Metamorphosis: Teaching and Studying Contemporary Canadian Literature on the World Wide Web

The World Wide Web is becoming increasingly important for professors and students of literature. Web resources for literary studies are proliferating and a number of institutions are implementing the delivery of literature courses on the Web. At the University of Northern British Columbia, the English department has adapted, designed and offered four English courses for delivery on the World Wide Web: Canadian Literature, First Nations Literature, Postcolonial Literature and Creative Writing. This article will provide an overview of English 430, a course on contemporary Canadian literature that I offered in January 1997 and again in October 1997 (Fall semester). I will conclude with comments on directions for future web course development (in the area of English literary studies), particularly as this development might affect students located outside a large metropolitan area.