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PA Demers

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Distinguished University Professor EmeritusDepartment of English and Film Studies,University of Alberta

PA Demers

Distinguished University Professor Emeritus

Department of English and Film Studies,

Faculty of Arts

University of Alberta

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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Emeritus professors are retired and rarely take new students.
No publications on record.
Led 5 research grants as principal investigator (5 SSHRC), most recently in 2010.

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Latest funding

Digital Economy - Sustaining digital scholarship for sustainable culture
SSHRC · 2010 · Co-investigator
$25,000
Canadian Women Writers: Connecting Texts and Generations
SSHRC · 2010 · Principal investigator
$19,000
Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory
CFI · 2009 · Co-investigator
$1,195,064

All 7 grants and awards

Digital Economy - Sustaining digital scholarship for sustainable culture

Co-investigatorSSHRC2010Presidential Fund for Innovation and Development

Principal investigators: Brown, Susan I.

$25,000

Canadian Women Writers: Connecting Texts and Generations

Principal investigatorSSHRC2010Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada

Principal investigators: Demers, Patricia A.

Keywords: digital collaborations; bilingual; interdisciplinary literary history; women's writing in Canada; humanities computing creating virtual archive; textbase of data; interactive forum

$19,000

Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory

Co-investigatorCFI2009Innovation Fund: Leading Edge Fund 2009

Principal investigators: Brown, Susan

Keywords: digital humanities, Canadian literature, electronic text, literary text analysis, metadata, text encoding, web 2.0 collaboration tools, communities of practice

$1,195,064

Women writing and reading in Canada from 1950 to the present

Principal investigatorSSHRC2007Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Demers, Patricia A.

Keywords: women's writing in Canada since 1950; reading practices of writers; students; and citizens; contracted monograph; website of online learning resources; academic-community exchange; graduate team-based research training

$111,403

Program for study of women writing and reading

Principal investigatorSSHRC2004Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Demers, Patricia A.

Keywords: women writing; women reading; published monographs; online database of reading practices; multi-media magazine; academic-community exchange; online learning resources for wide use; graduate and undergraduate team-based research training; visitors program

$207,492

Conference - Alternative Wor(l)ds: the Humanities in 2010 / Mo(n)des de pensée : les humanités en 2010 - October 19-21, 2000

Principal investigatorSSHRC2000Presidential Fund for Innovation and Development

Principal investigators: Demers, Patricia

$78,754

Working Group on the Future of the Humanities

Principal investigatorSSHRC1999Presidential Fund for Innovation and Development

Principal investigators: Demers, Patricia

$90,000

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke, Brain Canada and the New Frontiers in Research Fund.

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