Janice Williamson
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada, T6G 2E5
Office telephone: 780 492-7822
Fax: 780 492-8142
E-mail: janice.williamson@ualberta.ca
Web Site: www.ualberta.ca/~jwilliam
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Nationality: Canadian
Graduate Supervision (M.A.). English, incomplete: N. Fuhr. English complete: C. Bamber, J. Brown, S. Howe, B. Johnson, D Kaminsky, T. Kuribayashi, K. Lundberg, L Gergns, C. Wiebe, R. Wong. Modern Languages complete: I. Knoss, I.Lallemand, R. Knoss. Art and Design, complete: K.L. Sinclair, I. Forbes, D. Rydman. Drama, complete: W. Philpott. Comparative Studies, incomplete: D. Lloyd. Prior to Appointment at University of Alberta Ontario College of Art, Liberal Arts Department (1986-87): Co-Course Director, "Canadian Literature" University of Toronto, Women’s Studies/Canadian Literature and Language Programmes (1985-86): Co-Course Director (1986-87); Course Director: NEW366Y Contemporary Canadian Women Writers" York University (1981-83): Teaching Assistant, Humanities 110: "Concepts of Male and Female"; (1983-85): English 245: "Canadian Literature"; (1985-87): Humanities 2930.06/Social Science 2180.06 "On Woman: Myth and Ideology" Seneca College (summers 1981, 1982, 1983): Course Director, "English Literature and Composition," "Humanities" Carleton University (1974-75): Teaching Assistant, Interdisciplinary 231 "Introduction to Film" and 366 "Special Topics in Film: German Expressionism, Hollywood in the Forties, French New Wave"
Academic Technologies for Learning Partnership, U of Alberta, September - December 1998, course relief in order to develop electronic pedagogy skills. Alberta-Leeds Exchange Fellowship, Leeds University, May-June 1995. SSHRCC Strategic Research Grant "Women & Change" (co-investigator with Dr. Lynne Bell, Chair, Art & Art History, University of Saskatchewan) for a study "West of Where?: Canadian Women's Prairie Cultures" $55,000. 1995. Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute Fellowship, 1995 (declined due to teaching commitments). Sabbatical Scholarship, Centre for Research in Women's Studies and Gender Relations, University of British Columbia, Spring 1994. SSHRCC (through University of Alberta; travel), 1994, 1993, 1989, 1988. Scholarship, Visual Arts Residency Program, The Banff Centre for the Arts, January 6 -March 16, 1992. Scholarship, Leighton Artist Colony, The Banff Centre for the Arts, 1991 and 1992. Scholarship, Arts Journalism Program, The Banff Centre for the Arts, June 3-28, 1991. Canada Council, non-fiction prose writing grant, $17,500, 1991. SSHRCC (through University of Alberta) with Dr. Bridget Elliott for the development of visual and textual materials on contemporary Canadian women visual artists, 1990. Canada Council Grant, $23,000, for Dangerous Goods: Feminist Visual Art Practices. Curated exhibition and wrote catalogue (with Dr. Bridget Elliott, Department of Art and Design, University of Western Ontario), 1989. Explorations Grant, Canada Council, $9,000 (for the preparation of Sounding the Differences), 1986 Canadian Centre for Peace and Disarmament (for the preparation of Up and doing. Canadian Women and Peace), 1985
Work-in-Progress West of Where?Contemporary Prairie Women's Cultures. A book-length work on prairie women’s cultures (with Dr. Lynne Bell) includes interviews, essays, documentation, archival work on three issues: the public intellectual, creative documentary, space, place and performance. We have completed 15 interviews and are at present working on the essays for this book. This work is funded by a SSSHRC Strategic Grant in the Women & Change category. "Becoming Mah, Becoming Mommy: " An innovative image/text book that examines adoptive mothering Books Crybaby! Edmonton: NeWest Press, 1998. (208pp.) Sounding Differences: Conversations with Seventeen Canadian Women Writers. Toronto: University of Toronto, 1993. (360 pp.) Women's Writing and the Literary Institution (editor with Claudine Potvin). Edmonton: University of Alberta, 1992. (235 pp.) Tell Tale Signs. Winnipeg: Turnstone, 1991. (156 pp.) (Nominated for the Alberta Book Award) Up and Doing: Canadian Women and Peace (principal editor with Deborah Gorham). Toronto: Women's Press, 1989. (262 pp.) Chapbooks a boy named: Edmonton: arsonist auntie press, 1995. (27 pp.) (Winner of the 1995 bpNichol Chapbook Award.) Altitude X2. Calgary: DisOrientation Press, 1992. (35 pp.) Excerpts from the journals of Alberta Borges. Edmonton: Greensleeves Publishing Chapbook, 1991. (26 pp.) Journals Editor with Ellen Quigley and Mary Sasano "De:Scribing Albertas (Part 1)." Open Letter 10.12 (1998). (160 pp.) Editor with Ellen Quigley "De:Scribing Albertas (Part 2)." Open Letter 10.3 (1998). (139 pp.) Articles "Becoming Mah." West Coast Line. In press. 20 ms pp. "Introduction." "De:Scribing Albertas (Part 1)." Open Letter 10.12 (1988). 1 – 17. "Introduction To A Queer Issue." "De:Scribing Albertas (Part 2). Open Letter 10.3 (1998). 5-10. "Interviews as Intervention: On Sounding Differences: Conversations with Seventeen Canadian Women Writers." Open Letter 8.5-6 (1993): 94-105. "You may read my signs but I cross my path and show you nothing on your way: The Feminine Suicide Narratives of Phyllis Webb." West Coast Line 5 (1991): 155-174. (Co-author) Nicole Brossard, Sheila McIntyre, Joanne Saul, Greta Hofmann Nemiroff, Janice Williamson, Susan Crean, Maggie Helwig, June Jordan, Lee Gold, Stan Persky and Margot Lettner. "One Year After: Montreal Remembered." This Magazine 24.5 (December/January 1991): 16-23. Biocritical entries for The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers From the Middle Ages to the Present. Eds. Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy. ("Marguerite Duras," "Clarice Lispector," "Christa Wolf," "Bronwen Wallace," "Claire Harris," "Gail Scott.") London: Batsford and New Haven: Yale, 1990. "What Is a Nice Feminist Like Me Doing in a Place Like This?" Open Letter 7.8 (1990): 35-39. Rpt. What Is a Nice Feminist? Toronto: Feminist Caucus of the League of Canadian Poets, 1993: 31-35. "Journal Notes on Feminist Pedagogy." Inkshed 7.5 (1988): 13-17. "Daphne Marlatt." The New Canadian Anthology of Poetry and Short Fiction in English. Eds. Robert Lecker and Jack David. Scarborough: Nelson, 1988: 241-242. "‘Devices and Desire’ in the Poetry of Marjorie Pickthall." A Mazing Space: Writing Canadian Women Writing. Eds. Shirley Neuman and Smaro Kamboureli. Edmonton: NeWest & Longspoon, 1987: 167-178. "‘to pen a trait’: The Feminist Reader and the Poetry of Lola Lemire Tostevin." Line 9 (1987): 95-108. "West Word: Transforming Text." Broadside 7.1 (1985): 7. "A Day of Resistance—November 14, 1983." Broadside 5.6 (1984): 4, 5, 11. "Feminism and Civil Disobedience." Canadian Forum (August/September 1984): 13-17. Book Chapters "Strained Mixed Fruit (after Gerber)." Plural Desires. Toronto: Sister Vision, 1995: 44-73. "Writing Aversion." By, For & About: Feminists re-present literary theory. Ed. Wendy Waring. Toronto: Women’s Press, 1994: 197-233. Rpt. "Tell Tale Signs." Collaboration in the Feminine: Writings on Women and Culture from Tessera. Ed. Barbara Godard. Toronto: Second Story, 1994: 207-213. Rpt. "Lucrece. "Wild Women": Contemporary Short Stories for Women. Ed. Sue Thomas. New York: Overlook Press, 1994: 269-279. "Notes From Storyville North: Circling West Edmonton Mall." Life Style Shopping: The Subject of Consumption. Ed. Rob Shields. London: Routledge, 1992: 216-232. Rpt. "‘The Landscape from How I See My Poems Moving’": An Interview with Bronwen Wallace. Arguments with the World: Essays by Bronwen Wallace. Ed. Joanne Page. Kingston: Quarry, 1992: 201-14. "I peel away my own skin: Reading Don’t: A Woman’s Word." Essays on Life-Writing from Genre to Critical Practice. Ed. Marlene Kadar. Toronto: University of Toronto, 1992: 133-151. "I-less and Gaga in West Edmonton Mall." The Anatomy of Gender: Women’s Struggle for the Body Culture and Knowledge. Eds. Dawn H. Currie and Valerie Raoul. Ottawa: Carleton UP, 1992: 97-115. "It gives me a great deal of pleasure to say yes: Writing/Reading Desire in Daphne Marlatt’s Touch to My Tongue." Beyond Tish. Edmonton /Vancouver: NeWest P/Line, 1991: 171-193. Rpt. (excerpts) "What Is a Nice Feminist Like Me Doing in a Place Like This?" Contemporary Literary Criticism 1990. Ed. Rogele Matuz. Detroit: Gale, 1991: 350-571. Rpt. "A Family Holiday in Sunny Puerto Plata." Best Canadian Essays 1990. Ed. Douglas Fetherling. Saskatchewan: Fifth House, 19: 127-138. This essay also received "Special Mention" in the 1990 U.S. Pushcart Prize (Best of Small Presses). "Canadian Women’s Poetry About Wage Labour." Claiming our Past . . . Shaping our Future: A Collection of Essays in Celebration of the Alberta Federation of Labour’s 75th Anniversary. Ed. Alberta Federation of Labour Women’s Committee, 1986-88. Edmonton: AFL, 1987: 81-83. Interviews (with Lynne Bell) "An Interview with Cheryl L'Hirrondelle." Anthithesis. In press. 20 ms. pp. (with Lynne Bell) "Public Warning: An
Interview with Shawna Dempsey and Lori Millan." Tessera 25 (1998):
56-77. (with Lynne Bell) "On Crossing Lines and Going Between: An Interview with Marjorie Beaucage." Tessera. "Work" Issue, 22 (1997): 144-63. "As Is: An Interview with Diana Hartog." Paragraph, 21 (1997): 3-8. "Writing the Prairie: An Interview with Erin Mouré." West Coast Line 30.2 (1996): 114-123. "Can't We Talk About the Alberta Flag?: A Conversation Between Erin Mouré and Janice Williamson." Prairie Fire 13.4 (1992): 74-82. "What I intended was to connect. . . .and it's happened, an interview the Jeannette Armstrong." Tessera 12 (1992): 111-129. "Blood on Our Hands: An interview with Marlene Nourbese Philip." Paragraph 14.1 (1992): 18-19. "The landscape from how I see my poems moving: An interview with Bronwen Wallace." Open Letter 7.9 (1991). Special Issue on "Bronwen Wallace: Particular Arguments": 26-35. "Sounding a Difference: An Interview with Daphne Marlatt." Line 13 (1989): 47-56. "Sounding the Difference: An Interview with Smaro Kamboureli and Lola Tostevin." 7he Canadian Forum 66.765 (1987): 33-38. "Speaking in and of eacb other. An Interview with Daphne Marlatt and Betsy Warland." Fuse: The Cultural Newsmagazine 8.5 (1985): 24-29. Catalogue and Curatorial Work "Scat." Scat: An Installation Work by Janet Werner. St. John’s: Memorial Art Gallery, 1999: np. "Histoire d'eau." Anecdotal Waters. Eds. Mireille Peron and Paul Woodrow. Calgary: Glenbow Museum, 1997: 20-38. Dangerous Goods: Feminist Visual Art Practices (with Bridget Elliot) Edmonton Art Gallery, 1990. (36 pp.) This exhibition of contemporary Canadian women artists included multi-media performances, installations, painting, ceramic work, drawing, and lecture presentations by seven of the eight artists and ourselves. The exhibition catalogue includes an essay on feminist visual art practices, critical analyses and bio-critical notes on each of the artists, and a bibliography of relevant feminist theory and visual art criticism. Reviews "New Leaf." Review of Betsy Warland, Serpent (W)rite. Canadian Literature 124-25 (Spring-Summer 1990): 382-383. "Review of Claire Harris, The Conception of Winter." Dandelion 17.1 (1'990): 98-100. "Review of Robert Fones Retrospective Exhibition, The Power Plant, Toronto." C Magazine 23 (1989): 70-72. "The Robes of Feminist Irony." Review of GO Scott, Spaces Like, Stairs. The Canadian Forum 68.783 (1989): 30-31. Jan Montefiore. Feminism and Poetry: Language, Experience, Identity in Women's Writing. Resources for Feminist Research 18.1 (1989): 12-13. Jane Miller. "Who is Reading? Historical, Feminist, and Dialogic Approaches to Literacy Teaching in the Classroom." Inkshed 6.5 (1988): 8. "In Others' Words: The Critical Difference Within." Review of In the Feminine. Essays on Canadian Writing 36 (1988): 147-156. "Fragments of Fiction." Review of Nicole Brossard, French Kiss. Essays on Canadian Writing 36 (1988): 75-80. "Exploding Stars and Other Possibilities." Review of Firewords, 3 NFM films on Louky Bersianik, Nicole Brossard and Jovette Marchessault, Resources for Feminist Research 15.4 (1987): 25-27. "Writing and What's the difference?" Review of Writing and Sexual Difference. Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory 9 (1985): 210-216. "Notes on the Poetics Colloquium" (fiction-review). Contemporary Verse II 9.2 (1985): 40-42.
Monologues and Performances too many organs. Loud & Queer Cabaret, Catalyst Theatre, Edmonton, November 1996. Honorary Doctorate Award. "Queer:Act: Queer Conference," University of Alberta, February 1996. Absolute Imperatives. Performed by Christine McGinnis at the Loud & Queer Cabaret, Catalyst Theatre, Edmonton, November 1995, and at the "Queer:Act: Queer Conference," February 1996. Strained Mixed Fruit (after Gerber). Performed at the Loud & Queer Cabaret, Catalyst Theatre, November 1994, and at the Gay Pride Week Performance Night, May 1995, Edmonton, Alberta. Mila's Bangs. Writer and performer in satirical theatre performance featuring Mila M. and Nancy R., "International Women's Day Feminist Cabaret" sponsored by The Women's Cultural Building and Nightwood Theatre, Toronto, 1986. Creative Work "Pumps." Room of One's Own. Gender and Geography Special Issue. 17.4 (1994): 98-105. "Lucrece" (auto-fiction). The American Voice 22 (1991): 2-20. "Tell Tale Signs" #37-43 (fiction-theory). Tessera 8 (1990): 137-43. "A Family Holiday in Sunny Puerto Plata" (auto-fiction). The American Voice 16 (1989): 4-26. "Special Mention" in The Pushcart Prize (Best of Small American Literary Periodicals). "Tell Tale Signs" #24-31 (fiction-theory). Tessera 7 (1989): 85-94. "for(e) telling" (auto-fiction). Taking Our Time.- Feminist Perspectives on Temporality. Ed. Freda Forman with Caoran Sowton. Pergamon Press, 1989: 183; Contemporary Verse 2 12.3 (1989): 68-69. "Of women and fish" (prose poem). Contemporary Verse 2 10.3 (1987): 18-19. "Beyond Genre" (fiction-theory). Border/lines: Cultures/Contexts/Canadas 6 (1986-87). "Tell Tale Signs" # 1-5 (fiction-theory). Canadian Fiction Magazine 58 (Winter 1986-87): 97-102. "Fundamental Rule" (fiction-theory). Impulse Magazine 12.3 (1986): 74-75. "Tell Tale Signs" #12 (fiction-theory). Rampike 5.1 (1986): 45. "Mila's Bangs" (fiction). Canadian Forum 64.747 (1985): 42. Cataloguing Woman" (fiction). Border/lines: Cultures/Contexts/Canadas 2 (1985): 8-9. "On the Couch: A Suite of Poems" (prose poems). Contemporary Verse II 9.2 (1985): 40-42. "Service" (poem). Women and Words Anthology. Vancouver: Harbour, 1984: 175-76.
Literary Readings La Boheme, Edmonton, February 1999; Loftus Lloyd Café, Toronto, November 1998; U of Western Ontario, November 1998; Titles Bookstore, Saskatoon, November 1998; Orlando Books, Edmonton 1998; U of Western Ontario, November 1997; Orlando Books, Edmonton 1997; University of Goa, January 1994; University of Bombay, January 1994; S.N.D.T. Women's University, Bombay, January 1994; University of Delhi, January 1994; Athabasca Books, Edmonton, January 1992; Workscene Gallery, Toronto, January 1992; Canterbury Books, Calgary, February 1992; The Banff Centre, Banff, March 1992; The Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, March 1992; Volume H, Duncan, B.C., March 1992; University of Winnipeg, March 1992; Bold Print Bookstore, Winnipeg, March 1992; The New Gallery, Calgary, June 1992; Muttart Gallery, Calgary, October 1992; Women & Aids Project, Celebration of Women and the Arts, Edmonton, October 1992; West Coast Women and Words, Vancouver, B.C., October 1992; Department of English, University of Alberta, November 1992.
Editorial Work Magazines and Publishers Paragraph Magazine (1993-present), Contributing Editor. Canadian Woman Studies, Regional Editing (1987-92) (f)Lip: A newsletter of feminist innovative writing, Contributing Editor (1986-87) Border/lines: Cultures, Contexts, Canadas, Member of the Editorial Collective (1984-85); Contributing Editor (1992-95) Canadian Women's Educational Press, Member of the Social Issues Editorial Collective (1982-84) Canadian Press, editorial assistant (1979) Plus: A Magazine for Women, co-founder and contributor (1972) Referee and Readers' Reports (1987-present)
for Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal; Journal of Canadian Studies; References for Feminist Research; The Embodied Viewer (Glenbow Museum; Signature; Signs; Canadian Federation for the Humanities; Canada Council; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (English; Interdisciplinary Studies) Video 1992 Writer/Director/Camera: "The Pont-Pom Poem" (4 min.): TV-Ontario. 'Imprint" (National Broadcast) 1990 Writer/Director/Co-camera: "Pedestrian Notes on West Edmonton Mall" (18 min.) 1986 Actor: Colin Campbell, "No Voice Over" (27 min.) 1980 Research, freelance for publishers, radio, television 1978 Production Assistant: Constellation Films, Toronto; "Emma Zunz" 1977 Research and Publicity, "Ninety Minutes Live" CBC-TV Current Affairs Department 1973 Assistant to the Director: Canadian Centre for Films on Art, Ottawa 1972 Director/Writer: "Movement" (30 min. film for children), CBC-TV Ottawa Exhibitions of "Pedestrian Notes on West Edmonton Mall" (18 min.): "Building a West," an exhibition of Western Canadian Architecture, Nickle Arts Museum, University of Calgary, March/April 1990; "Video From the North," Glenbow Museum, Calgary, December 1-January 27, 1991; "Video West," The Muttart Gallery, Calgary, February 5-March 3, 1991; "One World Film Festival," University of Calgary, March 1-3, 1991; "Images Festival of Independent Film and Video," Toronto, June 6-11, 1991; University of Western Ontario; Carleton University.
Presentations With Dr. Lynne Bell. "Canadian Feminist Performance." Canadian Art & Art History Association Annual Meeting, U of Western Ontario, November 1997. With Dr. Lynne Bell. "Of Bull Dykes and Prairie Chickens: Performance as Praxis." "The Concrete Matters: Feminist Materialisms Across Discipline." University of Alberta, March 1997. "Ektomy." "The Body Conference." University of Saskatchewan. October 1997. With Dr. Lynne Bell. "Creative Documentary and the Public Intellectual: Reading Video Artist Marjorie Beaucage and writer Myrna Kostash. Women/Communities Conference, University of Leeds, June 1997. "On Poetry and Sexual Violence Against Women." Sexual Assault Centre, University of Alberta, January 1997. "Deflowering Alberta’s Wild Rose: Dissenting Cultures in an Authoritarian Regime." A Sense of Place: On Regionalism. University of Alberta, October 1995: ACQL Meetings, May 1996. "Autonomous Organizing the Writers’ Union of Canada: The Conundrum of Race and Gender." V International Studies Congress, Asociacion Española de Estudio Canadianes, Madrid, November 1994. "Implications: Canadian Women’s Child Sexual Abuse Narratives.: IV Curso Superior de Estudios Canadienses. Universidad de la Laguna, Islas Canarias, November 1994. "Plain Speaking: Harrowing Experiences as a Feminist Academic." Knowing Politics: Feminist Theory and Feminist Activism, University of Western Ontario, November 1994. "Making Our Words Matter: Canadian Women's Writing about Child Sexual Abuse and Social Change." Address to the Korean Women's Literature Association. Seoul, Korea, May 1994 (invited). Talks on Canadian Women Writers, The Politics of Difference, Child Sexual Abuse Narratives: Korean Women's Literature Association; Canadian Studies Conference, Sookmyung Women's University; University of Seoul, Seoul, University of Taejon, Taejon, Korea, May 1994 (invited). "Writing as Healing the Social and Body Politic in Contemporary Canadian Women's Writing." Centre for Research in Women's Studies and Gender Relations, University of British Columbia, March 1994 (invited) . "Interventions and Public Spheres: The Cultural Work of Several Contemporary Canadian Women Writers." Annual Conference of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries, Grainau/Bavaria (Germany), February 1994. "Memory Writes: Contemporary Canadian Women's Narratives of Child Sexual Abuse." Conference on Commonwealth and American Women's Discourse, The Institute of Commonwealth and American Studies and English Language, Mysore, India, January 1994. Various talks on Canadian women writers: University of Goa, University of Bombay, S.N.D.T. Women's University, and University of Delhi (January, 1994). "Memory Work Tattoo: On Family Photography and Autobiographical Incest Narrative." Women's Studies Association, Charlottetown, June 1992. Panelist, "Backlash Against Feminism." Women's Studies Association, Charlottetown, June 1992. "What Language Speaks." Re:Verse/Re:Vision: A Canadian Feminist Poetry Conference, Winnipeg Art Gallery, June 1992. "California Dramas: WEM's Tales of the Nordic Palms," Folklore Studies Association of Canada, St. John's, November 1991. "l Peel Myself Out of my Own Skin: Reading Don't.- A Woman's Word." ACUTE, Queen's University, Kingston, May 28, 1991. "Sounding Differences: Interviews as Interventions?" Interviewing the Text: A Symposium. University of Calgary, March 2, 1991. Panelist, "On Women's Action for Peace in the Gulf." International Week, March 5, 1991. "Canadian Women and Peace." International Week, University of Alberta, March 7, 1990, and Common Woman Books, Edmonton, February 2,1990. "Feminist Visual Art Practices" (two talks with Bridget Elliott), Edmonton Art gallery, February 26 and March 5, 1990. "Feminist Visual Art Practices" (two talks with Bridget Elliott), Edmonton Art gallery, February 26 and March 5, 1990. "The Body in Pain: Reading Elly Danica's Don't: A Woman's Word." History of the Literary Institution, University of Alberta, November 9-11, 1989. "Writing in Light and Shadow: Daphne Marlatt's Book Works." Image and Text: Image et Texte session, Universities Art Association of Canada, November 2-4, 1989. Miscellaneous Talks on West Edmonton Mall - "I-less and Gaga in the Fantasyland Hotel: A Feminist Reading of West Edmonton Mall"; "Of Arcades, Pleasure Domes and Plain Consuming: A Feminist Reading of West Edmonton Mall"; and "Notes from Storyville North: Circling West Edmonton Mall": "Cultural Studies Lecture Series," November 1991; West Edmonton Rotary Club, Edmonton, March 1991; Department Research Seminar, Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of Alberta, November 1990; Alberta College of Art, Calgary, October 1990; Feminist Forum, University of Alberta/Athabasca University, September 1990; Cultural Studies Program, Carleton University, Ottawa, April 1990; Canadian Geography Association Annual Meetings, May 1990 (invited speaker, declined due to research travel commitments); Western Canadian Studies Conference, Banff, March 1990; "Gender and the Construction of Culture and Knowledge." University of British Columbia, September 1989; "Workers and their Communities." York University, June 1989; Blurred Genres: A Conference on Alternative Forms of Critical Practices, The Calgary Institute for the Humanities, University of Calgary, March 1989; Literature and Philosophy Lecture Series, University of Alberta, February 1989. "Feminist Poetics: Writing, Institutions, Publishing." League of Canadian Poets Annual Meeting, University of Western Ontario, May 1989. "What is a Nice Feminist Like Me Doing in a Place Like This?" Scholar Exchange, English Department, University of Calgary, March 1989. "Audacious Innovations: Contemporary Canadian Feminist Writing." Commonwealth Literature Conference, Aachen, West Germany, June 1988. "Lola Lemire Tostevin’s Double Standards." Association of Canadian University Teachers of English, McMaster University, May 1987 "Towards a Feminist Poetics." Association of Canadian Quebec Literatures, McMaster University, May 1987. "Hystorical Signs: Reading Daphne Marlatt’s Writing ‘I’." Autobiography and Canadian Literature Symposium, University of Ottawa, April 1987. "The Feminine Suicide Narratives of Phyllis Webb." Canadian Women's Studies Association, Winnipeg, June 1986. "The Poetics of Displacement: Reading Lola Lemire Tostevin." Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, Moncton, November 1986. "A Double Signature: Daphne Marlatt's Body Politic." Canadian Women's Studies Association, Montreal, June 1985. "Citing Resistance: Daphne Marlatt's Touch To My Tongue." Association of Canadian Quebec Literatures, Montreal, June 1985. "Women Write Work: Towards a Feminist Poetics." American Association of Popular Culture, Toronto, March 1984. "Framed by History: The Poetry of Marjorie Pickthall." Association of Canadian Quebec Literatures, Vancouver, May 1983.
Board Member, International Adoptive Families of Alberta, 1999-present Winner, Golden Pen Award, Best Letter to the Editor, Edmonton Journal, March 1995. Chair, Status of Women Writers Committee, The Writers Union of Canada, 1994-95. Co-founder, Women's Action for Peace in the Gulf, participated in and co-organized public discussion groups, press conferences and interviews, demonstrations, letter campaigns and A Forum on Women and Peace (17 speakers and workshops at the University of Alberta), 1991. Co-ordinator, Canadian Women Writers Reading Series, Common Women Books, Edmonton, 1988-91. Co-organizer, Feminist Research Forum, Panelist on "Cultural Studies"; University of Alberta and Athabasca University, October 21-22, 1988 and October 27-28, 1989. Participant, Women and the Arts Retreat, NeWest Institute for Western Canadian Studies, June 1988. Literary Board Member, "Celebration of Women and the Arts" (Alberta Women Artists Advocacy Group), 1987-88. Speaker on NFB film Firewords, Women's Studies Program, University of Alberta, November 1987. Co-ordinator, Canadian Women Writers Reading Series, New College, University of Toronto, 1986-87. Member, International Women's Day Committee, Toronto, 1983-84 IV: ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES University of Alberta Co-organizer, Women's Studies Speakers Committee, 1995-96. President, Academic Women's Association, 1992-93. Member, Writer-in-Residence Committee 1991-93. Member, Graduate Committee, Women’s Studies Program, 1990-91, 1991-93, 1995-96. Member, Women’s Studies Program Committee, 1989-91, 1992-93. Member, Departmental Equity Committee, 1997-present. Executive, Academic Women’s Association, 1988-92. Member, Graduate Committee, Department of English, 1988-91 Member, Curriculum Committee, Women’s Studies Program, 1988-90. Member, Screening Committee, Department of English, 1988-89, 1997-8. Member, Co-ordinating Committee on Women’s Studies (Vice President Academic) and Women’s Research Centre, 1987-90
1981-87 Ph.D., English, York University 1981 M.A., English, York University 1979-80 5 courses, University of Toronto 1975 B.A., English, Carleton University Graduate Courses: Canadian Poetry (Eli Mandel); Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing (A. Shteir); Education and the Sociology of Women (Mary O'Brien, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education); Canadian Women Writers (Barbara Godard); Literary Theory; Victorian Novel; Modern American Literature; Jungian Approaches to Literary Symbolism; Women's Education and the Social Organization of Knowledge (Dorothy Smith, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education). Dissertation: "Citing Resistance: Vision, Space, Authority and Transgression in Canadian Women's Poetry." Supervisor: Eli Mandel. Other Relevant Courses: November, 1993 Counselling Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse I (Cheryl Malmo), Women's Program, University of Alberta. August, 1985: Scholarship student at "West Word," a two-week intensive workshop for women writers organized by the West Coast Women and Words Committee (Instructors: Daphne Marlatt [poetry] and Gail Scott [prose]). June '84, June '87 Scholarship student at the International Summer Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies, University of Toronto. June-July 1983 Scholarship student at "Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture: Limits, Frontiers, Boundaries," Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois (Instructors: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Fredric Jameson, Stuart Hall). July-Aug. 1980 Centre Linguistique de Jonquière, Quebec. Completed 4eme degree. 1971-72 L'école pour les étudiants étrangers, Aix-en.-provence, France. VIII: PERSONAL Mother of daughter Rae Xiao Bao (b. Aug 3, 1997) adopted in Maoming City, PRC, January 15, 1999. |