This is an election to fill the two (2) positions for eligible faculty members to serve on the Okanagan Senate representing the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies for a term starting 1 September 2020 and ending 31 August 2023. All faculty members with the rank of professor, associate professor, assistant professor, instructor, senior instructor, lecturer and professor of teaching in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies are eligible to vote in this election.
To Vote
- Go to WebVote
- Click “CWL login” on the right hand side to login with your CWL credentials
- Click “Vote” next to the “Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies Representatives to the Okanagan Senate - 2020-23 Triennium”
- Vote for your preferred candidates (2) by clicking on the box next to the candidate’s name
- Click on “Submit Vote” then click “ok” to confirm your submission before logging out
Polls will be open via WebVote from the morning of Thursday, June 11, 2020 until 4:00pm on Thursday, June 25, 2020.
Candidate Information
Marianne Legault, Associate Professor, Languages & World Literatures
I am an Associate Professor of French, with a specialization in Early Modern literature and cultural history. I have a profound love of teaching and I strongly believe in the practice of integrating my research into my upper year courses. I have taught at the University of Melbourne, Uvic, and the Vancouver campus of UBC.
I am currently on administrative leave, having ended a term as Associate Dean in the Faculty of Creative & Critical Studies, a position I occupied from January 2015 to June 2019. I have served two terms as a senator during which time I chaired the Awards and Admissions Committee and sat on numerous Senate bodies. What I have learned from these roles is the importance of our academic mission and how vital it is for our students’ success and for our reputation, on both the national and global stage.
During my career at UBC Okanagan, I have witnessed its rapid growth, its many successes and challenges under various leadership teams. I look forward to representing my colleagues and Faculty on Senate for another term and to give voice to their concerns and suggestions as we continue our successful journey as a recognized academic community.
Virginie Magnat, Associate Professor, Languages & World Literatures and English & Cultural Studies
I am originally from France and hold a PhD from the University of California. A member of the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies since 2006, I represented FCCS on the Senate from 2014 to 2017. I hold a joint appointment in English & Cultural Studies and Languages & World Literatures, and authored two monographs based on my SSHRC-funded interdisciplinary research and published by Routledge (https://fccs.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/virginie-magnat/). I seek to contribute to the Senate my personal dedication to advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in these challenging times. I have served on the FCCS Indigenous Engagement Committee since 2014, supervised the first two Syilx (Okanagan) students to graduate from our MFA program, supported them with SSHRC-funded GRAs, and co-authored with them three scholarly publications and a documentary film hosted on the UBC Institute of Community Engaged Research website (https://icer.ok.ubc.ca/research/). I co-lead with Education Professor Dr. Karen Ragoonaden the UBC-funded Eminence Cluster of Research Excellence in Culture, Creativity, Health and Well-Being, bringing together Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholar-practitioners from UBCO and UBCV, SFU, the University of Exeter, UK, and the Université d’Artois, France, to explore the cultural, spiritual, and environmental dimensions of health and well-being (research.ok.ubc.ca/about/research-excellence-clusters/health-wellbeing.html). I am an Organizing Committee Member of the Indigenous Qualitative Inquiries Circle (International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois, 2013-present), a Steering Committee Member of the SFU Institute for Performance Studies (2015-present), a Research Member of the UBC Institute for Community Engaged Research (2015-present), and an Advisory Board Member of the UBC Centre for Mindful Engagement (2018-present).
Margaret Reeves, Associate Professor, English & Cultural Studies
I seek your support for election to serve as a representative of the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies in the Okanagan Senate of UBC. I have been an active representative of FCCS on several university-wide committees. I have served on the UBCO Internal Research Grants Committee (2008-2010) and as Acting Chair of this committee on two occasions (Nov. 2011; May 2013). In the College of Graduate Studies, I have represented this Faculty’s IGS program on the CoGS Graduate Council and the IGS Program Coordinators Committee (2015-2017). While serving on this latter committee, I contributed substantially (with three other IGS Program Coordinators) to the creation of the College of Graduate Studies' Comprehensive Exams Guidelines for Doctoral Students in the IGS Graduate Program. I have twice represented FCCS on CoGS student awards committees (2010-2011 and currently, 2019-2021). Within FCCS, I have been an active member on faculty-wide committees (UPPC; GASC; GPPC; and RSPAC), as well as various program level and departmental committees, including serving on several hiring committees. I have also been Coordinator of the IGS Graduate Program within FCCS (2015-2017) as well as of the English Program (2018-2019). With respect to the academic community beyond the university, I am Past-President of the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies and have been a member of the Board of this Society for the past ten years. I ask for your support so that I can represent FCCS on the Okanagan Senate.
Questions
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