George Melnyk

George Melnyk is professor emeritus of Communication, Media, and Film at the University of Calgary. He is the author and editor of over two dozen books in Canadian Studies, including the two-volume The Literary History of Alberta (1998-99). He is also co-editor with Tamara Palmer Seiler of The Wild Rose Anthology of Alberta Prose (2003) and co-editor with Donna Coates of Wild Words: Essays on Alberta Literature (2009). His most recent title is First Person Plural (2015), a collection of his essays on the self and its image. He is currently preparing the second volume in the trilogy.