Title: “‘Everything Becomes Alive’: The Pleasures and Meanings of Shared Reading in the Twenty-First Century.”

Danielle Fuller is Director, Regional Centre for Canadian Studies, and Senior Lecturer in the Department of American & Canadian Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her chief research areas are contemporary Canadian writing, particularly Atlantic Canadian literary culture; the politics of cultural production in Canada, and reading communities in present-day North America and the UK. She is also committed to interdisciplinary research methods that combine empirical and textual strategies. She has published in all of these areas and her first book, Writing the Everyday: Women’s Textual Communities in Atlantic Canada (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2004) won the 2005 Gabrielle Roy Prize. She is currently working with DeNel Rehberg Sedo (Communications, Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada) on a co-authored monograph, Beyond the Book: The Meanings of Shared Reading in the Twenty-First Century, which draws upon an interdisciplinary research project about contemporary reading cultures in UK, USA and Canada (www.beyondthebookproject.org) funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (UK).