Andrew McGillivray

Title: Department Chair, Associate Professor
Phone: 204.786.9001
Office: 3G13
Building: Graham Hall
Email: a.mcgillivray@uwinnipeg.ca

Degrees:

PhD University of Iceland 2015, Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies
MA University of Manitoba 2011, Icelandic Language and Literature
BA University of Manitoba 2006, English Literature and History
TESL Teaching Certificate, University of Winnipeg 2016, English Language Program

Biography:

Dr. Andrew McGillivray is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Rhetoric, Writing, and Communications at the University of Winnipeg. Before joining the University of Winnipeg, he taught in the Icelandic Language and Literature program at the University of Manitoba as well as in the Medieval Icelandic Studies (MIS) and Viking and Medieval Norse Studies (VMN) programs at the University of Iceland.

Teaching Areas:

• Academic Writing
• Professional Style & Editing
• Rhetorical Criticism
• Revolutions in Communication
• Forms of Inquiry in Written Communication
• Medieval Rhetoric: Origins and Echoes
• Intercultural Communication
• Writing Internship
• Modern Rhetorical Theory
• Rhetorics of Identity

Courses:

Fall 2023

RHET-2246 Revolutions in Communication

Winter 2024

RHET-3320 Forms of Inquiry

Publications:

Recent Essays

2022. “Vafþrúðnismál, from Parchment to Print: Stability and Change in the Transmission of Eddic Poetry.” Cultural Legacies of Old Norse Literature: New Perspectives. Edited by Christopher Crocker and Dustin Geeraert. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer. 68–87. https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781843846383/cultural-legacies-of-old-norse-literature/

Co-authored with Angela McGillivray. 2022. “Parents, Technicians, Curators: Shrinking Space and Time in Early Parenthood.” Parenting/Internet/Kids: Domesticating Technologies. Edited by Fiona Joy Green and Jaqueline McLeod Rogers. Toronto: Demeter Press. 173–194. https://demeterpress.org/books/parenting-internet-kids-domesticating-technologies/

2022. “Consumption and Intoxication in an Old Norse Legendary Saga.” Food Culture in Medieval Scandinavia. Edited by Viktória Gyönki and Andrea Maraschi. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 191-206. https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789462988217/food-culture-in-medieval-scandinavia

Recent reviews:

2022. Review of Eric Shane Bryan, Icelandic Folklore and the Cultural Memory of Religious Change (Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2021). Scandinavian Studies 94.1: 119–124. https://scandinavianstudy.org/the-journal/