Madeline Bassnett
Professor, Director Writing Studies
PhD; Dalhousie University, 2008
MA; University of New Brunswick, 2003
MFA, Antioch University, Los Angeles, 1999
BA; University of Toronto, 1987
University College 3431
519-661-2111 ext. 85827
m.bassnett@uwo.ca
Research
My teaching and research focuses on the poetry and prose of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. I’m especially interested in early modern women’s writing, food studies (including recipe books), ecocriticism, and climate studies. My current research, funded by a SSHRC Insight Grant (2020-2025) includes an open-access historical weather database, Weather Extremes in England’s Little Ice Age, , and a monograph forthcoming in 2026, Climate Change Cookery: Recipes and Resilience in England’s Little Ice Age (Concordia UP).
I also teach creative writing. My full length poetry collection, Under the Gamma Camera, was published by Gaspereau Press in 2019. My poetry chapbooks, Elegies and Pilgrimage, were published in 2011 and 2016.
I am happy to supervise graduate students interested in the following fields: early modern non-dramatic literature; food studies; ecocriticism; and climate change. I am also glad to supervise hybrid creative/academic MA projects. I welcome the opportunity to supervise undergraduate theses, both academic and creative.
