Kim Shortreed
Status
Recent PhD
Credentials
BA, MA, PhD (UVic)
Area of expertise
I studied settler approaches and reactions to Indigenous namescapes and attempts to 鈥渄ecolonize鈥� toponymies. As part of this work I studied historiographies and narratologies, British Columbia history, cartographic technologies (analogue and digital), anticolonial methodologies and practices, Digital Humanities, and text encoding. Supervisor: Dr. Janelle Jenstad.
Kim Shortreed just completed a PhD in Media Studies and Digital Humanities at the 番茄社区. He is also an artist, freelance copyeditor for the (Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs), and a Business Analyst at UVic.
Refereed Content
Academic paper, "Skateboarding in Place: Creating and Reclaiming Namescapes Through 'Skatescapes',” Pivot: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Thought, Summer 2022, York U.
Conference paper, Somatic Cartography and Stories: Mapping Meaning Onto the Body, York U EGSA Conference, 5 May 2022: "Skateboarding in Place: Creating and Reclaiming Namescapes Through 'Skatescapes'.”
Conference abstract (co-authored), Digital Humanities 2011, Stanford University, 9 Jun. 2011: “The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia: A Digital Edition of a Large-Scale Document Collection.”
Conference paper, Playing the Angles: Intersections, Margins, and Parallels in Cultural Production, 番茄社区, 9 Mar. 2007: “To All Appearances a Refuge: Examining the D’Arcy Island Lazaretto through Paul Ching Lee and Marilyn Bowering.”
Creative Outputs
Installation art project, Untitled ṮEṮÁĆES map, UVic PhD Defense, 2023, collaboration with and . See for more.
Poem, The Lamp Journal, 2019. Title: “Haecceity,” from my unpublished collection, Spoke and Word: 32 Poems About Bikes.
Poem, Aethlon: The Journal Of Sport Literature, 2019. Title: “23.09.2018 UCI Women's Team Time Trial,” from my unpublished collection, Spoke and Word: 32 Poems About Bikes.
Poetry performance, , 36th Annual Conference, 19-22 Jun. 2019: read selections from Spoke & Word: 32 Poems About Bikes.