Curriculum Vitae

							                                    CURRICULUM VITAE
                                    Madeline Ruth Walker

School of Nursing
University of Victoria
PO Box 1700 STN CSC
Victoria British Columbia V8W 2Y2
HSD A439; 250-472-5655
mrwalker@uvic.ca

Education
2008:           Ph.D. in English Literature, University of Victoria.
                Dissertation: ―Sauling Around: The Trouble with Conversion in African
                American and Mexican American Autobiography 1965-2002.‖
2003:           M.A. in English Literature, University of Victoria.
1987:           Certificate in TESL, University of Toronto.
1981:           Honours B.A. in English Literature, University of Toronto.

Teaching Positions
2010-2011:     Assistant Professor and Writing Scholar at UVic School of Nursing (one-year
               term position): Develop and teach Introduction to Academic Scholarship, a
               distance course on academic writing for graduate students in Nursing and post-
               diploma RN students in Nursing (Nurs 590 and Nurs 490); provide writing coach
               services to students and faculty.
2010:          UVic Department of English: Post World War II British Fiction (English 436B);
               Contemporary American Fiction (English 429C); UVic School of Nursing:
               writing consultant and tutor – assist distance graduate students in writing (online)
               and Nursing faculty in assignment design.
2009:          UVic Department of English: Introduction to American Literature (English 203);
               Mid-Century American Novel (English 429B); Academic Reading and Writing
               (English 135).
               Camosun College: English 150 – English Composition.
               UVic School of Nursing: writing consultant and tutor.
               UVic Department of English: Introduction to Drama and the Novel (English
               145); two sections of Academic Reading and Writing (English 135).
2008:          UVic Department of English: Contemporary American Fiction (post 1970)
               (English 429C); Introduction to Modern Literature (English 201); Introduction to
               Prose and Poetry (English 125).
2007:          UVic Department of English: Academic Reading and Writing (English 135).
2003-4:        West Coast College of Massage Therapy: Academic English.

Publications
Books:
2011:           Forthcoming: Sauling Around: The Trouble with Conversion in Ethnic
                Autobiography 1965-2002. University of Iowa Press.
Articles:
2010:           (R) English Studies in Canada: ―Converting the Church: Richard Rodriguez and
                the Browning of Catholicism.‖ 35:2-3.
2009:           (R) The Journal for the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the
                United States: ―Conversion, Deconversion, and Reversion: Vagaries of Religious
                Experience in Oscar Zeta Acosta’s Autofictions.‖ Winter 2009.
Creative:
2000:           ―Erosion‖ (poem) Room of One’s Own 23:1.
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1987:          ―Santa Maria‖ (short story) U. of T. Quarterly Review 11: 46-7.
1984:          ―Pensione Adria‖ (short story) U. of T. Quarterly Review 8: 12.
Journalism/ Communications/ Book Reviews:
2010           Book Review of Stories of the Middle Space: Reading the Ethics of Postmodern
               Realisms by Deborah C. Bowen for English Studies in Canada. Forthcoming.
2009:          Press releases for Veterinarians without Borders for World Rabies Day.
2009:          Book review of Half World by Hiromi Goto in The Vancouver Sun, February 7,
               page C6.
2007:          Book review of X in Flight by Karen Rivers in The Vancouver Sun, October 27,
               page C9.
2007:          Book review on Runnerland by John Burns in The Vancouver Sun, June 2, page
               C1.
1998:          Article ―Sharing the Power: Dr. Leslie Bowers‖ in Focus on Women,
               10:9 (June 1998): 39-42.

Selected Presentations and Conferences
2008:          (R) ―Amiri Baraka’s The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones, Blue-Black Marxism,
               Authenticity, and American Puritanism‖ Association of Canadian College and
               University Teachers of English Conference at UBC.
2008:          ―Conversion, Deconversion, and Reversion: The Vagaries of Religious
               Experience in Oscar Zeta Acosta’s Autofictions‖ Public Lecture for Centre for
               Studies in Religion and Society’s Wednesday Public Lecture Series, UVic.
2007:          (R) ―Transforming the Truth about Oscar Zeta Acosta and The Autobiography of
               a Brown Buffalo” Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of
               English Conference at the University of Saskatoon.
2007:          (R) ―Jesus is My Homeboy: Oscar Zeta Acosta’s Imitation of Christ in The
               Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo and the Rise of Evangelical Protestantism‖
               The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 at the University
               of Louisville, Kentucky.
2004:          (R) ―From the Cultural Margin: Sinclair Lewis’s Quest for Symbolic Goods‖
               American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco.

Research and Editing Positions
2010-2011     Writer/ Editor (Turtle Island Consulting Services Inc.) for South Selkirks Climate
              Change Research Team E-Newsletter.
2009          Project Editor (Turtle Island Consulting Services Inc.) for MPB (Mountain Pine
              Beetle) Best Practices Handbook: Effective Strategies & Actions from BC First
              Nations Communities.
2008:         Managing Editor for Illumine: The Journal of the Centre for Studies in Religion
              and Society Graduate Student Association, UVic. Vol. 7, No. 1.
2008:         Editorial Assistant for Centre for Studies in Religion and Society publication:
              Fundamentalisms: When Rival Truth Claims Meet Head-On, UVic.
2006:         Research and Editorial Assistant to Dr. Christopher Douglas, UVic. Proofread,
              copyedited, and constructed bibliography for book manuscript A Genealogy of
              Literary Multiculturalism (Cornell, 2009).

Significant Awards and Honours
2009:         Nominated for Distinguished Dissertation Award (CAGS) by Dr. Christopher
              Douglas.
2007-8:       Centre for Studies in Religion and Society 2007-8 Vanderkerkhove Family Trust
              Graduate Student Fellowship ($5,000 and office), UVic.
2004-7:       Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Canada Graduate Scholarship
              ($105,000).
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Additional Experience and Training in Teaching
2009:         Training in Elluminate – online teaching platform used in UVic’s School of
              Nursing—and Moodle.
2008:         Instructional Skills Workshop at the Learning and Teaching Centre, UVic.
2003:         English 502, Teaching Literature and Composition, UVic.
1983-87:      Office Training Manager for MicroCHIP, a federally funded job training program
              for at-risk youth in Toronto. I developed curricula and trained up to twenty youth
              at a time in computer skills, office procedures, and manual payroll.

Volunteer Service
2010-ongoing Member of Governance Committee, The Farmlands Trust (Greater Victoria)
              Society, a non-profit organization protecting food security.
2009:         Communications Assistant: wrote press releases and articles for Veterinarians
              Without Borders World Rabies Day.
2009:         Volunteer, Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment
              Conference.
2004-7:       Founder and organizer of annual literary fundraising event for UVic’s
              Department of English.
2005-6:       Ph.D. Graduate Student Representative, UVic.
2005:         (R) Committee member for Nostalgia and Cultural Memory, UVic Graduate
              Student Conference.
2004:         Graduate student representative on English Department Chair Search Committee
              (internal and external searches), UVic.
2004:         Fundraiser for over $10,000 (with Dr. Lisa Surridge) through direct requests and
              events to establish the Kelly Curtis Memorial Fund at UVic.
2003:         Organized UVic’s English Graduate Conference.