Faculty Performance Review 2021-22

Clive Forrester

ENGL495 Thesis completion

Teaching

Summary:

Winter 2021 marked the third academic term where teaching was done primarily in the remote format. Two courses that term--ENGL306A & 109--had already been converted to remote delivery formats. That winter marked the first time ENGL210E was delivered remotely which involved a total re-working of the assessment. I designed the major assignment as a group project where students had to develop an idea for a digital product and then prototype the app that went along with it. Though students didn’t get to meet each other in person, working via MS Teams allowed group members to complete this major assignment successfully.

In the winter of 2022, I agreed to supervise the undergraduate honours thesis for final-year student Rency Luan. This was over and above my regular teaching load, but since I had taught Ms. Luan several courses in the past and was familiar with her work ethic, I decided to supervise her for that term. This involved a virtual meeting every other week on MS Teams to guide her through the thesis development process. In the end, the 30-page thesis “Rhetoric and Advertising: Gender hierarchies and power imbalances in 1960s Chanel No. 5 advertisements” was successfully completed and submitted at the end of the term.

Fall 2022 was a return to full in-person teaching for the first time since the start of the pandemic. It took a while to get back into the classroom-style delivery but all the new content designed during the remote delivery format proved to be highly useful. For one, it allowed me to maintain the flipped-classroom model of content delivery since most of the lecture-style content was converted to animated videos. This allowed class time to be devoted to discussion and problem-solving. Overall, my teaching continues to evolve to meet whatever circumstances the university might face while ensuring that the course content remains relevant, accessible, and engaging.

Student Course Perception results 2021-22 (general overview)

Course perception detailed breakdown by course

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Service

1. May of 2021: I served on the Arts First Hiring Committee for the Faculty of Arts. This involved reading application packages for candidates, short-listing a pool of applicants, and interviewing them for the post.
   
2. July 2021-Present: I joined the FAUW equity committee and have been serving on the committee from July 2021 until the present.
   
3. August 2021: I proposed a new course as part of the Black Studies Diploma--BLKST210: Language, Life, and Literature in the Caribbean. The course is cross-listed in the Dept. of English and will be taught for the first time in Winter 2023
   
4. November 2021: I served as the adjudicator for two undergraduate awards (1) The Collective Movement Award for Community Leadership, (2) Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine Award. This was done for the Student Awards and Financial Aid department of the university.
   
5. December 2021-February 2022: I served as a member of the department chair search committee for the Dept. of English.
   
6. September 2021: I joined the planning committee of the Black Cultural Centre.
   
7. February 2022: I served as an organizer for the Ujima: Black History Month & Beyond at UW series of events to celebrate Black History Month (Faculty of Arts)
   
8. January - April 2022: I co-ordinated the Dept. of English Language and Literature Research workshops along with Fraser Easton
   
9. February 2022: I served on the interview panel for the Equity Specialist in the EDI-R Office of the university
   
10. February 2022: I did a public reading of an original story at the Waterloo Public Library as part of their Black History Month special
    
11. April 2022: I served as a member of the interview committee for the Associate Director of Equity and Experiential Education at the university
    
12. May 2022: I did a discussion/workshop as part of the Dept. of English Grade 11 Awards Colloquium for the department
    

Service Supporting Documents

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Scholarship

1. August 2022: I was consulted as an expert forensic linguist in the murder trial Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Omar Lewis
   
2. August 2022: I was elected as the president of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics (SCL) at the 24th biennial conference
   
3. October 2022: This book chapter was published; Forrester, Clive. 2022. “Writing Miss Lou Right: Language, Identity, and the Official Jamaican Orthography.” In Johnson, Michele A. (ed.), Louise Bennett And Jamiekan Langwij Commemorations and Critical Perspectives. NJ, USA: Africa World Press
   

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