Kathleen Scherf

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An Intro To Dr. Kathleen Scherf
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Overview

• Dr. Kathleen Scherf, a senior full professor, has
  worked with various reputed universities such as
  Thompson Rivers University, University of New
  Brunswick, and University of Calgary, and has
  published numerous books and papers on diverse
  topics.

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Academic Profile

• Dr. Kathleen, an academician in English and
  Communications has taught a wide range of areas
  including English, Communications, Tourism
  Management, Educational Leadership, Cultural
  Studies, and Theatre Arts.How was it resolved?
• Some of the topics she has covered in her recent
  interesting courses
• Mountain studies.
• Alternative mapping (deep maps).
• Intro to communication studies.
• Tourism management graduating seminar.
• Postcolonial literature in Canada.
• Leadership in post-secondary educational
  institutions.
• Canadian studies.

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Professional Career

• Sept 1988 Sessional Lecturer, Department of
  English, UBC
• July 1989 Assistant Professor of English,
  University of New Brunswick
• July 1992 Associate Professor of English, UNB
• July 1993 Tenured, UNB
• July 1995 Associate Dean of Arts
  (Undergraduate), UNB
• July 1996 Professor of English, UNB
• July 1997 Sabbatical leave
• July 1998 Associate Dean of Arts (Research and
  Graduate Studies), UNB
• July 1999 Professor and Dean, Faculty of
  Communication and Culture,
• University of Calgary (reappointed for a
  five-year term 2004-
• 09, adjunct appointments extended as well -
  Adjunct Full
• Professorships in English and in Drama)
• Sept 2008 President and Vice-Chancellor,
  Thompson Rivers University
• Sept 2009 Professor, Department of Journalism,
  Communications, and New
• Media, TRU
• July 2011 Professor of Communications,
  cross-appointed Department of
• Journalism, Communications, and New Media and
  Tourism
• Management, TRU
• October 2013 Academic Lead, TRU Programs, Europe

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Books

• Mary Shellev's Frankenstein The 1818 Text.
  Calgary Broadview Literary Press,
• 1994. (With D.L. Macdonald) second edition 1999.
  Third edition 2012.
• Sun Peaks An Evolution of Dreams. Peaks Media,
  2011. An illustrated history of
• fifty years of the resort on Tod Mountain,
  contracted by the Sun Peaks Resort
• Corporation. 20,000 words, 110 photos sourced and
  interpreted.
• The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis, a Scholarly
  Edition (1796). Calgary
• Broadview Literary Press, 2004. (With D.L.
  Macdonald)
• Mary Wollstonecraft's Two Vindications A
  Scholarly Edition. Calgary Broadview
• Literary Press, 1997. (With D.L. Macdonald)
• The Canadian Handbook for Writers Workbook.
  Toronto Harcourt Brace, 1995.
• The Canadian Handbook for Writers. Toronto
  Harcourt Brace, 1995.
• The Collected Fiction of John Polidori. Toronto
  University of Toronto Press,
• 1994. (With D.L. Macdonald)
• The Collected Poems of Malcolm Lowry. Vancouver
  University of British
• Columbia Press, 1992.

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Reviews

• "New Directions." Canadian Literature 136 (1993)
  161-63.
• "Female Mosaic." Canadian Literature 130 (1991)
  162-64.
• Underlying Currents David Adams Richards'
  Evening Snow Will Bring Such
• Peace." Matrix 34 (1991) 75-76.
• "The Lowry/Noxon Letters." University of Toronto
  Quarterly 59.2 (1989) 156-
• 57.
• "Prairie Poetics Dennis Cooley's The Vernacular
  Muse." Prairie Forum 14.1
• (1989) 125-28.

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Thanks