Dr. Michele Braun
Biography:
Dr. Michele Braun holds a PhD in English Literature from Northeastern University, a Master of Business Administration from the Haskayne School of Business, a Master of Arts in English from the University of Calgary, a Bachelor of Arts in English and Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Calgary.
Dr. Braun has taught literature and communications at Northeastern University, Mount Royal University, the Southern Alberta Institute for Technology, DeVry University and the University of Calgary. She teaches Business Communications, Communication Theory and Writing for Media at University Canada West.
Expertise and Experience
Dr. Braun has more than 20 years’ experience in learning and development, including program management and instructional design. She has worked in the public and private sector designing and delivering education and training programs with a passion for assessment and evaluation. She has worked in corporate services and the non-profit sector as well, experiences which serve her well when talking to prospective clients about their training needs.
Publications and Scholarly Activity
Dr. Braun’s research focus includes, cultural representations of bioscience, 21st century British literature, and competency assessment and articulation.
Selected publications include:
- “Two Solitudes, Two Cultures: Building and Burning Bridges in Peter Watts’ Novels” Canadian Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror: Bridging the Solitudes. Palgrave, 2019
- “Roland the Gunslinger’s Generic Transformation” Stephen King’s Modern Macabre: Essays on the Later Works. eds. Patrick McAleer and Michael A. Perry. McFarland, 2014.
- “The Mouseness of the Mouse: The Competing Discourses of Genetics and History in White Teeth” The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 2013 http://jcl.sagepub.com/content/early/recent
- “Salman Rushdie’s Grimus as Experimental Postcolonial and Technological Fiction” The Postnational Fantasy. Essays on Poscolonialism, Cosmopolitics and Science Fiction.eds. Masood Ashraf Raja, Jason W. Ellis and Swaralipi Nandi. McFarland, 2011
- “It’s So Hard to Get Good Help These Days: Zombies as a Culturally Stabilizing Force in Fido (2006)” Race, Oppression, and the Zombie. Essays on the Cross-Cultural Adaptations of the Caribbean Zombie.eds. Christopher Moreman and Cory Rushton, McFarland, 2011
- “Indelible Ink of the Palimpsest: Language, Myth and Narrative in H.D.’s Trilogy” Florida Atlantic Comparative Studies 10, 2007-2008
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