Lorraine Janzen Kooistra | |
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Spouse | John Peter Kooistra |
Children | 2 |
Academic background | |
Education | BA., 1977, Brock University MA., PhD., McMaster University |
Thesis | The artist as critic: bi-textuality in fin-de-si'ecle illustrated books. (1994) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Literature |
Institutions | Nipissing University Toronto Metropolitan University |
Main interests | Victorian poetry |
Lorraine Janzen Kooistra FRSC is a Canadian professor of English and a member of the Yeates School of Graduate Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University). She is the founding co-director of TMU's Centre for Digital Humanities. She was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2018.
Janzen Kooistra is a first-generation Canadian. [1] She was born to parents John G. Janzen and Irma Marie Koop and has three siblings. [2]
Janzen Kooistra earned her Bachelor of Arts,with honours,from Brock University and her Master's degree and PhD from McMaster University. [3]
While earning her Bachelor of Arts,Janzen Kooistra earned a job with the Lincoln County Board of Education as a teacher from 1973 to 1975. From there,she earned a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto between 1977 and 1979. Beginning at the turn of the 1990s,Janzen Kooistra worked as an assistant professor at Nipissing University. [4] In 1999,Janzen Kooistra published The culture of Christina Rossetti:Female poetics and Victorian contexts,which was an analysis of poet Christina Rossetti's work. [5] Two years later,while working at Nipissing University,Janzen Kooistra was awarded the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research. [6] She continued her examination into Rossetti's poetry by publishing Christina Rossetti and illustration:a publishing history in 2003. [7]
Janzen Kooistra was hired by Ryerson University in 2005 to serve as the Chair of their English department. [8] She served in this role until 2008 before becoming the English department's first Undergraduate Program Director in 2010. [3] While in her role as Chair,Janzen Kooistra was appointed to the North American Victorian Studies Association Advisory Board in 2009 and again in 2012. [9] In 2010,Janzen Kooistra helped found Ryerson's Centre for Digital Humanities [10] and later the Children's Literature Archive. [11]
While working as Ryerson's Undergraduate English Program Director in 2012,Janzen Kooistra was awarded the Provost's Experiential Teaching Award for her teaching style [12] and was a recipient of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations Teaching Award. [13] That year,Janzen Kooistra published Poetry,Pictures,and Popular Publishing:the Illustrated Gift Book and Victorian Visual Culture,1855-1875. [14] [15]
In 2016,while working as the principal investigator on "Visualizing the Unmarked:The Social Politics of Fin-de-siècle Periodicals and Digital Humanities Mark-up Practices," [3] Janzen Kooistra was awarded the 2016 President's Award for Excellence in Teaching by Ryerson University. [16]
In 2018,Janzen Kooistra was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada for her work in 19th century literature. [17] [18]
The following is a list of publications: [19]
Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti,generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti,was an English poet,illustrator,painter,translator and member of the Rossetti family. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. Rossetti inspired the next generation of artists and writers,William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones in particular. His work also influenced the European Symbolists and was a major precursor of the Aesthetic movement.
Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English writer of romantic,devotional and children's poems,including "Goblin Market" and "Remember". She also wrote the words of two Christmas carols well known in Britain:"In the Bleak Midwinter",later set by Gustav Holst,Katherine Kennicott Davis,and Harold Darke,and "Love Came Down at Christmas",also set by Darke and other composers. She was a sister of the artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and features in several of his paintings.
Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall,better known as Elizabeth Siddal,was an English artist,poet,and artists' model. Significant collections of her artworks can be found at Wightwick Manor and the Ashmolean. Siddal was painted and drawn extensively by artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood,including Walter Deverell,William Holman Hunt,John Everett Millais,and especially by her husband,Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
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William Michael Rossetti was an English writer and critic.
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Jordie Albiston was an Australian poet.
Joy Harjo is an American poet,musician,playwright,and author. She served as the 23rd United States Poet Laureate,the first Native American to hold that honor. She was also only the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to have served three terms. Harjo is a member of the Muscogee Nation and belongs to Oce Vpofv. She is an important figure in the second wave of the literary Native American Renaissance of the late 20th century. She studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts,completed her undergraduate degree at University of New Mexico in 1976,and earned an MFA degree at the University of Iowa in its creative writing program.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr. is an American poet,writer,commentator,activist,and educator. One of the world's most well-known African-American poets,her work includes poetry anthologies,poetry recordings,and nonfiction essays,and covers topics ranging from race and social issues to children's literature. She has won numerous awards,including the Langston Hughes Medal and the NAACP Image Award. She has been nominated for a Grammy Award for her poetry album,The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection. Additionally,she has been named as one of Oprah Winfrey's 25 "Living Legends".
The Lady of Shalott is a painting of 1888 by the English painter John William Waterhouse. It is a representation of the ending of Alfred,Lord Tennyson's 1832 poem of the same name. Waterhouse painted three versions of this character,in 1888,1894 and 1915. It is one of his most famous works,which adopted much of the style of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood,though Waterhouse was painting several decades after the Brotherhood split up during his early childhood.
Lorraine Althea Constance Monk D.Litt. was a Canadian photographer and executive producer with the National Film Board of Canada who led the production of multiple photography projects chronicling Canadian culture from the 1960s onward. She worked to establish the Canadian Museum of Photography in Toronto,which spawned multiple satellite museums across the country. Over 160,000 of the photographs that she commissioned to detail contemporary Canada are housed at the National Gallery of Canada. She also led the publication of photography books including Canada:A Year of the Land,Call Them Canadians,Canada with Love,Between Friends,and Photographs that Changed the World.
William Edward Frank Britten was a British painter and illustrator. It is known that he worked in London,England starting in 1873 and that he stayed in the city until at least 1890. Britten's work ranged in style from to traditional Victorian to Pre-Raphaelite,and his artistic medium ranged from paintings to book illustrations. His paintings have mostly been praised by critics with his illustrations having been treated as either neutral or favourable by reviewers.
Henry Thomas Mackenzie Bell,commonly known by his pen name Mackenzie Bell,was an English writer,poet and literary critic. He was a writer for many Victorian era publications,most especially the London Academy,and published several volumes of poetry between 1879 and 1893.
Rachel Mann is a British Anglican priest,poet and feminist theologian. She is a trans woman who writes,speaks and broadcasts on a wide range of topics including gender,sexuality and religion.
Dennis Denisoff is a Canadian author,poet and scholar,and the Endowed McFarlin Chair of Literature and Film in the English Department at the University of Tulsa. Denisoff was an early member of The Kootenay School of Writing.
The Day Dream or,as it was initially intended to be named,Monna Primavera,is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood founder member Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The work,which measures 158.7 centimetres (62.5 in) high by 92.7 centimetres (36.5 in) wide,was undertaken in 1880 and depicts Jane Morris in a seated position on the bough of a sycamore tree. In her hand is a small stem of honeysuckle –a token of love in the Victorian era –that may be an indication of the secret affair the artist was immersed in with her at the time. The artwork was left to the Victoria and Albert Museum by Constantine Alexander Ionides in 1900.
Jessie Mabel Pritchard Dearmer was an English novelist,dramatist and children's book author/illustrator. She was a committed pacifist who died while caring for the war wounded in Serbia.
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On behalf of Senate, the President congratulated Dr. Lorraine Janzen as this year's recipient of the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research