CURRICULUM VITAE
Fiona Polack
Associate Professor of English
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Email: fpolack@mun.ca
Phone: 864-8055
Web: www.faculty.mun.ca/fpolack/
Languages English; French
Citizenship Canadian; Australian
Education
2002 PhD. in English,
Thesis: ‘Littoral Fictions: Writing Tasmania and Newfoundland’
University of Tasmania
1992 First Class Honours in English,
University of Tasmania
1990 Bachelor of Arts in English and Philosophy,
University of Tasmania
Academic Employment
2013- Associate Professor, Department of English,
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2007- Assistant Professor, Department of English,
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2002-7 Assistant Professor, Department of English,
Université Sainte-Anne, Nova Scotia
(Promoted to Associate, 2007; Maternity Leave 2005-6)
1997-1999 Sessional Lecturer and Teaching Assistant,
School of English, University of Tasmania.
Research
Grants Awarded
2016-17 Principal Applicant, Public Engagement Accelerator Fund, “Petrocultures 2016: The Offshore:” $9,987.
2016-17 Co-Applicant, SSHRC Connection Grant, “Petrocultures 2016: The Offshore:” $25,000.
2015-18 Participant, High North Program, Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Education (SIU) Grant,
“Security, Geopolitical, and Governance Challenges in Relation to Arctic Extractive Industries:” $326,000 CAD (17% allocated to Petrocultures 2016 for student travel).
2015-17 Collaborator, Kule Institute for Advanced Study, University of Alberta Research Grant, “After Oil: New Models for Research on Resource and Environmental Futures:” $98,724
2015-16 Co-Applicant, Memorial University Conference Fund Grant, “Petrocultures 2016: The Offshore:” $4835.
2015-16 Co-Applicant, Memorial University Scholarship in the Arts Funding, “Petrocultures 2016: The Offshore:” $12,000.
2013-14 Principal Applicant, SSHRC Connection Grant, “Traces of Ochre: Changing Perspectives on the Beothuk:” $24.251.
2012-13 Principal Applicant, Smallwood Foundation Research Grant, “Cold Water Oil: Newfoundland and Labrador Culture and the Offshore:” $2550.
2007-10 Principal Applicant, SSHRC Standard Research Grant, ‘“Last of Her Race:’ Shawnadithit, Truganini and Settler Culture Inquietudes:” $49,200.
2007-8 Faculty of Arts, Memorial University Start-Up Grant: $10,000
2004 Subvention Interne de Recherche, Université Sainte-Anne: $1500
2002 Subvention Interne de Recherche, Université Sainte-Anne: $540
1996-2000 Australian Government Postgraduate Award: A$16,000 per annum
1999 Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand, Postgraduate Award: A$2800
1999 Graduate Research Support Scheme Award, Faculty of Arts,
University of Tasmania: A$1500
Research Development Grant, School of English,
University of Tasmania - A$500
1998 Graduate Research Support Scheme Award, Faculty of Arts,
University of Tasmania - A$2000
Research Development Grant, School of English,
University of Tasmania - A$2000
Publications
Books
Petrocultures Research Group (including Fiona Polack), After Oil. Morgantown, West Virginia: West Virginia University Press, 2016.
Edited Books
Polack, Fiona (ed.), Traces of Ochre: Changing Perspectives on the Beothuk. Forthcoming with University of Toronto Press.
Refereed Articles
Polack, Fiona. “Juxtaposing Contemporary Writing from Canada and Australia.” Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature 15.3 (2015). (6000 words).
Polack, Fiona. “Reading Shanawdithit’s Drawings: Transcultural Texts in the North American Colonial World,” Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 14.3 (2013). (7500 words).
Polack, Fiona. “Art in the Bush: Romanticist Painting for Indigenous Audiences in Tasmania and Newfoundland.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts 33.4 (2011): 333-351.
Polack, Fiona. “Amelia Curran’s Newfoundland Painting.” Keats-Shelley Journal 60 (2011): 25-29.
Polack, Fiona. “Memory against History: Figuring the Past in Cloud of Bone.” English Studies in Canada 35.4 (2009): 53-69.
Polack, Fiona. “Taking the Waters: Abjection and Homecoming in The Shipping News and Death of a River Guide.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature 41.1 (2006): 93-110.
Polack, Fiona. “Home Births: Women and Regional Space in The Sound of One Hand Clapping and Waiting for Time.” Australasian-Canadian Studies 22.2 (2004) – 23.1 (2005): 181-208.
Refereed Book Chapters
Polack, Fiona, and Danine Farquharson, “Offshore Rig,” Fueling Culture: Energy, History, Politics. Ed. Imre Szeman, Jennifer Wenzel and Patricia Yaeger. Forthcoming with Fordham University Press.
Polack, Fiona. “Introduction: De-Islanding the Beothuk,” in Traces of Ochre: Changing Perspectives on the Beothuk, ed. Fiona Polack. Forthcoming with University of Toronto Press.
Polack, Fiona. “Shanawdithit and Truganini: Converging and Diverging Histories,” in Traces of Ochre: Changing Perspectives on the Beothuk, ed. Fiona Polack. Forthcoming with University of Toronto Press.
Polack, Fiona. “Place and Space: Views from a Tasmanian Mountain.” Imagining Australian Space: Cultural Studies and Spatial Inquiry. Ed. Ruth Barcan and Ian Buchanan. Nedlands, Western Australia: University of Western Australia Press, 1999. 145-57.
Refereed Conference Proceedings
Polack, Fiona. “Writing and Rewriting the Island: Tasmania, Politics, and Contemporary Australian Fiction.” Message in a Bottle: Proceedings from an International Conference, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, June 28-30, 1998. Ed. Laurie Brinklow, Frank Ledwell and Jane Ledwell. Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island: Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, 2000. 215-29.
Non-Refereed Essays
Polack, Fiona. “Shanawdithit’s Art,” in The Artist Herself: Self-Portraits by Canadian Historical Women Artists. Ed. Alicia Boutilier and Tobi Bruce. Kingston, ON: Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, 2015.
Polack, Fiona. “Millstone to Touchstone: Thinking About Regional Identity.” Siglo: Journal for the Arts 11 (1999): 41-3.
Book Reviews
Polack, Fiona. Rev. of Tasmanian Visions: Landscapes in Writing, Art and Photography, by Roslynn D. Haynes. Australian Literary Studies 25.3 (2010): 79-81.
Polack, Fiona. “Whose Bones?” Rev. of Bernice Morgan’s Cloud of Bone. Canadian Literature 198 (2008): 149-151.
Polack, Fiona. Rev. of In Tasmania, by Nicholas Shakespeare. Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing 7.1 (2006): 119-123.
Polack, Fiona. “Canadians Like Us.” Rev. of The House of Difference: Cultural Politics and National Identity in Canada, by Eva Mackey. Southern Review 32.2 (1999): 259-60.
Encyclopedia Entries
Polack, Fiona. Annotation on “Life in the Raw with the Personal Muse,” by Robyn Rowland. Routledge Annual Bibliography of English Studies (Postcolonial Section), August 2010. Web.
Polack, Fiona. Annotation on “Postcolonial Gothic as Gothic Subversion? A Study of Black Australian Fiction,” by Francoise Kral. Routledge Annual Bibliography of English Studies (Postcolonial Section), October 2009. Web.
Polack, Fiona. Annotation on ‘”Death and the Woman:” Looking at Francis Webb’s “Lament for St Maria Goretti,” by Bernadette Brennan. Routledge Annual Bibliography of English Studies (Postcolonial Section), August 2009. Web.
Polack, Fiona. Annotation on ‘”Hopelessly Adrift on Dreams of Homer:” Robert Dessaix’s Corfu,’ by Noel Henricksen. Routledge Annual Bibliography of English Studies (Postcolonial Section), August 2009. Web.
Polack, Fiona. Annotation on ‘Audible in the Silence: Douglas Lockwood, Waipuldanya, and the Postwar Aboriginal Life Narrative,’ by Richard Pascal. Routledge Annual Bibliography of English Studies (Postcolonial Section), March 2009. Web.
Polack, Fiona. Annotation on ‘“Benang:” This “Most Local of Histories:” Annexing Colonial Records into a World without End,’ by Lisa Slater. Routledge Annual Bibliography of English Studies (Postcolonial Section), March 2009. Web.
Polack, Fiona. Annotation on ‘”Poetry’s Formative Power:” Teaching Poetry in Tasmania 1900-1950,’ by Ralph Spaulding. Routledge Annual Bibliography of English Studies (Postcolonial Section), December 2008. Web.
Interviews
Polack, Fiona. Radio interview - CBC Newfoundland, On the Go, 17 August, 2010, interview to discuss the history of Indigenous Tasmanians.
Polack, Fiona. Radio interview - CBC Newfoundland, Morning Show for Central Newfoundland, 17 August, 2010, interview to discuss lecture at Boyd’s Cove.
Polack, Fiona. Radio interview - CBC Newfoundland Radio Noon, 23 August, 2007, to discuss ”Last of Her Race” project.
Polack, Fiona. Radio interview - CBC Newfoundland Morning Show, 20 September 2004, to discuss Tasmanian perspectives on Newfoundland.
Polack, Fiona. Radio interview - CBC Newfoundland Morning Show, 4 May 2000, to discuss doctoral research on Tasmania and Newfoundland.
Polack, Fiona. Radio interview - ABC Tasmania Statewide Program, 28 September 1999, to discuss doctoral research on Tasmania and Newfoundland.
Presentations
Refereed Conference Presentations
Polack, Fiona. “The Rhetoric of Catastrophe: Commissions of Public Inquiry into Offshore Oil”, Cultures of Energy 5 Research Symposium, CENHS, Rice University, Houston, U.S.A., 23 April, 2016.
Polack, Fiona. “Tony Birch’s Blood, and Oil,” presented at Literary Networks Convention, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia, 7 July 2015.
Polack, Fiona. “Oceans, Rivers, Tributaries: Comparing Settler Texts Now,” presented at “Worlds Within: Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 10 July 2014.
Polack, Fiona. “Tales of Absence: Ken Pittman’s Shanaditti: Last of the Beothuks and Tom Haydon’s the Last Tasmanian,” presented at the American Association for Australasian Literary Studies 2014 Conference, Portland State University, Portland, United States of America, 26 April, 2014.
Polack, Fiona. “Shanawdithit and Truganini: Converging and Diverging Histories,” presented at “Traces of Ochre: A Symposium,” Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, 17 June, 2013.
Polack, Fiona. “Regional Textualities: Interpreting Shanawdithit’s Annotated Sketches,” presented at “Contested Regional Identities: The 19th Atlantic Canada Studies Conference,” University of New Brunswick (at Saint John), Saint John, New Brunswick, 5 May, 2012.
Polack, Fiona. “Romancing Annihilation in Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Tasmania and Newfoundland,” presented at “Reading Across the Pacific: The American Association for Australasian Literary Studies 2012 Conference,” The Delta Hotel, Toronto, Ontario, 17 February, 2012.
Polack, Fiona. “The Currans and the Colonies: Shelley’s Circle and the Settlement of Newfoundland,” presented at the “Romanticism and the Tyrannies of Distance Conference,” University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 10 February, 2011.
Polack, Fiona. “’I Feel it Imperiously My Duty:’ Visualising Cross-Cultural Relationships in Two British Colonies,” presented at the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies Triennial Conference, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, 10 June, 2010.
Polack, Fiona. “Authenticating Identity: White Newfoundland and the Dispossession of the Beothuk,” presented at the Postcolonial Studies Association Inaugural Conference: “Re-Imagining Identity: New Directions in Postcolonial Studies,” Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland, 8 May, 2009.
Polack, Fiona. “The Weight of Memory: Revelations of the Past in the Fiction of Richard Flanagan,” presented at “Memory, Haunting, Discourse/Discourse, Haunting, Memory,” Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden, 19 June 2004.
Polack, Fiona. “Always More to Imagine: The Literary Allure of Islands,” presented at the North Atlantic Forum, University College of Cape Breton, Sydney, Nova Scotia, 13 October 2002.
Polack, Fiona. “Writing and Re-writing the Island: Tasmania, Politics and Contemporary Australian Fiction,” presented at “Message in a Bottle: The Literature of Small Islands Conference,” University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, 27 June 1998.
Polack, Fiona. “Walking on the Mountain: Re-placing Space,” presented at the de Certeau Symposium, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 31 January 1998.
Invited Public Lectures
Polack, Fiona. “Mirror Islands: The Colonial Histories of Tasmania and Newfoundland.” Gilbert Higgins Memorial Lecture for the Newfoundland Historical Society, Marine Institute, St. John’s, 23 February, 2012.
Polack, Fiona. “Different Islands, Same Stories-Settler and Indigenous Encounters in Tasmania and Newfoundland,” Boyd’s Cove Beothuk Interpretation Centre, 18 August 2010.
Other Invited Presentations
Polack, Fiona, and Danine Farquharson. “Imagining the Offshore.” Invited presentation. “MUN Buttoned,” Rocket Room, 272 Water Street, St. John’s, 1 October, 2014.
Polack, Fiona, and Danine Farquharson. “Oil in Edgewise.” Invited presentation. “Words in Edgewise 45,” Eastern Edge Art Gallery, St. John’s, 23 September, 2014.
Polack, Fiona, and Danine Farquharson. “Cold Water Oil: Newfoundland and Labrador Culture and the Offshore.” Invited presentation. “English Research Matters 2013,” Memorial University, St. John’s, 15 February, 2013.
Polack, Fiona. “Traces of Ochre.” Invited presentation. “English Research Matters 2013,” Memorial University, St. John’s, 16 February, 2013.
Polack, Fiona. “Reading Shanawdithit’s Drawings.” Invited presentation. Aboriginal Studies Seminar Series, Memorial University, St. John’s, 29 November, 2011.
Polack, Fiona. “Ambivalence in Robert Drewe’s The Savage Crows.” Invited presentation. Department of English, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, 12 February, 2007.
Polack, Fiona. “Of Knots and Rivers: Tasmania and Newfoundland,” Invited presentation. University of Tasmania Colonialism and its Aftermath Seminar Series, Ross, Tasmania, 16 February 2001.
Public Coverage of Research
“The Fluid Field of Petroculture.” By Janet Harron. Faceforward: the People and Stories of Memorial: Energy Issue, January 2015. http://www.mun.ca/faceforward/2015/january/
-republished in Oil and Gas Online 19 January, 2015. http://www.oilandgasonline.com/doc/the-fluid-field-of-petroculture-0001
-republished as lead story on MUN website, 29 January, 2015. www.mun.ca.
“Faculty of Arts Research Grants 2014 (“Traces of Ochre).” Artsworld: Faculty of Arts Newsletter, Spring 2014, page 15.
“Making the Connection: Dr Fiona Polack Lectures at the Beothuk Interpretation Centre.” By Jennifer Randell. The Pilot, 14 September, 2010, page A4.
“Aboriginal Research Paves the Road to Reconciliation.” Research Matters Arts Edition, Fall 2008, pages 3-4.
“MUN Researcher to Compare Last Aboriginals,” The St. John’s Telegram, 18 August, 2007, page A6.
Deborah Inkpen, “Last of Her Race,” Gazette, Memorial University, 9 August, 2007 (This piece was also the feature article on the MUN homepage for several days in early August, 2007)
Feature article (in French) on new professors at Université Sainte-Anne, Le Courrier de la Nouvelle-Écosse, September, 2003
Teaching
Graduate
Courses:
Fall 2015: Theory for our Times (English 7003)
Fall 2014-Winter 2015: Sabbatical
Fall 2013: Theory for our Times (English 7003)
Winter 2012: Imagining Islands (English 7079)
Fall 2009: Studies in Critical Theory (English 7082) (Directed Reading Course)
Fall 2008: Imagining Islands (English 7079)
Seminars:
Fall 2013: Empire (Humanities 6011), presented seminar ‘Circuits of Knowledge in Britain’s Empire,’ 2 October 2013
Fall 2012: Contemporary Literary Theory and Practice (English 7003), presented seminar ‘Postcolonialisms,’ 6 November 2012
Winter 2011: Autobiography: Individual on Trial (Humanities 6020), presented seminar ‘Post-Colonial Autobiography,’ 24 March 2011
Fall 2010: Newfoundland Culture and Identity (English 7087), presented seminar ‘Thinking Islands,’ 17 November, 2010
Fall 2009: Newfoundland Culture and Identity (English 7087), presented seminar ‘Thinking Islands,’ 2 December, 2009
Spring 2008: Justice and the Self (Humanities 6031), presented seminar ‘Postcolonial Justice,’ 12 June 2008
Fall 2007: Newfoundland Culture and Identity (English 7087), presented seminar ‘Thinking Islands,’ 24 October, 2007
PhD Thesis Supervisions:
Mandy Rowsell, “Violent Masculinities in Contemporary Newfoundland Fiction,” in progress.
Jon Parsons, “Resistance in Contemporary Newfoundland Fiction,” in progress. Co-supervising with Danine Farquharson.
Chris Aylward (Interdisciplinary Studies), “The Beothuk Story: European and First Nations Narratives of the Beothuk People of Newfoundland,” 2014. Co-supervised with Jeff Webb and Peter Pope.
Jacob Bachinger, “Cold Pastoral: An Ecocritical Reading of Exploration and Travel Narratives of the Labrador Interior, 1849-1942,” in progress. Member of supervisory committee.
Samuel Martin, “Bleached Bones Rattling: Reviving the Art of Sacramental Reading,” 2012. Member of supervisory committee.
PhD Thesis Examinations (External Reader):
Laurie Brinklow, "Artists and the Articulation of Islandness, Sense of Place, and Story in Newfoundland and Tasmania," University of Tasmania, 2015.
PhD Thesis Examinations (Internal Reader):
Jacqueline O’Rourke, “Representing Violence: Jihad, Theory, Fiction,” 2011.
Mark Anderson, “Pioneer or Invader? Situational Metafiction in Settler Nations,” 2009.
Carol Goodman, “Coloring Outside the Line: Traversing the Boundaries of Race in America,” 2008.
PhD Comprehensive Examinations Committee Memberships
Mandy Rowsell, 2015
Jon Parsons, 2013
Alexandra Gilbert, 2013
Jacob Bachinger, 2013
Chris Aylward, 2009-2010
Gina Granter, 2009
Jacqueline O’Rourke, 2008.
M.A. Thesis Supervisions:
Matthew Carroll, “Who Lives at the South Pole? The Imposition of Identity on Antarctica in Three Nineteenth-Century Texts,” 2011.
M.A. Research Essay Supervisions:
Kathleen Lahey, “Secrets, Gender-Based Violence and Intergenerational Trauma Amongst Women in Rural Communities in Newfoundland and Labrador,” in progress.
Marc Lewis, “The Dudes in Charge: Oil Ontologies and Paternal Relationships in Oil! and The Road,” 2014.
Francesca Boschetti, “Home and Identity in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake and Interpreter of Maladies,” 2013.
Marco Campagna, ‘Depicting the Self, Depicting Newfoundland: A Study of The Colony of Unrequited Dreams and The Custodian of Paradise,’ 2009.
Danielle Yetman, ‘Becoming a White African: Negotiating Tension in the Childhood Autobiographies of Doris Lessing and Alexandra Fuller,’ 2009.
Shannon Fraser, ‘Autobiography in Anishinaabewaki: Locality, Language and Transculturation,’ 2008.
M.A. Thesis Examinations (External Reader):
Ursula Horlock, “Defying Defoe: Rewriting the Castaway Hero,” University of Tasmania, 2012.
M.A. Research Essay Examinations (Internal Reader):
Kayla Walters, “Colonial Education and Caribbean Fiction,” 2010.
Other Involvement:
Along with conference co-organizer, Danine Farquharson, I am currently co-supervising three M.A. students, Amy Donovan, Theresa Powell and Shannon Webb-Campbell, working on Petrocultures 2016: The Offshore.
In 2013-14 I supervised three M.A. students, Ian Moffatt, Kerry O’Neill and Lori-Ann Campbell, funded through my SSHRC Connection Grant.
In 2012-13 I co-supervised (with Danine Farquharson) the work of Ph.D candidate Jon Parsons on the Smallwood Grant funded project “Cold Water Oil.”
Between 2007-2010 I extensively trained three students funded through my SSHRC Standard Research Grant. They included Memorial University Ph.D candidates Heather O’Brien and Tom Artiss, and University of New South Wales Ph.D candidate Darien Rozentals.
I have also supervised numerous graduate students funded through the English Department’s Graduate Assistant program.
Undergraduate Teaching at Memorial University
Honours Supervisions:
Brian Jenkins, “To See Things as They Are: Brave New World’s Treatment of Freud,” in progress.
Grace Lau, “The Wall of Domination: Muslim Integration in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane,” 2011.
Anna Smith, “Problematically Justified: The Satirical Manipulation of Confessional Narrative in James Hogg’s The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner,” 2010.
Danai Kusikwenyu, “A Fanonian Reading of Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions and The Book of Not,” 2010.
Elim Wong, “A Search for the ‘Beyond:’ Hybrid Identities in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth and Andrea Levy’s Small Island,” 2009.
Honours Examinations (Internal Reader):
Katherine Pippy, “Sustaining Authenticity: Written Forms of Textual Authority as Anchors for Constructed Identities in Julian Barnes’s England, England,” 2016.
Theresa Powell, “Inglan is a Bitch: The Dub Poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson,” 2014.
Danielle Yetman, “The Trouble with Stories: The Intersection of Storytelling with History and Identity in Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water and Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach,” 2008.
Courses:
Winter 2016: Australian Literature (English 3161); Major Writers from 1800 (English 2001); course remission (banked time)
Fall 2015: Imagining Islands (English 4819)
Fall 2014-Winter 2015: Sabbatical
Winter 2014: Nation, Region, Identity: Studies in Post-Colonial Literatures (Australian Literature) (English 3161); Major Writers from 1800 (English 2001); one course remission (banked time).
Fall 2013: Course remission (3.25)
Winter 2013: Nation, Region, Identity: Studies in Post-Colonial Literatures (Australian Literature) (English 3161); Major Writers from 1800 (English 2001); Critical Reading and Writing 1 (English 1080)
Fall 2012: Modern Canadian Fiction (English 2150); course remission (3.25)
Winter 2012: World Literature Written in English (English 2122); Major Writers from 1800 (English 2001)
Fall 2011: Nation, Region, Identity: Studies in Post-Colonial Literatures (Australian Literature) (English 3161); course remission (3.25)
Winter 2011: Two course remissions (banked time)
Fall 2010: Critical Reading and Writing 1 (English 1080); World Literature Written in English (English 2122); Major Writers from 1800 (English 2001)
Winter 2010: World Literature Written in English (English 2122); Major Writers from 1800 (English 2001)
Fall 2009: Critical Reading and Writing 1 (English 1080); Postcolonial Literature 1 (English 3160); course remission (SSHRC)
Winter 2009: Critical Reading and Writing 1 (English 1080); Postcolonial Literature 1 (English 3160)
Fall 2008: Postcolonial Literature 1 (English 3160); course remission (new hire)
Winter 2008: Major Writers from 1800 (English 2001); Critical Reading and Writing (Fiction) (English 1101)
Fall 2007: Postcolonial Literature 1 (English 3160); Critical Reading and Writing (Fiction) (English 1101); course remission (new hire)
Undergraduate Teaching at Université Sainte-Anne
Courses
Winter 2007: Settler Cultures: Comparative Postcolonial Readings (ANGL 3723); Introduction to Cinema (ANGL 2083)
Fall 2006: Contemporary Fiction (ANGL 3523); Literary Autobiography (ANGL 3563)
Fall 2005-Winter 2006: Maternity leave
Winter 2005: Introduction to English 2 (ANGL 1163); Settler Cultures (ANGL 3723); Advanced English Language Tutorial (ANGL 2093); English Language Tutorial (ANLS 1493)
Fall 2004: Introduction to English 2 (ANGL 1163); Contemporary Fiction
(ANGL 3523); Literary Autobiography (ANGL 3563)
Winter 2004: Contemporary Canadian Poetry (ANGL 2223); Introduction to English 2 (ANGL 1163); ESL Intermediate Level (ANLS 1433)
Fall 2003: Contemporary Canadian Fiction (ANGL 2233); Medieval and Renaissance Literature (ANGL 2033); Introduction to English 2 (ANGL 1163)
Winter 2003: Introduction to English 2 (ANGL 1163); ESL Beginner and Advanced Levels (ANLS 1403/1443)
Fall 2002: Contemporary Fiction (ANGL 3523); Introduction to English 1
(ANGL 1153)
Undergraduate Teaching at the University of Tasmania
Courses
Summer 1999: Introduction to Literary Theory (HEA 104); Contemporary Australian Literature (HEA 103)
1997-99: Cultural Studies (HEA230); Australian Literature (HEA 205); English 1A (HEA 103); and English 1B (HEA 104).
Service
Conference Organization, Memorial University
Co-organizer, with Danine Farquharson, “Petrocultures 2016: The Offshore,” Memorial University, St. John’s, 31 August-3 September, 2016.
Organizer, “Traces of Ochre: A Symposium,” Memorial University, St. John’s, 17-18 June, 2013.
Internal Service, Memorial University
School of Graduate Studies SSHRC Canadian Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral Fellowship Committee (2015-)
School of Graduate Studies SSHRC Canadian Graduate Scholarship-M.A. Fellowship Committee (2015-)
Dean of Graduate Studies Delegate, Comprehensive Examination Committee of Jonathan Ebel, PhD Candidate in Biology (13 May 2014)
Academic Advisor, Holy Heart of Mary High School (Spring, 2008)
Faculty of Arts
Invited speaker, Connections Grant Workshop (11 June 2014)
Geography Headship Search Committee (2013-14)
ISER/Smallwood Awards Panel (2013-4)
Undergraduate Studies Committee (2012-13)
Dean of Arts Search Committee (2011-12)
Distinguished Arts Lectureships Committee (2008-12)
Department of English
Graduate Studies Committee (2015-)
Undergraduate Program Working Group (2015-)
Ad Hoc M.A. Prize Committee (2015)
Chair, Undergraduate Studies Committee (2013-4)
Promotion and Tenure Committee (2013-4)
Canadian Literature Search Committee (2013-4)
Undergraduate Studies Committee (2008-)
Ad Hoc Scholarships Committee (2008-)
General Search Committee (2008-9; 2012-13)
Research Committee (2010-11)
Research Working Group (2009-10)
Committee Assessing Applications to Attend the Annual Atlantic English
Undergraduate Conference (2009)
First Year Mentoring Committee (2008-)
External Service, Memorial University
Member, Editorial Board, Anthem Press, Australian Literature Series, (2015-)
Referee, Island Studies Journal (2015)
Referee, Studies in Travel Writing (2015)
Referee, Studies in Canadian Literature (2015)
Member, St Bonaventure’s College Academic Advisory Committee, (2014-)
St. Bonaventure’s College University Scholarship Application Assessment Committee (2014-)
Referee, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory (2013)
Referee, Antipodes: Journal of the American Association of Australasian Literary Studies (2011)
Referee, Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia (2011-)
Referee, Journal of Postcolonial Writing (2009-)
Contributing Annotator, the Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies (2007-10)
ACCUTE Campus Representative (2008-14)
SSHRC Interdisciplinary Committee Member (2007)
Internal Service, Université Sainte-Anne
Visiting Writers Committee (2003, 2006)
Research Ethics Committee (2003-5)
Library Committee (2003-5)
English Department Search Committee (2005)
Contributor, SSHRC Restructuring Forum (2003)
External Service, Université Sainte-Anne
Peer reviewer for Journal of Commonwealth Literature (2006)
Writer and editor assisting artists in the French-Acadian community develop letters, publicity material, grant proposals and manuscripts in English (2002-7)
Script consultant for Muffled and Macbeth, short films produced writer Yvette Blackwood (2006)
Script consultant for Making a Scene: The Surprising History of Calgary’s Grand Theatre, documentary film produced by Anlanda Ltd. (2004)
Consultant editor, Postcards from Acadie by Barbara Le Blanc (2003)
Internal Service, University of Tasmania
Founding member, Colonialism and its Aftermath Research Cluster (2001)
Tutor, Transition Program for New University Entrants (2001)
Postgraduate representative, School of English (1997-9)
Coordinator, Literary and Cultural Studies Postgraduate Colloquium (1999)
Co-founder, Feminist Theory Reading Group (1997)
Affiliations
Member of the Petrocultures Research Cluster, University of Alberta
Participant in 2015 After Oil School, University of Alberta
Member, Association for the Study of Australian Literature (2014-)
Member, Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (2006-)
Member, Association of Canadian College and University Teachers (2004-)
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