Education​

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Ph.D. English, University of Alberta, Canada (2006)

• Dissertation: Writing Africa, Writing Canada: Anti-Imperialism and​​ Feminism in the Work of Margaret Laurence
• Committee: Dr. Nora Foster Stovel (supervisor); Dr. Ono Okome (reader); Dr. Paul Hjartarson (reader); Dr. Susan Smith (History Department, reader)
• External Examiner: Dr. Diana Brydon, Canada Research Chair, University of Manitoba

M.A. English, University of Victoria, Canada (1998)

• Thesis: Contingency as Form: The Poetics of Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop
• Supervisor: Dr. Luke B. Carson

B.A. English, University of British Columbia, Canada (1993)   

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."
Sydney J. Harris

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​Current Academic Position

Full Time Continuous Appointment (tenure), Red Deer Polytechnic, Alberta Canada

• Chair of Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, July 1, 2018 - July 1, 2020
• Head of Program of English July 1, 2017 - June 30, 2018
• Sabbatical, July 1, 2016 - July 1, 2017
• Head of Program of English July 1 2014 - July 1, 2016
• tenure track ​since August 2008; tenured since April 2011

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Programs on Teaching

Excellence in Teaching and Learning Program, Red Deer Polytechnic (2013 - 2016)
Introduction to Online Teaching and Learning, Red Deer Polytechnic (2015)
Pacific Northwest Great Teachers Seminar, Umpqua Community College, Oregon (2009) 
Instructional Skills Workshop, Red Deer Polytechnic (2008)
Writing Across the Curriculum Workshop: Developing Writing Intensive Courses, University of Alberta (2008)
Graduate Teaching and Learning Program (formerly the University Teaching Program), University of Alberta (2002)

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Laura K Davis, Ph.D.
​Writer | Educator | Scholar