Christl Verduyn

Christl Verduyn (born 1953) is Professor of English Literature and Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University. She is the 2006 recipient of the Governor General's International Award for Canadian Studies, awarded by the International Council for Canadian Studies. She is cited in particular for the integration of her scholarship with the larger community and for exceptional contributions to the study of Canadian women's writing, in both English and French.

Biography Verduyn is a graduate of Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. She received her MA and PhD in Quebec literature from the University of Ottawa. and Dear Marian, Dear Hugh: The MacLennan-Engel Correspondence (University of Ottawa Press, 1995).

In 2006, Verduyn was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.