Email: [email protected]
Discipline:
Pastoral Ministry and Clinical Pastoral Education
Education:
BA in History from Iona College 1967 (New Rochelle, NY)
MA in Educational Administration from The Catholic University of America 1974 (Washington, DC)
MA in Pastoral Ministry from Assumption University 2002 (Windsor, ON)
Advanced Certificate Clinical Pastoral Education 2008
Biography:
It has been my privilege to facilitate the learning of graduate students in the area of Pastoral Ministry. I have been blessed to be able to use my academic background and pastoral experience to help prepare students to engage effectively in ministry to others.
Dr. Adrienne Castellon is the Director of Mission Engagement at Providence Health Care. She has been involved in education at all levels, authored several publications and presented at academic and professional conferences. Adrienne serves on several boards and is engaged in parish and diocesan ministry. Particular areas of focus and passion include: personal and social transformation, Indigenous-church reconciliation, ecumenism and interfaith relations https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrienne-castellon-edd-68340a63
Dr. Christine Younghusband teaches CALR 526: Curriculum, Assessment and Evaluation in Catholic Schools. She has appreciated the opportunities for innovation and creativity in the delivery of this course in past years and she is excited to deepening and broadening her pedagogy in higher education at St. Mark’s College.
Dr. Younghusband completed her Doctor of Education at Simon Fraser University in Educational Leadership in 2017. Her dissertation titled, “The Professional Learning Experiences of Non-Mathematics Subject Specialist Teachers: A Descriptive Study” captures her research interests in mathematics education, professional learning, and subject acquisition. She is also interested in teacher education, educational leadership, and formative assessment.
Dr. Younghusband is a former secondary mathematics teacher with 16 years of experience in BC public schools. She served two terms as a school trustee and contributed to BC’s Redesigned Curriculum as a member of the Math K-9 Curriculum Development Team. Currently, she is an independent educational consultant and Assistant Professor at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC).
Education
EdD – Educational Leadership – Simon Fraser University, 2017
MEd – Curriculum and Instruction – Simon Fraser University, 2001
BEd – Secondary Education – University of British Columbia, 1994
BSc – Chemistry Major, Mathematics Concentration – University of British Columbia, 1993
Publications
Laitsch, D. & Ho Younghusband, C. (2019). British Columbia School Trustee’s Use of Research and Information Seeking in Decision Making. Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy. 188. p. 2-14.
Younghusband, C. (2018). The signal: Questioning pedagogy. Signals of Change. Canadian Education Magazine. EdCanNetwork. 58 (1). p. 27.
Previous Appointments
Sessional Instructor, Simon Fraser University (2016-2018)
Professional Societies
British Columbia Association of Mathematics Teachers (BCAMT)
Emil joined St. Mark’s College in 2011 as the Coordinator of Enrolment Services and he is currently the Registrar. Prior to joining St. Mark’s College, he occupied a variety of academic and administrative positions at Angeles University Foundation in the Philippines. He has also taught religious education and education courses both in the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Discipline: Feminist theology, Mariology, Systematic theology, Theology and Culture
Education:
PhD (Regis College and the University of Toronto, 2024)
STL (Regis College, 2023)
ThM (University of St. Michael’s College and the University of Toronto, 2018)
MTS (University of St. Michael’s College and the University of Toronto, 2015)
H.BA (University of Toronto, 2013)
Publications
Book Reviews:
“Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Invisible: Theology and the Experience of Asian American Women,” Journal of Moral Theology vol. 12, no. 1 (2023): 153-4.
“Scott Lewis, SJ, How Not to Read the Bible: An Authentical Catholic Approach to Scripture for Today,” Religion & Theology vol. 28, no. 1-2 (2021): 115-6.
“Mary and the Incarnation: An Illustrated Anthology by Christine Granger (review),” Toronto Journal of Theology vol. 35, no. 2 (2019): 221-2.
Previous Appointments
Associate Director of the Msgr. John Mary Fraser Centre for Practical Theology at Regis College (2021-2024)
Professional Societies
Active Member of the Catholic Theological Society of America
Member of the Centre for Marian Studies
Member of the Canadian Theological Society
Current Research Projects
Editing dissertation for publication
Decolonializing images of Mary
A relational reading of the Marian Dogmas
Germain McKenzie is a Peruvian-Canadian theologian and sociologist who earned a Ph.D. in Religion and Culture from the Catholic University of America (Washington, D.C.). His academic interests focus on the intersection of Catholic theology and sociology in both a theoretical and applied manner. In regard to the former, he is currently studying the pre-conditions for a dialogue between theology and the social sciences, and Latin American ecclesiologies. As per the latter, Dr. McKenzie is studying new evangelization initiatives in Canada through the use of quantitative and qualitative sociological approaches, in the light of secular and post-secular studies.
Dr. McKenzie studies issues related to moral theology, in particular those belonging to Catholic social ethics as applied to refugees and immigrants into Canada. He has been an activist for Catholic-inspired social change in Latin America and has served poor communities in the shanty towns of Lima, his city of birth, for more than 10 years. In this connection he has published peer-reviewed articles on social ethics: “Medellin: 30 Years After” and “John Paul II’s Reconciliation Proposal for Latin America.”
Dr. McKenzie is also interested in the social dynamics of religious minorities, having done studies on different Buddhist lineages in Peru, and also in Catholic revivalist groups. He is keen of exploring the origin, development and integration into the life of the Church of lay associations and ecclesial movements, as well as in the evolution of the theological understanding of the relationships between the charismatic and institutional dimension of the Church.
He has worked at various Peruvian universities and has also taught at Niagara University, in Lewiston, New York. While conducting his doctoral studies, Dr. McKenzie was awarded by his alma mater with the Hubbard Dissertation Fellowship, and by the Canadian Consortium for the Study of Religion with the Travel Scholarship for Doctoral Students. He also worked as Research Assistant for the Hispanic Ministry Organizational Culture Project, carried out by the Institute for Public Research and Catholic Studies (Washington, D.C.)
He currently lives in Surrey with his wife, Giuliana.
Books
Entries in Edited Books
Selected Peer-Reviewed Articles
Education
Professional Societies
Ina grew up in Potchefstroom, a university town in South Africa, where she completed her MA in English. Her doctoral thesis in Stylistics was supervised by Geoffrey Leech at Lancaster University, England.
She taught for several years at UNISA in linguistics, literary theory and stylistics. She has been a lecturer in the Department of English language and literatures at UBC in the structure of Modern English (including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and discourse), the early and later history of English, grammar and usage, stylistics, sociolinguistics and academic and technical writing. Her teaching experience further includes teaching both language and literature as a sessional lecturer at St. Mark’s College, TWU, KPU and UFV.
Her research interests are the analysis and interpretation of literary and non-literary texts across various eras and styles, with an abiding interest in the work of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Her teaching approach depends on the assumption that a thorough understanding of the structure of the English language and of the ways in which we use language to communicate in different contexts makes for more effective future educators. It also enhances our capacity to function as discerning and compassionate members of society in our time. Since promoting in others a love for the study of language is her vocation, Ina is excited to teach at St. Mark’s where she hopes to contribute to students’ academic preparation for their future careers.
Education
DLitt et Phil (UNISA)
Supervisor: Geoffrey N. Leech, University of Lancaster, United Kingdom
Co-supervisor: Ina Gräbe, University of South Africa (UNISA) (1991) Thesis: A study of the language of the sonnets of Gerard Manley Hopkins, with special reference to sound patterns .
MA English (Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education)
Dissertation: A linguistic analysis of certain poems by T. S. Eliot. (1981)
Previous Appointments
UBC, Department of English Language and Literatures, Lecturer (2013-2021) ; Sessional lecturer (2021-current)
Professional Societies
PALA (Poetics and Linguistics Association)
Publications
Biermann, Ina & Luna Bergh (2022) Stilistiek, in Carstens, W.A.M. & T.J. van Dyk, eds. (2022) Toegepaste Taalkunde in Afrikaans. (“Applied Linguistics in Afrikaans”.) J.L. van Schaik, pp. 657-680.
Biermann, Ina & Annette Combrink (eds.) (2001) Poetics, Linguistics and History: Discourses of War and Conflict: Proceedings of the 19th PALA Conference. PU for CHE: Potchefstroom.
Biermann, Ina & Sekepe Matjila (2001) Sound repetition as metaphor marker in “Aferika” by L.D. Raditladi, in Biermann, Ina & Annette Combrink (eds.) (2001) Poetics, Linguistics and History: Discourses of War and Conflict: Proceedings of the 19th PALA Conference. PU for CHE: Potchefstroom, pp. 626-642.
Biermann, Ina & Hilton Hubbard (guest eds.) (1999) Introduction. Journal of Literary Studies/Tydskrif vir Literatuurwetenskap 15(3 4) Special double issue on Stylistics. R.
Biermann, Ina (1999) Sound repetition as characterisation technique in Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh, in Journal of Literary Studies / Tydskrif vir Literatuurwetenskap 15(3 4): 324-354. R. Available online at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02564719908530235
Biermann, Ina (1995) When metaphor counts: review article of Understanding Metaphor by Gerard Steen, in Language and Literature 6(1):57 68, February. R.
Biermann, Ina (1993) Intertextuality as parallelism in two South African poems. Language and Literature 2(3):197 220. R.
Biermann, Ina (1992) “Die spookreël”(“the ghost line”) pp. 501 2; “die strofe” (“the stanza”) pp. 508 10; “die versreël”(“the line”) pp. 556 60, in Cloete, T.T. (ed.) Literêre Terme en Teorieë. Haum Literêr: Pretoria.
Biermann, Ina (1988) Sound in poetry: the role of phonetics in the study of poetic language as exemplified in the study of a sonnet by Gerard Manley Hopkins. SA Journal of Linguistics 6(3):15 29. R.
Biermann, Ina (1984) “Greeks Today” (English translation of the poem “Grieke vandag” by T.T. Cloete) Tydskrif vir Letterkunde NR22(3):3. R.
Pretorius, W.G.J. (1980) A Christian approach to literary criticism Koers 45(4): 285-294. R.
Jessica Hemming is Associate Professor of Medieval & Renaissance History. She teaches pre-modern European History, English Literature, and occasionally Celtic Mythology, at Corpus Christi and St Mark’s Colleges. Her principal specialist area is medieval Welsh literature, with sidelines in folktale, mythology, and the cultural history of the early Celts. She is the Editor of the London-based international journal “Folklore,” with which she has worked in one capacity or another since 2000.
Her research interests include the semantics of colour terms in Middle Welsh and more generally the cultural significance of colour perception and naming; sensory aspects of medieval lyric poetry; landscape in Medieval Welsh literature; the “female gaze” in early Celtic texts; ancient Celtic mythology.
Discipline: Theology, Biblical Studies, including New Testament, early Judaism, and Children in the Bible
I was born in Vancouver and raised in South Vancouver and Richmond. My Mom and Dad both passed in the last few years, but I have four siblings, two of whom are local. I have numerous relatives all throughout the Lower Mainland and the Fraser Valley. Though raised in a large and loving Mennonite family, I was fascinated by a course on Christianity I took with Fr. James Roberts at Langara and decided to continue my studies at St. Michael’s College, the Catholic college at the University of Toronto. From there my interest in Judaism and Christianity continued to grow and I completed my studies at McMaster University, with stops at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and University of Haifa.
After I received my PhD, I began to teach at several institutions in Winnipeg but spent most of my time teaching at the University of Winnipeg. While in Winnipeg, I also started a crisis line at Salvation Army and worked as a crisis counsellor at Klinic Community Health Centre. In Winnipeg, my wife Tabitha and I entered the Catholic Church at St. Ignatius Church and soon after we moved to the Twin Cities of Minnesota where I began teaching biblical studies at University of St. Thomas. I taught at UST for twenty wonderful years, rising in the ranks to Full Professor and Director of the MA in Theology program at St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity.
I came home to Vancouver to direct the Centre for Christian Engagement at St. Mark’s College at UBC in 2021.
My wife Tabitha is trained in public health and is completed her MA in Theology at St. Mark’s. My oldest son Jacob teaches English in Japan and has lived there for ten years becoming fluent in Japanese. My youngest son Sam currently lives in Vancouver, where he moved after completing an MA in Japanese religion at McMaster University, and he now directs the marketing division for a tech startup in Vancouver.
Apart from my academic pursuits, which I continue to love, I love dogs, especially Emerald, our four-year-old German Shepherd mix, and our late beloved German Shepherd Hunter, who lived to thirteen years old. I also love to garden, especially vegetables and fruit, and love to can what I grow. I love reading novels, including detective and fantasy novels, excellent TV shows (The Americans, The Sopranos, Flea Bag, Catastrophe, Better Call Saul) and foreign films, and the Vancouver Canucks and the Minnesota Timberwolves.
I am excited to be back home after thirty-nine years living across North America and to teach the students at St. Mark’s College all that I have learned in my study of the Bible, early Christianity, and Judaism.
Education:
Publications:
Liturgy and Life Study Bible general eds. John W. Martens and Fr. Paul Turner. (Liturgical Press, May 2023). (https://litpress.org/Products/6435/Liturgy-and-Life-Study-Bible.)
John W. Martens and Kristine Henriksen Garroway (eds.), Children and Methods: Listening To and Learning From Children in the Biblical World (Brill’s Series in Jewish Studies) (Boston: Brill, 2020). ISSN: 0926-2261
“Fathers and Daughters in 1 Corinthians 7:36-38: The Social Implications of Marriage in Early Christian Families,” in T&T Clark Handbook of Children in the Biblical World, eds. Sharon Betsworth and Julie Faith Parker (London: T&T Clark, 2019) 335-355. ISBN: 978-0-567-67257-5
“Methodology: Who Is a Child and Where Do We find Children in the Greco-Roman World?,” in T&T Clark Handbook of Children in the Biblical World, eds. Sharon Betsworth and Julie Faith Parker (London: T&T Clark, 2019) 223-243. ISBN: 978-0-567-67257-5
The Word on the Street, Year C: Sunday Lectionary Reflections (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2018). ISBN-13: 978-0814649657
Paul, Pastoring God’s People (Alive in the Word) (Little Rock Scripture Study, 2018) ISBN-13: 978-0814645062
The Word on the Street, Year B: Sunday Lectionary Reflections (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2017).
The Word on the Street, Year A: Sunday Lectionary Reflections (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2016).
“Childhood and Sexuality” in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies eds., Todd Penner and Davina Lopez (Oxford University Press, 2014) 55-60.
The Gospel of Mark: A Bible Junkies Complete Online Commentary (Delta, B.C.: Red Maple Press, 2013) i-xii, 13-271.
“The Pope and the Bible” in A Big Heart Open to God (New York: HarperOne, 2013) 113-122.
“Do Not Sexually Abuse Children: The Language of Early Christian Sexual Ethics” in Children in Late Antique Christianity eds., Cornelia B. Horn and Robert Phenix (Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 2010).
With Cornelia Horn: “Let the Little Children Come to Me”: Children and Childhood in Early Christianity (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press of America, 2009) ISBN: 978-0-8132-1674-4.
One God, One Law: Philo of Alexandria on the Mosaic and Greco-Roman Law (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2003) ISBN: 0-391-04190-8.
The End of the World: The Apocalyptic Imagination in Film and Television (Winnipeg: J. Gordon Shillingford Press, 2003). ISBN: 0-920486-29-0.
“‘But from the beginning it was not so’: The Jewish Apocalyptic Context of Jesus’ Teaching on Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage” in Journal of Moral Theology (Vol. 10, No. 2 (2021) 5–33.
“Are Enslaved Children Called to Come to Jesus? Freeborn and Enslaved Children in John Chrysostom’s On Vainglory” in Biblical Interpretation Vol 28(5) 2020, 584-607.
“Matthew’s Vision of Church” in The Bible Today Volume 58 (Jan/Feb 2020) 7-13.
“Catholic Hermeneutics of the New Testament” in St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Quarterly 63:2 (2019) 213-235.
“Leadership in Absentia (Paul)” in The Bible Today Volume 56 (July 2018) 235-244.
“A Burning Question in Romans 12:20: What do the “Coals of Fire” Mean?” in Catholic Biblical Quarterly 76.2 (April 2014) 291-305.
Previous Appointments:
Current Research Projects:
Katie Gemmell is a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow in the department of history at the University of Victoria. She is secretary/treasurer for the Canadian History of Education Association/Association canadienne d’histoire de l’éducation.
Penney Clark, K. M. Gemmell, and Mona Gleason. “Historical Studies in Education/Revue d’histoire de l’éducation (Canada).” In Connecting History of Education: Redes globales de communicación y colaboración científicas, edited by José Luis Hernández Huerta, Antonella Cagnolati, Andrés Payà Rico, 223-244. Valencia, ES: Tirant Humanidades, 2022.
K. M. Gemmell. “‘Living a Philosophical Contradiction?’: Progressive Education in the Archdiocese of Vancouver’s Catholic Schools, 1936-1960.” History of Education Quarterly 59, no.3 (August 2019): 351-78.
K. M. Gemmell. Review of Catholic Education in the Wake of Vatican II edited by Rosa Bruno-Jofré and Jon Igelmo Zaldívar. CCHA Historical Studies 85 (2019): 119-22.
K. M. Gemmell. Review of No Ordinary School: The Study, 1915-2015 by Colleen Gray. Historical Studies in Education/Review d’histoire de l’éducation 30, no.1 (Spring 2018): 180-82.
Penney Clark and K. M. Gemmell. “‘The school book question is a farce’: Free Textbook Provision in Nova Scotia, 1864-1944.” Acadiensis XLVI, no.2 (Summer/Autumn 2017): 59-87.
K. M. Gemmell. Review of Progressive Education: Revisioning and Reframing Ontario’s Public Schools, 1919-1942 by Theodore Michael Christou. Education Matters: The Journal of Teaching and Learning 4, no.1 (2016): 110-12.
Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2015-2019)
UBC Four-Year Fellowship (2015-2019)
Outstanding Master’s Thesis Recognition Award, Canadian Association of Foundations of Education (2015)
Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Master’s Scholarship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2013 – 2014)