Supervisor: Linda Hutcheon
Dissertation: “Electra after Freud: Death, Hysteria and Mourning”

Please use the other door: Opening Kafka’s The Trial

Mobilizing Knowledge: Re-visioning Research Dissemination, or Don’t Yell at the TV – Be on TV

This study argues that the work of forgiveness can facilitate productive mourning and that creative communication plays a critical role in negotiating forgiveness.

A Poetics of Forgiveness: Cultural Responses to Loss and Wrongdoing

Almost everyone knows about Oedipus and his mother, and many readers would put the Oedipus myth at the forefront of Western collective mythology. In Electra after Freud, Jill Scott leaves that couple behind and argues convincingly for the primacy of the countermyth of Agamemnon and his daughter. Through a lens of Freudian and feminist psychoanalysis, this book views renderings of the Electra myth in twentieth-century literature and culture.

Electra after Freud: Myth and Culture

Thinking and Practicing Reconciliation asserts that literary representations of conflict offer important insights into processes of resolution and practices of reconciliation, and that it is crucial to bring these debates into the post-secondary classroom. The essays collected here aim to help teachers think deeply about the ways in which we can productively integrate literature on/as reconciliation into our curricula. 

Thinking and Practicing Reconciliation: Teaching and Learning Through Literary Responses to Conflict

Jill Scott is the author of A Poetics of Forgiveness: Cultural Responses to Loss and Wrongdoing (New York: Palgrave, 2010) and Electra after Freud: Myth and Culture (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005), and co-editor of Thinking and Practicing Reconciliation: Teaching and Learning Through Literary Responses to Conflict (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013).

She is the Principal Investigator for a HEQCO-funded learning outcomes assessment study at Queen’s, and her current research projects encompass assessment of learning outcomes in higher education and Indigenous-settler relations in Canada. She is author of “Kaswentha: Haudenosaunee Peacebuilding Practices and the Future of Indigenous-Settler Relations in Canada" and other articles on nation-specific forms of reconciliation and redress.

Before Scott joined Queen’s in 2001, she held appointments at the University of Toronto, York University and Carleton University. At Queen’s, she has been teaching interdisciplinary courses in literature, law and Indigenous cultures, courses in German literature and language, and she is cross-appointed to the graduate program in Cultural Studies and the Department of Gender Studies.

Most recently, Jill Scott has been developing courses with innovative uses of social media, including “Conflict & Culture: Literature, Law & Human Rights,” an interdisciplinary humanities course, the aim of which is to foster the development of competencies in intercultural communication in a multi-disciplinary framework through the lens of inquiry learning. The courses is framed around the ICE learning model (Ideas, Connections, Extensions – see Susan Fostaty Young and Robert Wilson, Assessment and Learning: The ICE Approach 1995) as a learning tool, with Twitter as the main writing platform. Students write Tweets (140 character utterances) and MegaTweets (140 word compositions) to demonstrate their knowledge of the content and improve their written communication skills. Students build online learning communities outside the classroom and engage in small-group active learning during class time. By making students’ work visible and real-time real-world communication which engages multiple publics in the learning process, student engagement is increased and students are motivated to succeed.

German Literature

Indigenous Cultural Revitalization

Law & Literature

Indigenous Storytelling

Social Dynamics

Forgiveness/Reconciliation

Transitional Justice

Conflict Resolution

Restorative Justice

Teaching and Learning in Higher Education 

Mourning & Grief 

English

French

German

Spanish

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Queen's testing students' 'soft skills' to gauge how they’ll cope in job world

‘Indigenization’ hits campuses aiming to give students ‘baseline knowledge’ about First Nations, Metis and Inuit

Queen’s closes theology programs

Deny or 'fess up: Which road did you choose?

Jim Flaherty's life and legacy

Rob Ford's Apology 'Was Enough', Says Toronto's Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly

When Lying Backfires

Foreign languages captivated Jill Scott at a young age

Why - and how - the public is mourning over the Newtown School shootings

Connections Grant

Learning Outcomes Assessment Consortium

Higher Education Grant

Aurora Prize

Vice-Provost (Teaching and Learning) and Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

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