Welcome to my research portfolio. Here you’ll find a selection of my work. Explore my projects to learn more about what I do, from recent to older research projects. Please feel welcome to reach out to collaborate or hear more about these projects.
Research Skills
Literary Analysis, Thematic Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Literature Reviews, Environmental Scans, Interpretive Inquiry, Applied Hermeneutics
Qualitative research fieldwork experience: Interviewing, Thematic Analysis
Selected Research Experience
- Critical pedagogies
Documentary film: A pedagogical approach to foster critical consciousness about climate change among undergraduate students
- Higher education reading pedagogies
Faculty perspectives on critical reading pedagogies
- Higher education reading with generative AI tools
Faculty perspectives on the use of a generative AI reading coach for teaching and learning
- Higher education reading with generative AI tools
This exploratory research project aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a guided reading AI coach for engagement among students in a 1st-year class.
- Students as partners at a teaching-focused university
Environmental scan of students as partners structures across higher education was the foundation for a structure that fits with our academic context.
- Team member: Covid Study
2020 study of youth perceptions of media
- Graduate research: The Play of Silence and Talk in Difficult Conversations about Literary Texts
This research project, The Play of Silence and Talk in Difficult Conversations about Literary Texts is a study of students’ learning experiences and instructors’ teaching practices within the discipline of the literary arts. I am questioning if and when material silence within class discussions functions as a generative event; what hermeneutics calls an event of understanding during students’ learning through the use of dialogic pedagogy. The inquiry seeks to interpret and describe what happens during selected class discussion contexts; what may be termed difficult conversations, whereby the topics under discussion are controversial or trying topics which resist easy resolutions.
Conceptual and methodological frameworks: Hermeneutics and Mythopoesis
If you are a student in the literary arts in a post-secondary context then you can get more information here. If you are an instructor in the literary arts in a post-secondary context then you can see this for more details.
The University of Calgary approved this study.
- The Tensions with the Bricks in the Wall: A duoethnography interrogating the tensions of our background beliefs that schooling offers emancipatory/justice opportunities.
Investigators: Galicia Blackman and Diana Mombayeva University of Calgary (2019)
Conceptual and methodological frameworks: Our disciplinary and conceptual backgrounds differ
~ literary studies, hermeneutics, and the lens of the pedagogy of discomfort (Galicia)
~ anthropology, history, and citizenship education, with a critical lens (Diana).
- Co-Investigator: The Pedagogy of the Supervisor-Student Relationship in Graduate School
Investigators: Dr. James Colin Field, PhD; Galicia Blackman – 2018 – 2019 University of Calgary Teaching and Learning Grants
Conceptual and methodological frameworks: SoTL and Hermeneutics
- Team member: Advancing Cross/Intercultural Humility and Engagement
Conceptual and methodological frameworks: Cross-cultural competencies
- Graduate studies: A Hermeneutic Inquiry into Grade Eleven Students’ Experiences of Classroom Talk in Language Arts
Conceptual and methodological frameworks: Philosophical Hermeneutics
- Team member: A Study of Peer Review in SoTL Publishing
Conceptual and methodological frameworks: Scholarship as mentoring
- Graduate studies: Myth-taking and myth-making: Mythological archetypes in selected Afro-Caribbean women’s writings
A study of Afro-Caribbean archetypes in Caribbean women’s writing. Authors studied: Erna Brodber, Jamaica Kincaid, Jean Rhys, Nalo Hopkinson, and Paule Marshall.
Conceptual and methodological frameworks: Literary analysis and Mythopoesis
If you’re curious about working together or simply want to talk teaching, research, or what it means to be human in the academy, then feel welcome to reach out. I’d love to hear from you.
Galicia S. T. Blackman 