About Alan Cairns Alan Cairns is a professor emeritus of political science at the University of British Columbia and adjunct professor of political science at the University of Waterloo. Books by Alan Cairns Literary History of Canada Canadian Literature in English, Volume IV (Second Edition) edited by William New, Carl Berger, Alan Cairns, Francess Halpenny, Henry Kreisel, Douglas Lochhead, Philip Stratford & Clara Thomas