The Author: Ramon Hathorn, an associate professor of French at the University of Guelph, received his Ph.D. in Quebecois Literature from the University of Ottawa. A visiting professor in Canadian Studies at the University of Grenoble (1978) and at the University of Augsburg (1986), he has lectured and published widely in Europe and North America. He is co-editor of Images of Louis Riel in Canadian Culture.