Kim McLean-Fiander

Dr. Kim McLean-Fiander is an Associate Teaching Professor & Academic Writing Requirement (AWR) Adviser in the Department of English at the University of Victoria. She holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford, alongside degrees from Lethbridge, Alberta, and Oxford’s MSt program. Her expertise spans academic writing pedagogy, early modern literature, book history, and digital humanities.

• Affiliations: Faculty of Humanities, Department of English
• Roles: Co-Director of Women’s Early Modern Letters Online (WEMLO), former Director of Pedagogy at The Map of Early Modern London (MoEML), and NEH Folger Institute visiting faculty.

Her research focuses on Indigenizing/decolonizing curricula, early modern women’s letters, and paratext studies. She has taught at Oxford, the University of Alberta, and Stonehill College, emphasizing socially-conscious first-year literature courses addressing environmental justice, Indigenous rights, and intersectional identities. Recent work includes a 2023 grant to decolonize course materials.

Key Projects:

• Co-Director of WEMLO (British Academy-funded digital archive of early modern women’s correspondence)
• Former Digital Editor of Early Modern Letters Online (EMLO)

Awards & Recognition:

• Strategic Initiative Indigenous Grant (2023)
• SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship
• Commonwealth Scholar

Teaching & Outreach: Leads academic writing advising, integrates digital humanities tools (e.g., text encoding), and participates in NEH Summer Institutes. Served as Senior Library Assistant at the Bodleian Libraries and freelance editor in Oxford.