{"id":8,"date":"2013-08-19T17:04:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T00:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/suzannejames\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2013-08-21T15:48:28","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T22:48:28","slug":"curriculumvitae","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/suzannejames\/curriculumvitae\/","title":{"rendered":"Curriculum Vitae"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#education\">Education<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#awards\">Awards<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#employment\">Overview of Professional Employment<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#courseDesign\">Online Course Design<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#courses\">Post-secondary Courses Taught<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#service\">Recent Department Service<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#conferences\">Conference Presentations<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#publications\">Publications<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#references\">References<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"education\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>EDUCATION<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><strong>2003\u00a0\u00a0 PhD, English Literature, Simon Fraser University<br \/>\n<\/strong><i>Areas of specialization<\/i>:\u00a0 19c Canadian literature, rhetoric and travel writing, 20c Canadian literature, South African writing in English, 19 and 20c women\u2019s writing<br \/>\n<i>Thesis<\/i>:\u00a0 \u201cGathering up the Threads: Generic and Discursive Patterns in Catharine Parr Traill\u2019s <i>The Backwoods of Canada<\/i>\u201d<br \/>\nSupervisor: Carole Gerson<\/p>\n<p><strong>1987\u00a0\u00a0 Master of Arts, English Literature, First Class, UBC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1981\u00a0 \u00a0Professional Year, English and ESL, Faculty of Education, UBC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1980 \u00a0\u00a0Bachelor of Arts in English Honours, First Class, UBC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"awards\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>AWARDS<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><strong>2011\u00a0 Ian Fairclough Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Dept of English, UBC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1998\u00a0 Aphra Behn Graduate Scholarship in English, SFU<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"employment\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>OVERVIEW OF PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>2013 <b>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Instructor<\/b>, English Literature, Alexander College, Vancouver<\/p>\n<p>2006-present\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <b>Sessional Lecturer<\/b>, English and African Studies, UBC<\/p>\n<p>2003-present\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <b>Examiner and Team Leader, <\/b>International Baccalaureate Organization<\/p>\n<p>2005\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <b>Teacher, <\/b>American International School of Bucharest, Romania<\/p>\n<p>1998-2005\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <b>Teacher, <\/b>International School of Tanganyika, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania<\/p>\n<p>1994-1998\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <b>Teacher, <\/b>John Oliver<b> <\/b>Secondary School, Vancouver<\/p>\n<p>1995-1996\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <b>Guest Lecturer, <\/b>Continuing Studies, UBC<\/p>\n<p>1991-1994\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <b>Teacher, <\/b>International School of Tanganyika, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania<\/p>\n<p>1986-1991\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <b>Teacher, <\/b>Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School, Vancouver<\/p>\n<p>1982-1985\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <b>Teacher, <\/b>Moleli Secondary School, Selous, Zimbabwe<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"courseDesign\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>ON-LINE COURSE DESIGN<br \/>\n<\/b><\/h2>\n<h4>Eng 112: Strategies for University Writing, UBC (2008-2010)<br \/>\nEng 468: Children&#8217;s Literature, UBC (2008-2010)<br \/>\nTheory of Knowledge, Int. Baccalaureate Org. (2008)<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"courses\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>POST-SECONDARY COURSES TAUGHT<\/b><\/h2>\n<h3><b>Writing:<\/b><\/h3>\n<h4>Eng 112: Strategies for University Writing, 2006-present (14)<br \/>\nEng 112: Strategies for University Writing (online), 2010-2012 (4)<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>First-Year English:<\/b><\/h3>\n<h4>Eng 100: Reading and Writing about Literature,\u00a0 2009, 2011, 2012<br \/>\nEng 110: Approaches to Literature, 2009<br \/>\nEng 111: Approaches to Non-Fictional Prose, 2006<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>Junior Undergraduate:<\/b><\/h3>\n<h4>Eng 221: Survey of Literature in English (18th Century to the present), 2006 (2)<\/h4>\n<h4>Eng 222: Literature in Canada<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Contemporary Canadian Writing&#8221;, 2008, 2009<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Contemporary Canadian Fiction on the Margins&#8221;, 2012<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Eng 224: World Literature<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;An Introduction to African Writing in English&#8221;,\u00a0 2007-2013 (7)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Eng 227: Prose Fiction<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Contemporary Women&#8217;s Writing&#8221;, 2006<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;An Introduction to African Fiction&#8221;, 2008<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>AFST 250: Introduction to African Studies,\u00a0 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013<\/h4>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<h3><b>Senior Undergraduate:<\/b><\/h3>\n<h4>Eng 362: Studies in a 19-Century Genre<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;&#8216;The horror! The horror!&#8217;: Nightmare Fiction of the 19th Century&#8221;, 2012<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Eng 364: 19th-Century Studies<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Explorations of Passion and Madness in 19c Texts&#8221;,\u00a0 2006<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Eng 464: 20th-Century Studies<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Post-Apartheid South African Writing&#8221;, 2006<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Contemporary Writing of the South Asian Diaspora&#8221;, 2007<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Eng 468: Children&#8217;s Literature<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Representations of Gender in Children&#8217;s Classics&#8221;, 2007, 2010, 2011<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;An Introduction to Children&#8217;s Literature&#8221; (online), 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Eng 470: Canadian Studies<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;&#8216;Here is Queer&#8217;: Gay and Lesbian Writing in Canada&#8221;, 2008<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Eng 474: Studies in Contemporary Literature<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Women Who Refuse to Keep Quiet: Contemporary African Women&#8217;s Writing&#8221;,\u00a0 2007, 2010, 2011<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Post-Apartheid South African Writing&#8221;, 2008, 2009, 2010<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>ASTU 400: Student Directed Seminar<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Fairy Tales Retold&#8221;, 2010<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"service\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>RECENT DEPARTMENT SERVICE<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>First-Year Committee, Dept of English,UBC (2012-present)<br \/>\nPolicy and Planning Committee, Dept of English, UBC (2012-present)<br \/>\nSessional Committee, Dept of English, UBC (2010-present)<br \/>\nAfrican Studies Committee, Faculty of Arts, UBC (2007-present)<br \/>\nAfrican Studies Colloquia,UBC (2007-present)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"conferences\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cRevisionist History and Historians in the Fiction of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.\u201d <i>Postcolonial Oral Traditions: Boubacar Boris Diop and Chimamanda Adichie<\/i>.<i> <\/i>UBC, Vancouver. April 4-5, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmbracing the Erotic: Representations of Female Sexuality in the Fiction of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.\u201d\u00a0 <i>Contemporary Women`s Writing: New Texts, Approaches and Technology. <\/i>San Diego. July 7-9, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c'[I]t wasn\u2019t really another country at all\u2014it was just Canada&#8217;\u201d: Black American\/Canadian Border Crossings in the Work of Addena Sumter-Freitag and Lawrence Hill.\u201d <i>Culture and the Canada\/US Border<\/i>.\u00a0 University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. June 26-28, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Heteronormative Home?: A Queer Reading of Shani Mootoo\u2019s <i>He Drown She in the Sea.\u201d<\/i> <i>Unsettling Women: Contemporary Women`s Writing and Diaspora<\/i>. University of Leicester, UK. July 11-13, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe \u2018Coloured\u2019 Question: The Politics of Identity in Zo\u00eb Wicomb\u2019s <i>Playing in the Light<\/i>.\u201d <i>CACLALS Conference<\/i>. UBC. May 31-June 2, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNarrating the &#8216;New&#8217; South Africa: Subjectivity and Identity in Antjie Krog\u2019s <i>A Change of Tongue<\/i>.\u201d <i>CEA: Passages<\/i>. St Louis, Missouri. March 27-29, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTextuality and Audience in Antjie Krog\u2019s <i>A Change of Tongue<\/i>.\u201d <i>ACLALS Conference: Literature for Our Times<\/i>.\u00a0 UBC, Vancouver. August 17-22, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Generic Polyphony in <i>The Backwoods of Canada<\/i>, A Nineteenth-Century Canadian Travel Narrative.\u201d\u00a0 <i>Borders and Crossings III: Travel Writing<\/i>.\u00a0 Universit\u00e9 de Versailles Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines, Paris.\u00a0 July 10-13, 2002.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Simplicity of Heart and Unclouded Faith\u2019: The Indians of Catharine Parr Traill\u2019s <i>The Backwoods of Canada<\/i>.\u201d\u00a0 <i>The Rhetoric of Canadian Writing<\/i>.\u00a0 Leiden University, Netherlands. October 19-20, 2000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReading the Faces of Africa: Margaret Laurence\u2019s \u2018A Fetish for Love\u2019 and Audrey Thomas\u2019 \u2018Zanadu\u2019.\u201d\u00a0 <i>Margaret Laurence and Her Times<\/i>.\u00a0 University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.\u00a0 November 22-23, 1997.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeaching East African Literature.\u201d\u00a0 <i>Association of International Schools of Africa<\/i>.\u00a0 Nairobi. March 4, 1992<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"publications\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>PUBLICATIONS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><b>Articles<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThe \u2018Indians\u2019 of Catharine Parr Traill\u2019s <i>The Backwoods of Canada.<\/i>\u201d <i>The Rhetoric of Canadian Writing<\/i>.\u00a0 Ed. Conny Steenman-Marcusse.\u00a0 Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002. 107-23.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Teaching African Literature Within the Language \u2018A\u2019 Programme: Some Post-Colonial Alternatives to <i>Things Fall Apart.<\/i>&#8221; <i>Contact<\/i>, Fall 1992.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Teaching Loads, the Queen&#8217;s English, and European Imperialism: Some Reflections on Teaching at an International School in Tanzania.&#8221; <i>Update<\/i>, Summer 1992.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Reviews<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Beyond Domesticity.&#8221; Review of <i>She Said\/She Saw<\/i> by Norah McClintock, <i>Out of the Box <\/i>by Michell Mulder and <i>Stones for my Father<\/i> by Trilby Kent. <i>Canadian Literature<\/i> 214 (Autumn 2012): 176-7.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTaking Control.\u201d\u00a0 Review of <i>Dear George Clooney: Please Marry My Mom <\/i>by Susan Nielsen and <i>Living Outside the Lines <\/i>by Lesley Choyce. <i>Canadian Literature<\/i> 213 (Summer 2012): 162-3.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEducation, with Ethics.\u201d\u00a0 Review of <i>Cities <\/i>by John Lorinc, <i>SlaveryToday <\/i>by Kevin Bales and Becky Cornell, and <i>Lunch with Lenin and Other Stories <\/i>by Deborah Ellis. <i>Canadian Literature<\/i> 204 (Spring 2010): 182-4.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInto Africa?\u201d\u00a0 Review of <i>The Uncertain Business of Doing Good: Outsiders in Africa <\/i>by Larry Krotz and <i>Where Bones Dance: An English Girlhood, An African War<\/i> by Nina Newington. <i>Canadian Literature<\/i> 203 (Winter 2009): 167-8.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo Escape from the Past.\u201d\u00a0 Review of <i>Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children\u2019s Literature <\/i>by Clare Bradford. <i>Canadian Literature<\/i> 200 (Spring 2009): 130-1.<\/p>\n<p>Review of <i>Inhabiting the \u201cNew\u201d South Africa: Ethical Encounters at the Race-Gender Interface in Four Post-Apartheid Novels by Zo\u00eb Wicomb, Sindiwe Magona, Nadine Gordimer and Farida Karodia <\/i>by Sonja Altn\u00f6der. <i>Postcolonial Text<\/i> 4.4 (2008): 1-3.<b><i><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cInto the Wild, Again.\u201d\u00a0 Review of <i>The Night Wanderer: A Native Gothic Novel <\/i>by Drew Hayden Taylor, <i>Borderline <\/i>by Bonni Rozanski and <i>Gemini Summers <\/i>by Iain Lawrence. <i>Canadian Literature<\/i> 198 (Summer 2008): 172-3.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Re)presenting Cultures.\u201d\u00a0 Review of <i>Ancient Thunder <\/i>by Leo Yerxa, <i>Napi Goes to the Mountain <\/i>by Elisa Amado and Antonio Ramarez, and <i>Winter Afternoon<\/i> by Elisa Amado, Jorge Lujan and Mandana Sadat. <i>Canadian Literature<\/i> 194 (Summer 2007): 188-9.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImprints of Other People\u2019s Histories:\u00a0 A Review of Sandra Birdsell\u2019s <i>The Two-Headed Calf<\/i> and Ann Ireland\u2019s <i>The Instructor<\/i>.<i>\u201d\u00a0 Canadian Literature <\/i>164 (Spring 2000): 138-40.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"references\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>REFERENCES<\/b><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>Dr. Tiffany Potter, First Year English Co-ordinator<br \/>\n<\/b>Department of English, UBC<br \/>\n#397 1873 East Mall<br \/>\nVancouver, B.C.\u00a0 V6T 1Z1<br \/>\n604.822.5122<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:Tiffany.Potter@ubc.ca\">Tiffany.Potter@ubc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Judy Brown, Senior Instructor and Associate Head<br \/>\n<\/b>Department of English, UBC<br \/>\n#397 1873 East Mall<br \/>\nVancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z1<br \/>\n604.822.5122<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:judy.brown@ubc.ca\">judy.brown@ubc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Dr. Gloria Onyeoziri, Professor<br \/>\n<\/b>Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies, UBC<br \/>\n#797 1873 East Mall<br \/>\nVancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z1<br \/>\n604.822.2879<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:gloria.onyeoziri@ubc.ca\">gloria.onyeoziri@ubc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education Awards Overview of Professional Employment Online Course Design Post-secondary Courses Taught Recent Department Service Conference Presentations Publications References &nbsp; EDUCATION 2003\u00a0\u00a0 PhD, English Literature, Simon Fraser University Areas of specialization:\u00a0 19c Canadian literature, rhetoric and travel writing, 20c Canadian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/suzannejames\/curriculumvitae\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2643,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/suzannejames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/suzannejames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/suzannejames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/suzannejames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/suzannejames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/suzannejames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/suzannejames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/suzannejames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}