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The quality of feminist
inquiry and scholarly work the University of Calgary is embodied in
our researchers. Currently, we have a list of some forty members of the academic
community
engaged in various research projects, and continues to grow.
If you would like to
be including on FACT's researcher list or to submit your curriculum vitae,
please email us.
We also maintain a list
of links for resources on the web, and update it as new information
becomes available. Those links are available by
clicking here.
Researchers
| Name | Current Research/Areas of Interest | Additional Information |
|---|---|---|
| Andre, Jo-Anne Darlene | http://www.ucalgary.ca/~andre | |
| Banting, Pamela | http://www.ucalgary.ca/~pbanting | |
| Brake, Elizabeth | ||
| Brown, Rai (Dorothy) | My thesis
title is: Gender, Culture and Governance in Northern Canada and India: An
Empowerment Based Approach for Building Transformative Ways of Knowing.
For the past two years I have been giving a seminar on Feminist Research
Methods in an Interdisciplinary environment. These seminars were very well
received. I am interested in Feminist Research Methodologies and have conducted Feminist Ethnography, including interviews, and content analysis. My research is an interpretive analysis between women in India and women of Northern Canada in an endeavour to find out what constitutes empowerment. |
Communication and Culture |
| Buss, Helen | Helen
M. Buss (aka Margaret Clarke) is a professor in the English Department at
the University of Calgary where she teaches the theory and practice of Life
Writing (autobiography, diaries, memoirs, biography etc.) with emphasis
on women's texts. She is the author of novels, plays and poetry as well as books and articles on Canadian literature and Life Writing. In 1983 she won a best first novel prize in Manitoba for her book The Cutting Season and in 1983 won the Gabrielle Roy Prize for her study of Canadian women's autobiography, Mapping Our Selves. Her current writing and research center on the memoir form. She had recently published Memoirs from Away: A New Found Land Girlhood, and is completing a book on women's uses of the memoir form. |
Faculty of Humanities |
| Carter, Sarah Alexandra | ||
| Coates, Donna | ||
| Crow, Barbara | ||
| Dansereau, Estelle | Department
of French, Italian & Spanish |
|
| Donaldson, E. Lisabeth (Betty) | My
research has three threads: 1. Student transitions between, within, and from educational systems. 2. Women and education especially the personal, professional, public, and political intersections. 3. Planned change in educational policies and programs. At this time I teach two graduate courses about the first two research interests and am seconded to facilitate strategic curriculum redesign and innovation at the University. I work both quantitatively and qualitatively when generating knowledge and have won awards for video documentary research and creative projects. |
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| Farfan, Penelope | Faculty of Fine Arts | |
| Flynn, Ann | I think that dance has much relevance in the context of feminist research and would like very much to be included as a contact person for the dance program. | Faculty of Fine Arts |
| Froese, Katrin | ||
| Govier, Trudy | At the moment I am doing what could broadly be referred to as feminist research, but I have no formal affiliation with the University of Calgary. | Philosopher and author. |
| Jameson, Elizabeth | Elizabeth
Jameson's scholarship centers on relationships of gender, class, and race
in the American West. Her work is devoted, in the broadest sense, to forging
an inclusive history that includes the significance of daily and "ordinary"
acts in creating and transforming social relationships. She is currently working on a book about how women of different classes and races have told their own stories and located themselves in the upper Plains states, and on the tensions between women's stories and histories of the nation and the state. Her interests include comparative histories of the U.S. and Canadian Wests, and she is currently working with Canadian historian Jeremy Mouat on an essay about how the West and the frontier have operated in histories of Canada and the United States. |
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| Jenkins, Jacqueline | My research
and teaching areas include Old and Middle English Literature; Medieval Women's
Spirituality and Vernacular Book Production; Saints' Legends and Performance;
Film and Gender Studies. Primarily, I focus on questions of popular culture, medieval and modern, and, in some cases, the intersections between the two. Current projects include a collection of essays exploring the popular cult of St. Katherine of Alexandria in the European Middle Ages (co-edited with my colleague Katherine Lewis, University of Huddersfield), and a book-length study of gendered participation in gild celebrations of the feast of St. Katherine in the late medieval Bath. Recent publications include a series of articles about representations of medieval history and narratives in contemporary film, with specific reference to gender and politics. |
Faculty of Humanties |
| Kertzer, Adrienne | Adrienne
Kertzer teaches primarily children's literature and fiction; her senior
teaching includes both maternal narrative and Holocaust representation.
She brings to her teaching an undergraduate training in close reading and
a graduate training in Victorian literature. Although her research has moved away from Victorian literature and her close readings have been influenced by the theoretical insights of reader response, feminism, and cultural studies, students who register in her courses must be prepared to read closely, and, on occasion, to read very long nineteenth-century novels. Her wider interests in children's literature are seen in her work as children's book review editor for Canadian Ethnic Studies, and as the incoming chair, Phoenix Committee, Children's Literature Association. Interested in questions of representation regarding maternal voices in picture books and young adult novels, she has published on this subject in Children's literature in education, Canadian Children's Literature, and Children's Literature Association Quarterly. Her current research project, Dilemmas of Representation: Children, Literatures, and the Holocaust places Holocaust children's literature in the interdisciplinary context of both child studies and Holocaust studies. She has published and lectured internationally on this project and is now writing a book, My Mother's Voice: Children, Literature and the Holocaust. |
Faculty
of Humanities |
| Levey, Ann | ||
| Lomberg, Michelle | I am a master's student in Industrial Design, and I am interested in applying feminist methods of inquiry to design history, practice, and education. | Faculty of Environmental Design |
| Maher, Dan | Without
adopting a specifically feminist viewpoint, much of my work includes on
French Seventeenth Century texts includes a consideration, implicitly or
explicitly, of gender differences. I have published an article on cross-dressing,
have one pending on male and female narration, and am currently looking
at the engendering of space. "Monsieur ma femme?? le travestissement au XVIIe siècle", in Elzbieta Grodek (ed) Écriture de la ruse, Faux Titre number 190, Atlanta/Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2000, 81-93. "Narrateurs et narratrices chez Michel de Pure", to appear in the proceedings of the conference "Masculinités et féminités dans le texte narratif avant 1800 - la question du 'Gender'". |
Department of French, Italian & Spanish |
| Mahoney, Kathleen | Faculty of Law | |
| Markotic, Nicole | Faculty
of Humanities |
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| McCallum, Pamela | Faculty
of Humanities |
|
| McDonald, Carol | This
is in response to your request for information regarding feminist undertakings
at the U of C. I am a doctoral student in the nursing faculty studying with
the Women's Health Initiative Research Group. My particular area of interest
is in lesbian life and health, with a dissertation focus on the lived experience
of self disclosure of lesbian orientation. I am working from a hermeneutic
and feminist framework. A secondary area of interest is the philosophy of nursing science, again from a feminist perspective. In this regard I have been writing about embodiment "Reinstating the marginalized body in nursing science: epistemological privilege and the lived life." I have several recently presented papers and a poster regarding lesbian health and the presence of lesbian life in the academy that I would happily contribute to your resources if that would be helpful. |
Doctoral Student, Faculty of Nursing. |
| McWhir, Anne | My most
ambitious current project is an anthology of literature of the revolutionary
period on which I am working with Lorne Macdonald. This anthology, to be
published by Broadview Press in 2001, will cover the period from 1770 to
1832, bridging the American and French revolutions, the Napoleonic period,
and the political ferment leading to the First Reform Bill. The anthology
should allow for a wide range of approaches to the period, providing material
that challenges conventional divisions of class, gender, genre, nationality,
politics, and race. Other interests include disability issues (an interest integrated into my article on William Wordsworth's "The Idiot Boy"), music (I am a serious amateur pianist), and pedagogy and curriculum. I am currently leading the process of curriculum redesign in the Faculty of Humanities, and I have considerable experience counselling students as Associate Head of the Department of English. |
Faculty
of Humanities |
| Oakleaf, David | Faculty
of Humanities |
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| Parmar, Aradhana | ||
| Pask, Diane | I am Professor Emerita in the Faculty of Law and have spent over 20 years researching, speaking and writing on issues regarding support for women and children, matrimonial property division, including division of pensions, gender bias in family law and the application of international human rights to women refugees. | Faculty of Law |
| Patey, Jackie | Masters' Student, Faculty of Nursing. | |
| Perreault, Jeanne | My work
at present is concentrated on three areas: Institutional Activism: I am part of initiating the Feminism and Cultural Texts Research Group; part of a committee to establish an International Indigenous Studies program at U of C; and a member of Academic Women's Association Steering Committee, with a particular interest in pay equity issues. Ongoing Scholarship: under the umbrella heading "The Gender of Whiteskin Trauma," a SSHRC supported research program, investigates the writing of race in mid-20th Century American women authors. Racial subjectivity in Flannery O'Connor's white characters, the white-skinned black woman in American literature (including Lillian Smith and Nella Larsen), the formation of gendered whiteness, and shifting value of colour. I am working on "speaking for" as a politically ethical practice in the challenge to the Chain Gang system of the American South. I also work on contemporary Canadian and American Native women writers, with a particular interest in poetry. Pedagogical and Professional activities: teaching graduate seminars in the areas of my research, general undergraduate teaching, and supervision, often in marginalized areas of study. I am on the editorial board of ARIEL, and a member of SSHRCH adjudication committee 4. |
Faculty
of Humanities |
| Polito, Mary | My literary
field is early modern (Renaissance) drama. My research, however, is interdisciplinary,
falling under the category of 'law and literature' studies. I have researched and published on the relation between law and literature (comparing Shakespearean drama and the legal writings of Francis Bacon); on law as literature (comparing the literary strategies of legal handbooks for men and women); and on the use of theatrical spectacle by both the government and protestors during the English reformation. A future project will be the study of the records of the Elizabethan Court of Chancery in order to compare the cases involving women (and in particular women's own written pleas) to the representations of women and the law in the late Shakespearean cannon. |
Faculty
of Humanities |
| Ranson, Gillian Christine | ||
| Robinson, Laura |
Just a short note
to let you know how important I believe FACT is. As Writer in Residence
at the University of Calgary, I have greatly appreciated the research,
papers, and support FACT has offered over my tenure. |
Markin-Flanagan Writer in Residence |
| Rudy, Susan Arlene | Susan
Rudy is Professor of English and Coordinator of the English Department's
Graduate Exchange Programme with the School of English, University of Leeds.
With Pauline Butling, she is completing a book manuscript tentatively entitled At the Moment: Alternative Poetries and Communities in Canada / Contexts, Interviews, Readings. Research interests include experimental poetics in Canada and North America, feminist theory, literary theory, and womenís writing; she has supervised students at the Ph.D., M.A., and undergraduate Honours levels in these areas. She is particularly interested in examining constructions of race, gender, sexuality, and class in contemporary texts. |
Faculty
of Humanities |
| Sciban, Shuning | Presently
I am conducting two projects on Chinese women writing. The first is "Dragonflies:
Women in Twentieth Chinese Fiction," an English translation anthology
of twentieth century Chinese fiction by women writers, edited by Fred Edwards
and me. This anthology's revision is almost completed and scheduled to resubmit
in May. The second is an investigation of Chinese women's language in fiction
published in the past two decades in Taiwan. This project is in the early
stage. If you need any further detailed information on the above mentioned projects of mine, please do not hesitate to contact me. |
Faculty of Humanities, Germanic, Slavid and East Asian Studies |
| Schloder, Monkia | My interest and research area is female coaches in sports; role of gender coaching and impact; role models. | Faculty of Kinesiology |
| Schneider, Barbara | ||
| Silverman, Eliane | My interest
in women's history at a time when it did not exist as a field prompted me
into interdisciplinarity, as I found that the discipline of history did
not provide the means for asking the questions of importance in the lives
of women. I have used theory and methodology from psychoanalysis, literary
and cultural criticism, and social theory. Most importantly, I have talked
with and listened to girls and women talk about their own lives. Oral history
provided me the way of interviewing frontier women in Canada, retrieving
their lives - childhoods, professions and jobs, unpaid labor, sexualities,
tragedies. Quantitative methodology allowed me to hear the voices of adolescents
on their own lives. I am presently working with a psychologist on a book
about how women tell their own narratives, saving their own and each others'
stories to create a women's history.
The Women's Studies courses I teach partake of the same interdisciplinarity, be they about women and the earth, gender and bodies, women's autobiographies, or women's history. I hope also to create democratic spaces in classrooms, in which everybody there shares responsibility for developing intellects, passions, and politics. My involvement in feminism on campus and in the community is similarly driven by the desire for fairness for women. |
|
| Srivastava, Aruna | My research
and teaching interests are as follows: feminist theory and literature, race
theory, postcolonial (international) literature, aboriginal (First Nations)
literatures, writing by minorities (especially women of colour), pedagogy
(practice and theory of teaching), collaborative and learner-centered teaching,
disability studies, Canadian literature, cultural studies. As far as my goals and expectations for students are concerned: critical thinking, particularly reflecting critically on cultural and personal ideologies, access to and training in different skills--reflected in a range of assignments, from research assignments to internet and e-mail work (always a feature of my courses - to journals to oral presentations and a great deal of group work). I expect that they will learn that literature exists within particular social contexts, and that they will become more aware of these contexts and how they affect their own reading practice. |
Faculty
of Humanities |
| Stratton, Susan | Susan Stratton (also published as Susan Stone-Blackburn) is Professor of English. Her teaching and research are mostly in science fiction and utopian fiction, with an emphasis on texts with particular feminist or environmental interest. She initially specialized in drama and still teaches it. Currently, she is examining utopian fiction through the lens of ecofeminist theory. She has also published widely on intersections of science and spirituality in science-fictional portrayals of psychic powers. | |
| Tunstall, Lee-Ann | ||
| Valentich, Mary | ||
| Van Herk, Aritha | ||
| Voyageur, Cora |
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