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Lucie Kotesovska
Election
Position
Name
Lucie Kotesovska
Candidate statement
PhD Candidate and Sessional Instructor
Department of English
University of Victoria, BC, Canada
I decided to put forward my candidacy for the Graduate Student Representative on the MSA executive board as this position and its mandate would allow me to pursue and combine my two long-standing interests: research and teaching in the field of modernist studies with the support and advocacy for graduate students (not only) in this field. In terms of my scholarship and expertise, I completed two MA theses focusing respectively on post-WWII transformations of the modernist novel and the long poem, and have passed a candidacy exam in British and Irish literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. I have published and presented on multiple aspects of late modernist poetry and prose, and helped organize two annual symposia on Joyce’s Ulysses in my home department. In my teaching, I draw on indirect pedagogical approaches and elements of play in order to dispel the myth of modernism’s inaccessibility.
Throughout the four years of my doctoral studies, I have been an active supporter and advocate for graduate students. I have been a board member of the English Graduate Student Society, a representative for my department in UVic’s Graduate Student Society and in the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English. I have also acted as a Teaching Assistant Consultant and student mentor in my department. As a sessional instructor, I have mentored and collaborated with several MA students who were assigned as TAs in my courses. I see the MSA as a very dynamic organization that cultivates a dialogue with junior scholars in the field and realizes that it is this dialogue which brings some of the best impulses to update the extant research and scholarly discussion. It would be an honour for me to act as the Graduate Student Representative for this association.
Department of English
University of Victoria, BC, Canada
I decided to put forward my candidacy for the Graduate Student Representative on the MSA executive board as this position and its mandate would allow me to pursue and combine my two long-standing interests: research and teaching in the field of modernist studies with the support and advocacy for graduate students (not only) in this field. In terms of my scholarship and expertise, I completed two MA theses focusing respectively on post-WWII transformations of the modernist novel and the long poem, and have passed a candidacy exam in British and Irish literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. I have published and presented on multiple aspects of late modernist poetry and prose, and helped organize two annual symposia on Joyce’s Ulysses in my home department. In my teaching, I draw on indirect pedagogical approaches and elements of play in order to dispel the myth of modernism’s inaccessibility.
Throughout the four years of my doctoral studies, I have been an active supporter and advocate for graduate students. I have been a board member of the English Graduate Student Society, a representative for my department in UVic’s Graduate Student Society and in the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English. I have also acted as a Teaching Assistant Consultant and student mentor in my department. As a sessional instructor, I have mentored and collaborated with several MA students who were assigned as TAs in my courses. I see the MSA as a very dynamic organization that cultivates a dialogue with junior scholars in the field and realizes that it is this dialogue which brings some of the best impulses to update the extant research and scholarly discussion. It would be an honour for me to act as the Graduate Student Representative for this association.
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