Karen Pike

• Bachelor of Applied Health Information Science (Honours)
• Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours) – Accounting, Audit, and Information Technology
• Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours) – International Business Management
• Bachelor of Community and Criminal Justice (Honours)
• Bachelor of Environmental Public Health (Honours)

• Ph.D. University of Toronto, Department of Comparative Literature
• M.A. University of Victoria, English Literature
• Member of the National Council of Teachers and CCCC

• Professor
• Coordinator, Diploma Electives, School of Interdisciplinary Studies

• ENGL71000 - Academic Communications
• ENGL72000 - Professional Communications
• ENGL72200 - Desire in Literature 
• ENGL71040 - Postmodern Identity in Popular Culture

• Critical thinking and composition
• Popular culture narratives in a variety of media
  

• Literature and communications professor at a variety of colleges and universities over the past 25 years.
• Department coordinator, first for degree and technical communications courses and then for all communications courses until 2017.
• Currently coordinating Interdisciplinary Studies breadth electives.
• Active member of the Conference on College Composition and Communication through which I stay current regarding the latest studies on effective adult education in the communications field.

• Course creation:  COMM1085, ENGL71000, ENGL72000, ENGL71200, currently working on a literature elective on popular culture.

Publications:

• Pike, K.H. (2010). Theories of the Fantastic: Postmodernism, Game Theory, and Modern Physic. T-Space, UTPress.
  
• Pike, K.H. (1998) “Bitextual Pleasures: Camp, Parody, and the Fantastic Film.” Film Literature Quarterly. Bowling Green, KY