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Kiersten Burge-Hendrix, Rhetoric Program Coordinator and Director of the Learning Commons, has supervised students on three continents and looks forward to doing so on each of the others - save perhaps for Antarctica, which is just too bloody cold. Kiersten's interests are wide-ranging and always expanding. She earned her B.A. in History and Politics from McMaster University, where she wrote a highly regarded honours thesis on the Canadian Tomb of The Unknown Soldier and another, titled "Rigorous Mortis", on the fate of the undead body of V.I. Lenin. These were followed by a B.Ed. from OISE at the University of Toronto, and a Cambridge University M.Phil. Her M.Phil. thesis, written under the guidance of Sir Richard Evans, examined the tensions between Western and Aboriginal concepts of truth in historical narratives. She wrote her thesis while gaining a considerable following among her EAP students at Cambridge; Kiersten is still invited back to teach at Cambridge every summer. In what little time she has to spare from controlling the minds of her students, Kiersten has given voice to her feminism through performances in The Vagina Monologues, learned the elements of equine dressage, and developed a taste, perhaps an odd one for a dedicated Marxist, for far-too-expensive wines such as Chateau Mouton Rothschild. She can be bribed, but you can't afford it. |
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