Education      
OISE, University of Toronto Education Ph.D. 1989
Tulane University Education M.Ed. 1984
University of Toronto Humanities B.A. 1980
International Montessori Assocation (AMI) Primary AMI Primary
Certificate
1982

Major Service and Administrative Work (Current)

2007-present Director, Center for Cross-Faculty Inquiry

2004-2007 Director, Graduate Programs, Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology and Special Education

2004-2006 Chair, Queer Studies in Education SIG, American Educational Research Association

2003-2004 UBC Faculty Association, Online Learning, Academic Freedom and Intellectual Property Rights, Committee and Labour Relations Arbitration

Selected Honors & Awards
2000, Pioneer in Technology and New Media, Wired Women Society
1998, UBC Scholar-in-Residence, Centre for Research in Women's Studies

2005-2006, UBC Academic Merit Awards
2004-2005
2003-2004
2002-2003
2001-2002
1999-2000
1998-1999
1997-1998
1996-1997
1993-1994
1992-1993
1991-1992
1990-1991

Selected Research Grants
Granting Agency

Project

$ Year Co-Investigator(s)
SSHRC - Standard Research Grant How We Learn: Technology Across the Lifespan
$181,000
2006-2009
Stephen Petrina, PI
Mary Bryson
Teresa Dobson
Samia Khan
Don Krug
John Willinsky
Hampton Grant, UBC

 

e-Motion and New Media $ 45,000 2004-2005 Stephen Petrina, PI
Mary Bryson
Lynn Fels
Teresa Dobson
SSHRC - Standard Research Grant

 

Queer Women on the Net: Identity, Community, and Agency in the "Landscapes
of Computing"

http://www.queerville.ca

$151,467 2004-2007 Mary Bryson, PI
SSHRC - ITST

 

Technology, culture, aesthetics: Hypermedia and the changing nature of knowledge $ 24,365 2004 Teresa Dobson, PI
John Willinsky
Mary Bryson
SSHRC - INE/LOI

Development by Design: E-Capacity Building to Transform Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age

$ 26,194 2002 Mary Bryson, PI,
Gaalen Erickson
Larry Kuehn
Lisa Loutzenheiser
Linda Siegel
David Vogt
John Willinsky
David Zandvliet
Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund, UBC

 

Capacity Building for Technogy-Intensive Professional Development $ 70,000 2001-2002 Mary Bryson, PI,
Linda Stanley-Wilson
John Willinsky
Faculty of Education Technology Task Force

 

Digital Sandbox $ 20,000 2001-2002 Mary Bryson, PI,
Linda Stanley-Wilson
John Willinsky
Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund, UBC

 

Digital Studio Project: Building a "Wired" Community of Educational Practice


$100,000 2000-2001 Mary Bryson, PI,
Linda Stanley-Wilson
John Willinsky
B.C. Ministry of Education

 

Performance and Participation Indicators in Technology-Intensive Courses in British Columbia Secondary Schools $ 10,000 2000-2001 Mary Bryson, PI,
Stephen Petrina
Suzanne de Castell
SSHRC

 

Gender Equity and New Technologies

http://www.shecan.com

$150,000 1995-1998 Mary Bryson, PI
Suzanne de Castell
SSHRC

 

Gender and New Technologies $ 5,000 1993 Mary Bryson, PI
Suzanne de Castell
Educ. Tech. Center

 

Primary Teachers and New Technologies $150,000 1989-1991 Mary Bryson, PI
David Robitaille
UBC-HSS

 

Students with Learning Difficulties $ 2,500 1990 Mary Bryson, PI
UBC

 

Students with Learning Difficulties $ 1,200 1988 Mary Bryson, PI
         

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Journal Articles (online versions hyperlinked)

Bryson, M., MacIntosh, L., Jordan, S., & Lin, H.L. (2006). Virtually queer?:  Homing devices, mobility, and un/belongings. Canadian Journal of Communication,  31(3), 791-815.

Bryson, M. (2006). New media and sexual subcultures: Critical perspectives on research problematics, possibilities, and practices. Journal of Gay and Lesbian Issues in Education

Bryson, M., Petrina, S., & Weir, L. (2005). Academic freedom and IP rights in an era of the automation and commercialization of Higher Education. Workplace: A Journal of Academic Labour. 7(1), 1-3.

Bryson, M. (2005). Virtually queer: Conjuring the quotidien. Journal of Gay and Lesbian Issues in Education. 2(4), 83-92.

Bryson, M., & MacIntosh, L. (2005). Review of "Getting it on online: Cyberspace, gay male sexuality", and embodied identity. New Media & Society, 7(3), 425-428.

Bryson, M. (2004). When Jill jacks in: Queer women and the Net. Feminist Media Studies. 4(3),239-254.

Bryson, M., Petrina, S., Braundy, M., & de Castell, S. (2003). "Conditions for Success"?" Sex-disaggregated analysis of performance and participation indicators in technology-intensive courses in B.C. secondary schools. Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology. 3(2), 185-194.

Jenson, J., de Castell, S., & Bryson, M. (2003). "Girl Talk": Gender, equity, and identity discourses in a school-based computer culture. Women's Studies International Forum. 26(6), 561-573.

Faber, S., de Castell, S., & Bryson, M. (2003). Renal failure: towards a sociocultural investigation of an illness. Mind, Culture and Activity. 10(2), 143-167.

Bryson, M. (2002). Me/no lesbian: The trouble with "troubling lesbian identities". International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 15(3), 373-380.

de Castell, S., Bryson, M., & Jenson, J. (2002). Object lessons: Towards an educational theory of technology. First Monday.
7(1).

Thompson, S., Bryson, M., & de Castell, S. (2001). Prospects for identity formation for lesbian,
gay, or bisexual persons with developmental disabilities
. International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 48(1), 53-65.

Bryson, M., de Castell, S., & Kobayashi, M. (2001). Essay Review: 'Children's engagement in the world: A sociocultural perspective' (Artin Goncu, Ed.). Mind Culture and Activity, 8(4), 310-320.

Bryson, M. & de Castell, S. (1999). A digital ethnographer's journey. Educational Technology Review, 9. 31-34.

Bryson, M. & de Castell, S. (1998). New technologies and the cultural ecology of primary schooling: Imagining teachers as Luddites in/deed. Educational Policy, 12(5), 542-567.

Bryson, M. & Scardamalia, M. (1996). Fostering reflectivity in the argumentive thinking of students with different learning histories. Reading and Writing Quarterly, 12(4), 351-384.

Bryson, M. & de Castell, S. (1996). Learning to make a difference: Gender, new technologies, and in/equity. Mind, Culture and Activity, 2(1), 3-21.

Lonka, K., Joram, E. & Bryson, M. (1996). Conceptions of learning and knowledge. Journal of Contemporary Educational Psychology, 21, 240-260.

Bryson, M., & de Castell, S. (1995). A chip on her shoulder?: New technologies, gender and in/equity. Women's Education, 11(3), 15-23.

Bryson, M., & de Castell, S. (1994). Telling tales out of school: Modernist, critical, and postmodern "true stories" about educational technologies. Journal of Educational Computing Research, 10(3), 199-221.

Bryson, M., & de Castell, S. (1993). Queer pedagogy: Praxis makes im/perfect. Canadian Journal of Education, 18(2), 285-305.

Bryson, M. (1993). "School-based epistemologies?": Exploring conceptions of what, how and why students know. Learning Disability Quarterly, 16(4), 299-315.

Bryson, M., & de Castell, S. (1993). En/Gendering Equity. Educational Theory, 43(4) 341-355.

Joram, E. Woodruff, E., Bryson, M., & Lindsay, P. (1992). The effects of revising with a word processor on written composition. Research in the Teaching of English, 26(2), 167-192.

Joram, E., Lindsay, P., Bryson, M., & Woodruff, E. (1990). The effects of computers on writing processes. Computers and Composition, 7(3), 55-72.

Shafrir, U., Ogilvie, M., & Bryson, M. (1990). Attention to errors and learning: Across-task and across-domain analysis of the post failure reflectivity measure. Cognitive Development, 5, 405-425.

Bryson, M. (1987). Towards a cognitively-based analysis of the processes and products of reading disabled student-writers. Pointer, 32(1), 24-28.

2. BOOKS

de Castell, S, & Bryson, M. (Eds.). (1997). Radical in<ter>ventions: Identity, politics, and difference/s in educational praxis. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

3. CHAPTERS

Bryson, M., & Gray, M. (2005). Lesbians and the Internet. In J. Sears (Ed.), Sexualities, Education & Youth: An Encyclopedia, Greenwood Publishing Group.

de Castell, S. & Bryson, M. (2001). Critical visions of educational technology. In B. Barrell. Educational Technology. Calgary, CA: Destelig.

Bryson, M. (2000). Guilt and education. In L. Stone (Ed.) Philosophy of Education. Urbana, IL: Phil of Education Society.

Goldman-Segall, R., Beers, M., Bryson, M., & Reilly, B. (1999). How the construction and analysis of digital movies support theory-building. In B. Collis and R. Oliver (Eds.) Proceedings of Ed-Media 99. Association for the Advancement of Computers in Education.

de Castell, S. & Bryson, M. (1998). Dystopia, dysphoria, and difference: Re-tooling gendered play. In H. Jenkins and J. Cassells (Eds.) From Barbie to Mortal Combat: Girls and computer games. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Bryson, M., & de Castell, S. (1998). Telling tales out of school: Modernist, critical, and postmodern "true stories" about educational computing. In M. Apple and H. Bromley (Eds.) Education/Technology/Power: Educational computing as a social practice. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

de Castell, S., & Bryson, M. (1998). From the ridiculous to the sublime: On finding oneself in educational research. In W. Pinar (Ed.) Queer theory in education. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

de Castell, S., & Bryson, M. (1998). "Don't ask, Don't tell:" Sexualities and their treatment in educational research. In W. Pinar (Ed.) Curriculum: Toward new identities for the field. New York: Garland Press.

de Castell, S., & Bryson, M. (1998). Identity, ethnography and the geopolitics of text. In J. Ristock & C. Taylor (Eds.) Sexualities and social action. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Bryson, M., & de Castell, S. (1995). Sexing the texts of educational computing. In J. Gaskell and J. Willinsky (Eds.), Gender in/forms curriculum. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.

Bryson, M., & Scardamalia, M. (1991). Teaching writing to students at-risk for academic failure. In B. Means, C. Chelmer, and M. Knapp (Eds.), Teaching advanced skills to at-risk students. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Bryson, M., Bereiter, C. Scardamalia, M. & Joram, E. (1991). Going beyond the problem as given: Problem solving in expert and novice writers. In R. Sternberg and P. Frensch (Eds.), Complex problem solving: Principles and mechanisms. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.