PearlAnn Reichwein is a Professor at the University of Alberta in the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation. Her research focuses on Canadian history and mountain studies. She is an invited scholar for the inaugural European Summer School of Canadian Studies at the University of Innsbruck, and lectured at the Université Gustave Eiffel in Paris. Her new book Uplift: Visual Culture and the Banff School of Fine Arts, co-authored with Karen Wall, is published by University of British Columbia Press.