Portrait of Dr. Denae Dyck

Dr. Denae Dyck

  • Assistant Professor at English, College of Liberal Arts

Service Activities

Ongoing

  • Member, Board of Directors, Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States. February 2024 - Present.
  • Member, Policy Committee. February 2024 - Present.
  • Member, MA Literature Administrative Support Committee. September 2022 - Present.
  • Member, Advanced Studies Curriculum Committee. September 2022 - Present.
  • Member, Medieval Studies Hiring Committee. August 2025 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Oxford University Press. June 20, 2025 - Present.
  • Editorial Review Board Member, Literature and Belief. October 2024 - Present.
  • Member, Visiting Scholars Committee. August 2024 - Present.

2025

  • Member, Steering Team, Religion and Spiritualities Caucus, North American Victorian Studies Association. September 2018 - June 2025.
  • Member, Bobcat Days Committee. September 2024 - May 2025.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Victorian Poetry. October 2024 - February 2025.
  • Reader, MA Literature General Exam. February 11, 2025.

2024

  • Member, Advisory Board, North American Victorian Studies Association. January 2022 - December 2024.
  • Organizer, Grad Student Professional Development Workshop: Presenting Your Research at Academic Conferences. October 31, 2024.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Roundtable on "Reading Victorian Periodical Poetry Now." EVENT 2024. May 2023 - September 2024.
  • Organizer, Grad Student Professional Development Workshop: Delivering Conference Papers. September 10, 2024 - September 17, 2024.
  • Reader, MA Literature General Assessment. June 3, 2024.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Millah: Journal of Religious Studies. May 19, 2025 - May 22, 2024.
  • Volunteer, Reader, Assessment of Departmental Learning Outcomes. April 11, 2024.
  • Chair, Roundtable on "Material Cultures: Hands-On Learning in Victorian Studies Classrooms and Research." EVENT 2024 (Global Virtual Event). May 2023 - March 1, 2024.
  • Reader, MA Literature General Exam Assessment. February 5, 2024.

2023

  • Member, Executive Council, Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada. September 2021 - August 2023.
  • Chair, Panel Session on "Elements of Utopia", Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States (Annual Conference). October 21, 2023.
  • Reader, MA Literature General Exam Assessment. October 8, 2023 - October 9, 2023.
  • Reader, MA Literature General Exam. June 9, 2023.
  • Reader, MA Literature General Exam. June 9, 2023.
  • Chair, Panel session on "Literary Perspectives," Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada. May 6, 2023.
  • Volunteer, Reader, Assessment of Departmental Learning Outcomes. April 13, 2023.
  • Reviewer / Referee, North American Victorian Studies Association. March 2023.

2022

  • Reviewer / Referee, Victorian Network. October 10, 2022 - October 31, 2022.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Roundtable on "Religious Justice," annual conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association. May 1, 2022 - September 29, 2022.
  • Chair, Panel Session on "Value in Gaskell and Trollope" at the annual conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association. March 5, 2022.

2021

  • Speaker, Virtual School Outreach Program, Stigma-Free Society. September 2021 - November 2021.
  • Facilitator, Women's Peer Support Group, Stigma-Free Society. July 2018 - November 2021.
  • Chair, Virtual Roundtable, Religion and Spiritualities Caucus of the North American Victorian Studies Association. October 16, 2021.
  • Member, Executive Council, Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada. September 2018 - April 2021.

2020

  • Speaker, Orientation Session for New Undergraduate Humanities Majors, University of Victoria. September 8, 2020.
  • Speaker, Professional Development Session on "Building an Online Learning Community," University of Victoria. September 4, 2020.
  • Speaker, Roundtable, Online Teaching Resources, University of Victoria. June 4, 2020.
  • Co-Facilitator, Professional Development Workshops for Grad Students: "Presenting Your Research at Academic Conferences," University of Victoria. October 25, 2019 - February 28, 2020.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Panel Session on "Redefining Religion in Nineteenth-Century Literature," Modern Languages Association. February 1, 2019 - January 9, 2020.

2019

  • Peer Mentor, Graduate Student Peer Mentorship Program, English Department, University of Victoria. August 2017 - July 2019.
  • Chair, Panel Session on "Spaces of Sociability," Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada. May 3, 2019.
  • Volunteer Tutor, Adult Literacy Program, Victoria Literacy Connection. January 2018 - April 2019.

2018

  • Chair, Panel Session on "The Race and Labor of (Neo)Victorian Technology," annual conference of the Victorian Interdisciplinary Association of the Western United States. November 8, 2018.
  • Member, Conference Organizing Team, The Body and the Page: Joint Conference of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals and the Victorian Studies Association of the Western United States. May 2018 - July 2018.
  • Chair, Panel Session on "Movement, Tourism, and Travel," British Women Writers Association. April 11, 2018.

2017

  • Chair, Panel Session on "Preserving the Faith," North American Victorian Studies Association. November 18, 2017.