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S.06-82

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

Senate Committee on University Priorities

Memorandum

FROM:

RE:

Centre for Studies in Print &

DATE: ?

June 20, 2O

Media Cultures (SCUP 06-29)

demic

At its June

14,

2006 meeting SCUP reviewed and approved the proposal for the

creation of the Centre for Studies in Print and Media Cultures. This Centre will be a

Schedule B Centre.

Motion

That Senate approve and recommend to the Board of Governors the creation of

the Centre for Studies in Print and Media Cultures as a Schedule B Centre.

end.

B. Schellenberg

SCUP 06-29

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

MEMORANDUM ?

OFFICE OF VICE-PRESIDENT, RESEARCH

TO: Sarah Dench, Secretary ?

FROM: B. Mario Pinto

Senate Committee on University

Vice-President, Research

Planning (SCUP)

RE:

Centre for Studies in Print and Media

DATE:

June 2, 2006

Cultures

Attached is a proposal from Dr. Betty A. Schellenberg, Department of English for

the establishment of the Centre for Studies in Print and Media Cultures as a Schedule B

Centre.

The Governing Committee for Centres and Institutes recommends that the

Centre be granted approval by SCUP. Once approved by SCUP, the proposal is to be

forwarded to Senate, followed by submission to the Board of Governors.

Governing Committee:

obn H. Waterhouse

-President, Academic and Provost

Dr. B. Mario Pinto

Vice-President, Research

Attachment

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Dr. John Pierce, Dean, Faculty of Arts &r Social Sciences

Dr. Betty Schellenberg, Department of English

Dr. T. Grieve, Department of English

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DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

May 1, .1006

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

Dr. Mario Pinto,

Vice President, Research

Dear Dr. Pinto:

Enclosed please find for your consideration the draft constitution for a proposed Schedule B

Centre for

Studies in Print and Media Cultures.

This Centre arises out of the complementary research interests of

twenty-nine continuing faculty members in the departments and schools of Communication,

Contemporary Arts, English, History, Interactive Arts and Technology, Linguistics, and Publishing

Studies, with four additional associate members from the Library, the School for Interactive Arts and

Technology, and the Centre for Online and Distance Education.

The Centre proposal is a logical development of the Department of English's print culture research group

and graduate concentration, which for the past seven years has been fostering interdisciplinary

relationships and presenting

a successful speaker series for the SFU community. While support from the

Department of English and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences for the initiatives of the print culture

group has been strong, the constitution of this Centre will more formally recognize the interdisciplinary

nature of print culture studies and media studies. The annual speaker series proposed by the Centre

constitution will serve to further the creation and exchange of new knowledge and new methodologies,

while elevating the Canadian and international profile of SFU researchers in this area.

In addition, the Centre framework will allow various conjunctions within the group to produce research

proposals for external funding. This will build on the past successes of members of this group in obtaining

major SSHRC grants (including MCRI grants) and research contracts. (A significant proportion of faculty

associated with the Centre are already collaborating on a CTEF proposal.) The work of researchers in this

Centre bridges two of SFU's strategic research areas, "Technology and the Arts" and "History, Culture,

Social Relations and Behaviour." In giving official recognition to this Centre, SFU will demonstrate its

commitment to a creative, interdisciplinary engagement of questions that are central to our human past,

present, and future.

The enclosed constitution document follows the terms of SFU policy R40.01, "Centres and Institutes."

Please let me know if you would like any matters contained in the policy addressed in more detail, or if

you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Betty A. Schellenberg

Associate Professor

Department of English

schellen@sfu.ca

CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN PRINT AND MEDIA CULTURES

CONSTITUTION

Statement of Purpose

The

CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN PRINT AND MEDIA CULTURES

(CSPMC) is a

multidisciplinary research group at Simon Fraser University. Its mission is:

to promote innovative theoretically and historically grounded research;

to develop new modes of critical analysis; and

to support advanced education in the overlapping investigative fields of print culture,

media cultures in general, communications technologies, the arts, and the public

sphere.

This interdisciplinary community builds on the foundation established since 1998 by the Print

Culture Studies group based in the Department of English. In addition to offering the first

graduate specialization in Print Culture Studies in Canada (now followed by similar initiatives at

the University of Toronto and at Carleton University), the group has raised its profile through an

annual lecture series. This series has featured speakers of international renown, including Jerome

McGann (University of Virginia), Donna Haraway (University of California, Santa Cruz), Linda

Hutcheon (University of Toronto), and W.J.T. Mitchell (University of Chicago); equally

importantly, it has brought together researchers from across the Pacific Northwest and across the

disciplines at SFU, including English, Contemporary Arts, History, French, Women's Studies,

and Scottish Studies. The Print Culture Studies group has also been significantly involved in

organizing interdisciplinary conferences and in several national and interdisciplinary

collaborative research projects (eg. the History of the Book in Canada project; a study of "The

Construction of Literary Reputation" involving faculty in Linguistics and English).

This interdisciplinary nature is now being formalized and expanded with the creation of the

Centre for Studies in Print and Media Cultures,

which includes scholars in a wide range of

humanities, social sciences, and applied sciences departments, schools, and non-departmentalized

programs, including Communication, Contemporary Arts, English, History, Humanities,

Interactive Arts and Technology, Liberal Studies, Linguistics, Publishing Studies, and Scottish

Studies. The research activities of the CSPMC have the potential for creative synergy with the

Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing, the Institute for the Humanities, the Centre d'études

francophones Quebec-Pacifique, the Centre for Scottish Studies, and the SFU Library. The

Centre will facilitate and initiate research collaborations, publications, colloquia, conferences,

speaker series, and visiting researchers. The research culture fostered by the Centre will assist in

attracting graduate students, research fellows, and visiting scholars, particularly those seeking to

participate in networks that inspire cross-disciplinary methodologies. The Centre's ongoing

collaborations will produce applications for external funding from SSHRC (e.g. collaborative

Standard Research Grants and Strategic Research Cluster grants), and will position it well to act

promptly as new grant programs and opportunities arise. Such funding will, in turn, increase

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opportunities for research training and funding of gr

aduate students. Current discussions among

CSPMC members, for example, have given rise to the interdisciplinary CTEF proposal "The

History, Theory, and Practice of Media Change Laboratory."

The faculty and associate members of the

Centre for Studies in Print and Media Cultures are

listed in Appendix A.

Contribution to SFU Community and Beyond

SFU has recently defined a number of strategic research areas. One of these areas is "Technology

and the Arts"; another is "History, Culture, Social Relations and Behaviour." As a growing

international academic movement characterized by links among media specialists, literary

scholars, historians of the book, social historians, art historians, bibliographers, and specialists in

information studies and humanities computing, the field of Print and Media Studies offers a

productive point of contact for researchers working in both of these strategic areas. The

Centre

for Studies in Print and Media Cultures

will help to spotlight the analytical research activity

which is already taking place in this university in the areas of media theory and culture. By

involving a core group of senior and upcoming scholars in humanities departments where

researchers have traditionally worked in relative isolation, the Centre will raise the profile of new

research clusters and initiatives in some of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences' largest

departments. It will also serve to build bridges between the humanities, the social sciences, and

the applied sciences. The SFU library, with its holdings in Special Collections and its ongoing

technological innovations, is well positioned to be a central player in these collaborations. The

Centre will thereby position SFU scholars for strategic networking and collaboration with

academics from other universities regionally, nationally, and internationally. Already, members

of the Print Culture Studies group have intellectual, administrative, and collegial links to the

international Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP), the newly

formed Canadian Association for Studies in Book Culture, the Bibliographical Society of Canada,

the Centre for the Study of Text, Culture, and History at Carleton University, the graduate

program in Book History and Print Culture at the University of Toronto, and the doctoral

program in the Production of Literature at Carleton University. The profile of the CSPMC, in

part through its members representing the Library, Publishing Studies, and Interactive Arts and

Technology, will also be an effective tool in reaching out to members of the general public (who

will be invited to appropriate events), as well as to media watchers, collectors, publishers, artists,

and film-makers.

Appointment of a Director

The CSPMC Steering Committee shall select, by a majority vote, one of its members to serve as

Director of the Institute. The term of office shall normally be for two years.

In the absence of the Director, an Acting Director may be drawn from the Centre's Steering

Committee.

Internal Governing Procedure and Identification of Schedule

The CSPMC shall be governed by a Steering Committee made up of at least five, and not more

than seven, SFU faculty members, drawn from at least three different departments or schools,

including the Department of English. The Director shall be Chair of the Steering Committee.

Meetings of the Steering Committee will normally be held at least twice a year, with an annual

Research as the Administrative Officer responsible for the governance and budgetary accounts of

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the Institute. The Director shall report to the Vice President, Research, including the submission

of an annual written report and financial statement, no later than June 30 of each year.

Obligations of the Centre

The

Centre for Studies in Print and Media Cultures

recognizes its obligation to conduct its.

activities in accordance with University policies. Contracts and grants shall be administered in

keeping with the applicable policies and procedures of SFU. The University shall be recognized

in all publications emanating from the Institute.

Sources of Funding

The Institute will finance its collaborative research activities by means of external funding. No

office space will be required. No new library resources will be required. However, we will seek

approximately $5000 per year to maintain and broaden the interdisciplinary lecture series

currently mounted by the Print Culture Studies group. This will enable the Centre to build on the

already-existing networking, training, and outreach potential of this series.

Appendix A

Faculty Members:

Alissa Antle (Interactive Arts and Technology) - children's media literacy; online storytelling;

mixed reality storytelling

Belgacem Ben Youssef (Interactive Arts and Technology) - video signal processing; slow motion

video; video postproduction; high-definition video

Jim Bizzocchi (Interactive Arts and Technology) - future of television; aesthetics of the moving

image; game design; interactive narrative; games and learning

John Bowes (Interactive Arts and Technology) - history of technology; technology policy and

transition of legacy media to digital media

Colette Colligan (English) - nineteenth-century literature and culture; print and visual culture;

new media; obscenity studies; documentary and realism

John Craig (History) - the ecclesiastical book trade in early modem England

Julie Crawford (English) - sixteenth- and seventeenth century literary and cultural studies;

Protestant print culture; women's literary history, especially manuscripts; early modem

intellectual and literary coteries

Leith Davis (English) - print culture; eighteenth-century and Romantic literature and culture;

music; Scottish and Irish literature and culture

Heather Dawkins (Contemporary Arts) - the visual history of environmental consciousness; print

culture; art; photography

Peter Dickinson (English) - performance studies; film studies; adaptation; gender studies

Zoe Druick (Communication) - cultural institutions; media historiography; documentary film

and television; discourses of media literacy

Ian Dyck (History) - popular song; printed ballads; oral tradition; folk culture; rural England

Michael Everton (English) - American literature to 1900; publishing history; intellectual property

Andrew Feenberg (Communication) - critical theory; philosophy of technology; online

community; online education; internet

Carole Gerson (English) - gender and print; book history; Canadian cultural history

Mary Ann Gillies (English) - material modernism; late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century

British print culture; literary agency

Matthew Hussey (English) - medieval manuscripts; Old English and Anglo-Latin literacy and

literature; bilingual aesthetics; Middle English literatures

Mary-Ellen Kelm (History) - aboriginal health; epistemology; history

Michelle Levy (English) - British Romantic literature; print culture; gender and the family

Margaret Linley (English) - print culture; nineteenth-century literature and culture

Rowland Lorimer (Master of Publishing Program, Communication) - traditional and electronic

publishing; scholarly communications; publishing industry structure and policy

John W. Maxwell (Master of Publishing Program) - publishing technology; new media; scholarly

communications; cultures of computing

Kirsten McAllister (Communication) - visual culture; social memory; political violence; space

and im/mobility; refugees & popular discourses; cultural politics

Emily O'Brien (History) - Italian humanist literature; manuscript and print cultures; translation;

censorship

Denise Oleksijczuk (Contemporary Arts) - eighteenth- and nineteenth-century panoramas;

panoramic printed keys; British imperialism, popular entertainments; perspective;

landscape art

Hilmar Pabel (History) - editorial strategies; paratextual analysis; religion and print; early modem

Europe; incunabula

Betty Schellenberg (English) - print culture; eighteenth-century literature and culture; literary and

publishing communities

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Dana Symons (English) - manuscript culture; orality; performance; representation; reception

Maite Taboada (Linguistics) - discourse analysis; genre; computational analysis of text;

sentiment and opinion; new media

Associate Members:

Lynn Copeland (Library) - scholarly communication; electronic texts; elearning

Mark Jordan (Library) - scholarly communication; electronic texts; elearning

Eric Swanick (Library, Special Collections) - bibliography; book history; book collecting

John Whatley (CODE) - print culture; media studies; literature; online university education;

hypertext; elearning

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