 After earning his BA at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick,  and his MA and PhD from the University of Toronto, he returned to teach at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John and then, for twenty years, at Mount Allison University.In 2009, he returned to Ontario as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Science at Huron University College, where he stayed until 2016 when he settled back in New Brunswick in St Andrews By-the-Sea.Three of Blagrave’s plays have been contracted for professional production ("We Happy Few," and "Scape" by Live Bait Theatre, and "Nomentacke" by NotaBle Acts Festival) and a dozen others have been produced by university theatres in New Brunswick.