John RM Ames Telephone: 604 323 8339 Email: johnrmames@gmail.com
Research & professional experience:
Research Assistant: The Libretti of Learning. Research and collaborative work with Professors Marion Porath, Nancy Hermiston (Lead Investigators), and musicologist tutoring specialist, Dr. Laurel Parsons. University of British Columbia. May 2012-present.
Research Assistant: Superkids II. Research and collaborative work with Professor Marion Porath, Associate Professor, Harry Killas, (Lead Investigators), and special education research assistant, Hyekyung Lee. University of British Columbia. September 2012-present.
Mentoring: assisting university students with documented learning disabilities organize undergraduate and graduate level work, with a focus on essay organization and composition. Vancouver, B.C. 2011-present.
Teaching tutor: Teachers’ Tutoring Service, assisting students of various ages and diverse learning needs (including learning disabilities) in writing, science, history: Vancouver, BC: October 2011-January 2013.
Instructor: Point Grey High School – Vancouver School Board Summer Programmes. Essay composition (self-designed course) Grades 7-9. Vancouver, B.C. July-August 2012.
Instructor of writing: Pinnacle English Camp Teaching ESL to Grade 3-6 students from South Korea. Coquitlam, B.C. December 2011 – August 2012.
Teacher Tutor: E-Vantage Tutoring Service, Maple Ridge, BC: October 2011 – June 2012.
Teaching assistant: for students with Individual Learning Plans at Frontier College, Britannia Secondary Math and First Nations ARIES Program Volunteer Educator, Vancouver, BC: October 2011-April 2012.
Student Teacher: First Nations and rural students in Quesnel School District, Social Studies 9 and k-7 schools. Quesnel, Wells, Narcosli, Nazko, B.C., 2011.
Student Teacher grade eleven modified students at Killarney Secondary School, Social Studies 8, 9, 11. Vancouver, BC: 2010-2011.
Instructor: University of Alberta, English 101: Critical Reading, Writing, & Thinking. Literary and essay writing instruction and grading (self-designed courses). Edmonton, AB: 2000-2002; and, University of Alberta, Tutor Registry, Students’ Union: 2000-2002.
Graduate Teaching Assistant: Simon Fraser University, English 333: Nineteenth Century British Novel; English 205: Restoration and 18th Century Literature. Seminar facilitator and distant education teaching assistant; literary and essay writing instruction and grading. Burnaby, BC: 1998-2000.
Theme coordinator: “Labour Culture, Union Culture & the Culture of Resistance”; Steering advisor: “Caste, Culture, and the State – A Dalit Vision for the 21st Century.” Culture and the State: Past, Present, and Future. Edmonton: University of Alberta, 2001-2003.
Web editor: K.A. Byrne International Trusts & Estates. Vancouver: 2004-2005.
Contributing advisor: Labour, Work, and Working People, by Juanita Nolan and Pacific Northwest Labour History Association. Burnaby: Simon Fraser University Press, 2002.
Editorial assistant: English Studies in Canada. Edmonton: University of Alberta, 2002.
Associate editor: AGORA Culture & the State. Edmonton: University of Alberta, 2001.
Indexer: assisting Dr. Paul Keen with indexing of The Crisis of Literature in the 1790s: Print Culture and the Public Sphere. Cambridge University Press,1999. Simon Fraser University. Burnaby, B.C. (1998).
Research Assistant: Violence and Conflict Resolution. Professor Jerry Zaslove. Simon Fraser University. Burnaby, B.C. (1997-1998).
Union Advocacy Education Trainer: Employers, Mental Injury at Work and the Law (in unison with Guarding Minds at Work Consortium) Summer 2009; Steward and members’ rights educator: BC Government and Service Employees’ Union. Burnaby, B.C., 2003-2009.
Business Representative: Members’ rights and advocacy, International Union of Operating Engineers. Coquitlam, B.C. 2009-2010.
Research publications and conference presentations:
Killas, H., Porath, M., Lee, H., & Ames, J. (forthcoming 2014). Development from early adolescence to emerging adulthood: What the perspectives of highly gifted students and their parents can teach us. Presentation at the 2014 Canadian Society for the Study of Education Annual Conference. Brock University, St. Catharines, ON.
Xu, D., Powers, C., & Ames, J. (2013). Can Using Art Overcome Writing Output Difficulties in Students with Learning Disabilities? Presentation at the International Association of Special Education Conference. Vancouver, B.C.
Hermiston, N., Porath, M., Parsons, L., & Ames, J. (2013). Libretti of Learning: Opera and Learning Disability. Presentation at the Canadian Society for the Study of Education Annual Conference. Victoria, B.C.
Porath, M., Ames, J., Lee, H., and Killas, H. (2013). Superkids 2: Learning from the life trajectories of our most able students. Presentation at the Canadian Society for the Study of Education Annual Conference. Victoria, B.C.
Ames, J. (2013). Writing and the Materiality of Emotion. Presentation at Ignite Research: Faculty of Education Research Day. University of British Columbia. First Nations House of Learning, Vancouver, B.C. 30 May.
Ames, J. (2008). Re-Ordering Creation: Materialism, Monism, and Scientific Iconoclasm in Late Eighteenth-Century Literature. Perspectives on Modern Literature. Amsterdam: Rodopi Press.
Ames, J. (2007). Book Review: The Work of the Sun, by Ted Underwood. Chicago: Journal of British Studies, Vol. 46, No. 3: pp. 685-686.
Ames, J. (2001). ‘The New Public Space’: Science, Politics, and Radical Literature in England and France of the Late-18th and Early-19th Centuries. Presention in absentia at the Zaragoza: I Congreso de Historia Social de la Ciencia, la Téchnica y la Industrialización. Homenaje a John D. Bernal (1901-1971) eagaoran el Centenario de su Nacimiento Conference.
Ames, J. (2000). “The new public space”: science, politics, and radical literature in England of the late-18th and early-19th centuries. Burnaby: Simon Fraser University.
Ames, J. (2000, Ed). “Regulatory Expropriation and State Intent,” by K.A. Byrne. The Canadian Year Book of International Law, Vol. XXXVIII. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press: pp. 89-120, 2000.
Ames, J. (2003). Levellers Revived: John Thelwall and the London Corresponding Society, 1790-1798. Presentation at the Culture & the State Conference. University of Alberta. Edmonton, AB.
Ames, J. (2003). Impossiblists in the Alberta Legislature and the Socialist Party of Canada – Charlie O’Brien 1909-1913. Presentation at the Culture & the State Conference. University of Alberta. Edmonton, AB.
Parks, K., Ames, J., & Tregilges, J. (2003). If you care about HealthCare: Commonsense Facts About Gordon Campbell’s Agenda. BC Government and Service Employees’ Union Education Circulars. Burnaby, B.C.
Education:
Doctorate of Philosophy Student (Special Education): University of British Columbia, 2014.
Master of Arts (Special Education, ABT): University of British Columbia, 2012-present.
Bachelor of Education: University of British Columbia, 2010-2011.
Doctorate of Philosophy Candidate (English): University of Alberta, 2000-2004.
Master of Arts (English): Simon Fraser University, 1998-2000.
Bachelor of Arts (History & English): Simon Fraser University, 1994-1998.
Academic French reading knowledge
Software Applications:
Linux X-Ubuntu, Linux GNU PSPP (sampled data statistical analysis program), SPSS, GIMP Image Editor, Libre Office Impress/Writer, MAC iMovie, Power-Point, Excel, Concordance (text analysis and concordancing software). Web-skills: Wix, WordPress, File Transfer Protocol, Dreamweaver Adobe.
Affiliations:
Beaty Biodiversity Museum Educational Volunteer: Vancouver: 2010-2011.
The Critical Thinking Consortium
South Place Ethical Society
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Council of Canadians
Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Pacific North-West Labour History Association
National Union of Public & General Employees
BC Government & Service Employees’ Union
Vancouver & District Labour Council