Professor Gerry Turcotte is Dean, School of Arts & Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Sydney, Australia. He was formerly Head of the School of English Literatures, Philosophy and Languages in the Faculty of Arts until the end of 2006. Gerry is Past President of the Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand (ACSANZ), Past Secretary of the International Council for Canadian Studies (ICCS) and Founding Director of the Centre for Canadian-Australian Studies (CCAS). He moved to Notre Dame in 2007.