Yates Thompson MS 26, fol. 21r
British Library, Yates Thompson MS 26, fol. 21r.

I regularly supervise undergraduate Honours students on their Honours theses and employ undergraduate and graduate-level Research Assistants on my various research projects.

In the Winter of 2018, I was awarded the inaugural Mount Royal University Undergraduate Research Supervision Award, in recognition of outstanding contributions to research and scholarship at Mount Royal University.

Here’s a list of my current and recent supervisory commitments:

SUPERVISION, THESES (UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE):

BA Honours Thesis Supervisor. Aria Bamford. “The Spaces that Define Us: Hybridity and Identity in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” Mount Royal University, 2022.

BA Honours Thesis Supervisor. Taylor Harvey. “Fame as Illusions: Exploring Game through Geoffrey Chaucer’s The House of Fame and Natalie Haynes’ A Thousand Ships.” Mount Royal University, 2022.

♦ BA Honours Thesis Supervisor. James Welsh. “The Importance of Grimoires in the Literary Canon.” Mount Royal University, 2020.

♦ BA Honours Thesis Supervisor. Tia Christoffersen. “‘Thus saw I fals and sooth compouned’: Destabilizing Truth through Immersive Landscapes in Chaucer’s House of Fame.” Mount Royal University, 2019.

♦ BA Honours Thesis Supervisor with Dr. Sharon Smulders. Megan Nega. “Lifting the Liminal Veil in Sir Orfeo.” Mount Royal University, 2019.

♦ BA Honours Thesis Supervisor. Samantha Purchase. “‘Now My Watch Has Ended’: Exploring Medieval Memorialization in Game of Thrones.” Mount Royal University, 2019.

♦ BA Honours Thesis Supervisor.  Tess Brilling. “The Sustainability of Performative Identity: connecting eco-criticism to sexuality and gender in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.”  Mount Royal University, 2018.

♦ BA Honours Thesis Supervisor.  Chelsea Fritz.  “Medieval Heroines and Sexual Manipulation.” Mount Royal University, 2018.

♦ BA Honours Thesis Supervisor.  Michael Lazar. “Textual Spatiality: Exploring Narrative Space.”  Mount Royal University, 2018.

♦ MFA Thesis External Examiner.  Gibbings, Lina.  “Performing Pearl:  Drama, Middle English Text, and Performance Based Research in Medieval Studies. University of Calgary. Spring 2018.

♦ BA Honours Thesis Supervisor.  Blunt, Jeremy.  “Poetics of Possibilities:  Exploring the Literary Seascapes of the Anglo-Saxon Weltanschauung.” Mount Royal University, 2017.

♦ BA Honours Thesis Supervisor.  Pollon, Logan.  “’He kan wel in myn eye seen a stalke’:  the Homosocial ‘quytting’ game in Fragment I of The Canterbury Tales.” Mount Royal University, 2016.

♦ BA Honours Thesis Supervisor.  Howatt, Kayla.  “Participation of Secular Women in Middle English Literary Culture.” Mount Royal University, 2013.

♦ BA Honours Thesis Supervisor.  Triebwasser, Holly.  “Women of Words:  Female Involvement    in the Middle English Letter Writing Genre.” Mount Royal University, 2012.

♦ BA Honours Thesis Supervisor.  Hallman, Jillian.  “Female Identification and the Body in  Select Chaucerian Fabliaux.” Mount Royal University, 2012.

♦ BA Honours Thesis Supervisor.  Fahssi, Elias.  “A facing page, diplomatic and critical edition of the Middle English poem Patience.” Mount Royal University, 2011.

SUPERVISION, RESEARCH ASSISTANTS (UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE):

Quote: Supervising students means engaging individual learners and researchers with my own teaching and scholarship. Student supervision is at the core of what I do. Supervision allows new knowledge to emerge for both student and supervisor.

♦ Supervisor. Research Assistant, Samantha Purchase. Material Medieval Memory Project for Building matters: a case study in partnerships for environmental sustainability. June 2021-August 2021.

♦ Supervisor. Research Assistant, Tia Christoffersen. Emerging Medievalisms. Provost’s Teaching and Learning Enhancement Grant. September 2019-June 2020.

♦ Supervisor. Research Assistant, Samantha Purchase. Emerging Medievalisms. Provost’s Teaching and Learning Enhancement Grant. September 2019-June 2020.

♦ Supervisor. Research Assistant, Tia Christoffersen. Material Medieval Memory Project for Building matters: a case study in partnerships for environmental sustainability. September 2019-present.

♦ Supervisor. Research Assistant, Samantha Purchase. Material Medieval Memory Project for Building matters: a case study in partnerships for environmental sustainability. September 2018-present.

♦ Supervisor. Research Assistant, Tess Brilling. Material Medieval Memory Project for Building matters: a case study in partnerships for environmental sustainability. September 2018-May 2019.

♦ Supervisor. Research Assistant, Micheal Lazar. Material Medieval Memory Project, for Building matters: a case study in partnerships for environmental sustainability. September 2018-May 2019.

♦ Supervisor. Research Assistant, Logan Pollon. Emerging Medievalisms. Provost’s Teaching and Learning Enhancement Grant. September 2017-June 2018.

♦ Supervisor. Research Assistant, Jeremy Blunt. Emerging Medievalisms. Provost’s Teaching and Learning Enhancement Grant. September 2017-June 2018.

♦ Supervisor. Research Assistant, Elizabeth Dizon. Building matters:  a case study in partnerships for environmental sustainability. March 2018-June 2018.

♦ Supervisor. Research Assistant, Chelsea Fritz. Emergence as Method and Theme for SoTL. Co-investigators:  Kenna Olsen and Ada Jaarsma. March 2018-June 2018.

♦ Supervisor.  Research Assistant, Jeremy Blunt. Emergence as Method and Theme for SoTL.  Co-investigators:  Kenna Olsen and Ada Jaarsma. September 2017– December 2017.

♦ Supervisor. Research Assistant, Jeremy Blunt. Material Medieval Memory Project.  Principal Investigator:  Kenna Olsen.  January 2018 – August 2018.

♦ Supervisor.  Research Assistant, Jaclyn Carter (MA). Emerging Medievalisms:  Method, Media, Manuscript. Principal Investigator: Kenna Olsen. September 2017-December 2017.

♦ Supervisor. Research Assistant, Kayla Howatt.  Material Girls:  Middle English Secular Female Scribes and their Cultural Agents. Principal Investigator: Kenna Olsen.  April 2015-May 2015.

♦ Supervisor. Research Assistant, Elias Fahssi (MPhil). Material Girls:  Middle English Secular Female Scribes and their Cultural Agents.  Principal Investigator: Kenna Olsen.  March 2014-July 2015.

♦ Supervisor. Research Assistant, Kayla Howatt.  Material Girls:  Middle English Secular Female Scribes and their Cultural Agents. Principal Investigator: Kenna Olsen. September 2013- June 2014.

♦ Supervisor. Research Assistant, Jaclyn Carter (MA).  Material Girls: Middle English Secular Female Scribes and their Cultural Agents. Principal Investigator: Kenna Olsen. May 2013-August 2013.

♦ Supervisor. Research Assistant (MA), Jaclyn Carter. Cotton Nero A.x. Project. Direct

♦ Supervisor, Murray McGillivray.  Principal Investigators:  McGillivray, Murray and Kenna Olsen. Fall 2012-Winter 2013.

♦ Supervisor. Research Assistant (MA), Kelsey Moskal.  Cotton Nero A.x. Project. Direct

♦ Supervisor, Murray McGillivray.  Principal Investigators:  McGillivray, Murray and Kenna Olsen. Fall 2012-Winter 2013.

♦ Supervisor. Undergraduate Research Assistant, Kimberley Munchrath.  Material Girls:  Middle English Secular Female Scribes and their Cultural Agents.  Principal Investigator: Kenna Olsen.  January 2013-March 2013.

♦ Supervisor.  Undergraduate Research Assistant, Holly Triebwasser.  Material Girls:  Middle English Secular Female Scribes and their Cultural Agents.  Principal Investigator: Kenna Olsen.  December 2012-May 2013.

♦ Supervisor. Undergraduate Research Assistant, Kelsey Moskal. Material Girls:  Middle English Secular Female Scribes and their Cultural Agents. Principal Investigator: Kenna Olsen.  January 2012-September 2012.

♦ Supervisor.  Graduate Research Assistant (PhD), Kirsten Inglis. Cotton Nero A.x. Project. Direct Supervisor, Kenna Olsen.  Principal Investigators: McGillivray, Murray and Kenna Olsen.  Spring 2011-present.

♦ Supervisor. Undergraduate Research Assistant, Elias Fahssi. Cotton Nero A.x. Project. Direct Supervisor, Kenna Olsen.  Principal Investigators: McGillivray, Murray and Kenna Olsen.  Spring 2011-present.

♦ Supervisor. Graduate Research Assistant (MA), Lars Hedlund. Cotton Nero A.x. Project. Direct Supervisor, Kenna Olsen.  Principal Investigators: McGillivray, Murray and Kenna Olsen. Winter 2011-present.

♦ Supervisor.  Undergraduate Research Assistant, Jaclyn Carter. Women Scribes of Middle English Literature.  Principal Investigator:  Kenna Olsen. Winter 2011.

♦ Supervisor. Undergraduate Research Assistant, Alexandra Coates. Women Scribes of Middle English Literature.  Principal Investigator:  Kenna Olsen.  Winter 2010.

♦ Supervisor. Undergraduate Research Assistant, Lars Hedlund.  Women Scribes of Middle English Literature.  Principal Investigator:  Kenna Olsen.  Spring 2009.