Stanley Louis Dragland CM (December 2, 1942 – August 2, 2022) was a Canadian novelist, poet and literary critic.
[1] A longtime professor of English literature at the University of Western Ontario,[2] he was most noted for his 1994 critical study Floating Voice: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Literature of Treaty 9, which played a key role in the contemporary reevaluation of the legacy of poet Duncan Campbell Scott in light of his role as deputy superintendent of the Department of Indian Affairs.
[1] He wrote the forewords for the New Canadian Library editions of Scott's In the Village of Viger and Other Stories and Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers.
After his retirement, Dragland moved to St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador,[7] where he continued his writing career and remarried to Beth Follett, the publisher of Pedlar Press.
[9] Dragland died in Trinity, Newfoundland and Labrador during a hike on August 2, 2022, at the age of 79.