Curriculum Vitae

Stephanie E. Gould, BA Hons (UBC), MA (Toronto), MA (Western)
University Instructor, Journalist and Writer

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TEACHING

Sessional Faculty, Arts Studies & School of Creative Arts, University of the Fraser Valley

  • 2019-present – PORT 399 Portfolio I, PORT 398 Portfolio II, and University 101
  • 2007- 2020 VA/Film/Jrnl 365 Documentary Video Storytelling
  • 2011- 2016 VA/Film 366 Documentary Video Production
  • September 2014 – January 2015: VA/Film 366 Documentary Video Production (Independent Study) in collaboration with Adventures in Geography, San Francisco, UFV.  VA student, Megan Russell, made Crossing the Bridge, a documentary film based on her Adventures in Geography experience. Premiere Screening, University of the Fraser Valley, April 2015.
  • 2015 (winter semester) – VA 161 Video Production II
  • 2012 (winter semester) and 2015 (winter semester): VA 390 Community Arts Practice
  • 2012 and 2014 (Fall semester) – VA 160 Introduction to Video Production

Curriculum contributions, UFV

  • Course on Reconciliation, committee member, 2017-18
  • Project co-development (co-facilitation), Lens of Empowerment project, 2011-2015
  • Journalism curriculum committee member (Journalism Certificate), 2009-10
  • Course development, Documentary Video Production, 2010
  • Course development, Documentary Video Storytelling, 2006-7

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

Books (chapter)

Gould, Stephanie, and Jacqueline Nolte, Shirley Hardman, Sarah Ciurysek et. al. “Women’s Citizenship and Identity in St:ólō Territory: a collective essay from the University of the Fraser Valley’s Lens Project (British Columbia, Canada).” Home/Land: Women, Citizenship, Photographies, edited by Marion Arnold and Marsha Meskimmon. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2016, pp. 289-307.

Conference Participation

  • Speaker and panel member, UFV delegation, Home/Land Conference, School of the Arts, Loughborough University, UK, July 2012.
  • Participant (for the Opening Learning Agency), Imagining a Pacific Community: Representation and Education, University of British Columbia, 1995.

NOTABLE CONTRIBUTIONS (UFV)

  •  co-facilitating and co-teaching for Lens of Empowerment: a project on women’s citizenship and identity in Stó:lō Territory, a lens-based media project delivered in 2014-15 by Visual Arts and Indigenous Studies at UFV. This project was first developed and delivered in 2011-12 as part of an international network partnership project of the School of the Arts, Loughborough University, UK. In 2011-12, I co-taught and co-facilitated the first iteration of the project, which culminated in Sitelines in S’ólh Téméxw in Abbotsford, Chilliwack and at Loughborough University, England in the spring/summer 2012.
  • Coordinator with Sarah Ciurysek for UFV (July 2012- July 2016), UFV Lens Project essay: Chapter 23, Home/Land: Women, Citizenship, Photographies, edited by Marion Arnold and Marsha Meskimmon, School of the Arts, Loughborough University, UK, published by Liverpool University Press, 2016. (see above)
  • Co-organizer with former UFV Associate Dean, Susan Fisher, visiting documentary filmmaker Leanne Allison and writer Karsten Heuer, President’s lecture series, February 2012; Facilitator, Filmmaking as Advocacy with Leanne Allison and Karsten Heuer, a workshop for Visuals Arts/Film/Journalism students, February 12, 2012.

EXHIBITIONS

  • Faculty presenter, creatiValley’s Video showcase (of student films), UFV BFA Art Marathon, The Reach Gallery, Abbotsford, October 2, 2015.
  • Tel i’tsel Kwe’lo (I Am From Here), an exhibition of student work for The Lens Project, S’eliyemetaxwtexw Gallery, Abbotsford campus and Gathering Place, Chilliwack Education Park, British Columbia, March 26-April 9, 2015.
  • Co-curator with Sarah Ciurysek, Sitelines in S’ólh Téméxw: a Student and Community-Centred Photo and Documentary Video Art Project, an exhibition of student work for the Lens of Empowerment Project: UFV Gallery, Abbotsford campus, March 30-April 11, 2012; Home/Land Conference, School of the Arts, Loughborough University (UK) July 5-7, 2012; S’iwes Toti: It Q’ep – Teaching and Learning Together: Indigenizing the Academy Conference, UFV Chilliwack Education Park, August 26-28, 2012.

FILMS AND FILM SCREENINGS

  • Host, National Canadian Film Day 150 screening, UFV in partnership with REEL CANADA, April 19, 2017: KONELINE directed by Nettie Wild.
  • Supervising faculty, Crossing the Bridge, student-directed documentary film by Megan Russell, Premiere Screening, University of the Fraser Valley; speaker and panel member, Premiere screening organized by Cherie Enns, Geography, UFV, April 16, 2015.
  • Curator, Tel i’tsel Kwe’lo (I Am From Here), student film screening, Lens of Empowerment Project, UFV Theatre, Abbotsford, March 26, 2015 and UFV Gathering Hall, Chilliwack, April 2, 2015.
  • Speaker and MC, Hands of History (dir. Loretta Todd) film screening introduced by UFV Elder-in-residence Theresa Neel (speaking about her artist mother, Ellen Neel) followed by a panel discussion (Dr. Wenona Victor, Dr. Geoffrey Carr, student Theresa Warbus), December, 2014, Gathering Hall, UFV (Lens of Empowerment Project special event).
  • Event host/facilitator, The Meaning of Life (dir. Hugh Brody) documentary film screening, UFV Residential School Day of Learning, September 18, 2013.
  • Host Instructor, Kevin Nikkel (Five Door Films) guest classroom screening, On the Trail of the Far Fur Country, UFV, 2013.
  • Consulting Editor, Droning of Bombers, directed by Gabriel Kirkley (based on a play by Hennie Drenten-Regoczi in collaboration with James Servici, Theatre, UFV). Premiere screening, UFV, 2012.
  • Curator, Sitelines in S’ólh Téméxw student film screening, Lens of Empowerment Project, UFV Theatre, Abbotsford, March 30, 2012.
  • Workshop facilitator, Filmmaking as Advocacy, with filmmaker Leanne Allison and author Karsten Heuer, Visuals Arts/Film/Journalism at UFV, February 12, 2012.

NOTABLE WORKPLACE AND/OR INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

1995- 2001
Television Producer: created and produced BC Now, a public affairs television series of hour-long episodes for Knowledge Network, BC’s public, educational television network for two seasons from 1999-2001; Senior Story Producer/Editor for Studio BC, a public affairs series, Knowledge Network from 1996-1999.

1995-2013
Consultant: extensive experience writing large, complex and successful proposals, reports, case statements and applications for curriculum, capital and research projects at UFV and elsewhere, including:

  • Xe’lts’t: Turning the Page: Aboriginal Community-based Delivery Partnerships Program Proposal (2013);
  • A U-Hub for Abbotsford’s U-District (2012);
  • Gathering Places Proposal (2008);
  • Expression of Interest for an Aboriginal Service Plan (2007);
  • Options Paper: Envisioning a Centre for Indo-Canadian Studies and Research (2004);
  • Discussion Paper: Rationale for Internationalization at UCFV (2003);
  • Asian Studies Needs and Feasibility Project (1995), Open Learning Agency, Burnaby, BC.

1986- present
Journalist and Writer: various publications including Cottage Life West magazine, The Vancouver Sun, The Globe and Mail, The Georgia Straight, Cinema Canada magazine.

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT RECORD

  • 2007- present, Instructor, School of Creative Arts & Arts Studies, University of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, BC.
  • 2001-2014, Consultant, University of the Fraser Valley – selected reports, case statements, applications listed below.
  • 2001-2014, Writer, Magazines and Newspapers (various) – selected published articles listed below.
  • 2008-9, Teacher (ESL), EPIC (Canada English Training Corporation), Chilliwack, BC.
  • 2008 Co-organizer (with Brad Whittaker, Director of Research), Feast and Transformation: A Festival of First Nations films from the Pacific Northwest, curated by Hugh Brody, Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Studies, UFV, and The British Museum, 21-23 April, 2006 (see The Tyee.ca 30 March 2007).
  • 2008 Researcher and Production Assistant, The Meaning of Life, a documentary film directed by filmmaker, author and anthropologist, Hugh Brody, Canada Research Chair, Aboriginal Studies, UFV.
  • 1999-2001, Producer/Director Knowledge Network, (Pacific Source Productions Inc.); BC Now, province-wide public affairs program).
  • 1997-1999, Senior Story Producer, Studio BC, Knowledge Network.
  • 1996-1997, Story Producer/Editor, Studio BC, province-wide public affairs program.
  • 1995-1996, Researcher Studio One, pilot series, Knowledge Network, Burnaby, BC.
  • 1995-1996, Consultant Asian Studies Needs and Feasibility Project, BC Open University, Burnaby, BC.
  • 1992-1994, Writer/Broadcaster and Associate Producer, Almanac (province-wide current affairs program), CBC Radio, Vancouver.
  • 1992 Copy Editor, Pursuing Equality: Historical Perspectives on Women in Newfoundland and Labrador, Linda Kealey, ed.,The Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
  • 1990-1991, Associate Producer Information Radio (province-wide current affairs program), CBC Radio, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
  • 1990 Research Project Coordinator, Joint Centre
  • 1989 Acting Manager, Joint Centre
  • 1988 Editor/Publications Coordinator, Joint Centre for Asia-Pacific Studies    University of Toronto-York University, Toronto and North York, Ontario.
  • 1986- 1987, Associate Producer and Writer/Broadcaster, The Arts Report, Metro Morning, As It Happens & other current affairs programs, CBC Radio, Toronto, Ontario.
  • September 1986 – January 1987, Reporter (City Desk), The Globe and Mail newspaper, Toronto, Ontario.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (magazine & newspaper articles, radio documentaries, television series):

Radio documentary (interview), Nettie Wild on her feature documentary film KONELINE (43 mins) CIVL Radio, May 2017;

In the Round (commemorating the architecture of Daniel Evan White, Vancouver), Cottage Life West magazine, spring 2014;

The Stories Behind 5, 200 BC Place Names, Book Review (Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names by Andrew Scott), The Vancouver Sun, November 14, 2009;

Above Tide: Haig-Brown Homestead (to mark the 100th anniversary of BC writer and conservationist Roderick Haig-Brown’s – and Ann Haig-Brown’s – births), Cottage magazine, summer 2008;

BC Now television series (weekly, one-hour episodes), Knowledge Network television, 1999-2001;

Three-part historical radio documentary series to mark the closing of The Chinese Times, one of Canada’s earliest Chinese language newspapers, CBC Radio, 1993;

Radio series investigating the life and death of four-year-old Matthew Vaudreuil, whose story was subsequently at the center of the Gove Inquiry into Child Protection, CBC Radio, Vancouver, 1993-4;

Canadian art and artists (including work by Robert Houle, George Ryga, Jon Kimura Parker), The Arts Report, CBC Radio, Toronto and Vancouver, 1987;

Contributor, articles on film and television, Cinema Canada Magazine, Montreal, 1986-7.

MEDIA COVERAGE OF MY WORK

  • UFV College of Arts news website: “On March 27th, 2015 the culminating exhibition of the Lens of Empowerment Project…was celebrated in a well-attended opening and special screening of student films.” ufv.ca/arts/.
  • Castro, Martin, Lens of Empowerment films part of discourse on self-identity, acceptance at UFV, UFV Cascade newspaper, April 2, 2015: ca.
  • Bayrock, Dessa, Stó:lō Stories Help for a Transformative Experience, The Abbotsford News, July 23, 2014.
  • Moedt, Nadine, Changing the Lens: Year-long program refocuses the power of film on Stó:lō narratives, UFV Cascade newspaper, August 22, 2014. ufvcascade.ca.
  • Russell, Anne, Behind a Lens of Empowerment: project looks at the experiences of women in Sto:lo territory. UFV Skookum magazine, August 16, 2012.
  • Nickelchok, Kate. Through the Lens of Empowerment: Seeing Sitelines in S’olh Temexw. UFV Cascade newspaper, April 11, 2012. ca.
  • Member, Save the Kogawa Homestead Committee, BC Book Awards, Joy Kogawa, BC’s lifetime achievement award for authors, 2008. ca/george-woodcock/winners/joy-kogawa.
  • Shields, Sandra. We Weren’t Supposed to Survive: seeking reconciliation with BC’s First Nations, first in a series by Sandra Shields, The Tyee, March 30, 2007. http://thetyee.ca/News/2007/03/30/Stolo/

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

  • Circle Works, Workshop with Lorna Andrews, Teaching and Learning Specialist, Indigenization, 2021
  • National Career Month Sustainable Development Goals Workshop with Beth Eden, UFV’s Centre for Experiential and Career Education and College of Arts, November 23, 2020.
  • Looking at the Gates of Tomorrow E-Portfolios Workshop with Dr. Mary Saudelli and Michelle Johnson, Teaching and Learning Centre, UFV, June 8-9, 2017
  • Intro to Drone Video, In-Focus Film School (DOC), June 22, 2016
  • Documentary Lighting on a Budget with Dave Montizambert, Vancouver, May 29, 2016
  • Adobe Premiere Pro (Creative Cloud), Emily Carr University of Art & Design, 2016 (8 weeks)
  • Indigenizing the Curriculum (Certificate), UFV Teaching & Learning, May 16-18, 2016
  • Writing/Righting the Archive with Dr. Linda Morra (Bishop’s University), Galiano Island, February 2016
  • DOXA Documentary Film Festival, 2015
  • IRSDL: Indian Residential School Day of Learning, UFV, 2013
  • Copyright in Documentary Film, Artist Legal Outreach, Simon Fraser University, 2013
  • Sound in Documentary Film, Documentary Organization of Canada, Vancouver, 2006

SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY

Memberships on societies or committees, including offices held and dates:

  • Member, Reconciliation Reading Circle, UFV, 2017
  • Member, Documentary Organization of Canada (BC Chapter)
  • Member, Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver
  • Member, DOXA Documentary film festival, Vancouver
  • Member, Women in Film and Video Vancouver
  • Member, Vancouver International Film Festival
  • Member, Vancouver International Writer’s Festival
  • Board member, Chilliwack School of Performing Arts (CSOPA), 2004
  • Member, Kogawa Homestead Committee (historic literary landmark), Vancouver, 2003

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

  • Honoured for my contribution (as writer of the Gathering Places Proposal) to S’olh Shxwèli (our home), the Gathering Hall, Canada Education Park (CEP) Longhouse Honoring Ceremony, May 11, 2012.
  • Nominated for a Webster Award, 1996 (The Fraser River, a one hour special, Studio BC, Knowledge Network).
  • Full University Scholarship, University of Western Ontario, 1986.

EDUCATION

M.A. (Journalism) University of Western Ontario, 1986

  • graduating paper (thesis): Reporting from Heelboom Bay: Media Coverage of the Meares Island Story, (unpublished) on newspaper, magazine and television coverage of the Meares Island land claim near Tofino, British Columbia.

M.A. (English) University of Toronto, 1984

B.A. (English Honours), University of British Columbia, 1981

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

Hobbies include travelling, walking, gardening, bicycling, wilderness hiking and canoeing.

Travels: Europe (six countries), U.K. (England and Scotland), the United States (10 states including Hawaii), Canada (all provinces) and northern Africa (Morocco).

I have lived and worked in five Canadian provinces: Ontario, Manitoba, Newfoundland, New Brunswick and British Columbia.