Mary Chapman

Professor and Academic Director, Public Humanities Hub, University of British Columbia

Suffrage, Comparisons between suffragists' use of media and social media activists, Public humanities, American poetry, Women in politics

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Biography

Mary Chapman (B.A. Queen’s, M.A. Queen’s, Ph.D. Cornell) is Professor of English and Academic Director of the Public Humanities Hub at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada. She specializes in American literature and transnational American Studies; suffrage literature and activism; women’s poetry; periodicals; digital humanities; and public humanities. Before working in academic, Chapman worked at CBC and in educational publishing and ran a theatre troupe.

Expertise

  • Suffrage
  • Comparisons between suffragists' use of media and social media activists
  • Public humanities
  • American poetry
  • Women in politics