Judith P. Robertson is Professor of Education at the University of Ottawa. Her published work extends and deepens the methods of analysis brought to literature, film, and literary pedagogy. She received her Ph.D. in education from the University of Toronto (OISE). Along with questions of ethical practice and difference in education, she utilizes psychoanalytic theories to address culture, its symbolic expression in literature and other popular forms, and the response of readers to their experience and their rediscovery of it in texts. Her work on children’s literature, literatures of historical trauma, and screenplay pedagogy appears in leading international journals in the fields of education, cultural studies, women’s studies, and literary pedagogy.
Professor Robertson has been recognized for her exemplary contributions to teaching excellence—Faculty of Education Excellence Award (2003), University of Ottawa Professor of the Year (2004), Ontario Confederation of University Teaching Award (2004)—and scholarship: Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies Top Doctoral Dissertation of the Year (1994), Ontario Deans of Education Citation for Curriculum Advancement in Gender Education (1997), and Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Top 5 (out of 150) for Innovative Research in Canada (2004).
She has worked with over 30 graduate students since 1997 as supervisor or committee member. Most recently she has supervised or examined the following theses: Linda Radford (Ph.D.), University of Ottawa winner of the Truda Rosenberg Doctoral Scholarship, 2006. “Reading the Teacher’s Apprentice: Reading Juvenile Historical Fiction in the Teacher Education Classroom”, Sept. 1999-present; Kathleen Connor (Ph.D.), “Beyond the Words of a Storyteller: The Cine-semiotic Play of the Abject, Terror and Community in Anti-Hunting Trilogy of Thornton W. Burgess.” Jan. 2000-2007 (submitted for defense February 2007); Nectaria Karagiozis (Ph.D.), “"Setting out for Ithaka: Young Women's Journeys into Self and Identity through Personal Journal Writing."Jan. 2001-07 (Submitted for defense December 2006); Adinne Schwartz, MA Education. 2005. “Under the Covers: The Complexities of Sex Role stereotyping in the Classroom Practices of Three Ontario Sexuality Education Teachers; Karyn Sandlos, Ph.D. OISE/UT 2006 (External Examiner). “Nothing Personal: Psychoanalytic Dilemmas in Artists’ Film and Pedagogy.”; Lynda Hosking, Ph.D. Religious Studies University of Ottawa. “Emancipatory Discourses: Utilizing Kleinian and Poststructuralist Theory to Deconstruct and Represent Phallocentric Themes in Narratives of Two Films.” (examination pending)
