Eleanor Ty works on Asian American and Asian Canadian literature and film, life writing, graphic novel, Canadian literature and Eighteenth Century British novels. She is the recipient of a FulbrightCanada Research Chair, 2018-2019, at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She was awarded University Research Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University in 2015. She has published eleven books: two edited collections on memory studies, five books on Asian American and Asian Canadian Studies, and four on Eighteenth-Century British literature. Asianfail: Narratives of Disenchantment and the Model Minority won the APALA: Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association award for Adult Non-Fiction book in Literature for 2017. Her co-edited book, Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography, received an honorable mention in the literature category in 2008 from The Association for Asian American Studies. Her research on 18th Century revolutionary novelists, on Filipino American literature, and on women writers has often been cited by other scholars and resources. In 2017, Eleanor Ty served as the Program Co-Chair with Angie Chung for the annual conference of the Association for Asian American Studies held in Portland, Oregon. With James Skidmore, Eleanor Ty served as Academic Co-Convenor of Congress for the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences in 2012 held in Waterloo.
2017-2018 Asianfail was the Winner of the 2017/18 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in Adult Non-Fiction Category. Awarded by the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association
2015-2016 University Research Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University
2010 Honorable Mention: The Association for Asian American Studies Literature Book Award for 2008
2008 Aid to Scholarly Publications Grant
1994 Unsex’d Revolutionaries Short-listed for the 1994 Raymond Klibansky Book Prize in English
Social Issues in Three 21st Century Texts About Growing up Canadian, in "Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien" ZKS, 68, Wißner, Augsburg 2018 pp 103 – 113
" Asian Canadian Literature: The Strange and the Familiar." The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature. Ed. Cynthia Sugars. 564-582. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016
"Contemporary Filipino American Writers and the Legacy of Imperialism." Chapter 21 of Cambridge History of Asian American Literature. Eds. Rajini Srikanth and Min Song. 371-386. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015
"Revising the Romance of the Land: Place in Settler Narratives by Contemporary Asian Canadian Writers." The Canadian Mosaic in the Age of Transnationalism. Ed. Brigitte Glaser and Jutta Ernst. Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag Winter Heidelberg, 2010. 163-178
"A Filipino Prufrock in an Alien Land: Bienvenido Santos’ The Man Who Looked Like Robert Taylor." Lit: Literature, Interpretation, Theory. Special Issue on Asian American Literature and Culture. Ed. Karen Chow. 12.3 : 267-283
