Course Introduction

Course Development

Developer

Shannon Smyrl, PhD

Dr. Shannon Smyrl is an associate teaching professor in the Bachelor of Communication and Digital Journalism at Thompson Rivers University. Shannon’s research interests include bridging classroom, community and career spaces, ethics of networked technologies, and narratives of media literacy across social and professional contexts and their intersection with classrooms. Shannon’s publication Douglas Coupland's Generation A: Storytelling in a Digital Age is available through Canadian Literature's CanLit Guides, 2018 Collection, and University Writing Lessons is a repository of practical, example-based writing resources.

Reviewer

Susan Buis, MFA

Susan Buis (she, her, they) resides where the unceded lands of the Nlaka’pamux Nation meet Secwepemcúl’ecw. The beauty of these lands inspires her life and writing, and for this she is most grateful. Her poems and nonfiction stories have been published in Canadian literary journals and have won several awards. A chapbook, Sugar for Shock, winner of the John Lent Prize, is available from Kalamalka Press. Her collection Gatecrasher is available from Invisible Publishing.