Dr. Kim McLean-Fiander

Kim McLean-Fiander teaches courses in literature, composition, book history, and professional communication. At UVic and elsewhere (Oxford, Advanced Studies in England (Bath, UK), U of Alberta, Stonehill College (USA)), she has taught copy editing, literature and composition, academic writing, Shakespeare, early modern women’s writing, book history, text encoding, political sociology, and women’s studies courses. Her first-year literature courses (ENSH 101, ENSH 103) often address social justice issues about the environment, Indigenous lives, immigrant experience, race, class, gender, and sexuality. She is grateful to have received a Strategic Initiative Indigenous Grant in 2023 to further her work on Indigenizing and decolonizing these courses.

She is Co-Director of the award-winning Oxford-based Women’s Early Modern Letters Online (WEMLO), a freely available British Academy-funded catalogue of women’s correspondence from c. 1400-1700. Prior to WEMLO, she worked as Digital Editor of Early Modern Letters Online (EMLO) at the University of Oxford. She has also held various positions, including Director of Pedagogy and Outreach, with UVic’s The Map of Early Modern London (MoEML) project.

As a Commonwealth Scholar and SSHRC Doctoral Fellow, she studied at the University of Oxford, where she focused on early modern women’s paratext. While in England, she worked as a Senior Library Assistant for the Bodleian Libraries and as a freelance editor. On this side of the pond, she has been an intern (manuscripts), a participant in an NEH Summer Institute (Early Modern Digital Agendas), and visiting faculty in an NEH Folger Institute (Teaching Shakespeare to Undergraduates) at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC.

Her research interests include Indigenizing and decolonizing pedagogy, writing pedagogy, early modern letters, women writers, book history (particularly paratext), maps, and digital humanities.