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J. Andrew (Andy) Wainwright is a poet, novelist and McCulloch Professor Emeritus of English at Dalhousie University. He was born 12 May 1946 in Toronto, Ontario, and received his BA in 1969 at the University of Toronto. He spent the early 1970s in Spain, Greece and England before moving to Halifax to pursue his MA (1973) and PhD (1978) in English at Dalhousie University. He began teaching at Dalhousie in 1979, with a focus on modern and postmodern (Canadian) literature, indigenous studies, gender studies, multicultural fiction and poetry, intercultural issues and popular culture.
Wainwright is widely published, with titles including World Enough and Time: Charles Bruce, A Critical Biography (1988); Landscape and Desire: Poems Selected and New (1992); (ed.) A Very Large Soul: Margaret Laurence’s Letters to Canadian Writers (1995); A Deathful Ridge: A Novel of Everest (1997); A Far Time (2001); (ed.) Every Grain of Sand: Canadian Perspectives on Environment and Ecology (2004); The Confluence (2007); and Blazing Figures: A Life of Robert Markle (2009).
He retired from teaching in 2008.