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Mary Chapman

Professor | Editor, Canadian Literature July 1, 2025 - )Department of English Language and LiteraturesUniversity of British Columbia

Mary Chapman

Professor | Editor, Canadian Literature July 1, 2025 - )

Department of English Language and Literatures

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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Principal investigator on 6 research grants (6 SSHRC), most recently in 2022.

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Visual Storytelling and Graphic Art in Genocide and Human Rights Education
SSHRC · 2022 · Co-investigator
$365,528
Intimate Empire: The Story of Sui Sin Far's Family
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$53,608
Onoto Watanna's CATTLE at 100: Indomitable Women in the West During the Chinese Exclusion Era
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$24,983

All 10 grants and awards

Visual Storytelling and Graphic Art in Genocide and Human Rights Education

Co-investigatorSSHRC2022Partnership Grants

Keywords: human rights education; genocide studies; atrocity studies; Indigenous studies; oral history; memory studies; arts-based research; visual storytelling; graphic narratives; community-engaged research; cultural trauma; testimony collection; open access

$365,528

Intimate Empire: The Story of Sui Sin Far's Family

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Chapman, Mary A.

Keywords: Asian Canadian history; Asian Canadian literature; microhistory; empire; Sui Sin Far; Onoto Watanna; Edith Eaton; Winnifred Eaton

$53,608

Onoto Watanna's CATTLE at 100: Indomitable Women in the West During the Chinese Exclusion Era

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Chapman, Mary A.M.

Keywords: public-facing scholarly conference; literary recovery; Asian Canadian literature; Asian Canadian and prairie history; digital humanities; community partnership

$24,983

Intimate Empire: The Story of Sui Sin Far's Family

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Chapman, Mary A.M.

Keywords: Asian Canadian history; Asian Canadian literature; microhistory; empire; Sui Sin Far; Onoto Watanna; Edith Eaton; Winnifred Eaton

$22,163

Visual Storytelling and Graphic Art in Genocide and Human Rights Education

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Partnership Grants

Keywords: human rights education; genocide studies; atrocity studies; oral history; memory studies; arts-based research; visual storytelling; graphic narratives; community-engaged research; historical and cultural trauma; testimony collection; open access

$19,996

Visual Storytelling and Graphic Art in Genocide and Human Rights Education

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Partnership Grants

$879,320

Gwine back to Dixie: slave girls underground railroads and tragic mulattas in Edith Eaton's life and work

Principal investigatorSSHRC2016Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Chapman, Mary A.

Keywords: Asian-American literature; Canadian literature; biography; migration; sui sin far; African American; slavery

$104,614

Reorienting Edith Eaton/Sui Sin Far in turn-of-the-century North American print culture

Principal investigatorSSHRC2010Standard Research Grants program

Principal investigators: Chapman, Mary A.M.

Keywords: Asian-American literature; print culture; Canadian literature; women writers

$65,805

Editing modernism in Canada

Co-investigatorSSHRC2007Strategic Knowledge Clusters

Principal investigators: Irvine, Dean J.

Keywords: Canadian literature; editing; textual criticism; publishing; electronic texts; hypermedia; cultural history; experiential learning; literary modernism

$2,100,000

Treacherous texts: American suffrage literature

Principal investigatorSSHRC2004Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Chapman, Mary A. M.

Keywords: suffrage; modernism; canon revision; print culture; feminism; rhetoric; women's rights

$57,148

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Profile data last refreshed on September 27, 2026 from the university directory, publication records and CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding.

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