Dr. Lefebvre is Director of the L.M. Montgomery Research Group and has served as an editor of the journal Canadian Children’s Literature.

He is currently a Leverhulme Visiting Fellow at the International Centre for Research in Children’s Literature, Literacy, and Creativity at the University of Worcester, where he is studying cultural industries for young people in Canada, the U.S., and Britain, and a Visiting Scholar at the L.M. Montgomery Institute at the University of Prince Edward Island.

He completed his Ph.D in English at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, where he wrote on ideology and child protagonists in twentieth-century Canadian literature in English, as well as a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, on the cultural capital of Canadian author L.M. Montgomery.

His teaching and research interests include: twentieth- and twenty-first century Canadian literature and culture, Canadian and American literary and media texts for young people, life writing and autobiography, gender and sexuality studies, film and television genre studies, discourses of cultural citizenship and cultural memory, the archive as a site of knowledge, and the role of popular culture in the shaping of ideology.