David Staines is Associate Professor of English at the University of Ottawa. He received the Ph.D. degree from Harvard University, where he has also taught, introducing Canadian literature courses there. The author of many articles on medieval romance, medieval drama, and Arthurian literature of the Middle Ages and the nineteenth century, he has also edited Responses and Evaluations: Essays on Canada by E. K. Brown and The Canadian Imagination: Dimensions of a Literary Culture.
