Satwinder Bains Senior Associate

Email: Satwinder.Bains@ufv.ca

Professional designation/degrees: PhD(Candidate), M.Ed. B.A.

Faculty/Department: Canada India Studies Program and School of Social Work and Human Services.
Director: Centre for Indo Canadian Studies

Personal Biography: Satwinder is a long time advocate of cross-cultural education. She has been a diversity educator, community developer and community activist in the areas of women’s rights, youth empowerment and immigrant settlement integration. Satwinder is an avid participant in community affairs both at the civic and provincial level. She has served on numerous committees locally and nationally.

Research Interests:
Cross-cultural education curriculum implementation
Heritage language curriculum implementation
Immigration and integration
Social and community development for immigrant women, youth and seniors
Women’s rights and cultural politics
Diaspora, Sikhism and the politics of identity

Publications: 
Canadian Literature #188.
Book Review: Of Silk Saris and Min-Skirts: South Asian Girls Walk the Tightrope of Culture by Amita Handa. Women’s Press, Toronto. 2003    

Consultation Report: Indo Canadian Youth Issues and Concerns. UFV, 2007 

	Adrienne Chan Senior Associate

Professional designation/degrees: BA, MSW, PhD, RSW

Faculty/Department: School of Social Work and Human Services

Personal Biography: For almost twenty years Adrienne Chan has worked as an instructor, researcher, community and adult educator actively in the area of diversity, equity, cross cultural understanding, harassment awareness and prevention, and social justice. Dr. Chan has worked extensively with non-profit agencies, municipalities, hospitals, health boards, universities, colleges, institutes, school districts and crown corporations in the areas of anti-racism, diversity, multiculturalism, gender, race relations, strategic planning and organizational change. Her particular emphasis is on social justice, organizational change, and organizational development as the means for creating more inclusive and diverse organizations. She has worked extensively with managers and administrators, as well as line-staff, faculty, teachers, and union representatives.
Dr. Chan has been teaching and conducting research at UFV since 2004. Her teaching interests include Anti-racist, cross cultural practice and social justice, Theory and ethics, Research Methods, Child Welfare, Interpersonal communication, Community development and advocacy.

Research Interests: Diversity, gender, multiculturalism, anti-racism, academic culture, institutional change/culture, educational studies, educational policy, organizational behaviour, social justice, social policy, policy studies,  child welfare, auto/biography, narrative, ethnography, qualitative and feminist research methods. Dr. Chan is currently involved in three research projects:
Ministry of Child and Family Development: Review of the Complaints Resolution Process
Ministry of Child and Family Development: IndoCanadian Families Project – data base
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada: Social Justice and Universities (a 3 year funded project)

Publications:

Refereed papers:

Chan, Adrienne, & Wolfson, Gloria. (2006).Managing change. The International Journal of Knowledge, Culture & Change Management. Vol. 6. Melbourne, AU: Common Ground Publishing.

Chan, Adrienne S. (2005) Policy discourses and changing practice: Diversity and the university college. Higher Education. 50 (1). 129-157

Chan, Adrienne. (2001). "Journey from the edge: Challenging central discourses"Proceedings of the SCUTREA Conference 2001: Travellers Tales: from adult education to lifelong learning...and beyond. London: University of East London.

Chan, Adrienne. (1999). 

 "Identity as a multiple context for learning and teaching", Web Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education. Sherbrooke: 1999. Web proceedings. www.oise.utoronto.ca/CASAE/cnf99/maincnf.html

Chan, Adrienne.(1998). "Facilitating reflection and action through research", Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education. Ottawa: University of Ottawa.

Bavelas, J.B., Chan, A., & Guthrie, J. (1976). Reliability and validity of traits measured by Kelly's Repertory Grid. Canadian Journal of Behaviour Science, 8 (1), 1976.

Chan, Adrienne S., & Fisher, Donald. (eds.) (2008, forthcoming). The Exchange University. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.

Chan, Adrienne S., & Fisher, Donald. (2008, forthcoming). Academic culture and the research intensive university: contexts for change. In A.S. Chan & D. Fisher (eds.) The exchange university. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.

Chan, Adrienne S., (2007). Diversity and change in institutions of higher learning. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press.

Chan, Adrienne S., (2007). Race based policies in Canada. In R. Joshee & L. Johnson (eds.). Multicultural education policies in Canada and the United States: Symbol and substance. Vancouver: UBC Press.

Chan, Adrienne S., Fisher, Donald, & Rubenson, Kjell. (eds.) (2007). The Evolution of Professionalism. Vancouver: Centre for Policy Studies in Higher Education and Training, University of British Columbia.

Chan, Adrienne S., Fisher, Donald, & Rubenson, Kjell. (2007). Policy Narrative for British Columbia. In: The Evolution of Professionalism. Vancouver: Centre for Policy Studies in Higher Education and Training, University of British Columbia.

Chan, Adrienne S., Fisher, Donald, & Rubenson, Kjell. (2007). Policy Narrative for Alberta. In: The Evolution of Professionalism. Vancouver: Centre for Policy Studies in Higher Education and Training, University of British Columbia.

Chan, Adrienne S., & Fisher, Donald. (2006). Academic culture in Canadian Universities: The context of change. In Y. Gingras & L. Roy (eds.). Les transformations des universités de XIIIe au XXIe siècle. Québec: Presses de l

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Cherie Enns
Senior Associate

 Name:

Faculty/Department: Geography

Personal Biography: Have taught Community Planning and worked as a Community Planner for twenty years. Current research and contract work in India, Kenya and North America. Presents at conferences and forums regularly on research related to Child and Youth Friendly Communities.

Research Interests: Child Friendly Cities, Urban Design, International Development, Informal Housing, Urban Issues

Publications: Project Oriented Publications (List Available on Request)    

Garry Fehr
Senior Associate

Name: Garry Fehr

 Email: Garry.Fehr@ufv.ca

Professional designation/degrees: PhD University of Guelph

Faculty/Department: Geography

Personal Biography: Prior to returning to school to complete my PhD, I regularly organized and participated in numerous humanitarian aid projects throughout northern British Columbia, Latin America and India. These activities were in addition to managing a business that serviced the natural resource sector and British Columbia's northern communities. I combined these interests in the pursuit of my PhD as I investigated how the globalisation of India's Non Timber Forest Product Sector was impacting rural development and the forest environment. I defended my PhD thesis and began teaching geography at UFV in 2007. The courses I teach fit within the international, environmental and cultural streams of geography.

Research Interests: Currently, I am pursuing two streams of research that are connected to my previous work in the forest sector of Madhya Pradesh, India. First, I am continuing my work in India by investigating how the decentralisation of the forest sector and movement to community-based forest management combined with the rapid growth in the medicinal plant sector is being used by the state to implement new strategies of rural development. The second stream explores potential management options of British Columbia's unregulated Non Timber Forest Product sector. This research project is designed to include undergraduate students in the research process. Both of these research streams include themes of traditional ecological knowledge, common property theory and community-based resource management.

Publications: Fehr, G. & Véron, R. (2007). Cashing in India’s forests: globalisation, reform and medicinal plants in Madhya Pradesh. In Bhabbani Nishankar (Ed.) Nationalising crisis: the political economy of public policy in contemporary India. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers and Distributers. p. 283-307.

Véron, R. & Fehr, G. (March 2006). Unintended consequences: ex-situ cultivation of medicinal plants and forest resource depletion in Madhya Pradesh. Inform. Winrock International. India. p.3-5.

Reports and Discussion Papers
Fehr, G. (March 2005). The impact of globalisation on forest livelihoods in Madhya Pradesh. Research Report. Shastri Applied Research Project, Globalisation and the Poor: Sustaining Rural Livelihoods in India.

Fehr, G. (August 2004). The role of value chain analysis in understanding real markets in a global economy. Discussion Paper. Shastri Applied Research Project, Globalisation and the Poor: Sustaining Rural Livelihoods in India.  

Susan Fisher
Associate


Name: Susan Fisher

 Email: Susan.Fisher@ufv.ca

Professional designation/degrees: PhD  Comparative Literature, University of British Columbia, 1997.

Faculty/Department: English

Personal Biography: I worked for many years as an editor and free-lance writer before returning to graduate school to earn a degree in comparative literature.

Research Interests: Canadian literature, with a special interest in the literature of World War I; modern Japanese literature; South Asian literature    

Publications: Edited volumes
Nostalgic Journeys: Literary Pilgrimages to Japan and the West.  Ed. and introd. Susan Fisher. Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia, 2001. (194 pp.)
Reviewed in Asian Studies Review (Asian Studies Association of Australia), 2002;
Hikaku bungaku (2003); Comparative Literature Studies (2004).

Canadian Literature 178 (Autumn 2003). 207 pages
Canadian Literature 179 (Winter 2003). Special issue on Literature and war. 203 pages
Canadian Literature 180 (Spring 2004). 202 pages
Canadian Literature 181 (Summer 2004). 202 pages

Refereed Articles and Interviews
“‘Ontological Applause’: Metaphor and Homology in the Poetry of Don McKay.” The Animals in This Country. Ed. Janice Fiamengo. Reappraisals series. Ottawa: U of Ottawa P, 2006.
“History, Memory, Home: An Interview with M.G. Vassanji.” Canadian Literature 190 (2006): 49-61.
“‘Weird Beauty’: Lafcadio Hearn and Angela Carter on Japan.” Lafcadio Hearn in International Perspectives. Ed. Sukehiro Hirakawa. 169-177. Folkestone UK: Global Oriental Publishing. 169-177.
 “Teaching Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance: Two Cheers for Universalism?” Canadian Literature 190 (2006): 180-187.
 “Hear, Overhear, Observe, Remember: A Dialogue with Frances Itani.” Canadian Literature 183 (2004). 40-56.
“’Our Next Neighbour across the Way’: Japan and Canadian Writers.” Canadian Literature 174 (2002): 29-48.
 “An Allegory of Return: Murakami Haruki’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.”  Comparative Literature Studies 37.2 (2000): 155-70. 
“Japanese Elements in the Poetry of Fred Wah and Roy Kiyooka.” Canadian Literature 163 (1999): 93-110.
“The Moment and the Story: Two Readings of Enchi Fumiko’s 'Boxcar of Chrysanthemums.'“ Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 23:4, December 1996: 915-29.
“The Uses of Place in Shiga Naoya's A Dark Night's Passing.” B.C. Asian Review 7 (1993-94): 64-79.

Forthcoming
“World War I and Canadian Literature.” Commissioned chapter for Cambridge History of Canadian Literature. Ed. Eva-Marie Kröller and Coral Anne Howells. Approx. 25 ms pages. Publication date: 2008.
Review of Certainty by Madeleine Thien for Canadian Ethnic Studies.
Member, editorial team. Fifty Years of Canadian Literature. Anniversary volume to be published by Ronsdale Press.

Reviews and review articles
Review of When Grownups Play at War: A Child’s Memoir by Ilona Flutsztejn-Gruda. Canadian Literature 194 (2007): 125-126.
 “To the Headwaters.” Review of Short Journey Upriver to Oishida by Roo Borson. Canadian Literature 188 (2006): 191-92.
“War Stories.” Review of Dubious Glory by Dagmar Novak and Great Canadian War Stories ed. Muriel Whitaker. Canadian Literature 179 (2003): 169-171.
 “The Printed Page.” Review of Alphabetical and Cosmologies by P.K. Page. Canadian Literature 176 (2003): 178-79.
 “Arcadian Adventures.” Review of The Rules of Engagement by Catherine Bush and Realia by Will Aitken. Canadian Literature 175 (2002): 129-31.
“Cultural Memories.”  Review of Proceedings of the XVth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association. Canadian Literature 174 (2002): 126-28.
“War of Words.” Review article on recent books about war. Canadian Literature 173 (2002): 198-204.
“Animalia.” Review article on The Postmodern Animal by Steve Baker. Canadian Literature 170/171 (2001): 256-60.
“Japanese Memories.” Review of Hiroshima Traces; The City of Yes; O-Bon in Chimunesu; and Narrative as Counter-Memory. Canadian Literature 170/171 (2001): 250-52.
 “The Rising Daughter.” Review of The Mountain Is Moving: Japanese Women's Lives and From My Grandmother's Bedside: Sketches of Postwar Tokyo. Canadian Literature 163 (1999): 189-91.
“A Prescription for Japan's Future.” Review of Japan: A Reinterpretation by Patrick L. Smith and Molding Japanese Minds by Sheldon Garon, Globe and Mail July 12, 1997.
Review of “Six Canadian Poets” (video series).  Canadian Literature 147 (1995): 152-154.
“Great Distances.” Review of works by Bharati Mukherjee and Maxine Hong Kingston. Canadian Literature 138/9 (1993): 116-118.

Douglas Hudson
Associate

Name: Douglas R. Hudson

Email: Douglas.Hudson@ufv.ca

Professional designation/degrees: BA (Honours Anthropology), University of Victoria; MA (Anthropology), McMaster University; PhD (Anthropology), University of Alberta; member of BC Association of Professional Archaeologists

Faculty/Department:  Anthropology, Social Cultural & Media Studies; Faculty of Arts, UFV Personal Biography: Born in Saskatoon, Sask., but has lived most of life in British Columbia; avid sailor (with a CS 27 sailboat called “Wind Dancer”); novice musician (guitar); loves world music; has carried out fieldwork in ethnography and archaeology in numerous areas of British Columbia with First Nations communities; has traveled to Nepal and Mexico; keen interest in the cultural and heritage record of indigenous peoples; interested in Buddhism; has taught at UCFV since 1980; has put on two photographic exhibits (one on Nepal).

Research Interests: Indigenous cultures of Pacific Northwest; cultural heritage of Nepal and Himalayan regions of India; applied anthropology and archaeology; visual anthropology (film and photographic visual documentations)

Ding Lu
Senior Associate


Name: Ding Lu

Email: Ding.Lu(at)ufv.ca

Professional designation/degrees: Ph.D. (1991, economics), MA (1988), Northwestern University (USA) MA (1986), BA (1983), Fudan University (China)

Faculty/Department: Faculty of Arts/ Department of Economics

Personal Biography: Before joining University of the Fraser Valley in the summer of 2008, Dr. Lu had been a tenured senior faculty member in Sophia University, Japan (2005-08) and National University of Singapore (1992-2005). He had also taught in University of Nebraska at Omaha (1991-92) and Northwestern University (1990) in the early years of his academic career. Dr. Lu has published several books and dozens of papers in peer-review journals and book chapters. Most of his publications involve development issues in Asian economies.

Research Interests: International trade and investment, economic systems, industrial policies, and regional economic development.

Publications: Dr. Lu is the author of Entrepreneurship in Suppressed Markets: China’s Private Sector Experience (New York: Garland, 1994), State Intervention and Business in China: the Role of Preferential Policies (UK: Edward Elgar, 1997), and China’s Telecommunications Market: Entering a New Competitive Age (UK: Edward Elgar, 2003) and the chief editor of several academic volumes. He has published dozens of papers in peer-review journals and book chapters.  For details of his research and publications, visit www.geocities.com/ecslud/.   

Dr. David Milobar



Name: Dr. David Milobar


Email: david.milobar@ufv.ca


Professional designation/degrees:


Faculty/Department: History


Personal Biography:


Research Interests:


Publications:

Nicola Mooney
Associate

Name: Nicola Mooney

Email: Nicola.Mooney@ufv.ca

Professional designation/degrees: B.A., M. M. St., Ph.D. (University of Toronto)

Faculty/Department: Social, Cultural and Media Studies    

Personal Biography: Nicola Mooney received her Ph.D. in Social-Cultural Anthropology (with a Collaborative Designation in Ethnic, Immigration & Pluralism Studies) from the University of Toronto in 2003. Her research involves Sikh communities in India and Canada, and focuses on ethnicity and identity, modernity, transnationalism, gender and religiosity. Her book, Rural Nostalgias and Transnational Dreams: Identity and Modernity among Jat Sikhs, which will be published by the University of Toronto Press in 2008, is based on 18 months of fieldwork in northwestern India, where she lived as both an ethnographer and a daughter-in-law. Dr. Mooney is presently working on several projects which focus variously on gender and transnational migration, migrant Jat Sikh experiences of land and landscape, Sikh religiosity, and the representation of Sikhs in film. She has taught at Mount Allison University, where she held the McCain Post-Doctoral Fellowship and remains an adjunct faculty member, as well as at Trent University, Wilfrid Laurier University, and the University of Toronto.

Research Interests: Ethnicity and identity; transnationalism, diaspora and migration; gender and other forms of social difference; urbanization, rurality, landscape, and placemaking; religiosity; and the impacts of the nation-state, development and modernity among Sikhs, and particularly Jat Sikhs, in India and Canada. Other interests include history, memory, and commemorative discourse and practice; Punjabi and South Asian popular culture; feminist approaches to anthropology; critical ethnography; post-coloniality; and the intersections between ethnography and history.

Publications: In press. Rural Nostalgias and Transnational Dreams: Identity and Modernity among  Jat Sikhs. University of Toronto Press. (2008).
In press. “Lowly Shoes on Lowly Feet: Some Jat Sikh Women’s Views on Gender  & Equality”. In Women in Sikhism: An Exploration, eds. Doris Jakobsh and  Eleanor Nesbitt. Delhi: Oxford University Press. (Expected 2008).
In press. “Aaja Nach Lai (Come Dance): Performing Dance and Practicing Identity among Punjabis in Canada”. Ethnologies. Special Edition, “Dance in Canada”, eds. Kristin Harris Walsh, Sherry Johnson, & Marcia Ostashewsky. (Expected 2008).
2008 "Of Love, Matyrdom and (In)-Subordination: Sikh Experiences of Partition in the Films Shaheed-e-Mohabbat and Gadar: Ek Prem Katha". In Partitioned Lives: Narratives of Home, Displacement, and Resettlement, eds. Anjali Gera Roy and Nandi Bhatia, pp. 26 - 49. Delhi: Pearson Longman/Dorling Kindersley India.
2006  “Aspiration, Reunification and Gender Transformation in Jat Sikh Marriages from India to Canada”. Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs. 6 (4): 389-403.

Professional designation/degrees: Ph.D.

Faculty/Department: Philosophy

Summer Pervez
Associate

Name: Summer Pervez

Email: Summer.Pervez@ufv.ca

Professional designation/degrees: Lecturer / Assistant Professor, World Literatures
Degrees:
PhD English, 2007, University of Ottawa
MA English, 2002, University of Western Ontario
B.A. Combined Honours in English and Comparative Literature, 2001, University of
Western Ontario

Faculty/Department: Department of English, University of the Fraser Valley

Personal Biography: I was born displaced, into three distinct cultures – I am a Pakistani who was born and raised in Saudi Arabia, and from pre-kindergarten on, I studied in American-run private schools where my teachers were mostly American and Canadian. One can argue that what has resulted from being born displaced is a crisis of identity (where I am from, for example, is a tough question for me to answer), but I like to view my displacement as advantageous, for it allows me to be a multiplicity in terms of my identity.

I grew up learning English, Urdu, and Punjabi simultaneously, in a country of Arabic-speakers. My family went back to Pakistan for three or four month annually, and I am grateful for this experience; it has meant that I have never lost touch with my roots and culture. My mother was a teacher of Urdu literature and language in Pakistan prior to her marriage; she taught my three siblings and I Urdu at home, and thus we were able to speak both Urdu and Punjabi as well as English amongst our extended family in Pakistan.

After ninth grade, I attended a private all-girls boarding school in Pennsylvania for three years, where I was fully immersed in the other half of my identity: Western culture and thought. When I moved to Canada in 1997 with my family, our motives were two-fold: affordable and respected university educations, and the best health care for the country’s citizens than we had seen anywhere else in the world.

I obtained my BA and MA from the University of Western Ontario in London, and my PhD from the University of Ottawa. My family is still settled near Toronto, the city I moved here from, and one that I consider home.

Research Interests: My recent publications include work on Salman Rushdie, Homi Bhabha, Wole Soyinka, Naguib Mahfouz, and Hanif Kureishi among others. My current research interests – an extension of my doctoral work – include British South Asian diaspora literature, the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, film and film theory, as well as global terrorism. My primary research areas include South Asian literature (especially surrounding Partition), twentieth-century British literature (Modernist and contemporary), postcolonial literature and theory, and literary theory and criticism more generally. Secondary areas include English Renaissance literature, children’s literature, and African literature.  

   


DJ Sandhu
Senior Associate


Name: DJ Sandhu

Email: DJ.Sandhu@ufv.ca or canadaindiachair@ufv.ca       

Professional designation/degrees: MBA (SFU) BBA (SFU)

Faculty/Department: Business Administration

Personal Biography: UFV business professor DJ Sandhu brings UFV’s Centre for Indo-Canadian Studies is more than 20 years of marketing and designed to provide information for people teaching experience to this new position.  He has a strong background in marketing consulting for Fortune 500 companies such as Johnson & Johnson. He earned his BBA and MBA at Simon Fraser University and teaches business there. He has extensive experience developing international markets and launching companies involved in financing new manufacturing ventures.

Since 2004, Sandhu has served as a special advisor to UFV. He is also a member of the India Market Advisory Group, the working group of the Province’s Asia Pacific Trade Council. Sandhu has been formally working on UFV’s India initiatives since 2004 in his special advisor role. He played a key role in the establishment of the UFV Bachelor of Business Administration degree program in Chandigarh, India. He has been instrumental in the creation of UFV partnerships with several Indian post-secondary institutions including Panjab University (which has established a Canadian Studies Centre), Guru Nanak Dev University and SDCC College.

In 2006, he helped UFV become the only Canadian post-secondary institution to establish an education society — along with a new campus — in India. As President of the UFV Education Society in India, he has developed a platform that is available for other post-secondary institutions to facilitate launching their programs on the subcontinent without having to collaborate directly with an Indian partner.

This particular research chair grew out of a desire on UFV’s part to play a role in fostering economic and academic links between British Columbia and India, reflecting the fact that the university college is located in the Fraser Valley, home of one of the largest Indo-Canadian communities in Canada. Hundreds of community supporters matched the Province’s contribution to reach the total of $2.5 million for the chair endowment. 

Michelle Superle
Associate


Name: Michelle Superle

Email: Michelle.Superle@ufv.ca       

Professional designation/degrees: PhD Candidate, English Literature, Newcastle University; Master of Arts in Children’s Literature, UBC, 2005

Faculty/Department: English

Personal Biography: After choosing to specialize in children’s literature for the money, I was delighted to find that I also love the subject for its power to create connections. Childhood reading both acts as an essential link in human understanding and embodies all that is hopeful and optimistic about what it means to be human in this world. As well, it provides a shared basis of cultural reference. This belief keeps me going on days when the lack of scholarly respect for “kiddie lit” becomes disheartening. This fascinating, interdisciplinary subject is my all-consuming passion. This passion has led me around the globe for the past few years. In 2006, my interest in nature writing and animal stories—true to my Canadian roots—led me to the Canadian East. Under the Eileen Wallace Fellowship in Children’s Literature, I was a visiting scholar at the University of New Brunswick. That same year, I spent two months in India doing preliminary research on English-language South Asian children’s literature. This research has become the foundation of my doctoral work, a comparative analysis of contemporary English-language children’s novels published in India with those published in North America and the United Kingdom. During the course of my doctoral work in 2008, I spent three months in Germany, on a research fellowship from the International Youth Library. I followed this up immediately with another trip to India to conduct interviews with authors, publishers, and academics on the phenomenon of women writers’ contributions to English-language South Asian children’s literature. As a result of all this travel, I have made not only a significant number of intellectual connections, but also a surprising number of human connections, resulting in academic links all over  the world but particularly concentrated in India.

Like many scholars of children’s literature, I am interested in the connections between books and reality. This link is what initially led me to pursue my research subject. When I began teaching English 280 at UFV and became aware of our institution’s large Indo-Canadian population, I began to wonder whether I could include culturally relevant materials into the curriculum, and I also began to wonder both what non-Indo-Canadians understood about the Indo-Canadian culture and human experience, and how we knew what we knew. Especially when disseminated in public institutions, children’s books can create a shared base of learning and culture that goes forward to inform us for the rest of our lives, so I liked the idea of children—as well as the adults in my class—learning and expanding their understanding through this medium. Unfortunately, my early findings revealed that there is a paucity of Indo-Canadian children’s literature being published, and no scholarship in the area. I became determined to remedy that lack by investigating how to access a wider variety of South Asian children’s literature materials for distribution in Canada and by beginning to explore and understand this body of texts in an academic context. This journey has been confusing, disheartening, interesting, inspiring, and, above all, intellectually stimulating

Research Interersts: Dissertation: Inside and Out: A Comparison of Contemporary, English-language South Asian Children’s Novels from India, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. Supervisors: Dr. Kimberley Reynolds and Dr. Neelam Srivastava.

Publications:
Animal Others and the Human Imagination. Eds. Anne Vallely and Aaron Gross.
Forthcoming, U of Columbia P. “Spiritual Guides and Transforming Substances: Canine Characters in Children’s Literature.”
Black Dog, Dream Dog. (Children’s novel.) Tradewind Books. Forthcoming, 2010.
The Journal of Children’s Literature. “Mother’s Milk: The Politics of Food in South
Asian Children’s Novels.” July 2008.
CM: Canadian Review of Materials, 2004-present. Regular reviewer for this online
journal focused on Canadian children’s literature.

Melissa Walter
Associate 




Name: Melissa Walter

Email: Melissa.Walter@ufv.ca       

Professional designation/degrees: PhD 

Faculty/Department: English

Personal Biography: I grew up in Victoria and went to university in California.  After teaching at the high school level for five years, I returned to school to pursue graduate study in English.  My initial fascination with Chaucer soon gave way to an abiding interest in Shakespeare and Renaissance literature.  I spent a research year in England during my training, and since then have taught at Arizona State University, The University of Oregon, and Campion College, University of Regina before coming to UFV.

Research Interersts: I have research and teaching interests in Shakespeare studies, including post-colonial Shakespeares, gender studies, Elizabethan and Jacobean drama and prose, especially the early modern novella, travel narratives, and bilingual texts.

Publications:
"Dramatic Bodies and Novellesque Spaces in Jacobean Tragedy and Tragicomedy." Transnational and Transcultural Exchange in Early Modern Drama: Theater Crossing Borders. Robert Henke and Eric Nichols, eds. London: Ashgate, 2008.

"Drinking from Skulls and the Politics of Incorporation in Early Stuart Drama." At the Table: Metaphorical and Material Cultures of Food in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Juliann Vitullo and Timothy Tomasik, eds. Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 18. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2007. 93-105.

"Constructing Readers and Reading Communities:  Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron 32 in England." Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme 27.1 (2003) 35-59.