Dr. Susan Walsh
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Education
Office: Seton 542
Phone: (902) 457-6598
Fax: (902) 457-4911
E-mail: msvu.ca
Research and Teaching Interests
- Female teachers—their subjectivities and experiences (women and difficult experiences in teaching; internationally educated female teachers)
- Innovative forms of research including arts-based research, writing as a process of inquiry, poetic inquiry, memory work/collective biography
- Contemplative inquiry, contemplative pedagogy, mindfulness
- Embodied and relational ways of being and knowing
Background
PhD, University of Alberta
Research Grants
April 2010. Memory, sexuality, schooling: Collective biography and girlhood. Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Human Development (CIRHD), Mount Saint University. Co-Investigators: Marnina Gonick, Susan Walsh, Marion Brown, Michele Byers, Mythili Rajiva, Jacqueline Warwick.
April 2006. Experiences of female teachers who are immigrants to Atlantic Canada: Implications for Canadian teacher education programs. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC). Principal investigator: Susan Walsh; Co-investigator: Susan Brigham.
November 2005. A study of policies and practices affecting immigrant teachers in Canadian teacher education programs. Atlantic Metropolis Centre, Pilot Project Grant. Susan Brigham and Susan Walsh, Co-principal investigators. http://www.atlantic.metropolis.net/ResearchPolicy/award%20winners%200506/index_e.html
November 2004. Resymbolizing the experiences of immigrant women who have been involved with teaching. Atlantic Metropolis Centre of Excellence; Research Domain: Gender, Migration, Diversity/Immigrant Women. Susan Walsh and Susan Brigham, Co-Principal Investigators.
November 2004. Interrogating difficult experiences in teaching through an arts-informed inquiry. MSVU New Scholar’s Grant. Susan Walsh, Principal Investigator.
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Selected Publications
Book Chapters
- Walsh, S. (accepted). Teaching Englishes. In, K. James, T. Dobson, & C. Leggo (Eds.), English in middle and secondary classrooms: Creative and critical advice from Canadian teacher educators.
- Walsh, S. (in press). Glimpses of spaciousness at the edge of thought: Musings about meditation, language, and poetic inquiry. In, S. Thomas, A. Cole, S. Stewart (Eds.), The art of poetic inquiry. Halifax: Backalong Press.
- Brigham, S., & Walsh, S. (2011). Having voice, being heard, and being silent: Internationally educated teachers’ representations of “immigrant women” in an arts-informed research study. In E. Tastsoglou & P. Jaya, Immigrant women in Atlantic Canada: Challenges, negotiations, re-constructions (pp. 209-234). Toronto: Women’s Press.
- Walsh, S. (2003). Experiences of fear and pain in teaching: A collaborative arts-based inquiry. In A. Clarke & G. Erickson (Eds.), Teacher inquiry: Living the research in everyday practice (pp. 164-178). London: RoutledgeFalmer.
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- Walsh, S. (in press). Contemplation, artful writing: Research with internationally educated female teachers. Qualitative Inquiry.
- Gonick, M., Walsh, S., & Brown, M. (2011). Collective biography and the question of difference. Qualitative Inquiry, 17 (8), 741-749. DOI 10.1177/1077800411421118.
- Walsh, S., Brigham, S., & Wang, Y. (2011). Internationally educated female teachers in the neoliberal context: Their labour market and teacher certification experiences in Canada. Teaching and Teacher Education, 27 (3), 657-665.
- Walsh, S. (2008). Listening to difference in the teaching of “English”: Insights from internationally educated teachers. Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 15 (4), 397-405.
- Walsh, S. & Brigham, S. (2007). Internationally educated female teachers who have immigrated to Nova Scotia: A research/performance text. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 6 (3), 1-28. Accessed August 11, 2010 at http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/IJQM/issue/view/34
- C.O.R.E. (2006). Writing co-respondents: Teacher educators reflect on ‘orienting’ new students. Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies (JCACS), 4 (2), 2-38. Accessed August 12, 2010 at https://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/jcacs/issue/view/725/showToc
- Walsh, S. (2006). An Irigarayan framework and resymbolization in an arts-informed research process. Qualitative Inquiry, 12 (5), 976-993.
- Counternormativity Discourse Group. (2005). Performing an archive of feeling: Experiences of normalizing structures in teaching and teacher education. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 2 (2), 173-214.
- Walsh, S. (2004). Being homeless: Female subjectivity and difference. Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, 2 (1), 113-143. Accessed August 12, 2010 at https://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/jcacs/issue/view/713/showToc
- Walsh, S. (2003). being-with, letting go: mindfulness. Educational Insights, 8 (2). Accessed February 11, 2011 at http://www.ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/publication/insights/v08n02/contextualexplorations/sumara/walsh.html]
- Walsh, S. (2001). Opening the underside of teaching: Tremblings. Crossing Boundaries. 1 (1), 148-163.
- Walsh, S. (2000). Writing with the dark. Language and Literacy: A Canadian Educational E-Journal 2 (2). Accessed February 11, 2011 at http://www.langandlit.ualberta.ca/archives/vol22papers/susan.htm
- Walsh, S. (2000). Expectation and teaching: Mirrors, bridges and the space-between. English Quarterly, 32 (1 & 2), 44-48.
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Major Report
Walsh, S., & Brigham, S. (2008). Internationally educated teachers and teacher education programs in Canada: Current practices. A report submitted to Atlantic Metropolis. Accessed August 12, 2010 at http://www.atlantic.metropolis.net/ResearchPolicy/Walsh_and_Brigham_-_2008.pdf
Selected Conference Presentations
- Contemplative practice in teaching and learning. Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax NS. October 29, 2011. Teaching Showcase: Association of Atlantic Universities.
- Art, awareness, attunement: Arts-based research with internationally educated female teachers. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA. May 18-21, 2011. International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.
- Deterritorializing collective biography. Co-presenters: Susanne Gannon, Michele Byers, Mythili Rajiva. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA. May 18-21, 2011. International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.
- The name of the game: A theatre collective creation research project. Co-presenters: Aren Morris, Women, Diversity and Teaching Group. Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. May 2-6, 2010. International Cultural Research Network (ICRN) Conference.
- Mindfulness and poetry/poetic inquiry: A performance/workshop. Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. October 15-18, 2009. International Conference on Poetic Inquiry.
- Internationally educated female teachers as cosmopolitanized subjects: Implications for teacher education. (2009). University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. July 1-4. Sixteenth Annual Conference on Learning.
- Writing our way to dinner: Collective biography, food, and relations of difference. (2009). Co-presenters: Marnina Gonick, Mythili Rajiva, Michele Byers, Marion Brown. Carleton University, Ottawa Ontario. May 24-26. Canadian Women’s Studies Association (CWSA) Annual Conference.
- Internationally educated female teachers and theatre collective creation: Ruminations on co-researching. (2009). Co-presenters: Aren Morris, Maha Abdelrhman Amin, Selena Nemorin. Carleton University, Ottawa Ontario. May 23-26. Comparative and International Education Society of Canada (CIESC) Annual Conference, Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE).
- Women and difficult experiences in teaching: Agency, resistance, and implications for teacher education. (2008). University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. September 10-12. European Conference on Educational Research (ECER).
- Writing mesostics: Exercises in chance, openness, and democracy. (2008). Co-presenters: Michelle Forrest, Valda Leighteizer, Susan Brigham. University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC. May 31-June 3. Canadian Philosophy of Education Society Conference (CPES/CSSE).
- What does it mean to teach ‘English’?: Insights from research with internationally educated female teachers. (2008). University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC. May 31-June 3. Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies Conference (CACS/CSSE).
- Internationally educated teachers and Canadian teacher education programs in neoliberal times. (2008). Co-presenter: Susan Brigham. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., May 31-June 3. Canadian Association for Teacher Education (CATE/CSSE).
- Female internationally educated teachers in Canada: Re-credentialing in the age of globalization. (2008). Co-presenters Yina Wang, Susan Brigham. University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC. May 31-June 3. Comparative and International Education Society of Canada Annual Conference (CIESC/CSSE).
- Our lives in public spaces. (2008). Co-presenters: Susan Brigham and the Women, Diversity, and Teaching Group. World Trade and Convention Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia. April 3-6. 10th National Metropolis Conference.
- Internationally educated teachers in Atlantic Canada. (2008). Co-presenter: Susan Brigham. World Trade and Convention Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia. April 3-6.10th National Metropolis Conference.
- Ways that female internationally educated teachers are constructed in the Atlantic Canadian context: One woman’s story. (2007). Co-presenter: Susan Brigham. Institute of Education, University of London, London England, September 5-8. Our presentation was part of an international symposium entitled: The impact of policies and practices on teacher mobility across national boundaries. British Educational Research Association (BERA) Conference.
- A (dis)orientation initiative for preservice teacher education at the Mount. (2006). Co-presenters: Valda Leighteizer, Michelle Forrest, and Susan Brigham. University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, November 17-18, 2006. Atlantic Educators’ Conference.
- Problematizing our work as teacher educators: Insights from arts-informed research with women teachers who are newcomers to Canada. (2006). Co-presenter: Susan Brigham. Calgary, Alberta. November 2-4. International Conference on Teacher Education: How Might Teacher Education Live Well in a Changing World? Jointly sponsored by the Faculties of Education of the University of Calgary and McGill University.
- Co-respondents: A dis-orientation initiative at Mount Saint Vincent University. (2006). Co-presenters: Michelle Forrest, Valda Leighteizer, Susan Brigham. Calgary, Alberta. November 2-4. International Conference on Teacher Education: How Might Teacher Education Live Well in a Changing World? jointly sponsored by the Faculties of Education of the University of Calgary and McGill University.
- Starting with stillness. (2006). Co-presenters: Lorri Neilsen and Allan Neilsen. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. June 23-24. Unsettling Conversations: An Arts and Education Practice-Based Research Collaborative Inquiry.
- Working toward an ethos of social justice: An orientation initiative for pre-service teachers at the Mount. (2006). Co-presenters: Valda Leighteizer, Susan Brigham, Michelle Forrest. York University, Toronto, Ontario. May. Canadian Association for Teacher Education (CATE/CSSE).
- A performance piece with/about women teachers who are newcomers to Canada: Insights for teacher education programs. (2006). Co-presenters: Susan Brigham and members of the Women Diversity and Teaching Group. York University, Toronto, Ontario, May. Canadian Association for the Study of Women in Education (CASWE/CSSE).
Mount Saint University University Courses Taught
Graduate
- GLIT 6727 Literacy Learning I
- GLIT 6728 Literacy Learning II
- GLIT 6757 Drama as a Way of Knowing and Being
- GLIT 6757 Gender and Literacy
- GEDU 6170 Focus on Research Literacy
Bachelor of Education
- EDUC 5443 Curriculum and Instruction in Elementary School Language Arts
- EDUC 5345 Advanced Curriculum Practice: Secondary Language Arts
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