Research Associate at Trent University, Peterborough; Literary Archivist (English) and Senior Archivist, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa. B.A. (McMaster), M.A., M.L.I.S. (Western). Catherine Hobbs write about literary archives and personal archives, bringing together literary theory with the theory/practice of archives. She is interested in contexts of meaning for personal creative archives in the digital realm and how this follows from existing concepts about original order in paper archives. Hobbs has an interest in born-digital literary archives. She contemplates creative responses to archives. As a professional archivist, Hobbs is responsible for the archives of many writers and other figures/organizations within Canadian literature.