Donald S. Hair is professor emeritus in the Department of English and Writing Studies at Western University in London, Ont. A specialist in Victorian literature, he is the author of a number of other books, including Browning's Experiments with Genre, Robert Browning's Language, Domestic and Heroic in Tennyson's Poetry, Tennyson's Language, The Dramatic Imagination of Robert Browning: A Literary Life (with Richard S. Kennedy), and Fresh Strange Music: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Language. Dr. Hair's Souwesto Lives---a social history of his family and the region of southwestern Ontario in which they settled---and his memoir A Professor's Life are both published by Rock's Mills Press. He was the recipient of the Edward G. Pleva Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2001-02 as well as the OCUFA Teaching and Academic Librarianship Award in 1991.
