{"id":36,"date":"2021-09-23T14:14:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T21:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giselebaxter\/?p=36"},"modified":"2026-07-04T12:36:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T19:36:26","slug":"my-curriculum-vitae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giselebaxter\/2021\/09\/23\/my-curriculum-vitae\/","title":{"rendered":"My Curriculum Vitae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated May 1, 2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Gis\u00e8le M. Baxter<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sessional Lecturer<\/li>\n<li>Department of English Language and Literatures, University of British Columbia<\/li>\n<li>397-1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1<\/li>\n<li>Gisele.Baxter@ubc.ca || https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giselebaxter\/<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Teaching and Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>19th-21st century literary and cultural studies; Gothic studies; Modernism; Victorian and 19th-century literature; speculative fiction; rhetoric and composition<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Education<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1986-90:<\/strong> PhD, Dalhousie University. Thesis: <em>Narrative Methods and Social Contexts in the Novel of Dislocation<\/em>. Supervisor: Dr. Rowland J. Smith<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981-82:<\/strong> MA, Dalhousie University. Thesis: <em>Northern Diviner: The Poetry of Seamus Heaney<\/em>. Supervisor: Dr. S.E. Sprott<\/li>\n<li><strong>1976-79:<\/strong> BA, Mount Saint Vincent University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Teaching Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All are English Department courses; all appointments are sessional.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>University of British Columbia, 1997-2026:<\/strong> Courses taught include Strategies for University Writing (no longer offered); Reading and Writing about Language and Literatures; Approaches to Literature and Culture (all first year); Speculative Fiction; Introduction to Children\u2019s and Young Adult Literature; Literature and Film; Principles of Literary Studies (all intermediate); Victorian Period Literature; Nineteenth-Century Literature; Children\u2019s Literature; Modern Literature; Twentieth-Century Literature; Contemporary Literature; Technical Writing (no longer offered); Combined Majors\/Honours Seminar; Literature Majors Seminar (all upper year)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dalhousie University, 1992; 1995-97; 1999:<\/strong> 20th Century Fiction; Framed Narratives; Introduction to Literature; Teaching Assistant for English\/Women\u2019s Studies: Fictions of Development<\/li>\n<li><strong>McGill University 1994-95:<\/strong> Modern British Fiction; Contemporary Women\u2019s Fiction; Restoration to 20th Century<\/li>\n<li><strong>Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al 1995:<\/strong> Contemporary British Fiction<\/li>\n<li><strong>St. Francis Xavier University 1991-92:<\/strong> 20th Century Literature; Modern British Fiction<\/li>\n<li><strong>St. Lawrence University 1990-91:<\/strong> Introduction to Literature; English Literature since 1700; Modern British Novel; British Women Writers<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mount Saint Vincent University 1983-85:<\/strong> Literature for Children and Young Adults; Theory and Practice of Writing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Principal Academic Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>2025-26; 2019-20; 2002-03:<\/strong> Ian Fairclough Teaching Prize (for sessional teaching in English, UBC)<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992-94:<\/strong> Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship; affiliated with the University of East Anglia (supervisor: Malcolm Bradbury) and McGill University (supervisor: Kerry McSweeney)<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989-90:<\/strong> SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988-90:<\/strong> Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Honours Graduating Essays (UBC; <\/strong><strong>supervisor unless otherwise indicated)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>2025-26:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Bianca Feltrin, &#8220;Motherhood and Madness: An Analysis of Transformation and Motherhood in Charlotte Perkins Gilman&#8217;s &#8216;The Yellow Wallpaper&#8217; and Rachel Yoder&#8217;s <em>Nightbitch<\/em>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>Stella Griffin, &#8220;Objects for Male Pleasure: Female Consumption and Authoritarian Complicity in <em>Fahrenheit 451<\/em> and <em>Brave New World<\/em>&#8221; (reader)<\/li>\n<li>Natalie Houle, &#8220;Vampire, the Suspension: Preying on Sensibility in the Nineteenth-Century Vampire Text&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Aisha Chaudhry, &#8220;&#8216;We&#8217;ll Build a Creature&#8217;: Navigating Monstrosity and Queerness in Mary Shelley&#8217;s <em>Frankenstein<\/em> and Carmen Machado&#8217;s <em>In the Dream House<\/em>&#8221; (reader)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>2023-24:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Natalie Knoll, \u201c\u2018God Didn&#8217;t Want Me. And the Devil Was Afraid to Open the Door\u2019: Vampire Tropes and the Gothic in Jay Kristoff&#8217;s <em>Empire of the Vampire<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Nancy Soda, \u201cThe Unscrewing of Mental Sanity in <em>The Turn of the Screw\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Gabrielle Lee, \u201cDefining Desire: The Regulation of Female Adolescent Sexuality and Heterosexual Relationships in Jenny Han&#8217;s <em>To All the Boys I&#8217;ve Loved Before<\/em> and Jandy Nelson&#8217;s <em>I&#8217;ll Give You the Sun<\/em>\u201d (reader)<\/li>\n<li>Zoe Shelton, \u201c\u2018The game is never up\u2019: Cyborgian Experimentation in <em>Women in Love<\/em>&#8216;s Posthuman Imagination\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Jessica Norn, \u201c\u2018Base Metal, Gilded&#8217;: The Deconstruction of the Figure of the Hero in Ellen N. LaMotte&#8217;s <em>The Backwash of War<\/em>\u201d (reader)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>2022-23:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Leila Avdic, \u201cAn Investigation of American Horror through <em>The Silence of the Lambs<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Alexandra Lamb, \u201cThe Accidental Triumph of the Human Spirit in H.G. Wells\u2019 <em>The Island of Doctor Moreau<\/em>: An Objection to the Popular Critical Tradition Behind This Text, and Why It Fails to Prove the Human Merely Animal\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Haylee Kopfensteiner, \u201cHarshest Lines and Sweetest Hues: Women\u2019s Self-portraiture in <em>Jane Eyre<\/em> and the Paintings of Marie Bracquemond\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Henry Yong, \u201c\u2018It\u2019s Okay to Dream a Little\u2019: Pseudo-Eros, Fictophilia, and Hyperreality in Science Fiction\u201d (<em>Blade Runner 2049<\/em>, <em>The Dark Forest<\/em>, and <em>Oryx and Crake<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Katrina Dowall, \u201cA Portrait Frozen in Time: Exploring Queer Transtemporality and its Monstrous Effects in Oscar Wilde\u2019s <em>The Picture of Dorian Gray<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Lucienne Chang, \u201cSubversive Death: Necessary Transcendence of the Bodily in 19\/20C Homoromantic Literature\u201d (<em>The Picture of Dorian Gray<\/em> and <em>Women in Love<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Safa Ghaffar, \u201c\u2018Eat again of the Tree of Knowledge\u2019\u201d: The \u2018Why\u2019s and \u2018How\u2019s behind Infinite Consciousness through Negative Capability in <em>His Dark Materials<\/em>\u201d (reader)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>2021-22:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Gabrielle Alvarez, \u201cSlave and Master Morality in Modern Western Children\u2019s Narratives\u201d (Nietzsche and boys&#8217; adventure stories)<\/li>\n<li>Saba Soltani, \u201cCuriosity (almost) Killed the Pussy: The Patriarchy\u2019s Attempt to Destroy the Female Sin and the Mothers who Intervened\u201d (Persephone, Bluebeard, and \u201cThe Bloody Chamber\u201d)<\/li>\n<li>Kaleena Ipema, \u201cWhere are the Wise Women? Evil and Missing Mothers in <em>The Little Mermaid<\/em> and Other Disney Adaptations of Classic Fairy Tales\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>2020-21:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Teresa Chan, \u201cAdapting the Wondertale: A \u2018Sadeian\u2019 Reading of \u2018The Death of Koschei The Deathless\u2019 and Catherynne M. Valente\u2019s <em>Deathless<\/em>\u201d (reader)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>2019-20:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Lauryn Collins, \u201c\u2018My Eyes are of No Use to Me\u2019: Blindness, Agency, and Gender Anxiety in Wilkie Collins\u2019s <em>Poor Miss Finch<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Kathleen Gigliuk, \u201cFree Women: An Examination of Grendel\u2019s Mother as Liminal Monster\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Aiden Tait, \u201cBetwixt and Between: A Liminal Approach to Neil Gaiman\u2019s <em>Coraline\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Sydney White \u201c\u2018He a man and I a woman\u2019: Gender and Haunting in Daphne DuMaurier\u2019s <em>Rebecca<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Alex Allen, \u201cTransmedia Exploration and Purposeful Decay in Peter Greenaway\u2019s <em>The Tulse Luper Suitcases<\/em> and Other Works\u201d (reader)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>2016-17:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Yi Le Lu, \u201cEntering Bluebeard\u2019s Chamber and Living Happily Ever After: A Conventional Fairy Tale Marriage in L.M. Montgomery\u2019s <em>The Blue Castle<\/em>\u201d (co-supervisor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>2015-16:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Emma Riek, \u201cBorn Without Destiny: A Discussion of Child Heroism and its Function in Roald Dahl\u2019s <em>Matilda<\/em>, <em>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory<\/em>, and <em>The Witches<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Gemma Grimes, \u201cIn Defense of the Gentle[manly] Creature: An Exploration of the Human and the Animal in Kenneth Grahame\u2019s <em>The Wind in the Willows<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Jessica Schmidt, \u201cMutations of Maleficence: Versions of the Wicked Witch in Fairy Tales and Beyond\u201d (reader)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>2014-15:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Elora Hunka, \u201cA Performing Text: <em>The Wonderful Wizard of Oz<\/em> as a Visual Literary Story\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Vanessa Power, \u201cPostmodern Degradation and Posthuman Transcendence\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>2013-14:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Olivia Dreisinger \u201c\u2018What\u2019s the Word for Things Not Being the Same Always\u2019: Change, Change, Change and Collaborative Misfits in Neil Gaiman\u2019s <em>The Sandman<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>2012-13:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Travis LaCroix, \u201cExistentialism and the <em>Toy Story<\/em> Triad\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>2011-12:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Miranda Martini, \u201cGet Them Young: Ecology and Children\u2019s Culture of the Twentieth Century\u201d (reader)<\/li>\n<li>Amy Miles, \u201cWritten by the Scriptors: Salman Rushdie\u2019s <em>Haroun and the Sea of Stories<\/em> as a Response to Roland Barthes\u2019s <em>The Death of the Author<\/em>\u201d (reader)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>2010-11:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Alyzee Lakhani, \u201cThe Crisis of Knowing in The Penultimate Peril of Daniel Handler\u2019s <em>A Series of Unfortunate Events<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Jessica Li, \u201cRepresentation of Cloning in Kazuo Ishiguro\u2019s <em>Never Let Me Go<\/em> and Nancy Farmer\u2019s <em>The House of the Scorpion<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>2009-10:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>John Brennan, \u201cTechnology and Globalism in William Gibson\u2019s <em>Spook Country<\/em> and <em>Pattern Recognition<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Jeremy Newcombe, \u201cExamining Temporality in Graphic Novels: Representations of Time in Alan Moore\u2019s <em>Watchmen<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>2008-09:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Sulynn Chuang Xin, \u201cWithin the Vicious Cabaret: Masks, Identity, and How to Read a Superhero Body in Alan Moore\u2019s <em>V for Vendetta<\/em>\u201d (reader)<\/li>\n<li>Amanda Zapp, \u201cWhen Wendy Grew Up: The Psychological Function of Fairyland in J.M. Barrie\u2019s <em>Peter and Wendy<\/em>\u201d (reader)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>2007-08:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Darcie Frederick, \u201cSurviving <em>The Road<\/em>\u201d (reader)<\/li>\n<li>Karen Teufel, \u201cTracking the Forces of Good and Evil in <em>Harry Potter<\/em>\u201d (reader)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>2006-07:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Elizabeth Anderson, \u201cStorytelling Then and Now: An Examination of the Effects of Oral, Literary and Electronic Forms on the Changing Nature of the Folk and Fairy Tale in <em>Labyrinth<\/em> and <em>A Forfeit of Dreams<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Catherine T. Whitehead, \u201cWorlds Apart: Children and Authority in <em>The Chronicles of Narnia<\/em>, <em>The Dark Is Rising<\/em>, and <em>His Dark Materials<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>2004-05:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Mysha Dewar-McClelland, \u201c\u2018Nobody\u2019s Meat\u2019: A Study of Gender Roles in Traditional and Modern Fairy Tales\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>2003-04:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>David Simpson, \u201cEco-Dystopia: A New Genre Born In The Last Frontier Of The New World\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Faculty Sponsor, UBC Student Directed Seminars<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ASTU 400P: Why the Undead Walk Among Us: An Exploration of Zombies in Literature and Popular Culture (Coordinator: Kate Reilly, 2016)<\/li>\n<li>ASTU 400G: Spectral Spirits, Suspense, and the Sublime: Gothic Literature in Speculation (Coordinators: Gemma Grimes and Catherine Read, 2014)<\/li>\n<li>ASTU 400D\/002: Science Fiction &amp; the City (Coordinator: Matthew Blunderfield, 2009)<\/li>\n<li>ENGL 490\/015: Chick Lit: Making (Over) a Context (Coordinator: Anita Law, 2008)<\/li>\n<li>ENGL 466: Sex, Drugs, and Rock\u2019n\u2019Roll: Popular Culture, 1970s to Today (Coordinator: Ashley Bayles, 2006)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Other Supervision and Examination<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>2006-07:<\/strong> Robert Willis, Master\u2019s Thesis (UBC School of Journalism) \u201cCool to Be Christian?: Dissecting the North American Christian Rock Scene\u201d (reader)<\/li>\n<li><strong>2006:<\/strong> Leslie M. Meier, Master\u2019s Thesis (Simon Fraser University School of Communication) \u201cIn Concert: The Coordination of Popular Music, Youth Practices, and Lifestyle Marketing\u201d (external examiner)<\/li>\n<li><strong>2000:<\/strong> Maria Ticinovic, Master\u2019s Thesis (UBC Department of English) \u201cSublimity and History in Don DeLillo\u2019s <em>Underworld<\/em>\u201d (reader and examiner)<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991:<\/strong> SallyAnne Wolek, Independent Study Project on South African women writers (St. Lawrence University Department of English): \u201cWhat is Legitimate: Exploring Perceptions of Race and Sexuality (Gordimer, Tlali, Head)\u201d (supervisor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Book chapter: \u201cBluebeard\u2019s Women Fight Back: the Gothic heroine in contemporary film and Heidi Lee Douglas\u2019s <em>Little Lamb<\/em> (2014).\u201d <em>Gothic Heroines on Screen: Representation, Interpretation, and Feminist Enquiry<\/em>, edited by Tamar Jeffers McDonald and Frances A. Kamm, Routledge, 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Editor: <em>Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase: Contemporary North American Dystopian Literature<\/em> edited by Brett Grubisic, Gis\u00e8le M. Baxter, and Tara Lee, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2014.<\/li>\n<li><em>Canadian Literature<\/em> reviews: <a href=\"https:\/\/canlit.ca\/canlit_authors\/gisele-m-baxter-2\/\">https:\/\/canlit.ca\/canlit_authors\/gisele-m-baxter-2\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Review: Kathryn James, <em>Death, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Adolescent Literature<\/em>. <em>English Studies<\/em>, vol. 92, no. 8, 2011, pp. 933-934.<\/li>\n<li>Review: Mavis Reimer, ed. <em>Home Words: Discourses of Children\u2019s Literature in Canada<\/em>. <em>The Dalhousie Review<\/em>, vol. 88, no. 3, Autumn 2008, pp. 455-57.<\/li>\n<li>Review: \u201cNightmares and Daydreams\u201d (review of various picture books). <em>Canadian Children\u2019s Literature<\/em>, vol. 27, no. 3.103, Fall 2001, pp. 71-2.<\/li>\n<li>Article: \u201c\u2018After such knowledge, what forgiveness?\u2019: Exile, Marriage and the Resistance to Commitment in D.H. Lawrence\u2019s <em>Kangaroo<\/em>.\u201d <em>The Journal of Narrative Technique<\/em>, vol. 24, no. 2, Spring 1994, pp. 127-40.<\/li>\n<li>Article: \u201cThe Generous Spirit: The Moral and Physical Experience of a Man at War in <em>Homage to Catalonia<\/em> and <em>For Whom the Bell Tolls<\/em>.\u201d <em>The Dalhousie Review<\/em>, vol. 73, no. 3, Fall 1993, pp. 68-80.<\/li>\n<li>Article: \u201cClothes, Men and Books: Cultural Experiences and Identity in the Early Novels of Anita Brookner.\u201d <em>English<\/em>, vol. 42, no. 173, Summer 1993, pp. 125-39.<\/li>\n<li>Reviews for <em>The Dalhousie Review<\/em>: Rodney Stenning Edgecombe, <em>Vocation and Identity in the Fiction of Muriel Spark<\/em>; Sanford Sternlicht, ed., <em>In Search of Stevie Smith<\/em> (Fall 1992); Camille Paglia, <em>Sexual Personae<\/em> (Fall 1991); Anita Brookner, <em>Lewis Percy<\/em> (Winter 1990).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Principal Papers and Talks<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>March 11, 2021:<\/strong> English Students Association Colloquium, UBC: \u201c\u2018Like a real girl\u2019: gaze, gender, and synthetic humans in Gothic science fiction\u201d (revision)<\/li>\n<li><strong>4 June 2019:<\/strong> SSHRC Congress, Contract Faculty Research Symposium, UBC: \u201c\u2018Like a real girl\u2019: gaze, gender, and synthetic humans in Gothic science fiction\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>2 May 2019:<\/strong> Gothic Feminism 3: Technology, Women, and Gothic Horror On Screen, University of Kent: \u201c \u2018Like a real girl\u2019: gaze, gender, and Gothically haunted humanoid inventions in the <em>Blade Runner<\/em> films and <em>Ex Machina<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>2 August 2018:<\/strong> International Gothic Association Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University: \u201cThe Posthuman Prometheus: artificial beings, so lifelike they\u2019re scary, among Frankenstein\u2019s inheritors in recent science-fiction films\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>22 August 2016:<\/strong> Temporal Discombobulations: Time and the Experience of the Gothic, University of Surrey: \u201cBluebeard\u2019s Victorian-Gothic Grand Tour\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>27 May 2016:<\/strong> Gothic Feminism: The Representation of the Gothic Heroine in Cinema, University of Kent: \u201cBluebeard\u2019s Women Fight Back\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>29 October 2015:<\/strong> Brands of Magic Colloquium (UBC): \u201cFanfiction and Fan Communities\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>1 August 2015:<\/strong> International Gothic Association Conference, Vancouver: \u201cBluebeard in Tasmania: Heidi Lee Douglas\u2019s <em>Little Lamb<\/em> as Gothic retelling and historical drama\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>25 April 2009:<\/strong> Breaking the Boundaries: A Research Conference on Radical Children\u2019s Literature (UBC): \u201cThe Problem of Teen Fiction\u201d (keynote speaker)<\/li>\n<li><strong>7 July 2008:<\/strong> Creative Writing MFA Summer Residency Program (UBC): \u201cLiterary Machines: The Writer and the Cybersphere\u201d (panelist)<\/li>\n<li><strong>1999-2008:<\/strong> Brock House Society Lecture Series (Vancouver): topics included Spanish Civil War narratives; <em>Peter Pan<\/em>; <em>Frankenstein<\/em>; <em>Dracula<\/em>; 1920s Paris Literary Scene; Anita Brookner; Christina Stead; <em>Under the Volcano<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>21 March 2002:<\/strong> Organizer, UBC English Department Colloquium: \u201cMillennial Gothic\u201d (Paper: \u201cDracula\u2019s Grandchildren: Undomesticating the Count\u201d)<\/li>\n<li><strong>24 January 2001:<\/strong> Chair, UBC English Department Colloquium: \u201cNo Future: Punk Revisited\u201d (Paper: \u201cNever Mind the Situationists, or, Public Image Limited: Theorizing the Punk Myth\u201d)<\/li>\n<li><strong>3 June 1999:<\/strong> ACCUTE Conference, Sherbrooke: \u201cChristina Stead\u2019s <em>The Man Who Loved Children<\/em>: Why Still an Unread Book?\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>12 June 1997: <\/strong>Malcolm Lowry Symposium: An International Celebration, Toronto: \u201cMutual Dislocation: Marriage in Malcolm Lowry\u2019s <em>Under the Volcano<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>20 April 1996:<\/strong> NEMLA Convention, Montr\u00e9al: \u201cD.H. Lawrence and the Idea of Nation\u201d (response to session D.H. Lawrence, Nation and Race)<\/li>\n<li><strong>5 June 1994:<\/strong> ACCUTE Conference, Calgary: \u201cMan Alive and the Mob-Spirit: Physicality, Integrity and Conscription in D.H. Lawrence\u2019s <em>Kangaroo<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>28 December 1989:<\/strong> MLA Convention, Washington, D.C.: \u201cOrwell and Hemingway in Spain: The Moral and Physical Experience of a Man at War\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Other Experience and Academic Service<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>2022-present: <\/strong>Editorial Board,<em> The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale<\/em> (academic journal)<\/li>\n<li><strong>2020-21:<\/strong> Undergraduate Committee, UBC Department of English Language and Literatures<\/li>\n<li><strong>2020-21:<\/strong> Online Teaching Working Group, UBC Department of English Language and Literatures; Coordinator: ENGL Online Teaching Resources Canvas site<\/li>\n<li><strong>August 2017-present:<\/strong> Technical writing workshops for incoming students (Master of Food Science program, UBC)<\/li>\n<li><strong>October-December 2017:<\/strong> Second Year Popular Culture sub-committee, Curriculum Development Committee, UBC Department of English Language and Literatures; designer of prospectus for ENGL 243: Science Fiction and Fantasy\/Speculative Fiction<\/li>\n<li><strong>2017:<\/strong> Author, blended (classroom and online) ENGL 301: Technical Writing (UBC; no longer offered)<\/li>\n<li><strong>February-March 2016:<\/strong> Instructor, AW107-W16-A: Writing for Graduate Students (UBC Writing Centre and Continuing Studies)<\/li>\n<li><strong>2008-13:<\/strong> Online course authoring, UBC: ENGL 462 (now 365\/Modern Literature): The Modern British Novel, with Catherine Nelson-McDermott; ENGL 112: Strategies for University Writing (no longer offered) and ENGL 468 (now 392): Children\u2019s Literature, with Suzanne James<\/li>\n<li><strong>2008-2015:<\/strong> Marker for CM1, a technical writing course offered by the Certified General Accountants Association (now Chartered Professional Accountants Canada); CM1 lecturer (UBC) 2010-12<\/li>\n<li><strong>2012-13:<\/strong> Advisory Committee, development of Certificate in Professional Communication (UBC Continuing Studies)<\/li>\n<li><strong>2003-2004:<\/strong> Humanities 101 lectures on <em>Dracula<\/em>: the novel and its cultural legacy (UBC)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Summer-Fall 2000:<\/strong> Website and Publicity Materials for Wilde 2000, a symposium at UBC\u2019s Green College marking the centenary of Oscar Wilde\u2019s death<\/li>\n<li><strong>July 1996-July 1997:<\/strong> Executive Assistant, The Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE: Dalhousie English Department)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a9 Gis\u00e8le M. Baxter; all rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated May 1, 2026 Dr. Gis\u00e8le M. 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