Funding

External Grants

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant ($43,946) for “Paper Lives, Post-Digital Connections: Contemporary Journaling.” June 2023.

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Grant ($89,000) for “Reading for Our Lives.” Co-I, 4-member team (PI: Danielle Fuller). March 2022.

Awards to Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP) for False Summit: Gender in Mountaineering Nonfiction ($7000), 2020.

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Connections Grant ($25,000) for "Thinking Mountains" conference, 2018. Co-applicant.

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Grant ($109,172) for “Government Agents, Literary Agents: Inuit Books and Government Intervention, 1968-1985.” PI for a 5 member core team: Keavy Martin (UAlberta), Warren Cariou (UManitoba), Heather Igloliorte (Concordia), Armand Ruffo (Queens). April 2018-April 2021.

SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant ($23,000) for Making the Move: Memoirs of Migration. PI for a 5 member team, including Amy Kaler (UAlberta), Danielle Fuller (UAlberta), Anna Poletti (Utrecht) and DeNel Rehberg-Sedo (Mount Saint Vincent). May 2017-May 2018.

Eccles Centre Visiting Canadian Fellow in North American Studies Award. British Library and the British Association of American Studies (BAAS). For 'Animals and Machines: Inuit Traditional Knowledge as (New) Materialism.’ (£2500 GBP, approx.. $4100). April 2017-Sept. 2018.

 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Connections Grant ($20,000) for “Auto/biography in Transit: a Conference.” 2014-2015. PI.

 with Jean Bruce (Ryerson U.) and Zoe Druick (Simon Fraser U.) Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant ($43,771) for "Property and Gender on Reality TV in Canada." 2011-2013. Co-applicant.

 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Standard Research Grant ($51,976) for “Gender in Mountaineering Narratives.” 2008-2013. PI.

 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) SSHRC Standard Research Grant 2004-2007 ($62,412) for Auto/biography for Mass Markets. PI.

 The T. Glendenning Hamilton Research Grant ($500). Archives and Special Collections at The Elizabeth Dafoe Library, University of Manitoba. January 19-23, 2000.

Internal Grants

2023: Killam Connections Grant ($10,000) for Teaching Life Writing Workshops, University of Alberta, 1 Apr-30 Jun

2023: KIAS Connections grant ($2000) for Teaching Life Writing Workshops, University of Alberta, 1 Jan-30 Dec

2022: SSHRC Institutional Grant ($7000) University of Alberta, for "Analog and Digital: Journalling and Social Media"

2020: Kule Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS) Dialogue Grant ($2000) for "Teaching Life Writing: a conference on nonfiction and pedagogy." 

2020: Faculty of Arts Conference Grant ($2000) for "Teaching Life Writing: a conference on nonfiction and pedagogy." 

2016: Support for Advancement of Scholarship (SAS) for “Machine Ecology: Mini Aodla Freeman’s Life Among the Qallunaat.” Inuit PiusituKangit = Inuit Traditions = Traditions Inuites. October 7-10. St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

 2016: Kule Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS), Research Team Grant, University of Alberta ($7300) for Making the Move: Reading Memoirs of Migration.

 2014: Kule Institute for Advanced Study, Dialogue Grant, University of Alberta ($2000) for Reading Nonfiction: a pilot project.

 2014: Faculty of Arts Conference Grant ($1000) for Auto/biography in Transit: a conference. 

 2014: Killam Research Fund Award ($2800) for ““Play Sexuality: Grand Theft Auto and Research Methods.” Crossroads Cultural Studies Conference. Tampere, Finland. July 1-4.

 2013: Support for Advancement of Scholarship (SAS) Award ($2812) for “First Person? Life Writing Versus Automedia.” International Association for Biography and Autobiography Europe (IABA Europe). Ludwig Boltmann Institute for the Study of Biography. Vienna, Austria. Oct. 30-Nov. 3.

 2008:  Support for Advancement of Scholarship (SAS) Award ($1958.) for two papers: “The Electric Self” and “Philippe Lejeune and Popular Culture” at the IABA (International Association for Biography and Autobiography) conference, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI: June 20-27.

 2007: Office of the Vice-President of Research, University of Alberta. ($7500) SSHRC 4a grant for “Gender in Mountain Writing.”

 2007: Killam Special Opportunities Grant ($11,500) for Translating Philippe LeJeune (translation and permissions costs for translating and publishing the essays of Philippe LeJeune). June 2007.

 2007: Dean’s Discretionary Fund ($2000, included in larger award above) for “Translating Philippe LeJeune.” June 2007.

 2007: Support for Advancement of Scholarship (SAS) Award 2007 ($2110.91) for “Reading the Shelves,” a paper for the Beyond the Book Conference, University of Birmingham, UK August 30-Sept. 2, 2007.

 2007: HFASSR Operating Grant October 2003 ($6200) for “Reading Mass-Market Auto/biography: a Pilot Project.”

 2006: Killam Cornerstones Small Operations Grant ($9986) for Genre in the Marketplace: How Bookstores Sell Autobiography and Biography.

 2002: SAS Award May 2002-April 2003 ($3000) for IABA paper, Melbourne Australia July 14-18, 2002.

 2002: HFASSR Travel Grant for Popular Culture Association, Toronto ($600), March 13-16.

 2001: SAS Award for CRELIQ conference paper at the HSSFC Congress ($2000).

 2000: HFAR Operations Grant, University of Alberta ($1200), July 2000.

 2000: SAS Award for travel and research, University of Alberta ($1214), May 2000.

 1999: HFAR Award for travel, University of Alberta ($800), October 1999.

 1999: SAS Award for travel, University of Alberta ($1200), October 1999.

 1999: HFAR Operations Grant, University of Alberta ($3500), April 1999.