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Susan Gingell B.A. (York), M.A. (Queen's), Ph.D. (Toronto)

Professor Emerita

English professor emeritus

About me

Awards:

University of Saskatchewan Master Teacher Award, 1994

 

Recent Graduate supervision:

Janice Acoose/Miskwonigeesikokwe, Ph.D., 2011. Minjimendamowin Anishinabe: Reading and Righting All Our Relations in Written English. Successfully defended. (Co-supervised with Kristina Fagan).

Jonathan Sherman, M.A. (project), 2009. The Hip-Hop Aesthetics and Visual Poetry of Wayde Compton’s Performance Bond: Claiming Black Space in Contemporary Canada. Successfully examined, August 2009.

Maria Truchan-Tataryn, Ph.D., 2007. (In)Visible Images: Seeing Disability in Canadian Literature, 1823-1974, successfully defended Fall 2007. (Co-supervised with Kathleen James-Cavan). Won CGSR Graduate Thesis Award in Humanities and Fine Arts.

Geraldine Balzer, Ph.D, 2007. Decolonizing the Classroom: Reading Aboriginal Literature through the Lens of Contemporary Literary Theories (Co-Supervisor)—Won Social Sciences B CGSR Graduate Thesis Award; runner-up for the Canadian Association of Curriculum Studies dissertation award and U of S nominee for the Canadian Association of Graduate Studies dissertation award.

Postdoctoral supervisor for Dr. Wendy Roy’s “The Arc of a Life” The Writing of Carol Shields, 2005-06.

Hannah Ngozi Chukwu, M.A., 2005. The Sacred Impetus behind Creative Empowerment in Poetry: A Comparative Study of Black Women Poets Catherine Acholonu and Lorna Goodison.

Tereigh Ewart-Bauer, M.A., 2005. 'The Trouble with History--It Never Is' : Interrogating Canadian White Identity in Daphne Marlatt's Ana Historic. Co-supervised with Prof. Hilary Clark. Successfully defended Winter 2005.

Publications

With Azalea Barrieses, 2011. Listening to Bones that Sing: Orality, Spirituality, and Female Kinship in Louise Halfe's Blue Marrow. Studies in American Indian Literatures 23.3. 69-93.

Co-ed with Wendy Roy, 2012. of Listening Up, Writing Down, and Looking Beyond: Interfaces of the Oral, Written, and Visual. Wilfrid Laurier UP.

With Wendy Roy, 2012. Introduction: Opening the Door to Transdisciplinary, Multimodal Communication. Listening Up, Writing Down, and Looking Beyond: Interfaces of the Oral, Written, and Visual. Ed. Gingell and Roy. Wilfrid Laurier UP. 1-50.

Traditionalizing Modernity and Sound Identity in Neal McLeod’s Writings of the Oral+. Listening Up, Writing Down, and Looking Beyond: Interfaces of the Oral, Written, and Visual. Ed. Gingell and Roy. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2012. 305-29.

The Social Lives of Sedna and Sky Woman: Print Textualizations of Inuit and Mohawk Oral Traditions. Orality and Literacy: Reflections Across Disciplines and Cultures. Ed. Keith Thor Carlson, Kristina Fagan, and Natalia Khanenko-Friesen. Toronto: U Toronto P. (2010):110-50.

Negotiating Sound Identities in Canadian Literature. Canadian Literature 204 (2010): 127-30. (by invitation)

Lips’ Inking: Cree and Cree-Metis Authors’ Writings of the Oral and What They Might Tell Educators. Canadian Journal of Native Education. 32 Supplement (2010): 35-61.

Suffering the Imposition of the European Bourgeois Family on Aboriginal Peoples in Canada and the Routes to Healing. Topia (2010): 23-24. 276-82.

Coming Home through Sound: See-Hear Aesthetics in the Poetry of Louise Bennett and Canadian Dub Poets. Journal of West Indian Literature (2009) 17.2: 32-48.

Author Meets Critic Forum on Daniel Coleman's White Civility: The Literary Project of English Canada. International Journal of Canadian Studies (2008) 38: 183-89.

With Jill Didur, eds.  White Civility Dossier. International Journal of Canadian Studies (2008) 38: 191-221.

"Teaching the Talk that Walks on Paper: Oral Traditions and Textualized Orature in the Canadian Literature Classroom. Home-work: Postcolonialism, Pedagogy and Canadian Literature (2004). Ed. Cynthia Sugars. Ottawa: U of Ottawa P. 285-300.

"The Absence of Seaming, Or How I Almost Despair of Dancing: How Postcolonial are Canada's Literary Institutions and Critical Practices?" Is Canada Postcolonial? Unsettling Canadian Literature (2003): 111-126.

"Pat Lowther." Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. Ed. W. H. New. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. 684-85.

"Claiming Positive Semantic Space for Women: The Poetry of Dorothy Livesay." Essays on Canadian Writing 74 (2001): 1-25.
 

Selection of Publications (by Year)

  • Gingell, S, S.A. Beckmann. "Dirt Hills Mirage, The Mushroom Jar and, Dry Media" Review of Writers News Manitoba
  • Gingell, S, Wendy Roy. "Introduction: Opening the Door to Transdisciplinary, Multimodal Communication" In Listening Up, Writing Down, and Looking Beyond: Interfaces of the Oral, Written, and Visual, edited by Susan Gingell and Wendy Roy, 1-50. : Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2012.
  • Gingell, S, Wendy Roy. Listening Up, Writing Down, and Looking Beyond: Interfaces of the Oral, Written, and Visual. : Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2012.
  • Gingell, S. "Traditionalizing Modernity and Sound Identity in Neal McLeod's Writings of the Oral+" In Listening Up, Writing Down, and Looking Beyond: Interfaces of the Oral, Written, and Visual, edited by Susan Gingell and Wendy Roy, 305-329. : Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2012.
  • Gingell, S, Azalea Barrieses. "Listening to Bones that Sing: Orality, Spirituality, and Female Kinship". Louise Halfe's Blue Marrow. Studies in American Indian Literatures 23.3 (2011): 69-93.
  • Gingell, S. "The Social Lives of Sedna and Sky Woman: Print Textualizations of Inuit and Mohawk Oral Traditions" In Orality and Literacy: Reflections Across Disciplines and Cultures, edited by Keith Thor Carlson, Kristina Fagan and Natalia Khanenko-Friesen, 110-150. Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press, 2011.
  • Gingell, S, Jill Didur. "Author Meets Critic Forum: Julia Emberley's Defamiliarizing the Aboriginal: Cultural Practices and Decolonization in Canada". Topia 23-24 (2010): 388-427.
  • Gingell, S. "Lips' Inking: Cree and Cree-Metis Authors' Writings of the Oral and What They Might Tell Educators". Canadian Journal of Native Education In Press
  • Gingell, S. "Negotiating Sound Identities in Canadian Literature". Canadian Literature 204 (2010): 127-130.
  • Gingell, S. "Suffering the Imposition of the European Bourgeois Family on Aboriginal Peoples in Canada and the Routes to Healing". Topia 23-24 (2010): 393-398.
  • Gingell, S. "Coming Home through Sound: See-Hear Aesthetics in the Poetry of Louise Bennett and Canadian Dub Poets". Journal of West Indian Literature 17.2 (2009): 32-48.
  • Gingell, S. "Author Meets Critic Forum on Daniel Coleman's White Civility: The Literary Project of English Canada". International Journal of Canadian Studies 38 (2008): 183-189.
  • Gingell, S, Lorna Goodison. "From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her People" Review of University of Toronto Quarterly
  • Gingell, S, Peter Cole. "Raven & Coyote Go Canoeing" Review of University of Toronto Quarterly
  • Jill Didur. "White Civility Dossier". International Journal of Canadian Studies 38 (2008): 191-221.
  • Gingell, S. ""Jumping in heart first: an interview with adri zhina mandiela"". Postcolonial Text 2.4 (2006)
  • Gingell, S, Tantoo Cardinal et al. "An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English" Review of Our Story: Aboriginal Voices on Canada's Past. Canadian Ethnic Studies
  • Gingell, S. "An Open Letter to Ted Chamberlin by Way of Review. Postcolonial Text 2.3". Chimo 49 49, Spring 2004-Winter 2005 (2006)
  • Gingell, S, Maria Truchan-Tataryn. "Dances with Coyote: Narrative Voices in One Good Story, That One". Postcolonial Text 2.4 (2006)
  • Gingell, S, Jill Didur. "If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories? Postcolonial Text 2.3". The Author Meets Critic Forum on J. Edward Chamberlin's (2006)
  • Gingell, S. "If This is Your Land, Where are Your Stories? Postcolonial Text". Introduction to The Author Meets Critic Forum on J. Edward Chamberlin's 2.3 (2006)
  • Gingell, S, Esi Edugyan. "The Second Life of Samuel Tyne" Review of Canadian Literature
  • Gingell, S. ""An Open Letter to Ted Chamberlin by Way of Review"" Review of Chimo
  • Gingell, S. ""Always a Poem, Once a Book", Motivations and Strategies for Print Textualizing of Caribbean-Canadian Dub and Performance Poetry". Journal of West Indian Literature 14.1&2 (2005): 220-259.
  • Gingell, S. "Introduction to Textualizing Orature and Orality". Essays on Canadian Writing 83 (2005): 1-18.
  • Gingell, S. "One Small Medicine: An Interview with Maria Campbell". Essays on Canadian Writing 85 (2005): 158-205.
  • Gingell, S, Hannah Nwgozi Chukwu. "Our Mother's Kitchens and the Domestic Creative Continuum in Lorna Goodison's Turn Thanks". Ariel 36.3-4 (2005): 43-66.
  • Gingell, S. ""Teaching the Talk that Walks on Paper: Oral Traditions and Textualized Orature in the Canadian Literature Classroom"" In Home-work: Postcolonialism, Pedagogy and Canadian Literature, edited by Cynthia Sugars, 285-300. Ottawa, Ontario: University of Ottawa Press, 2004.
  • Gingell, S. "Lorna Crozier" In Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, edited by David Wishart, 476-477. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.
  • Gingell, S. Textualizing Orature and Orality, Fall 2004. , 2004.
  • Gingell, S. ""The Absence of Seaming or How I Almost Despair of Dancing: How Postcolonial are Canada's Literary Institutions and Critical Practices?"" In Is Canada Postcolonial? Unsettling Canadian Literature, edited by , 111-126. Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2003.
  • Gingell, S, Maggie Helwig. ""Where She Was Standing and Audrey Thomas, The Path of Totality: New and Selected Stories"" Review of Canadian Literature
  • Gingell, S. "Dionne Brand" In Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada, edited by William Herbert New, 149-150. Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press, 2003.
  • Gingell, S. "Pat Lowther" In Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada, edited by , 684-685. Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press, 2003.
  • Gingell, S. ""Claiming Positive Semantic Space for Women: The Poetry of Dorothy Livesay"". Essays on Canadian Writing 74, Fall (2001): 1-25.
  • Gingell, S, Dionne Brand. "Land to Light On" Review of Canadian Literature
  • Gingell, S. "Re-visioning the Pregnant Body: Engaging with Elizabeth MacKenzie's Radiant Monster". Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal 24.1 (1999): 105-117.
  • Gingell, S. "When X Equals Zero: The Politics of Voice in First Peoples Poetry by Women". English Studies in Canada 24 (1999): 447-466.
  • Gingell, S, Claire Harris. "Dipped in Shadow, Fables from the Women's Quarters, and The Conception of Winter" Review of Canadian Literature
  • Gingell, S, Aritha van Herk. "In Visible Ink: Crypto frictions" Review of University of Toronto Quarterly
  • Gingell, S. ""Pedagogy and Resistance in the Context of Commonwealth/Post colonial Literatures"" In Teaching Post Colonialism and Post colonial Literatures, edited by Anne Collett, Lars Jensen and Anna Rutherford, 160-165. Aarhus, Denmark: University of Aarhus Press, 1997.
  • Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane. "Breathing Fire: Canada's New Poets" Review of Canadian Literature
  • Gingell, S. ""Reinventing Our Legacy: The Chills Which Affect Women"" In Breaking Anonymity: The Chilly Climate for Women Faculty, edited by The Chilly Collective. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 1995.
  • Gingell, S. Pursuits Amateur and Academic: The Selected Prose of E.J. Pratt. Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press, 1995.
  • Gingell, S. "Returning to Come Forward: Dionne Brand Confronts Derek Walcott". Journal of West Indian Literature 6.2 (1994): 43-53.
  • Gingell, S. ""Controlling Communication: The Case of Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman"" In Re-Siting Queen's English: Text and Tradition in Post Colonial Literatures, edited by Gillian Whitlock and Helen Tiffin, 104-115. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Editions Rodopi, 1993.
  • Gingell, S, Libby Scheier. "Sky: A Poem in Four Pieces" Review of Books in Canada
  • Gingell, S. "Let Us Revise Mythologies: The Poetry of Lorna Crozier". Essays on Canadian Writing 43, Spring (1991): 67-82.
  • Gingell, S. The Bridge City Anthology: Short Stories from Saskatoon. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan: Fifth House, 1991.
  • Gingell, S. "Delineating the Differences: An Approach to Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career". Australian and New Zealand Studies in Canada 3 (1990): 43-55.
  • Gingell, S, Saskatchewan Education. "Design Your Future with Post Secondary Education" Review of Scrutiny
  • Gingell, S. Robert Finch. Toronto, Ontario: ECW Press, 1990.
  • Gingell, S. "Pour Une Reinterpretation des Mythes: la Poesie de Lorna Crozier". Ellipse 42 (1989): 107-121.
  • Gingell, S. "Robert Finch" In Dictionary of Literary Biography, edited by William Herbert New, 56-62. : Bruccoli Clark Publishers, 1989.
  • Gingell, S. "Baumgartner's Bombay" Review of Saskatoon Star Phoenix, "Accent"
  • Gingell, S, W. H. New. "Dreams of Speech and Violence: The Art of the Short Story in Canada and New Zealand" Review of English Studies in Canada
  • Gingell, S. "Raymond Knister, Dorothy Livesay, E. J. Pratt, and W.W.E. Ross" Review of Canadian Writers and Their Works
  • Gingell, S. "A Masterly Life of the Truant Man of Letters" In Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews, Fall/Winter, edited by , 81-89. , 1988.
  • Gingell, S, Patrick Anderson. "Patrick Anderson" In Dictionary of Literary Biography, edited by William Herbert New, 7-116. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Co., 1988.
  • Sam Solecki. "Spider Blues: Essays on Michael Ondaatje" Review of Canadian Literature
  • Gingell, S, Anne Szumigalski. "Dogstones" Review of Essays on Canadian Writing. In Press
  • Carole Ferrier. "Gender, Politics and Fiction: Twentieth Century Australian Women's Novels" Review of Ariel
  • Gingell, S, Helen Hawley. "Grasshopper" Review of NeWest Review
  • Caroline Heath. "Double Bond: An Anthology of Prairie Women's Fiction" Review of Canadian Literature
  • Gingell, S, S.A. Beckmann. "Prairie Harvest: A Consideration of Two Anthologies of Prairie Poetry" In On Saskatchewan Writing, edited by E.F. Dyck, 169-192. Regina, Saskatchewan: Saskatchewan Writers' Guild, 1986.
  • Gingell, S. "Prosodic Signification in the Longer Poems of A.M. Klein's Hath Not a Jew". Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews 19, Winter (1986): 11-25.
  • Gingell, S, Lillian Allen. "Rhythm an' Hardtimes and Metropolitan Blues" Review of Chimo
  • Gingell, S, Frank Davey. "Surviving the Paraphrase" Review of Canadian Literature
  • Gingell, S. "The Animals in Atwood's Country" In Glimpses of Canadian Literature, edited by Wendy Keitner. Mysore, Karnataka, India: Dhvanyaloka Press, 1985.
  • Gingell, S. "The Newfoundland Context of the Poetry of E.J. Pratt". Essays on Canadian Writing 31 (1985): 93-105.
  • Gingell, S. "His River's Complex Course: Reflections on Past, Present and Future in the Poetry of Gabriel Okara". W.L.W.E. 23, Spring (1984): 284-297.
  • Gingell, S, Jan Bartley. "Invocations; The Poetry and Prose of Gwendolyn MacEwen" Review of The American Review of Canadian Studies
  • Gingell, S. "The Animals in Atwood Country". The Literary Criterion XIX (1984): 125-137.
  • Gingell, S. "Drafting the Map of Contemporary Prairie Poetry" Review of NeWest Review
  • Gingell, S. "Drafting the Map of Contemporary Prairie Poetry" Review of NeWest Review
  • Gingell, S. "Canadian Burlesque: Jack Hodgins' The Invention of the World" In Contemporary Literary Criticism, edited by Jean C. Stine. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Co., 1983.
  • Gingell, S. "Canadian Poetry 1900-1950" In In The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, edited by , 656-660. Toronto, Ontario: Oxford University Press, 1983.
  • Gingell, S. "E.J. Pratt" In Profiles in Canadian Literature, edited by . Toronto, Ontario: Dundurn Press, 1983.
  • Gingell, S. E.J. Pratt. Toronto, Ontario: Oxford University Press, 1983.
  • Gingell, S. E.J. Pratt On His Life and Poetry. Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press, 1983.
  • Gingell, S. "Old Mother, The Phases of Love, and Songs That Untune The Sky" Review of University of Windsor Review
  • Gingell, S. "Racing Tides and Suffer Little Children" Review of Canadian Literature
  • Gingell, S. "Joseph Howe's Acadia: Document in a Divided Sensibility". Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews 10 (1982): 18-31.
  • Gingell, S, Jack David and Robert Lecker. "Robert Finch" Review of Canadian Poetry: Selection of Poems and Bio-Bibliographical and Critical Notes
  • Gingell, S, S.A. Beckmann. "Variations and Theme" Review of Essays on Canadian Writing
  • Gingell, S, S.A. Beckmann. "The Fisherman's Invocation" Review of W.L.W.E.
  • Gingell, S, S.A. Beckmann. "Magic Realism and Stories From Quebec" Review of Canadian Literature
  • Gingell, S. "Deep Line" Review of Chimo
  • Gingell, S. "Aboriginal Stories from Australia" Review of Queen's Quarterly
  • Gingell, S, S.A. Beckmann. "Language as Cultural Identity: Selected Studies in Achebe, Ihimaera, Laurence and Atwood". W.L.W.E. 20, Spring (1981): 117-134.
  • Gingell, S, S.A. Beckmann. "The Lyricism of W.O. Mitchell's Who Has Seen the Wind". Studies in Canadian Literature 6 (1981): 221-231.
  • Gingell, S. "A Consideration of Two Anthologies of Prairie Poetry" In Replacing, edited by D. Cooley, 183-204. Downsview, Ontario: E.C.W. Press, 1980.
  • Gingell, S, S.A. Beckmann. "Canadian Burlesque: Jack Hodgins' The Invention of the World". Essays on Canadian Writing 20, Winter (1980): 106-125.
  • Gingell, S, S.A. Beckmann. "Java to Geneva: The Making of a Pratt Poem". Canadian Literature 87, Winter (1980): 6-23.
  • Gingell, S. "Prairie Harvest: A Consideration of Two Anthologies of Prairie Poetry". Essays on Canadian Writing 18/19 (1980): 183-204.
  • Gingell, S, S.A. Beckmann. "The Big Yellow Frog and The Baby Streetcar" Review of Canadian Children's Literature
  • S.A. Beckmann. "The Mulatto of Style: Language in Derek Walcott's Drama". Canadian Drama 6, 1 (1980): 71-89.
  • Gingell, S, S.A. Beckmann. "Wild Man's Butte and Interstices of Night" Review of Writers News Manitoba
  • Gingell, S, S.A. Beckmann. "The Hogg Poems and Drawings" Review of CV II
  • Gingell, S, S.A. Beckmann. "Up In The Tree" Review of Canadian Children's Literature
  • Gingell, S. "A Note on Duncan Campbell Scott's "The Forsaken"". Humanities Association Review 25, Winter (1974): 32-37.
  • Gingell, S. "Bio-Bibliographical and Critical Notes" In Canadian Poetry, edited by Robert Finch, Jack David and Robert Lecker, 298-299. Downsview, Ontario: E.C.W. Press,, [n.d.]
  • Gingell, S. "Selection of Poems" In Canadian Poetry, edited by Robert Finch, Jack David and Robert Lecker, 157-161. Downsview, Ontario: E.C.W. Press, [n.d.]
  • Gingell, S. "The Lyricism of W.O. Mitchell's Who Has Seen The Wind" In Contemporary Literary Criticism, edited by Jean C. Stine. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Co., [n.d.]
  • Gingell, S. "Unpublished Drama and Unpublished Poetry in E.J. Pratt" In Complete Poems, edited by Sandra Djwa and R.G. Moyles, 304-372. Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press, [n.d.]

Research

Canadian Caribbean Indigenous oral

Susan Gingell has research interests in diasporic, transnational, Canadian, Indigenous, and other decolonizing literatures and textualized oratures, especially those of Anglophone Africa and the Caribbean. She edited E. J. Pratt On His Life and Poetry (1983, rpt. 1984), the unpublished drama and poetry in Part 2 of Complete Poems (1989), and Pursuits Amateur and Academic: The Selected Prose (1995) in the Collected Works of E. J. Pratt series. Her research in Canadian literature has led to a number of articles, mostly on poetry, and monographs on Pratt (1982) and Robert Finch (1990). She edited a special issue of Essays on Canadian Writing, 83, Textualizing Orature and Orality (2004), and she was the lead organizer of the 2008 conference The Oral, the Written, and Other Verbal Media: Interfaces and Audiences and the related festival or oral performance, eVOCative. She recently co-edited with Lesley Biggs a second edition of Gendered Intersections:An Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies Fernwood, 2011), and with Wendy Roy a collection of essays entitled Listening Up, Writing Down, and Looking Beyond: Interfaces of the Oral, Written, and Visual (Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2012). Her current research project is a study of Canadian poets writing the oral, of which Indigenous, Caribbean Canadian, and Euro-Canadian poets are the principal focuses.

Awards & Honours

  • Special M.A. Scholarship, awarded by Canada Council January 2012
  • Our Legacy, Our Future: Celebrating 100 Years of University of Saskatchewan Women, awarded by January 2007
  • Students Union Women's Centre Award, shared with Lesley Biggs and Diana Relke, awarded by University of Saskatchewan January 2003
  • USSU Teaching Excellence Award (3rd time Nomination), awarded by USSU January 1996-December 1997
  • Who's Who (Invitation), awarded by January 1994
  • Master Teacher Award, Fall Convocation, awarded by January 1994
  • Sabbatical Leave Fellowship, awarded by SSHRCC January 1983-December 1984
  • Doctoral Fellowships, awarded by Canada Council January 1974-December 1977

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