Elizabeth McKim
BA (UNBSJ), MA (CONCORDIA), PHD (YORK)
PROFESSOR
Dr. McKim has been at St. Thomas since 1991. In addition to teaching courses on the literature of the Romantic Period, in which she specialized for her PhD, she teaches courses in Literature & Medicine and Literature & Aging. She was awarded the St. Thomas University Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1997. She served as Chair of the Department of English Language and Literature from 2001-2007, and has served in a variety of administrative positions. She currently chairs the Senate Admissions and Academic Standing Committee.
Her primary research interest is in interdisciplinary narrative theory and practice. She has collaborated with Bill Randall (Department of Gerontology) on a variety of presentations, publications, and workshops in this area, most notably the book Reading Our Lives: The Poetics of Growing Old (Oxford, 2008). A founding member of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Narrative (CIRN), she co-edits, with Bill Randall, the academic journal Narrative Works: Issues, Investigations, & Interventions.