This volume Shows cases innovative and successful approaches to Canadian Studies and Canadian Literature developed on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. They include best-practice examples developed in and for universities and high schools, often evolved from cooperative projects between different levels of secondary and tertiary education. The topics of the contributions range as widely as the interests of the international community of Canadianists do: from murder mysteries to the performance of Canadian drama, from Canadian and Québécois language(s), literature(s), music, politics and history to “exotic” themes such as food studies.

The essays collected in this volume address a wide spectrum of issues connected to traumatic events and experiences, be they of personal, collective, national or global scale. They are complemented by poetic contemplations on trauma, which Set the tone for the following scholarly investigations. The thematic scope of the collection encompasses psychological, sociological and political approaches to trauma, examples of ethnic and indigenous traumatizations, literary, cultural and visual manifestations of trauma or the medialization of trauma in the museum. As a result of the comparative, and in some cases cross-hermeneutic, design of the volume with German scholars looking at Canadian and Canadian scholars looking at German/European examples of traumatization, transatlantic perspectives on the problems at stake are opened.