Dr Jamie S. Scott is Professor in the Department of Humanities and the Graduate Programmes in English, Geography, Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada. He holds MA degrees from Cambridge University, Queens’s University and Carleton University, and a PhD in Religion and Literature from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. Recent publications include “Religions and Postcolonial Literatures,” in the Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literatures (2012), and The Religions of Canadians (2012), of which he is contributing editor. Currently, he is working on literary tourism and industrial heritage in Hamilton, Canada, and Newcastle, Australia.