Wednesday, December 5, 2012, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
B176 Mackintosh Corry, Seminar Room

* A lite complementary lunch will be provided following the workshop courtesy of Maggie Berg, 2009 Queen's University Chair in Teaching and Learning  (11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.)
* This session is limited to 40 participants

This workshop is based on our book project The Slow Professor, which examines the potential value of the principles of the Slow movement for academia. We briefly explain the origin of our desire to introduce a less frantic approach to our work as educators, and our belief that addressing the stress of individual teachers has political and pedagogical ramifications. The activities are designed to be fun and to elicit self-recognition. We hope to foster greater openness about the effects of our current university environments.

TO REGISTER: Please send your name, department, dietary restrictions, or accommodation requirements in an email to ctl@queensu.ca indicating that you would like to register for The Slow Professor Workshop.

 

About the Speakers

Maggie Berg is a Full Professor in the Department of English. She obtained a D.Phil. from Oxford in 1979 and came to Canada on a Killam Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Dalhousie University. She fell in love with Canada and Canadian Academia and decided to try to stay. Before coming to Queen’s in 1987, she taught at Dalhousie, UBC, McGill and the University of Toulouse in France. She continues to teach all levels of undergraduate and graduate courses, specializing in Victorian literature and literary theory, particularly in the areas of gender, sexuality, and animal studies. She has published books on the novels of the Brontë sisters. She is very proud to be the only person other than Bill Barnes himself to have twice won the W.J. Barnes Award for Teaching Excellence. In 2005 she won the Chancellor A. Charles Baillie Award for Teaching Excellence, and in 2009 became the University Chair in Teaching and Learning, which, with the support of the Centre for Teaching and Learning, has enabled her to pursue her passionate commitment to teaching and learning in the University.

Barbara K. Seeber is Associate Professor of English at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. She earned a BA in English Literature and German at the University of Victoria in 1989, an MA in English at the University of Western Ontario in 1990, and a PhD in English at Queen's University in 1995. She is delighted to return to the Queen's campus for this presentation! At Brock, her main teaching areas are eighteenth-century literature and Animal Studies both at the undergraduate and graduate level. Her primary area of scholarship is eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century fiction, particularly Jane Austen. She is the author of General Consent in Jane Austen: A Study of Dialogism (2000). Her more recent work focuses on adaptations of Austen’s novels as well as representations of animals and nature in Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft. Serving as the department's Graduate Program Director from 2008 to 2010 and teaching a graduate course on Research and Professional Development have contributed to her research interest in Professional Studies.

TO REGISTER: Please send your name, department, dietary restrictions, or accommodation requirements in an email to ctl@queensu.ca indicating that you would like to register for The Slow Professor Workshop.