Shawna Geissler
- Affiliation: Campion College/ Luther College
Shawna Geissler holds an MSc in Biology from the University of Regina. After seven years as a full-time mother, she earned her MA in English, and is now working on her doctoral dissertation on representations of women’s breasts in British Renaissance medical anatomies and sonnet sequences. In 2007, she chaired the University of Regina’s Graduate Students’ Research Conference. She has published and presented papers on a variety of topics including children’s fiction, holocaust narratives, and apocalyptic literatures, as well as on the evolutionary relationships among grasshoppers. She teaches critical reading and writing at Campion and Luther Colleges, and, in 2008, won the Inspiring Sessional Award. She mothers three teen-aged sons: Justin, Adam, and Evan.
Books by Shawna Geissler
Mothering Canada: Interdisciplinary Voices
La maternité au Canada: voix interdisciplinaires
Edited by Shawna Geissler, Lynn Loutzenhiser, Jocelyne Praud, Leesa Striefler
A multidisciplinary, bilingual anthology of mothering research in Canada that illustrates facets of Canadian mothering through different disciplinary lenses including social sciences, literature, and visual arts. The anthology confirms that issues of mothering are prevalent in the Canadian psyche, and in much need of research, communication, and change. ”A wonderfully rich collection of material on what we know and what we still need to know about mothering. Mothering Canada illustrates… (more information)