Profs. Maggie Berg, Shelley King and Patricia Rae dedicated careers to exceptional teaching and research
A trio of women scholars will begin their retirements on July 1, 2021, after decades of service to the Department of English at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s 카지노게임사이트.
Professors Maggie Berg, Shelley King and Patricia Rae have made incredible contributions to the department during their careers and have inspired countless undergraduate and graduate students.
As they transition to professors emeritae, we take a moment to reflect on their outstanding accomplishments, relentless dedication and enduring legacies.
Maggie Berg
After completing a DPhil at Oxford 카지노게임사이트, Berg joined the department in 1987 and was promoted to full professor in 1998. When she joined the department, academia was undeniably a male-dominated profession.
카지노 게임 컬렉션The university feminist community was having conversations almost like to the ones taking place now in the BIPOC community about the challenges of inclusiveness and changing the curriculum,카지노 게임 컬렉션 said Berg, whose research focuses on gender and sexuality and human-animal studies.
카지노 게임 컬렉션I became pregnant a year after being offered my position, and I did not take maternity leave because I was afraid that I would be perceived as not taking my job seriously.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Berg has observed tremendous change within the department since that time. After a year of remote delivery, the contrast in technology between now and when she first started is staggering. 카지노 게임 컬렉션I did not own a computer; the administrative assistants typed up everything, including our exams; memos from the head were on paper, in mailboxes,카지노 게임 컬렉션 said Berg.
A dedicated teacher, Berg has been honoured with numerous teaching awards, including the Chancellor Charles Baillie Award, and a nomination for the 3M National Teaching Award.
카지노 게임 컬렉션The highlight of my career was winning the W.J. Barnes Award for teaching excellence three times 카지노 게임 컬렉션 it meant so much to me because it is entirely student driven,카지노 게임 컬렉션 said Berg. 카지노 게임 컬렉션I have always been a nervous teacher, so the awards meant more than I can say.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Berg has been particularly thankful for her connection to the Centre for Teaching and Learning 카지노 게임 컬렉션 as a result of winning the chair of teaching and learning in 2009 - 2012카지노 게임 컬렉션 where she found a community of people passionate about pedagogy.
Her research is equally renowned. Berg카지노 게임 컬렉션s book, The Slow Professor, co-authored with Barbara Seeber and published in 2016 with the 카지노게임사이트 of Toronto Press, has received international recognition and was named book of the year in Times Higher Education. 카지노 게임 컬렉션The success 카지노 게임 컬렉션 was astounding to us,카지노 게임 컬렉션 said Berg. 카지노 게임 컬렉션The book 카지노 게임 컬렉션 about resisting the corporate university with strategies from the Slow movement 카지노 게임 컬렉션 hit a nerve.카지노 게임 컬렉션
카지노 게임 컬렉션My plans for retirement? I have a lengthy book on the Brontës to finish; and I am still supervising some wonderful graduate students whose dissertations are fascinating. I find it difficult to let go of the academic work!카지노 게임 컬렉션
카지노 게임 컬렉션I feel so fortunate to have had wonderful, smart and supportive colleagues!카지노 게임 컬렉션
Shelley King
카지노 게임 컬렉션For me retirement means the completion of what has been, in the end, a very satisfying professional journey,카지노 게임 컬렉션 said King, whose research encompasses romantic, Victorian and Edwardian literature, as well as transhistorical children카지노 게임 컬렉션s literature and contemporary fantasy.
Prior to joining the department as an adjunct in 1991, King completed a master카지노 게임 컬렉션s in English and history at McMaster 카지노게임사이트. She went on to complete her doctorate at the 카지노게임사이트 of Toronto, specializing in Victorian literature.
카지노 게임 컬렉션Being a woman scholar in the 90s was a mixed experience,카지노 게임 컬렉션 said King 카지노 게임 컬렉션When I had my first meeting with the acting head카지노 게임 컬렉션I was assured that it would be 카지노 게임 컬렉션fine카지노 게임 컬렉션 if I wanted to teach women writers on my Victorian Lit course. And I of course was wondering inside why on earth it wouldn카지노 게임 컬렉션t be.카지노 게임 컬렉션
King was grateful for a few established women colleagues in the department, including Cathy Harland and Elizabeth Greene. She also joined the department at a time of change, where recent appointments 카지노 게임 컬렉션 including Sylvia Söderlind, Patricia Rae, Elizabeth Hanson, and Maggie Berg 카지노 게임 컬렉션카지노 게임 컬렉션represented a clear transition to a more gender-balanced department.카지노 게임 컬렉션
In 2010, King was appointed a full professor under a clause that allowed adjuncts with sufficient published research and who had also maintained 12 years of service to be appointed at rank with tenure.
카지노 게임 컬렉션Three years later I was appointed head of the Department of English 카지노 게임 컬렉션 something that was unimaginable when I arrived thirty years earlier,카지노 게임 컬렉션 said King.
King카지노 게임 컬렉션s work on Philip Pullman has been particularly notable. In 2005, her article on Pullman카지노 게임 컬렉션s Clockwork was named Outstanding Article of Literary Criticism in Children카지노 게임 컬렉션s Literature by the Children카지노 게임 컬렉션s Literature Association of America.
카지노 게임 컬렉션That unexpected recognition of my scholarship was welcome confirmation of my strengths as a critic,카지노 게임 컬렉션 said King.
Her publication, The Collected Poems of Amelia Alderson Opie, which she co-edited alongside Professor John Pierce, remains her 카지노 게임 컬렉션most cherished contribution to scholarship.카지노 게임 컬렉션
카지노 게임 컬렉션While I can happily imagine leaving behind committees and meetings, it is much harder to think about leaving behind teaching and research,카지노 게임 컬렉션 said King, who looks forward to embarking on a long-anticipated digital humanities project: a web-based edition of the correspondence of Amelia Opie with her cousins, RA Henry Perronet Briggs and his wife, based largely on letters held in the Huntington Library.
카지노 게임 컬렉션But then there will also be the call of the paeonies and listening to the bird song in my garden.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Patricia Rae
카지노 게임 컬렉션My connection to Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s English department goes back a very long way 카지노 게임 컬렉션 to being a teenager!카지노 게임 컬렉션 said Rae, who completed her Bachelor of Arts at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s in the 1973.
카지노 게임 컬렉션This department was where I first discovered literature and determined that I wanted to spend my life studying and teaching it.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Rae remains especially grateful to the teachers who inspired her: George Whalley, Doug Spettigue, Cathy Harland and George Logan.
An award-winning modernist scholar, Rae has published books and articles on modernist poetry and pragmatist philosophy, including The Practical Muse, and on the theory and practice of mourning, including Modernism and Mourning. In recent years, her research has focused on rereading the works of George Orwell through the lens of literary modernism.
Her substantial monograph on Orwell is nearing completion, and she is editing a volume of essays on new approaches to teaching his work. She has also published widely on the literature and culture of the Spanish Civil War and is an enthusiastic participant in the SSHRC-funded Canada and the Spanish Civil War Project.
In 1984, Rae briefly returned to the department after completing a DPhil at Oxford 카지노게임사이트 and worked as a teaching fellow and SSHRC postdoctoral fellow. After a stint at the 카지노게임사이트 of Victoria, Rae returned to the department in 1989 as a Canada Research Fellow and assistant professor, becoming a full professor in 2007.
카지노 게임 컬렉션Throughout my graduate studies at Oxford, my dream was to return to Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s to teach and I got my wish.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Rae made history in 2002 when she became the first woman to serve as head of the department.
카지노 게임 컬렉션The headship is never an easy job,카지노 게임 컬렉션 said Rae. 카지노 게임 컬렉션I was an associate professor and a fairly new mother at the time and the combination was, let카지노 게임 컬렉션s just say, stressful. However, the amazing team of secretaries who really ran the department 카지노 게임 컬렉션 Karen Donnelly, Sherril Barr, and Kathy Goodfriend 카지노 게임 컬렉션 made everything infinitely easier than it would otherwise have been.카지노 게임 컬렉션
During her tenure as head, Rae prioritized hiring faculty and growing the reach of the blossoming creative writing program.
카지노 게임 컬렉션Like every head, I did my best to defend the kind of work we do in the humanities 카지노 게임 컬렉션 the labour-intensive work of doing solid research, the equally demanding work of teaching and marking stacks of essays 카지노 게임 컬렉션 to the powers-that-be.카지노 게임 컬렉션
카지노 게임 컬렉션I think of myself as retiring from teaching but not from research,카지노 게임 컬렉션 said Rae, who will concentrate on completing her book projects and some commissioned essays on Orwell.
카지노 게임 컬렉션I카지노 게임 컬렉션ll miss our wonderful students and the alchemy of the classroom more than anything.카지노 게임 컬렉션
As these scholars begin their retirements, please join the department in thanking Berg, King and Rae for their service and wishing them the best for the next chapter of their lives.
