Erin Goheen Glanville

Erin Goheen Glanville, Ph.D. (McMaster University) is a community organizer and spiritual caregiver (aka Lead Pastor) at Artisan in the DTES. This work brings together four persistent and interconnected passions: community, imagination, justice, and spirituality.

Prior to that, she researched and taught refugee cultures at the University of British Columbia, as a Lecturer in the Coordinated Arts Program. She completed a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University (2017-2019). That research project, “Digital Storytelling as a Method for Critical Dialogue on Refugees in Canada,” developed media praxis by asking what critical refugee theory might look like as educational media production. It explores how to tell new stories about overused, ordinary words in order to support a culture of listening rather than influence. The project was done in consultation with local refugee claimant support organisations and continues now as Worn Words, public-facing educational resource production.

Glanville is an affiliate of UBC’s Centre for Migration Studies. She is Secretary of Kinbrace Community Society’s Board of Directors. She designs and facilitates the Becoming Neighbours community workshops.

Glanville is the co-editor of Countering Displacements: The Creativity and Resilience of Indigenous and Refugee-ed Peoples (University of Alberta Press, 2012) and has published articles and book chapters connecting refugee narratives to intermediality, humanitarian communication, international relations’ “responsibility to protect,” diaspora theory and transnationalism, faith-based activism, and globalization and postcolonial studies. Three forthcoming articles explore forced migration pedagogy.

Her most recent publication is “Refugee Narrative Pedagogy,” in Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives, eds. Vinh Nguyen and Evyn Le Espiritu.