Danine Farquharson papers, 2001-2005
Description
- Media Type
- Text
- Item Type
- Documents
- Description
- BIOGRAPHY
Danine Farquharson was an Assistant Professor in the English Department at St. Jerome's from 2001-2005. She taught courses in Irish Literature, Women in Literature, Convict Literature, Introduction to Criticism, and 20th century British Literature, and had a special research interest in the Irish Troubles as her grandmother had emigrated from Northern Ireland. During her time at St. Jerome's she also founded and organized the Annual St. Jerome's Festival of Art and Spirit.
Professor Farquharson earned a B.A. in English and History from the University of Alberta (1989), an M.A. in English from Memorial University of Newfoundland (1993), and a Ph.D. in English, also from Memorial in 2001.
She has published numerous scholarly articles, edited volumes of essays, and has written for and spoken with diverse audiences. She was the Secretary/Treasurer for the Canadian Association for Irish Studies (2002-2006), a member of the HSSFC Task Force addressing the renewal of scholarly infrastructure in Canada through academic associations (2002), and was the Assistant Editor of The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies (1995-2000).
Memberships include The Canadian Association for Irish Studies, The Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English, the American Conference for Irish Studies, and the International Association for the Study of Irish Literature.
SCOPE AND CONTENTS
The records for Professor Danine Farquharson include a brief Curriculum Vitae and 3 newspaper articles about her work. - Notes
- Accruals: No further accruals are expected.
- Date of Publication
- 2002
- Personal Name(s)
- Farquharson, Danine
- Corporate Name(s)
- St. Jerome's University
- Collection
- St. Jerome's College records
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.4699146000647 Longitude: -80.545744095459
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- Physical Description
- <1cm. of textual records
- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Recommended Citation
- SJU Archives
- Location of Original
- 2-2-2-A64
- Terms of Use
- With permission from the Librarian
- Contact
- St. Jerome's University LibraryEmail:sjuarchives@uwaterloo.ca
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St. Jerome's University is located in Waterloo, Ontario, and is situated in the University of Waterloo. It was founded as St. Jerome's College in 1865 by the Congregation of the Resurrection. In 1959, it was granted university status and changed its name to the University of St. Jerome's College. It has been federated with the University of Waterloo since 1960. In 1998, the name was officially changed to St. Jerome's University.
