Instructors

Jan MacLean

Jan is a Limited Term Lecturer with FAL and has been teaching undergrad courses for the Faculty of Education at SFU for the last four years. She received her PhD in Arts Education. Her research interests include literacy, aesthetics and diversity.

Rob Manery

Rob is a Sessional Instructor with FAL. He has previously taught English
at a private school in Vancouver. Rob is a doctoral candidate in
Curriculum Theory and Implementation whose work focuses on literature
and moral education.

Tim Mossman

In addition to teaching Foundations of Academic Literacy, Tim works
in the Student Learning Commons at SFU as the English as an
Additional Language (EAL) Services Coordinator. He has taught in the
field of ESL for 24 years. Tim received both his Bachelor of
Physical Education and Master of Arts degrees from the University of
British Columbia.

Marela Dichupa

I have been teaching for more than a decade. Before I immigrated to Canada, I was a high school teacher at an international school in Manila.  Aside from Foundations in Academic Literacy, I also teach curriculum theory courses in the Faculty of Education at SFU

Charles Scott

I was then a gardener, now a Ph.D. in Arts Education. Academic
literacy is about exploring: yourself, the world around you, as well as the
intersections between the two and writing plays an enormous role in
developing and chronicling this exploration. "Will you be a reader, a
student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk
on into futurity." Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Kerstin Heilgenberg

Kerstin is a Limited Term Lecturer and course coordinator for FAL. She has been teaching academic literacy for five years in the UK and in Canada. Her reasearch interests include academic literacy, international education and Activity Theory among others.

Lorna Ramsay

With a PhD in Arts Education at SFU, Lorna is a Term Instructor and Tutor Marker in the Education Faculty, and an Instructor for Foundations of Literacy. Lorna is a flutist, poet and photographer exploring multi-modal narrative inquiry of embodied voice, aesthetic expression and ways of knowing and learning. She has presented at many international conferences and has had her arts performance, multi-media pieces published in on-line academic journals.

Kathryn Ricketts

Kathryn has been working for the past 26 years in the field of movement and visual arts.

Her work has been presented throughout Europe, South America, Africa and Canada. Kathryn ran her own company in Copenhagen Denmark for the 10 years and later a 3 year professional dance training program in Vancouver as well as her professional company Plan B Dance Productions. She completed her Masters from U.B.C. with a focus on identity and place through the practice of dance and has received her Ph.D. at S.F.U. researching the relationship of embodiment and literacy