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Michael Sider
Assistant Professor, Management
Communications Michael is
an Assistant Professor in the Management
Communications Area Group. He received his Ph.D.
in English Literature from the University of
Western Ontario in 1993, and spent two years
(1994-1996) as a SSHRC post-doctoral fellow at
the University of Pennsylvania, where he wrote a
book on the poetry of John Keats. In 1996,
Michael came back to U.W.O. to recreate the
University's Effective Writing Program. He acted
as program administrator until joining Ivey in
July, 2002.
Michael has taught literature, writing and
public speaking at the University of Western
Ontario, and has worked as a writing workshop
instructor at the Johns Hopkins University
Center for Academically Talented Youth. He has
also developed a small consulting business in
business writing seminars and corporate writing
services, and worked as a business writing
seminar leader for the Western Centre for
Continuing Studies' professional development
program. His clients have included supervisors,
managers, and employees from Ford, 3M, GM,
Purina, and local hospitals. He has also worked
as an intercultural communications consultant
for the Asahi Fund Bangladesh, a Japanese
non-profit organization.
PROGRAM TEACHING
HBA, MBA, EMBA
Management Communications
RESEARCH/COURSE DEVELOPMENT
Intercultural
communication
Rhetorical analysis, symbolic convergence theory
and organizational narrative
Business writing
Writing theory and pedagogy
SELECTED
PUBLICATIONS
- The
Dialogic Keats: Time and History in the
Major Poems (CUP, 1998)
- "Dialogic
Approaches." In A Companion to
Romanticism. Ed. Duncan Wu. Oxford:
Blackwell, 1998). 431-441.
- "Isabella
and the Dialogism of Romance."
Nineteenth-Century Contexts. 22 (2000):
329-356.
EXPERIENCE
Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of
Pennsylvania
Assistant Professor, Department of English,
University of Western Ontario
Coordinator, Effective Writing Program,
University of Western Ontario
Instructor, Writing and Society, Johns
Hopkins University Center for the
Advancement of Academically Talented Youth
EXPERTISE
Business
writing
Corporate writing services
Corporate education and training
Intercultural communication
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