Gilbert McInnis

Gilbert McInnis earned his Ph.D in English Literature at Université Laval in 2007. He contributed to Bloom’s Modern Critical Views: Kurt Vonnegut—New Edition (2008), contributed to Kurt Vonnegut: Critical Insights. Ed. Robert T. Tally Jr., 2013, Re-Imagining the Limits of the Human (Peter Lang, 2019), and published a monograph, Kurt Vonnegut: Myth and Science in a PostModern World (Peter Lang ) in 2020. Dr. McInnis has been invited to speak at a number of international venues including the International Conference Post-Colonial Theory and Practice in the Twenty-First Century: Re-Imaging the Limits of the Human, in Rzeszów, Poland and the International Conference for Academic Disciplines in Prague, Czech Republic.

Dr. McInnis has participated in numerous conferences and symposiums on the topic of Artificial Intelligence organized by the International Observatory of the Social Impacts of AI and Digital Technology (OBVIA), Université Laval, Quebec. Topics of pursued by Dr. McInnis include: "Ethical and Critical Issues of AI Systems in Education," "Artificial Intelligence in Health: From Definition to Ethical and Legal Issues," "Decolonising AI: Ethics and the Rule of Law," and "AI & Responsibilities: Smart Cities." In 2021, Dr. McInnis participated in the 7th Annual Digital Pedagogy Institute Conference- 2021 which included the workshops: "Living in a Digital World: Exploring a Post-Truth Society with Undergraduates," "Teaching to the Intersection of Identity and the Digital," and "Opportunities and Challenges in Transitioning Online: A Case Study in Digital Pedagogy."

Gilbert McInnis had invested countless hours in his professional writing outside the classroom as a journalist for the Sherbrook Record and the Quebec Chronicle Telegraph. While working for two English newspapers in Quebec, he wrote successful stories (digital and print) about issues in politics, economics, and culture. Likewise, he was successful as a writer in Quebec because of his ability to translate from French to English. He learned to be a good translator because the majority of the newsmakers he published stories about were primarily French speaking.

While completing a master's in divinity at Queens College (NL), McInnis achieved academic successes, putting him in the top five in his classes. For the last twenty years, McInnis has taught in numerous churches in French and English across Canada. While completing his first master's degree, he worked for three years at the Canadian Bible Society in Quebec City, which he recognizes as the most valuable foundation for understanding the Bible and Bible History. When completing his B.A., he regularly attended the Missionary Alliance Church, where the foundational teaching on the Bible of its elders and its founding member, A.B. Simpson, crucially formulated McInnis's in-depth knowledge of the Bible. He is now a member of the worldwide Quaker movement, steeped in the traditional teachings of the American Quaker Rufus Jones and Howard Thurman. Moreover, his journalistic experience for both daily and weekly newspapers (print and digital) contributed to his insightful columns in the Thompson Citizen, "Spiritual Thoughts."