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Marie Lovrod Ph.D.

Associate Professor, English/Women's and Gender Studies

Faculty Member in English
Graduate Supervisor in English
Associate Member in Sociology
Faculty Member in Women's and Gender Studies

Office
Arts 416

Research Area(s)

  • Transnational Feminisms
  • Intergenerational trauma and resilience
  • Feminist theory and methods
  • Queer theory and methods
  • Creative methodologies
  • Autobiography/collective auto-ethnography

Publications

BOOKS, CHAPTERS IN BOOKS, EXPOSITORY AND REVIEW ARTICLES:

Lovrod, M. with S. Bustamante & D. Domshy (2020). “We’re a package deal now:” Young mothers from government care in Saskatchewan assess their social welfare experiences. Mothering and Welfare: Depriving, Surviving, Thriving. Eds. K. Levasseur, S. Paterson & L.A. Turnbull. Toronto: Demeter Press, 25 - 42

Lovrod, M. with S. Bustamante & D. Domshy (2016). “Pathways: Community-Engaged Research with Youth Transitioning to Adult In(ter)dependence from Government Care” in Voices from the Prairies Series, #5, Celebrating Child Welfare Transformations: Interdisciplinary Practices, Field Education and Research. Eds. H. Monty Montgomery, Dorothy Badry, Daniel Kikulwe & Don Fuchs. Saskatchewan: University of Regina Press, 211-239 [double-blind peer review, 70%].

Lovrod, M. & Wood, K. (2014). “Chapter 10: Encounters with the Uncanny: Open-ended creative research with subalterned communities as ethical practice.” Eds. Curtis Fogel, Andrea Quinlan & Elizabeth Quinlan. Invited Chapter, Imaginative Inquiry: Innovation Approached to Interdisciplinary Research. California: Academica Press, 147-165 [double-blind peer review, 50%].

Lovrod, M. & Wood, K. (2013). “A Healing Centre of One's Own: Woolf's Legacy and Public Responses to Child Abuse." Ann Martin & Kathryn Holland (Eds).

Interdisciplinary/Multidisciplinary Woolf: Selected Papers from the Twenty- Second Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf. South Carolina: Clemson University Press, 109-118 [double-blind peer review, 50%].

Zhang, Y & Lovrod, M. 2012. “Rebuilding China’s Economy on Gendered Rural Family Labour: A Case Study of Generational Migration, Stasis and Ecological Degradation.” Lewis Williams, Rose Roberts & Alastair McIntosh (Eds), Radical Human Ecology: Intercultural and Indigenous Approaches. Surrey, England & Burlington, VT: Ashgate Press: 327-346 [double-blind peer review, 50%].

Ross, L. & Lovrod, M., 2009. “Chapter 1: Introduction: Negotiating Social Complexities in Counseling Practice.” Lynda R. Ross (ed.), Counseling Women: Feminist Issues, Theory and Practice. Toronto: Women’s Press: 1-17 [double-blind peer review, 50%].

Lovrod, M., 2009. “Chapter 7: Considerations in Counselling Children and Adult Survivors of Childhood Traumas: Community, Context, and Intersubjective Resiliencies.” Lynda R. Ross (ed.), Counseling Women: Feminist Issues, Theory and Practice. Toronto: Women’s Press: 172-194. Double-blind peer review.

Lovrod, M., 1998. “Art/i/fact: Re-reading culture and subjectivity through sexual abuse survivor narratives.” Tom Couser and Joe Fichtelberg (Eds), True Relations: Autobiography and the Postmodern, 23-32, Westport, CT, London: Greenwood Press. Double-blind peer review.


PAPERS IN REFEREED JOURNALS

York-Bertram, S., Lovrod, M. & Krol, L.(2017) “Decentering Expected Voices and visibilities in a Feminist Transnational Bridging Pilot.” Engaged Scholar Journal,  2(2): 65-83 [Funded by ICCC Catalyst Award; 45%]

Lovrod, M. with S. Bustamante & D. Domshy (2016). “Pathways: Community-Engaged Research with Youth Transitioning to Adult In(ter)dependence from Government Care” in Voices from the Prairies Series, #5, Celebrating Child Welfare Transformations: Interdisciplinary Practices, Field Education and Research. Eds. H. Monty Montgomery, Dorothy Badry, Daniel Kikulwe & Don Fuchs. Saskatchewan: University of Regina Press, 211-239.

Boon, S; Thorpe, J. with Lisa Bednar; Krista Johnston; Glenda Bonifacio; Margaret Hobbs; Carla Rice; Rachel Hurst; Heather Latimer; Marie Lovrod; Trish Salah & Alissa Trotz. “The Intro Course: A Pedagogical Toolkit” (2016). Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal Special Issue 38.1, (Eds) Melissa White & Jennifer Musial

Lovrod, M., April, 2015. “Narrow Escapes: Gendered Resistance to Intergenerational Neo/Colonial Violence across Time and Space.” Rocky Mountain Review, Special Issue: Theorizing Space and Gender in the 21st Century: 68-86. 

Findley, I.; Lovrod M.; Quinlan, L.; Teucher, U., with A. K. Sayok, S., Bustamante & D. Domshy, May, 2015. “Building Critical Community Engagement through Scholarship: Three Case Studies.” Engaged Scholar Journal, inaugural issue: 33- 50.

Lovrod M. & Wood, K (2014).  "Chapter 10: Encounters with the Uncanny: Open-ended creative research with subalterned communities as ethical practice.  Curtis Fogel, Andrea Quinlan & Elizabeth Quinlan (Eds).  Imaginative Inquiry: Innovative Approaches to Interdisciplinary Research.  California: Academica Press: 147 - 165.

Lovrod, M. & Wood, K. (2013).  "A Healing Centre of One's Own: Woolf's Legacy and Public Responses to Child Abuse."  Ann Martin & Kathryn Holland (Eds). Interdisciplinary/Multidisciplinary Woolf: Selected Papers from the Twenty-Second Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf.  South Carolina: Clemson University Press: 109-118.

Zhang, Y & Lovrod, M. (2012). “Rebuilding China’s Economy on Gendered Rural Family Labour: A Case Study of Generational Migration, Stasis and Ecological Degradation.” Lewis Williams, Rose Roberts & Alastair McIntosh (eds), Radical Human Ecology: Intercultural and Indigenous Approaches. Surrey, England & Burlington, VT: Ashgate Press: 327 – 346.

Lovrod, M, and Ross, L. (2011).  “Post Trauma: Medicalization and Damage to Social Reform.” Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal Special Conference Issue (eds) Shannon Dea and Morgan Holmes, Vol. 35.2. (in press).


SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUE CO-EDITOR:

Guest Co-editor Special Edition of Engaged Scholar Journal Volume 16, Challenging Exceptionalist Imaginaries through Feminist Community Engagements –  with Corinne Mason, UBrandon (November, 2022).


REPORTS:

Learning is Healing “When we know better, we do better” Saskatchewan Sexual Violence Education Initiative CUISR co-lead in partnership with Sexual Assault Services of Saskatchewan and FSIN Women’s Secretariat. Funded by the Canadian federal Department of Women and Gender Equality (WAGE) [50%]. Report released on March 8th, 2023. 

Sexual Violence in Saskatchewan: Voices, Stories, Insights and Actions from the Front Lines launched April 29th, 2020 CUISR co-lead in partnership with Sexual Assault Services of Saskatchewan and FSIN Women’s Secretariat. Funded by the Canadian federal Department of Women and Gender Equality (WAGE). 

Lovrod, M & Domshy, D. (2011). Our Dream, Our Right, Our Future: Voices from Saskatchewan’s Youth in Care and Custody Network. Funded by the President’s SSHRC and the Saskatchewan Youth in Care and Custody Network (SYICCN), this community-based participatory action research project involved youth in government care in design and delivery of a pilot review of the organization’s impact.

Selection of Publications (by Year)

  • Lovrod, M. "“We’re a package deal now:” Young mothers from government care in Saskatchewan assess their social welfare experiences" In Mothering and Welfare: Depriving, Surviving, Thriving, edited by K. Levasseur, S. Paterson & L.A. Turnbull, 25-42. Toronto: Demeter Press, 2020.
  • Lovrod, M. "The Cambridge handbook of organizational community engagement and outreach, edited by Joseph A. Allen & Roni Reiter-Palmon" Review of , British Journal of Psychology
  • . "Decentering Expected Voices and visibilities in a Feminist Transnational Bridging Pilot". The Engaged Scholar Journal 2, 2 (2017): 65-83.
  • Lovrod, M, S. Bustamante, D. Domshy. "Pathways: Community-Engaged Research with Youth Transitioning to Adult In(ter)dependence from Government Care" In Transforming Child Welfare: Interdisciplinary Practices, Field Education and Research, edited by H. Monty Montgomery, Dorothy Badry, Daniel Kikulwe & Don Fuchs, 211-239. Regina, SK: University of Regina Press, 2016.
  • . "The Intro Course: A Pedagogical Toolkit". Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal Special Issue 37, 2 (2016): 3-7.
  • . "Building Critical Community Engagement through Scholarship: Three Case Studies". The Engaged Scholar Journal 1, 1 (2015): 33-50.
  • Lovrod, M. "Narrow Escapes: Gendered Resistance to Intergenerational Neo/Colonial Violence across Time and Space". Rocky Mountain Review Special Issue: Theorizing Space and Gender in the 21st Century 69, 1 (2015): 68-86.
  • Lovrod, M, & Wood, K. "Encounters with the Uncanny: Open-ended creative research with subalterned communities as ethical practice" In Imaginative Inquiry: Innovationive Approachesd to Interdisciplinary Research, edited by Curtis Fogel, Andrea Quinlan & Elizabeth Quinlan, 147-165. California: Academica Press, 2014.
  • Lovrod, M, & Wood, K. "A Healing Centre of One's Own: Woolf's Legacy and Public Responses to Child Abuse" In Interdisciplinary/Multidisciplinary Woolf: Selected Papers from the Twenty- Second Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, edited by Ann Martin & Kathryn Holland. South Carolina: Clemson University Press, 2013.
  • Zhang, Y & Lovrod, M., Williams, Lewis, Roberts, Rose & McIntosh, Alastair. "Rebuilding China's Economy on Gendered Rural Family Labour: A Case Study of Generational Migration, Stasis and Ecological Degradation" In Radical Human Ecology: Intercultural and Indigenous Approaches, edited by , 327-346. Surrey, England & Burlington, VT: Ashgate Press, 2012.
  • Lovrod, M, & Ross, L., Dea, Shannon & Holmes, Morgan. "Post Trauma: Medicalization and Damage to Social Reform". Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal Special Conference Issue 35.2 (2011)
  • Lovrod, M. "Minds of Our Own: Inventing Feminist Scholarship and Women's Studies in Canada and Québec, 1966 – 76, Edited by Wendy Robbins, Meg Luxton, Margrit Eichler & Francine Descarries" Review of Labour/Le Travail
  • Lovrod, M. "Sounding Capacities for Co-Creation: Ellen Moffat's COMP_OSE. FUSE: Art, Culture, Politics". 32.3, June (2009): 42-43.
  • Lovrod, M, & Lynda R. Ross. "Chapter 1: Introduction: Negotiating Social Complexities in Counseling Practice" In Counseling Women: Feminist Issues, Theory and Practice, edited by , 1-17. Toronto: Women's Press, 2009.
  • Lovrod, M. "Chapter 7: Considerations in Counselling Children and Adult Survivors of Childhood Traumas: Community, Context, and Intersubjective Resiliencies" In Counseling Women: Feminist Issues, Theory and Practice, edited by , 172-194. Toronto: Women's Press, 2009.
  • Lovrod, M. & Nestel, S.. "Equity Issues in Midwifery and Feminist Movements: Author's Reflections". Altantis 34.1 (2009)
  • Lovrod, M. "Transculturing Auto/Biography: Forms of Life Writing" Review of ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature; Special Issue – Life Writing in an International Context
  • Lovrod, M. "Shifting Contexts, Shaping Experiences: Child Abuse Survivor Narratives and Educating for Empire". Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism 5.2, Spring (2005): 30-56.
  • Lovrod, M. "Mirror Talk: Genres of Crisis in Contemporary Autobiography" Review of Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly
  • Lovrod, M. "Women Studies: Methods toward Democracy". Alliance of Universities for Democracy: Perspectives in Higher Education Reform 7, October (1998): 215-233.
  • Lovrod, M, Couser, Tom & Fichtelberg, Joe. "Art/i/fact: Re-reading culture and subjectivity through sexual abuse" In True Relations: Atobiography and the Postmodern, edited by , 23-32. Westport, CT, London: Greenwood Press, 1998.
  • Lovrod, M. "Children of the Holocaust" Review of Canadian Review of American Studies
  • Lovrod, M. "Mothers of Invention: Women, Italian Fascism, and Culture" Review of Canadian Review of American Studies
  • Lovrod, M. "Ethnic Labels, Latino Lives" Review of Canadian Review of American Studies
  • Lovrod, M. "If I could write this in fire: traces of colonial madness in Michelle Cliff's The Land of Look Behind". Critical Mass 4.1 (1994): 55-62.
  • Lovrod, M. "Studies in Indian and Anglo-Indian Fiction" Review of Ariel: A Review of International English Literature
  • Lovrod, M. "The rise of metadrama and the fall of the omniscient observer". Modern Drama 37.3 (1994): 493-504.
  • Lovrod, M. "Feminism Without Women" Review of Ariel: A Review of International English Literature
  • Lovrod, M. "Though the veil: a review of Marjorie Agosin's Women of Smoke: Latin American Women in Literature and Life" Review of The Womanist
  • Lovrod, M. "To Liberate a sibyl: Virginia Woolf's treatment of the grail quest model in To the Lighthouse". Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal 15.1 (1990): 103-114.
  • Lovrod, M. "Teaching Atwood's Handmaid's Tale and Sidhwa's Cracking India as Introduction to Transnational Feminisms". Atlantis 30.3

Teaching & Supervision

Feminist Critical Disabilities Feminist Methods Feminist Theory Gender and Ecology Labour Politics and Professionalization Queer Theory Transnational Feminisms, Migration

  • WGST       112              Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies
  • WGST      205              Gender Work and Society
  • WGST       210              Intersectional Gendered Perspectives on Current Events
  • WGST      220              Queering the Terrain: Cultural Space and Queer Theory
  • WGST      235              Representation, Embodiment and the City: Saskatoon
  • WGST       240              Contemporary Body Projects
  • WGST       265              Feminist Critical Disabilities Studies
  • WGST      305              Geographies of Gender and Ecology (online pilot)
  • WGST      310              Feminist Thought to 1980
  • WGST       311              Contemporary Feminist Theories
  • WGST      312              Feminist Research Methodologies
  • WGST      335              Representation, Embodiment and the City: New York
  • WGST       375              Intersectional Gendered Perspectives on Professional Life
  • WGST      400              Honours Colloquium
  • WGST      410              Senior Seminar in Gender and Culture
  • WGST      411              Situated Transnational Feminisms
  • WGST       800              Feminist Theories
  • WGST      810             Gender, Representation and Cultural Studies
  • WGST      811             Queer and Sexualities Studies
  • WGST       812              Indigenous, Transnational International Gender Justice
  • WGST      898              Representation, Embodiment and the City
  • WGST      898              Immigrant Women, Community Engagement and Empowerment
  • DISA        898              Contexts & Constructions: Forming Disability Communities (co-taught)

Research

Autobiography Feminist Theory Queer Theory Transnational Feminisms Trauma and Resilience

Awards & Honours

  • Canada-China Scholarship, awarded by CCSEP August 2015-February 2016
  • Teaching Excellence in Humanities and Fine Arts, awarded by College of Arts and Science March 2015
  • Community Initiatives Fund, awarded by Community Initiatives Fund June 2013-November 2014
  • Situated Gendered Labour Analysis in China's New Economy: Generational Migration, Stasis and the Politics of Resiliency, awarded by Global Partners II Funding March 2011
  • Networking – Picture It: Saskatchewan Youth-in-Care Networks in Time and Space, awarded by President's SSHRC December 2009
  • IRDC-CRDI, Feasibility Study for Partnership in Graduate Gender Studies Research Exchange between the University of Saskatchewan and Lanzhou, University in China, awarded by Global Partners II Funding March 2009
  • University of Saskatchewan Student Union Teaching Award and University of Saskatchewan Women's Centre Award, awarded by University of Saskatchewan January 2007
  • Program Development Funding, Representation, Embodiment & the City, awarded by University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon November 2005
  • Goddard College Community Service Award, awarded by Goddard College August 2002
  • New York City DREAM Award for Youth Engagement, awarded by A World of Difference Institute June 2002
  • Nomination, Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching, awarded by Hunter College, CUNY February 1998
  • Graduate Teaching Fellowship, awarded by University of Calgary January 1993-December 1994
  • Provincial Graduate Scholarship, awarded by University of Calgary January 1992-December 1993
  • Graduate Research Assistant Scholarship, awarded by January 1991-December 1994
  • Teaching Assistant Scholarship, awarded by January 1991-December 1992

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