I have been on faculty full time with the Communication Studies program since 2006, after several years with AU as a tutor. I have taught CMNS 302 Communication in History, and have written as well as taught CMNS 402 Global Communication, CMNS 401 Cultural Policy in Canada, CMNS 202: Media and Power in Canadian Society, and HERM 327 Heritage Policy in Canada. Prior to my academic career, I worked in museums and archives institutions as researcher and exhibit designer, and as an illustrator for educational materials in schools and museums. Currently I pursue collaborations in the arts with actors, filmmakers and musicians to produce narratives or artifacts on themes related to my research.
University of Alberta. Ph.D. Leisure/Canadian Studies, 1998.
University of Oxford. D.Phil, ABD. History of Science and Technology, 1993.
Simon Fraser University. MA, Communication Studies, 1992.
Simon Fraser University, BA (hons), Communication Studies, 1990.
Reichwein, PA. and K. Wall. Uplift: Culture, Tourism, and Public Education at the Banff School of Fine Arts, 1933-1974. University of British Columbia Press (2020).
Wall, K.L. Game plan: A social history of sport in Alberta. University of Alberta Press, 2012. K. Wall. 2019. Marked and unremarkable bones: sacred sites and second comings [issues concerning Indigenous gravesites]. the quint: an interdisciplinary quarterly from the north. 11 (4)
Lithgow, M. and Wall, K. 2020/ Sympathy for the abject: (Re)assessing assemblages of waste with an embedded artist-in-residence. Journal of Aesthetics and Culture. 11 (4)
Whitson, D., Wall, K. and Cardinal, D. (Forthcoming 2019). Alberta: From rags to riches to roulette. In Eds. Gattinger, M. and Saint-Pierre, D. Cultural policy in Canada: Origins, evolution and implementation. University of Ottawa Press
Lithgow, M. and K. Wall. When the dead rise: Encountering resistant legacies of creative economy within an artist-in-residency at a municipal cemetery. Cultural Trends. Special Issue: After the Creative Economy 27(5), 2018, 353-366.
Wall, K. ‘Let’s Find Out’: The historian laureate in leisure and heritage economies. International Journal of Heritage Studies 25(6), 2018, 582-595.
Lithgow, M. and K. Wall. Embedded aesthetics: Artist-in-residencies as sites of discursive struggle and social innovation. seismopolite 12, Special issue: The Art Residency in Context, 2017.
Wall, K. Gathering place: Urban indigeneity and the production of space in Edmonton, Canada. Journal of Urban Cultural Studies 3 (3), 2016, 301-325.
Wall, K. The gallery and the inukshuk: Everyday creativity and cultural production as leisure practices. Leisure/Loisir 36 (1), 2012, 17-35.
Wall, K. ‘A sliver of the true fort’: Imagining Fort Edmonton, 1911-2011. Journal of Heritage Tourism 6 (2), 2011, 109-136.
Wall, K. and PA. Reichwein. ‘Climbing the pinnacle of art’: Learning vacations at the Banff School of Fine Arts, 1933-1959. Canadian Historical Review 92 (1), 2010, 69-105.
Wall, K. ‘Across distances and differences’: Aboriginal pilgrimage and social change. Leisure/Loisir 33 (1), 2009, 291-315.
Wall, K. Reinventing the wheel? Designing an Aboriginal recreation and community development program. Canadian Journal of Native Education 31 (2), 2008, 70-93.
Wall, K. Old Strathcona: Culture and commerce in a heritage preservation district. Urban History Review/Revue d’histoire urbaine 30 (2), 2002, 28-40.
Wall, K. Deja vu/jamais vu: Atom Egoyan’s The Adjuster. Canadian Journal of Film Studies 2 (2-3), 1993.
Chapters in peer-reviewed books
Whitson, D., Wall, K. and Cardinal, D. From rags to riches to roulette: Alberta. In Eds. Diane Saint-Pierre and Monica Gattinger Cultural Policy. Origins, Evolution, and Implementation in Canada’s Provinces and Territories. University of Ottawa Press, 2020.
Wall, K. Winter Cities and local magic: Re-storying an urban ravine through Metis and First Nations culture in Edmonton, Canada. In Tourism, Cultural Heritage and Urban Regeneration - Changing Spaces in Historical Places. Eds Takamitsu Jimura and Nicholas Wise. UK: Springer. Forthcoming 2020.
Reichwein, PA. and K. Wall. Mountain capitalists: Space and modernity at Alberta’s Banff School campus. In Finding Directions West: Readings That Locate and Dislocate Western Canada’s Past. Eds. H. Devine and G. Colpitts. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2017.
Stefanick, L. and K. Wall. Democracy and identity in the digital age. In R. Foshay, Ed. Identity, Agency, and The Digital Nexus: Theory, Culture, Politics. Edmonton: Athabasca University Press, 2016.
Wall, K. ‘Sharpest knives in the drawer’: Cultural democracy in an oil economy. In Oil and the Decline of Democracy in Alberta. Eds. M. Shrivasteva and L. Stefanick. Edmonton: Athabasca University Press, 2015.
Whitson, D., K. Wall and D. Cardinal. La politique culturelle de l’Alberta: De la disette a la richesse puis a la roulette. In Les Politiques culturelles provinciales et