Dr. Rachel Harris
- Scholarly Publishing Librarian, Concordia University Library
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Biography
Education
Doctor of Philosophy, Inter-University Program in Art History, Concordia University
Masters of Information Studies, McGill University
Masters of Arts in Art History, York University
Bachelors of Arts in Fine Arts, Bishop’s University
Creative Commons Certificate
Research Interests and Expertise
> Print culture: illustration, interpictoriality, advertisement, storyboards
> History of the book: text-image interactions, children’s books, artists’ books
> Fairy tales: images, narrative variation, characters, publishing history
> Issues of age, gender, race, as well as animality
> EDID: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization in libraries and book studies
> Open Educational Resources and Open Access PublishingTeaching activities
Courses taught
GPTK 704: Seminar in University Teaching for Graduate Students – Fine Arts Section, CTL, Concordia University, Winter terms 2016-2020
ARTH 396: Art and Culture: Artists Books, Art History Dep., Concordia University, Summer term 2019
ARTH 388: Narration in Art: Visual Evolution of Fairy Tales, Art History Dep., Concordia University, Summer term 2015Select librarian-led workshops
General Workshops
GPLL266: Interdisciplinary Scholarship: Advanced Bibliographic Searching
GPLL263: Peer Review Roundtable
GPL283: Contributors of Literate Citizenship in an Age of Phony Information
GPDI279: Taking Control of Your Academic Profile Online
Copyright module within the Thesis Boost
Past Workshops
I developed and offered subject-specific workshops across disciplines in Cinema, Music, Dance, Political Science, Government Information, Philosophy, and Women's Studies. I have updated and offered general library workshops such as The Way of APA, Zotero, Researching in the Library.
Project and Service Areas
Open Educational Resources (OER) - as OER Program lead
Open Access at Concordia - as a member of the Scholarly Communications Committee
ORCID at Concordia - as member of ORCID Project Team
Spectrum - as lead Spectrum Editor
Copyright - as a member of the Copyright Committee
Research
Peer-reviewed
Co-author with Jessica Lange and Pierre Lasou – “Plan S and Open Access (OA) in Quebec: What Does the Revised FRQ OA Policy Mean for Researchers?”EBLIB 19, no. 1 (2024): 35–57. Accepted manuscript and French translation available in Spectrum.
Author – “Imprints from Book Illustration and Advertisement: Eco-Sources in Walt Disney’s Sleeping Heroine Films,” Marvels & Tales 36, no. 2 (2022): 258–83.
Author – “White Snow in the Mirror: An Inversion of the Innocent Childhood Paradigm,” in Childhood through the Looking Glass, ed. Sharma Vibha and Ashlie Brink, Inter-Disciplinary Press Sociology, Politics and Education (Oxford: Brill, 2016/2019), 179–91.
Editorship and reviewing contributions (selected)
Guest editor with JP Mongeau – “Special Issue: Disrupting Whiteness Within Special Collections, Bibliography, and Book History,” Papers of The Bibliographical Society of Canada, forthcoming 2026.
Book review editor – “Book Reviews.” Papers of The Bibliographical Society of Canada 57- (2019-present).
Associate editor with editor François Dansereau – “Encounters: New Horizons in Audio and Visual Collections,” MOQDOC, 2020.
Co-editor with François Dansereau – “Special Issue: Exchanges in the Digital Environment,” MOQDOC, 2019.
Conference Papers and Panels (selected)
“The Book Reborn as Imprints from Our Climate Crisis in Early Disney Fairy Films” (paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Bibliographical Society of Canada at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, York University, May 29, 2023).
“A Dance Between Text and Image: The Pictorial Over the Textual in Walter Crane’s Fairy Tale,” (paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Universities Art Association of Canada, Virtual, Nov. 4, 2022)
“Together and Apart Over Time: Text and Image in the Coloured Fairy Books Series” (paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Bibliographical Society of Canada at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Virtual, May 17, 2022).
“Finding Another Country in the Stacks: Decentering Whiteness within Special Collections, Bibliography and Book History” (co-moderated with JP Mongeau the keynote panel featuring presentations and discussion with Hannah Claus, David Fernández, Désirée Rochat at the Annual Conference of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Virtual, May 16, 2022).
“Expanding Research Possibilities for Visual-Information Seekers with a Renewable Workaround” (Paper presented at Concordia Library Research Forum, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, April 26/7, 2022).
“Beyond the Textual: Visual Information Systems That Help and Hinder” (co-moderated and presented with Joan E. Beaudoin a roundtable presentation and discussion at ARLIS/NA, Annual Conference, Chicago, United States, April 8, 2022).
“The Human and Animal Imprint in Walt Disney’s Fairy-Tale Films” (paper presented in the Fairy Tales and Folk Narratives Division at the Annual Conference of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, accepted for the 2020 conference, which was cancelled because of COVID-19, presented virtually, in 2021).
“Book Illustrations and their Contextual Difficulties in the Era of Mass Digitization” (paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Universities Art Association of Canada, Waterloo, ON, Oct. 25-27, 2018)
“Part I: Art Histories and Digital Humanities: Knowledge Development and Digital Technologies; Part II Digital collections and large corpuses” (digital art history panels co-organized with Felicity Tayler, Corina MacDonald, and Samuel Gaudreau-Lalande at the Annual Conference of the Universities Art Association of Canada, Waterloo, ON, Oct. 25-27, 2018).
“Minding the Gap for Online Book Illustrations” (paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Electronic Literature Organization, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, QC, Aug. 13-17, 2018).
Guest Presentations and Lectures (selected)
“Open Access Publishing Landscape” (presentation for the Open Science Working Group, Concordia University, Sept. 11, 2023).
“OERs in Action: Promoting Open Education Resources on Campus - Concordia University” (presented with Sarah Fakrhi at Open Education Talks, University of Calgary, Virtual, March 29, 2023).
“Demystifying Open Educational Resources in Higher Education” (guest presentation at Ped Day, Vanier College, October 12, 2022).
“Accountable versus Safe Spaces: A Librarian’s Perspective” (guest presentation at the Global Emergent Media Lab. Virtual. Oct. 29, 2021).
“Brown Bag Morning Tea: Insights: What Makes Decolonizing Libraries Difficult?” (guest presentation at the Brown Bag Series. Concordia University Library, Aug. 5, 2021).
“ARLIS/NA: Moderator Webinar” (guest presentation for a pre-conference professional development session at the Annual Conference of the Art Library’s Association of North America, Virtual, May 3, 2021).
“Writing as Solution: April – Bring your Brown to Work” (guest presentation for Fourth POC Connections and Solutions Series, Diversity Committee of the Art Library’s Association of North America, Virtual. Apr. 30, 2021).
Open Access Repositories
Commitment to Service
Current
Concordia University Open Science Working Group Member
Open Access Working Group Member
PBUQ: Groupe de travail pour l’implantation d’un pilote de soutien à la publication de manuels de cours libres, membre
Réseau de leaders des REL, membre
OER Advisory Committee Member
CARL 2022-2024 Open Education Working Group Member
President’s Task Force on Anti-Black Racism: Faculty Development Subcommittee Member
CUFA Council Alternate Member (2021-2024)
Membership
Art Libraries Association of North America (ARLIS/NA)
ARLIS/NA Montreal Ottawa Quebec MOQ Chapter
C-ARLIS/NA Canada Chapter
Bibliographical Society of Canada (BSC)
Research Groups: Global Emergent Media (as member)
International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA)
Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC) 2015-2016, 2018-2019, 2022-2023
L'association des bibliothécaire du Québec Library Association 2017-2018