Wanda Hurren
University of Victoria
Victoria, BC
E-mail: whurren@uvic.ca

I am interested in issues of identity, place, and curriculum. Poststructural perspectives and other boundary blurring mechanisms inform my research and writing. I am especially interested in disrupting notions of what counts as standard academic discourse. I am presently conducting a study that explores "mapwork" as an approach to research and pedagogy. Among other things, mapwork is a process that incorporates collage work: photography, poetry, expository text and maps of various shapes and sizes.

Recent publications:

Books:

Line Dancing: An Atlas of Geography Curriculum and Poetic Possibilities (Peter Lang Publishers, 2000)

Curriculum Intertext: Place/Language/Pedagogy (Peter Lang Publishers, In press)

Book Chapters:

Hurren, W. (In Press). Getting Away with “It”. In S. Kouritzin (Ed.), Challenging the Orthodoxies: Journey/wo/men in the Academy. Manwah, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates.

Hasebe-Ludt, E., Chambers, C., Donald, D., Leggo, C., Oberg, A. and Hurren, W. (In press).

Métissage. In A. Cole & G. Knowles (Eds.), International Handbook of the Arts in Qualitative Social Science Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Hurren, W. (2004). School geography and academic geography: Spaces of possibility for teaching and learning. In A. Sears & I. Wright (Eds.), Challenges and prospects for Canadian Social Studies (pp. 118-125). Vancouver, BC: Pacific Educational Press.

Poetry:

Two poems. In B. Klar and P. Wilson (Eds.), Fast Forward: Saskatchewan's New Poets. Regina, SK: Hagios Press. (In Press)

Photographic Data/Art Exhibit:

University of Regina, October, 2005. Found in the Halls: The Photograph as Data/Art in Research (mounted exhibit of participant photographic and poetic responses to space in schools).

Popular Press:

Come Down Gently From a Sabbatical High. The Globe & Mail, Friday, June 2, 2006

(updated 04/07)