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Brendan F. R. Edwards is a Canadian academic and writer with an MA
in Canadian Studies and Native Studies from Trent University, a
Master of Library and Information Studies from McGill University,
and a PhD in History from the University of Saskatchewan. He has
spent every summer living and teaching in Slovakia since 2003, and
lived in the Slovak city of Trnava in 2005 6, where he taught
English to high school, university, and private students.
Brendan has also lived and worked in Romania, and has edited
several texts on Slovakia and Central Europe, including Pictoria:
the Early History of Slovakia in Images by Pavel Dvorak (2006) and
Migrating Memories: Central Europeans telling their stories in
Canada, published by the Central European Association for Canadian
Studies (2010). His published works include Paper Talk: a history
of libraries, print culture, and Aboriginal peoples in Canada
before 1960 (Scarecrow Press, 2005), several articles on Canada in
peer-reviewed academic journals, as well as "Invited to the
Slaughter in urany, Slovakia" in disClosure: a journal of social
theory (2010).
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