Danielle Fuller

Professor Danielle Fuller holds a joint appointment in the Department of English & Film Studies and serves as an Adjunct Professor in Sociology at the University of Alberta. Her research focuses on reading practices, interdisciplinary methods, and feminist epistemology. She has held previous roles at the University of Birmingham (UK) and was a Visiting Scholar at Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität, Muenster (Germany). Her work bridges literary studies with cultural sociology, emphasizing lived experience and marginalized voices. Key projects include SSHRC and ESRC grants addressing pregnancy loss communication and digital reading cultures. She leads the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) as its President and collaborates on arts-based research initiatives like Stories from Silence and Research Spa events.

Education: PhD (Leeds), MA (Leeds), BA (Durham). Teaching includes courses on reading histories, Canadian literatures, and publishing studies. She actively supervises graduate work on digital publishing, intersectional feminism in YA fiction, and postfeminist humor.

Research Grants: Includes a $179k SSHRC Insight Grant (2022-26) and a £537k ESRC grant (2016-18) exploring pregnancy loss. Her work spans qualitative methods, digital humanities, and transnational cultural studies.

Labs/Teams: Collaborations with Prof. Julie Rak, DeNel Rehberg Sedo, and interdisciplinary groups. Administrative roles include membership in the Research Ethics Board (REB) 1.