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 Elizabeth PophamB.A., M.A. (Manitoba), Ph.D. (Queen's) Faculty Profile:
The Letters of A.M. Klein, the final volume in the Complete Works series, is coming out soon and I am currently editing the
Teaching Philosophy I love literature, and love to share my enjoyment with my students, from whom I am always learning something new. I also love to experiment with new ways of approaching the text, and so my students are used to my telling them that “I have a theory!” They are remarkably tolerant – even enthusiastic – when I decide to approach Milton’s Paradise Lost through the iconography of Renaissance visual art, have them do “performance” scans of speeches from Shakespeare’s plays, or ask them to construct a class “anthology” of Canadian poetry on a WebCT site. One of the great joys of teaching English at Trent University is that I also have opportunities to share the classroom with my fellow instructors, who are also generally willing to try out “he said/she said” or “roundtable” lectures in team-taught courses. Since we never know quite what will emerge, these can be a bit nerve-racking, but they are also tremendously energizing. Luckily, I have chosen to spend my life reading and rereading some of the great works of literature in English – books that are always yielding new insights, even on the 40th or 50th time through. Placed side-by-side with a new text, read in a new historical context by a new generation of students, or approached through a dialogue with a colleague in the lecture-hall, new interpretations inevitably emerge. Teaching Awards: Leadership in Faculty Teaching (LIFT) Award, Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities (MTCU): 2007 Nominated, Distinguished Teaching Award for Educational Leadership & Innovation in Instruction, Trent University: 2006-07 Nader Nonesuch Award, Julian Blackburn College Student Association (JBCSA): 2003-04 Nominated, Symons Teaching Award, Trent University: 1990-91, 1995-96, 1998–99, 2003-04 Merit Award for Teaching and Service, Trent University: 1998, 2003 Innovative Courses or New Teaching Initiatives Development of WebCT course materials – Course resource sites including posted syllabus, assignments, sample essays, links to vetted online resources (web and Library), discussion forums (and journal postings), grades, PowerPoint slides from lectures as well as free-standing tutorials. “Liberated Learning” voice recognition/transcription/recording technology (Disabilities Office pilot project) – in ENGL 365H: English Canadian Poetry (Winter 2004) and ENGL 201: Milton and his Age (2004-05) – Simultaneous transcription of lectures using ViaVoice/ViaScribe technology (developed to assist students with physical and learning disabilities); audio files and edited transcriptions posted with PowerPoint slide-shows for consultation and review on WebCT following lectures. Research Interests: Renaissance literature; Elizabethan political pageantry; Canadian literature, especially A.M. Klein and E.J. Pratt; computers and the humanities. Projects: Editor. Angel Daye's Daphnis and Chloe [to be published by the Barnabe Riche Society]. Senior editor. The Letters of A.M. Klein [to be published by University of Toronto Press]. Co-editor, with David Pitt. The Letters of E.J. Pratt [to be published by University of Toronto Press]. Co-editor, with Zailig Pollock. The Complete Poems and Letters of E.J. Pratt: A Hypertext Edition/Archive [to be published to the World Wide Web]. A sample edition is posted at www.trentu.ca/pratt A book-length study of the cross-fertilization of political pageantry and canonical literary texts by Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare.
Editor, with Zailig Pollock. A.M. Klein's TheSecond Scroll. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. Invited talks/conference papers: "Mixing Media: The Evoluation of E.J. Pratt's Behind the Log." Editing Modernism in Canada - the 46th Annual Conference on Editorial Problems. University of Toronto: October 23-24, 2010. “Apologia pro vita sua: The Letters of A.M. Klein,” The Poet as Landscape: A Portrait of A.M. Klein “Editor as Glossator: Unrolling A.M. Klein’s The Second Scroll,” Editing Religious Texts, Christianity and Literature Study Group – Association of College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE). Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. University of Saskatchewan: May 29, 2007. “Teaching Milton in the Electronic Age: Pros, Cons and Complications,” Eastern Ontario Symposium on Educational Technology (EOSET). Trent University: May 3, 2005. Public Lectures: “The Stratford Festival 2006 – Twelfth Night and Much Ado About Nothing, “ The Shaw-Stratford Noon Hour Talks at “Trent in Oshawa,” UOIT-Durham College: April 4, 2006. “Elizabeth Tudor: The Making of a Image,” Durham Regional Lifelong Learning Association (June 2001). “The Immortal Bard and the Virgin Queen 400 Years Later,” with Zailig Pollock, Rooke Lecture Series (Oshawa Public Library: Co-sponsored by Julian Blackburn College, the Trent English Department and Friends of the McLaughlin Library, March 2000). Professional Activities: “Preventing, detecting and Reporting Academic Offenses,” Teaching Assistant Training Certificate Workshops (TATC). Trent University: Instructional Development Centre – October 24, 2005; with David Poole, September 7, 2006; with Jocelyn Aubrey, September 5, 2007. Participant, Creating Electronic Texts and Images – Summer Institute 1998, Instructor: David Seaman (University of Virginia Electronic Text Center). University of New Brunswick Libraries: 16-21 August 1998. Committee Participation English Department Committees
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My areas of academic interest are Renaissance literature and Canadian literature. In my teaching career, I have toured the continent, starting with Trent University, and then moving on to the University of Alberta, Arizona State and Memorial University of Newfoundland before settling back down at Trent in 1990. I teach a range of courses including “Foundations in Medieval and Renaissance Literature” (English 2100) to “Shakespeare” (English 3100), “Milton and His Age” (English 3200), and “Research Seminars” in Renaissance Literature (English 4150 and 4152), as well as courses in Canadian Literature and “Critical Practice ”.
Although most of my energy is currently being devoted to editing Klein and Pratt, I periodically salvage time to work on a couple of ongoing projects in Renaissance. I am working on an edition of Angel Daye's Daye's Daphnis and Chloe for the Barnabe Riche Society, as well as a study of Elizabethan political pageantry, a hybrid dramatic form which occupies a middle ground between literature proper and politics, and which until recently has not seriously been claimed by either historians or students of literature. 
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