The Editors : Robert C. Thomsen received his Ph.D. from the University of Aarhus where he is now employed in the Department of English as Director of the Canadian Studies Centre. He is also Secretary of the Nordic Association for Canadian Studies. Nanette L. Hale received her Ph.D. from the Department of English, University of Aarhus, in 2003. Her primary areas of research are postcolonial literatures, contemporary British fiction and the representation of time and space in literature.