[1] Fee completed her PhD studies in English at the University of Toronto in 1981, with a dissertation entitled "English-Canadian literary criticism, 1890–1950: defining and establishing a national literature".
Fee helped obtain a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant to continue the expansion of the corpus.
In 1992, Fee compiled a collection of essays titled Silence Made Visible: Howard O'Hagan and Tay John.
[1] The year she left her position as director, Fee was honoured as a distinguished scholar in residence at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies[13] and was the recipient of the Dean of Arts Award.
[1] That year, her book Literary Land Claims was shortlisted for the 2015 Gabrielle Roy Prize by the Association for Canadian and Québec Literatures.
[17] The book analyses texts produced between 1832 and the late 1970s by speakers and writers who resisted nationalist ideas about Canada's claim to land: John Richardson, Louis Riel, E. Pauline Johnson, Archibald Belaney (Grey Owl) and Harry Robinson.
[18] Similarly, Fee became a co-Investigator with Daniel Heath Justice and Deanna Reder on a SSHRC-funded project called The People And The Text.