Heather Duff

Heather Duff, PhD, is an interdisciplinary educator-artist-scholar with over 30 years of experience teaching and developing programs and courses on literature, writing, drama and philosophy. Her background includes professional development programs at McMaster University, continuing studies courses and conference presentations at SFU and UBC, residencies with the Vancouver School Board, and City of Vancouver programs. She has also been Vancouver Youth Theatre’s artistic director since 2001. 

Heather’s doctoral dissertation, which explores philosophical links between ethics and spirituality in research-based theatre, includes an original full-length play script. Her academic writing includes chapters published in books by the UBC Faculty of Education (2016), Vernon Press (2017), UBC Press (2020) and an article in Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal (2021). Heather’s poetry and fiction have been published in numerous literary journals such as PRISM international, Textual Studies in Canada and The Dalhousie Review. She was a finalist for The Malahat Review’s 2011 Long Poem Prize. 

Heather holds her MFA in creative writing from UBC (1986), her MDiv from McMaster University (1983), and a PhD from the Department of Language and Literacy Education at UBC (2016).