Writing

Dr. Alex Pett has taught English and communications in Canadian universities and colleges from coast to coast. She lives on Vancouver Island and commutes to Vancouver for face to face teaching and professional activities. Her interests are painting, researching, reading, writing, beach walking, and hiking.

See the list of below of what she could do for you:

• journal and diary writing workshop facilitating;
• demonstrating memoir and life writing, technical and business formats for written and speaking projects;
• mentoring for living the artist’s life, which has been well documented by Julia Cameron and devotees. 

Publications and Presentations

Walking in a Cactus Garden, full-length novel set in Baja, Mexico, to be published in 2026

“From Short Story to Case-Based Learning: Workplace Fiction and the Aftermath to COVID-19,” Private Degree Granting Universities Association, online conference, October 1, 2021

“Writing and Reading Fiction Behind the Lines: Creative Learning on the Home Front,” book chapter in Teaching in the PostCOVID-19 Era, edited by Fayed, I. and Cummings, J., Springer, 2020

“No One Way: Teaching International Students to Write,” Private Degree Granting Universities and Institutes Association Inaugural Conference, Vancouver, October 2019

“Returning from the Land Called War: Francis Itani’s Deafening,” conference paper, World War One and Canadian Literature, University of Ottawa, August 2014

“Poster for a New Chile: Intimacy and Traumatic Recreation in Isabel Allende’s ‘Our Secret,’” conference paper, American Comparative Literature Association, Vancouver, BC, April 2011

Transforming Selves Under the Gaze of Others: Evolving Traditions in Life-Writing, book about Canadian and global autobiography, including metanarrative, Victoria, BC: Abbot’s View Press, 2006

“Noor’s City of Light: Occupied Paris, 1943: Suburban Landscape in The Tiger Claw by Shauna Baldwin,” conference paper, Association for Commonwealth Language and Literature, York University, May 2006

“Prairie Crossings: Intercultural Relations and Canadian Fiction,” Proceedings of the Cultural Studies Conference in Semerang, Central Java, Spring 2005

“Childhood’s Imaginary World: Margaret Laurence and Manawaka,” West Virginia University Conference on Imaginary Places, September 2005

Paper on Nancy Houston’s An Adoration and Heinrich Boll’s The Clown, and conference organizer, Nancy Houston Conference, Mount Royal College, 2004

“A Canadian’s Perspective of American Literary Studies,” Journal of Indo-American Studies, Vol. 1, 2002

“Thomas King’s ‘Borders’: The Difficulty of U.S./Canada Crossings,” Textura, Revista de Educacao, Ciencias Humanas e Letras, second semester of 2001, No. 5, 35–41

“Writing and Painting under the Gaze: Emily Carr’s Growing Pains,” West Virginia University Philological Papers, 2001, Vol. 48, 54–67

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