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Ella Ophir
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Ella Ophir
Candidate statement
Ella Ophir
Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Saskatchewan
I have been a member of the MSA since 1999, have attended ten of the conferences, and have organized two panels, one seminar, and one roundtable. I have a good sense of the Association’s history and culture, at least from the perspective of a regular conference-goer and reader of Modernism/modernity and M/m Print Plus.
I have some experience (though it has been a while) serving on local organizing committees for conferences hosted at the University of Saskatchewan, one in 2008 (on orality and writing) and, in 2012, the International Conference on Virginia Woolf. Duties for both included vetting submissions and organizing panels, as well as logistics and coordination.
Major administrative experience includes serving as Chair of my department’s Undergraduate Committee since July 2019 (my term concludes at the end of June 2024), and as member, then Chair, of the College of Arts & Science Academic Programs Committee (BA, BFA, BMus), which reviews all proposals for new courses and programs, and program changes, for those three degree types.
I would be pleased to make a more direct contribution to the organization and conference that has been so central to my writing and teaching, as major source of connections, ideas, and inspiration over the years. I will be on sabbatical July to December 2024, so the timing is right too, for what would be my first conference as Program Chair.
Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Saskatchewan
I have been a member of the MSA since 1999, have attended ten of the conferences, and have organized two panels, one seminar, and one roundtable. I have a good sense of the Association’s history and culture, at least from the perspective of a regular conference-goer and reader of Modernism/modernity and M/m Print Plus.
I have some experience (though it has been a while) serving on local organizing committees for conferences hosted at the University of Saskatchewan, one in 2008 (on orality and writing) and, in 2012, the International Conference on Virginia Woolf. Duties for both included vetting submissions and organizing panels, as well as logistics and coordination.
Major administrative experience includes serving as Chair of my department’s Undergraduate Committee since July 2019 (my term concludes at the end of June 2024), and as member, then Chair, of the College of Arts & Science Academic Programs Committee (BA, BFA, BMus), which reviews all proposals for new courses and programs, and program changes, for those three degree types.
I would be pleased to make a more direct contribution to the organization and conference that has been so central to my writing and teaching, as major source of connections, ideas, and inspiration over the years. I will be on sabbatical July to December 2024, so the timing is right too, for what would be my first conference as Program Chair.
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