Dr. Kathryn Carter is a full professor of English literature at Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada, where she has served as dean and associate vice-president of teaching and learning. Her past research on nineteenth-century diaries and letters appears in Life/Writing, Journal of Canadian Studies, and Australian-Canadian Studies, among others. Her anthology of diary writing by women in Canada (University of Toronto Press) was published in 2002, and more recently, she published a chapter on feminist interpretations of diary writing in The Diary: Epic of Everyday Life (2020), an examination of letters written to Ireland from Canada in the mid-nineteenth century, in the Journal of Epistolary Studies (Fall 2022), and she has forthcoming articles on the history of fur trade diaries in Canada (“Keeping a Diary in Canada”), and on the reading and writing habits of citizens in nineteenth-century Brantford, Ontario entitled “Self-Improvement in Victorian Ontario, or How the Tinsmith Got His Books.”