Julia M. Wright | |
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Born | 1964 (age 58–59) |
Academic background | |
Education | PhD., English Literature, University of Western Ontario |
Thesis | The politics of defamiliarization in Blake's printed works (1994) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | English |
Institutions | University of Waterloo Dalhousie University |
Julia Margaret Wright (born 1964) FRSC is a professor in the Department of English and University Research Professor at Dalhousie University. Wright is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Wright completed her Ph.D. in English Literature at the University of Western Ontario in 1994. [1]
While at the University of Waterloo in 1997,Wright was awarded the John Charles Polanyi Prize for Literature by the Ontario government for her research around imperialism in India and Ireland in the early 19th century. [2] In 2002,Wright joined Wilfrid Laurier University as a tier-2 Canada Research Chair in English and Cultural Studies. [1] At Wilfrid Laurier,Wright published a book titled "Blake,Nationalism and the Politics of Alienation" which won the Northeast Modern Language Association/Ohio University Press Book Award. [3] She stayed at Wilfrid Laurier until 2005 when she accepted a position as a tier-2 Canada Research Chair in European Studies at Dalhousie University. [1]
In 2013,Wright was named an Associate Dean of Research for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Dalhousie. [4] In her role as Associate Dean of Research,Wright helped coordinate events at Dalhousie with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. [5]
In 2015,Wright was nominated for Director,Associations of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. [6] On February 17,2015,Wright and Dominique Marshall were elected to the position. [7] [8]
In 2017,Wright was re-elected as Director,Associations of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. [9] She was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. [10] [11] In 2018,she was also named the President-Elect for the Dalhousie Faculty Association. [12]
The following is a list of publications: [13]
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada is a Canadian federal research-funding agency that promotes and supports post-secondary research and training in the humanities and social sciences. It is one of three major federal granting agencies that together are referred to as the "Tri-Council" or "Tri-Agency.
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Denis W. Stairs is professor emeritus in political science at Dalhousie University.
Dominique Clément is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta and a member of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars,Artists and Scientists. He is a Canadian historical sociologist who specializes in human rights and social movements including the use of digital tools for research in the humanities and social sciences. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Departments of History,Clasics &Religion and as well as Educational Policy Studies at the University of Alberta and the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology] at Dalhousie University. He has also been a visiting scholar at the University of Sydney in Australia,Beijing Normal University in China,KU-Leuven University in Belgium,and NUI Galway in Ireland.
Philip Stratford was a Canadian translator,professor and poet. Winner of the 1988 Governor General’s Award,Stratford was also well recognized for his translations of works by Antonine Maillet,RenéLévesque and Robert Melaçon and published articles on English and French-Canadian literature and translation. He has been collected by libraries.
Eleanor Rose Ty,FRSC,is a Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. She holds a PhD and MA in English from McMaster University,and a BA Hons from the University of Toronto.
Shohini Ghose is a quantum physicist and Professor of Physics and Computer Science at Wilfrid Laurier University. She has served as the president of the Canadian Association of Physicists (2019-2020),co-editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of Physics,and the Director of the Laurier Centre for Women in Science. She was named a 2014 TED Fellow and a 2018 TED Senior Fellow. In 2019 she appeared on the Star TV show TED Talks India Nayi Baat hosted by Shah Rukh Khan. In 2017 she was elected to the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars,Artists and Scientists. Her book Clues to the Cosmos was released in India in December 2019.
James W. St.G. Walker is a Canadian professor of history at the University of Waterloo,and a historian of human rights and racism.
Susan Sherwin is a Canadian philosopher. Her pioneering work has shaped feminist theory,ethics and bioethics,and she is considered one of the world's foremost feminist ethicists.
Kim Anderson was born and raised in Ottawa,Ontario. Her parental grandmother,Catherine Anne Sanderson (b.1902) was the granddaughter of the Métis voyageur,Thomas Sanderson. Her parental grandfather,James E. Anderson (b.1899),came from a long line of marriages among Indigenous peoples spanning over five generations. Kim Anderson's work in educational tourism,community-based education,and cross cultural education afforded her many travels in her youth. But,when became a mother in 1995,she began to research and write about motherhood and culture-based understandings of Indigenous womanhood.
Margery Fee is a professor emeritus of English at the University of British Columbia (UBC). From 2015 to 2017,Fee was the Brenda and David McLean Chair In Canadian Studies at UBC. She publishes in the fields of Canadian,postcolonial and Indigenous studies and Canadian English usage and lexicography.
Linda Cardinal is a Franco-Ontarian political scientist. She is a University Professor and a Canada Research Chair in Canadian Francophonie and Public Policies at the University of Ottawa. Cardinal was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2013 and honoured with the Ordre des Palmes Académiques and Member of the Order of Canada. She was also the first coordinator of the francophone studies program at the University of Ottawa.
Deanna Helen Reder is a Cree-Métis associate professor of English and the Chair of Indigenous Studies at Simon Fraser University. Reder was elected a member of the College of New Scholars of the Royal Society of Canada in 2018. As a faculty member at Simon Fraser University,she was a founding member of the Indigenous Literary Studies Association (ILSA) and served on the council from 2015 to 2018. In 2019 she helped establish the Indigenous Editors Association (IEA) and served as its "Past-President" from 2020 to 2021.
Rosa del Carmen Bruno-Jofré (1946) is a historian. She is a professor and former Dean of Education at Queen's University. In 2019,Bruno-Jofréwas elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Lara Beth Aknin is a Canadian social psychologist. She is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Simon Fraser University and a Distinguished University Professor.
Sherry Heather Stewart is a Canadian clinical psychologist. She is also a Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at Dalhousie University and a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Addiction and Mental Health.
Nissim Mannathukkaren is an associate professor and chair in Dalhousie University's Department of International Development Studies in Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada. The Rupture with Memory:Derrida and the Specters that Haunt Marxism is his first book (2006).