Ursula Anne Margaret Kelly (born 1956) is a Canadian University Research Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Ursula Kelly | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1956 (age 67–68) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | MEd., 1983, Memorial University of Newfoundland PhD, University of Toronto |
| Thesis | Marketing place: regional readers reading capitalism, patriarchy, and culture (1989) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Saint Mary's University Mount Saint Vincent University Memorial University of Newfoundland |
Early life and education edit
Kelly was born in 1956[1] and raised in Gambo, Newfoundland and Labrador to parents Margaret Waterman Kelly, a teacher, and Andrew J. Kelly. Kelly later created "The Margaret Waterman Kelly Teaching Prize" at Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) in honour of her mother who had attended the institution as a student.[2]
Kelly earned three degrees at MUN before enrolling in the University of Toronto for her PhD.[3]
Career edit
After earning her PhD, Kelly moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she accepted a faculty position at Saint Mary's University from 1988 until 1994 and Mount Saint Vincent University.[4] In 2001, Kelly accepted a faculty position at MUN and taught Education 6106, a graduate course elective.[5]
In 2009, she published Migration and education in a multicultural world: Culture, loss, and identity, a collection of essays regarding the impact mass migration has on identity displacement, disorientation, and loss.[6] The following year, Kelly published a collection of essays titled Despite This Loss: Essays on Place, Culture and Memory with Elizabeth Yeoman.[7]
Kelly later accepted a Fogo Island Research Fellowship program position to interact with members of Fogo Island and understand their culture and livelihood.[8] In 2018, she co-authored a book with Meghan C. Forsyth titled The Music of Our Burnished Axes: Songs and Stories of the Woods Workers of Newfoundland and Labrador.[9] The book is a collection of songs, tunes, recitations, poems, and narratives focused on the contributions wood workers had on Newfoundland and Labrador.[10] In the same year, Kelly was promoted to University Research Professor at MUN, the highest academic title a professor could obtain at the institution.[11]
References edit
- ^ "Ursula Kelly". viaf.org. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
- ^ Pendergast, Lisa (March 10, 2020). "'Give to remember'". gazette.mun.ca. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
- ^ "Distinguished Teaching Awards". mun.ca. 2007. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
- ^ "Best Professor Ursula Kelly". thecoast.ca. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
- ^ Wicks, Heidi (January 30, 2008). "Education Course Examines Pop Culture". today.mun.ca. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
- ^ Donehower, Kim (2009). "Book Review Migration and Education in a Multicultural World: Culture, Loss, and Identity" (PDF). Journal of Research in Rural Education. 24 (13). Retrieved March 16, 2020.
- ^ Porter, Marilyn (2011). "REVIEWS Ursula A. Kelly and Elizabeth Yeoman, eds., Despite This Loss: Essays on Culture, Memory, and Identity in Newfoundland and Labrador". Newfoundland and Labrador Studies. 26 (1). Retrieved March 16, 2020.
- ^ Porter, Marcia (August 18, 2016). "Island castaway". Retrieved March 16, 2020.
- ^ "Giving them voice". gazette.mun.ca. September 12, 2018. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
- ^ MacKinnon, Lachlan (Spring 2019). "The Music of Our Burnished Axes: Songs and Stories of the Woods Workers of Newfoundland and Labrador". Newfoundland and Labrador Studies. 34 (1). Retrieved March 16, 2020.
- ^ "Featured Researcher at the Faculty of Education - Dr. Ursula Kelly". mun.ca. Retrieved March 16, 2020.