Methods in Interdisciplinary and Cultural Studies. Her research interests are interdisciplinary and include aesthetics, feminist theory, environmental literature, women and landscape, theories of difference, and fine arts and narrative based research methodologies. She is a frequent invited conference speaker and workshop leader at national and international venues. She is a poet and fiction writer whose work has won awards and has appeared in numerous books and journals including: Literator; Poetry Nottingham International; Room of One's Own; English Quarterly; Canadian Woman Studies; Contemporary Verse 2; Dandelion, Whetstone, JCT, ARM Journal, Grain, Event, Journal of Educational Thought, English Quarterly, Canadian Journal of Education. Additionally, her poetry has been exhibited in collaboration with a collective of visual artists in numerous juried exhibitions that explore the interplay between language and visual images. Rishma Dunlop was a finalist for the 1998 CBC Canada Council Literary Awards for poetry. Her novel/dissertation Boundary Bay, was a semi-finalist for the 1999 Chapters/Robertson Davies Prize. She is the author of two volumes of poetry, Boundary Bay, Staccato Chapbooks/Turnstone Press, and The Body of My Garden, forthcoming in Fall of 2002 from The Mansfield Press.