FYI Faculty Forum
Upcoming sessions
How We Teach Authors With Troubling Private Lives
Friday 25 October 2024 from 2:30 to 4:30 pm in Clearihue C344
For many readers, it seems overly simplistic to suggest that an author's works are completely seperate from what we know about their personal lives, especially if their personal lives, especially if their biography includes abhorrent beliefs or harmful actions. But how do we talk about (and teach) texts by authors who are problematic? Starting with the recent Alive Munro scandal, Nicholas Bradley, Lisa Chalykoff, and Jamie Dopp will share their perspectives on authors they have taught with troubling private lives, and then invite discussion of complicated questions. Both faculty and students are invited to attend.
Past Sessions
Teaching about and with Artificial Intelligence tools
Friday 27 September 2024 from 2:30 to 4:30 pm in Clearihue A025
Whether you’ve not yet tried using any AI tools, have played around with a few tools and are wondering what you can and can’t use in the context of your teaching work, or are already experimenting with AI-involved assignments for your classes, this session should offer something useful for you.
Expect to get the latest UVic and professional organization policy guidelines on AI use. We will spend about an hour experimenting with the AI tools that are available as part of UVic-licensed software (with built in breaks to talk about what we’re noticing). And then we’ll devote the rest of our time together to sharing ideas and experiences while talking through questions and concerns.
Anyone teaching or assisting with an English department and/or an Academic and Technical Writing Program course is welcome! (Note that computers are available in the CALL Centre, but please feel free to bring your own laptop.)
Friday, October 28th, 2022
We are very excited to introduce our FYI event series for Winter/Spring 2022, Learning and Teaching Post-COVID: A Student and Faculty Discussion.
The first FYI event of the year takes place Friday, October 28th, 2:30-4:30pm in the Clearihue building, room A225.
Panelists:
ESA students Zoe Nilson, Nicole Paletta, and Ella Reedman
Faculty members Corinne Bancroft, Jamie Dopp, Rebecca Halliday, Jentery Sayers
Discussion topic:
How are courses morphing with the development of COVID infrastructure *and* a return to campus? If we’re not returning to normal and COVID isn’t over even with the return to campus, then how would we describe the current state of pedagogy and its infrastructure? Panelists will kick off the discussion with brief comments and then the floor will be open to everyone.
February 2, 2021
October 8, 2020
February 25th, 2020
November 19th, 2019
March 29th, 2019
March 1st, 2019
January 25th, 2019
November 30th, 2018
October 26th, 2018
October 12th, 2018
March 23rd, 2018
February 22nd, 2018
January 26th, 2018
November 3rd, 2017
October 6th, 2017
Friday, March 31st
Thursday March 23rd special joint event with UVic's Linguistics Department
Colette Moore (University of Washington) will give a paper called “Incipient standardization in English: Variation, communities of practice, information design.”
February 24th, 2017
February 3rd, 2017
Friday Nov 25th, 2016
Robert Miles will talk about "Conspiracy"
Caroline Winter will talk about "Gothic Economics and the Suspension of Disbelief"
Contact englfyi@uvic.ca if you would like to present or have good ideas for themed sessions.
Friday Oct 28, 2016
2:30 (CLE C344)
Adèle Barclay
On The Critical, creative gap
Rachelle Ann Tan
It's a (Mis)match! What Tinder Taught Me About Swiping Right on Academia
Friday Sept 30, 2016
2:30 (CLE C344)
Christopher Douglas
American Literature and the Christian Right
Kim McLean-Fiander
Women's Early Modern Letters Online (WEMLO): Project and Pedagogy
Friday April 1, 2016
2:30 pm (CLE C344)
Tim Personn
Distance and Closeness: On Two Modes of Literary Fiction
Michael Lukas
Living with Wolves: Prospects for (and Barriers to) Responsive Multispecies Coexistence
Friday, March 18th, 2016
4:30pm (Upper Lounge, Student Union Building)
Ali Blythe
Poetry reading and Q&A
Co-sponsors: Department of English, 番茄社区; Goose Lane Editions; Moving Trans History Forward 2016 Conference
Friday, Feb. 26, 2016
2:30pm (CLE A207)
"This Text Changed My Life"
Aaron El Sabrout
Yusuf Saadi
Samantha MacFarlane
Sean Henry
Monika Smith
Joel Hawkes
Erin Ellerbeck
Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016
1:30pm (CLE C344)
Amy Tang
"Breath, Poiesis & Praxis"
Paul MacRae
"T. B. Macaulay and the Politics of Optimism"
Friday, Nov. 27, 2015
12:00pm (CLE C344)
Adrienne Williams Boyarin
Archive Stories: Finding Jewish Women in Medieval England
Kylee-Anne Hingston
Using Special Collections and WordPress in the Undergraduate Classroom
Friday, Oct. 30, 2015
2:30pm (CLE C344)
Paul MacRae
T.B. Macaulay and the Politics of Optimism
Laura Fanning
Pedagogy: Using a Writing Issues Log with Undergraduates
Friday, Sept. 25, 2015
2:30pm (CLE C344)
Stephen Ross
Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism & Linked Modernisms
Alex Christie
Pedagogy Toolkit in the Classroom
Friday, April 10, 2015
- Matt Huculak: Modernist Periodicals and Canadian Biomass
- Erin Kelly: Advanced Writing Concepts for Upper-Level Literature Students: An Interactive Workshop
Friday, March 6, 2015
- Joey Takeda, Alyssa Currie, Alex Christie, Micaela Maftei, Heidi Darroch, and Iain Higgins:
- Why Student English Now (Special Ideafest Pecha Kucha session)
Friday, February 20, 2015
- Rebecca Gagan: Roadrunner Pedagogy or the "Open Secret" of Student Engagement
- Nicole Shukin: Humanizing Animals
FAQs
Contacts
Forum for Your Ideas (FYI) is a discussion series showcasing the interesting and innovative work happening—by students, sessionals, postdocs, and faculty—in the English Department.
The goal of FYI is to provide a relaxed, collaborative, and inclusive setting in which all department members can share ideas, discuss works in progress, offer workshops, and talk about both research and pedagogy. FYI aims to foster opportunities for all to benefit from the expertise and rich talents of our departmental community.
FYI sessions do not have a strict format, although they will typically consist of at least two different presenters on two different topics. One session might include a talk on pedagogy followed by a research-in-progress report. Another might consist of six presenters all addressing a single topic by way of Pecha Kucha presentations. Still another might offer a hands-on writing workshop in conjunction with a discussion of a book chapter draft. FYI is open to suggestions.
Forum for Your Ideas (FYI) was founded by Rebecca Gagan and Kim McLean-Fiander in Spring Term 2015.