{"id":215,"date":"2009-12-02T16:20:24","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T21:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/?page_id=215"},"modified":"2025-11-19T15:22:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:22:26","slug":"woods-gurli-a","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/people\/woods-gurli-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Gurli A. Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"biography\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biography<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Educated in Denmark, Germany, and Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in 1975. Held a Canada Council Doctoral Fellowship to work on Ph.D. dissertation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Began as a Sessional Lecturer at Carleton in the Department of German in January 1973 and in Comparative Literature in 1975. Now full time Associate Professor cross-appointed between the Institute of Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture, and the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women&#8217;s Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Founding member and Former President of the &#8220;Learned Society&#8221; Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada. Past Editor of the Association&#8217;s journal Scandinavian-Canadian Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"research-interests\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Interests<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Contemporary Scandinavian and Canadian women writers from the perspectives of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and various &#8220;post&#8221; theories.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Writings about former Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands) from post-colonial perspective.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"teaching\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Teaching<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Teaches gender and literature courses focusing on two different eras: European Women&#8217;s Literature around 1900, and literature written by mainly Canadian women from a variety of ethnic backgrounds (European, African, and Asian).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"publications\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;Women Can&#8217;t Paint, Women Can&#8217;t Write: The Tyranny of Anti-Feminist Rhetoric in Truisms and Fairy Tales, as Problematized by Woolf in To the Lighthouse ,&#8221; The Canadian Journal of Rhetorical Studies\/La Revue Canadienne d&#8217;\u00e9tudes rh\u00e9toriques , vol. 3, 169-86. Edited by Randal Marlin. Ottawa: Carleton University Centre for Rhetorical Studies\/Centre d&#8217;\u00e9tudes rh\u00e9toriques de Carleton University, <strong>1993<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;De &lt;&lt;gale&gt;&gt; forfattere Amalie Skram og Virginia Woolf og deres&lt;&lt;sindsygeromaner&gt;&gt;&#8221; [The `Mad&#8217; Authors Amalie Skram and Virginia Woolf and Their`Novels of Madness&#8217;], in Amalie Skram: dikterliv i brytningstid . Ed. Inger E. Haavet and Elisabeth Aasen. Skriftsserien, vol. 6. Bergen: Centre for Women&#8217;s Humanistic Research, <strong>1993<\/strong>, 113-130.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ed . Isak Dinesen and Narrativity: Reassessments for the 1990s . Introduction by G.Woods. Cahiers TADAC Papers, vol. 3. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, <strong>1994<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;The Space in the Margins: Suzanne Br\u00f8gger&#8217;s `No-Man&#8217;s Land,&#8217; Kristjana Gunnars&#8217; The Substance of Forgetting , and Aritha van Herk&#8217;s Places Far from Ellesmere ,&#8221; in Transcultural Travels: Essays in Canadian Literature and Society . Ed. Mari Peepre-Bordessa. The Nordic Association for Canadian Studies Text Series, vol. 11. Lund: NACS,<strong> 1994<\/strong>, 111-124.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>&#8220;<\/em>Lilith and Gender Equality in Isak Dinesen&#8217;s `The Supper at Helsinore&#8217; and `The Old Chevalier,'&#8221; in Isak Dinesen and Narrativity: Reassessments for the 1990s. Edited by Gurli Woods. Cahiers TADAC Pepers, vol 3. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, <strong>1994, <\/strong>47-61.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;The W(rite) of Passage: From Childhood to Womanhood in Lucy Maud Montgomery&#8217;s Emily books,&#8221; Gender and Narrativ ity . Ed. Barry Rutland. TADAC Papers\/Cahiers TADAC, vol. 2. Ottawa: Carleton UP \/ TADAC, <strong>1997<\/strong>, 147-58.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Aritha van Herk&#8217;s Rediscovery of Canada &#8211; or How to Avoid Travel and Story: Restlessness: A Novel .&#8221; In Rediscovering Canada &#8211; Image, Place and Text . Ed. Gudrun Bj\u00f6rk Gudsteins. NACS Text Series 16. Reykjavik: NACS &amp; IFLUI, <strong>2001<\/strong>. 171-5.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;From Postmodern Fragmentation to Rebirth: Suzanne Br\u00f8gger&#8217;s Work from the Early 1990s.&#8221; In Scandinavian Women&#8217;s Writing: Contemporary Critical Approaches . Special issue of Scandinavian Studies 76.2 (<strong>2004<\/strong>). 257-78.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;A Milestone in Br\u00f8gger Scholarship: Marina Allemano\u2019s \u2018Introduction\u2019 to Suzanne Br\u00f8gger\u2019s Symbolic and Philosophical Universe.\u201d Scandinavian-Canadian Studies\/Etudes scandinaves au Canada 15 (<strong>2004-05<\/strong>). 119-29.\u00a0 [Marina Allemano. Suzanne Br\u00f8gger: en introduktion. Copenhagen: Gyldendal, <strong>2004<\/strong>. 236 pages.]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Silenced Roots and Post-colonial Reality: Marlene Nourbese Philip&#8217;s She Tries Her Tongue: Her Silence Softly Breaks .&#8221;\u00a0<em> In<\/em> Literary Environments: Canada and the Old World, ed. Britta Olinder. Bruxelles: Peter Lang [Canadian Studies 5 and NACS Text Series 21], <strong>2006.<\/strong> 157-70.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u00a0\u201cTranscending Borders in Merete Morken Andersen\u2019s Postmodern Book of Poems: Fiendens musikk.\u201d In Gr\u00e4nser i nordisk litteratur \/ Borders in Nordic Literature, vol 1. Eds. Heidi Gr\u00f6nstrand and Ursula Gustafsson. \u00c5bo\/Turku, Finland: \u00c5bo akademis f\u00f6rlag, <strong>2008<\/strong>. 179-87.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&nbsp;<\/em>Professor Woods has presented numerous papers on women writers at scholarly conferences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18635,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Gurli A.","cu_people_last_name":"Woods","cu_people_initials":"GW","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[31],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-215","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-retired"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Associate Professor (Retired)","cu_people_degree":"Ph.D. (University of British Columbia)","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"gurli.woods@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18636,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/215\/revisions\/18636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}