Academic Title: Professor

Education:
BA  (University of Lethbridge)
MA (University of Calgary)
PhD (University of Calgary)

Office: EA3134
Phone: 403.440.6265
E-mail: rschroeder@mtroyal.ca

Rand Schroeder teaches theory, creative writing, and all things narrative, including cognitivist and evolutionary studies of storytelling. As either Randy Nikkel Schroeder or A.M. Arruin, he is the author of the Surrealist CrimePunk novel Arctic Smoke, the Urban Magic Realist collection Crooked Timber: Seven Suburban Faerie Tales, and over fifty published short stories.

Scholarly Interests:
Narrative / Creative Writing / Critical Theory / Cultural Studies / Nonlinear Systems / Interdependence and Emergent Democracies.

His scholarship covers narrative structures, the phenomenology of selfhood, and the implications of interdependence for policy-making in emerging democracies. He is editor, with Lee Easton, of The Influence of the Imagination: Essays on Science Fiction and Fantasy as Agents of Social Change, and of numerous academic essays that hardly anyone has ever read.

Teaching Statement:  
I try to stay current with the crosshatch of current technological and neuroscientific research, as that crosshatch applies in the classroom. I'm especially interested in the ways that AI is changing education, educational systems, and human brains.

Scholarly Activity:
Arctic Smoke (novel)

Crooked Timber: Seven Suburban Faerie Tales (Short Story Collection)

“Dangle Your Modifiers.” Writing Better Fiction: Craft Tips From Some of Canada’s Best Writers and Editors

“Getting Into Accidents: Stoekl, Virilio, Postsustainability.” Petrocultures: Oil, Energy, Culture

“Happy Environments: Bhutan, Interdependence and the West.” Sustainability