Director (interim)
Student Learning and Academic Success
310M Scott Library, York University Libraries
Email: lisasl@yorku.ca
Tel: +1-416-736-2100 ext. 20072
Lisa Sloniowski has several roles at York University. As Director of the Libraries' Student Learning and Academic Success department she facilitates the information literacy work of the Teaching and Learning Librarians. As the English Literature subject contact librarian at York University Libraries she builds literary collections and offers research instruction and consultations to faculty and students in the Department of English Language and Literature. She also has a particular interest in Special Collections and has been instrumental in York Libraries' acquisition of several important literary collections. In her previous role as a Teaching and Learning librarian in the Student Learning and Academic Success department, Lisa had a particular focus on critical pedagogy, critical information literacy, and graduate education.
Lisa is also an associate faculty member in the Graduate Program in English Literature at York, and a PhD Candidate in York's Social and Political Thought program.
Her research examines the affective labour of librarians as knowledge and memory workers, from a feminist perspective. Her current work explores the specific archival challenges posed by two special collections: the Barbara Godard library, and a collection of feminist pornography. She also peer reviews for a number of journals and is currently an editorial board member of the journal Porn Studies, as well as the Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) from Queen's University in English literature, a Masters of Arts in English Literature from York University, and a Masters of Information Studies from the University of Toronto.
