Aurelea Mahood

BA (Hons), MA, DPhil

Vice-Provost & AVP Academic
Vice President
Academic & Provost

604.984.1743 ext. 1743
Birch Building, room BR239
amahood@capilanou.ca

Education

DPhil, English Language and Literature, University of Oxford, 2003.

MA, English, University of Toronto, 1996.

BA (Honours), English and Communications, Simon Fraser University, 1994.

"I love to teach."

Bio

Aurelea Mahood, associate vice-president, academic, and vice provost, joined Capilano University's English Department in 2005. As a faculty member, Aurelea has been an educator for more than two decades and has extensive experience with programmatic and curricular development. She played a lead role in developing the Faculty of Arts and Science's Bachelor of Arts with a Major in Interdisciplinary Studies program of study and served as the POST’s first coordinator, 2011–2017.

As the acting dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences during the 2018-19 academic year, Aurelea was responsible for reviewing and refining faculty governance and committee structures as well as supporting the academic programming in the School of Humanities; School of Social Sciences; and School of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. During her time as Acting Dean, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences developed and adopted the first iterations of the Bachelor of Arts Degree Framework and Bachelor of Science Degree Framework.

More recently, Aurelea served as the director, academic initiatives and planning, 2019–2023. While director, Aurelea assisted with CapU’s Universities Canada application, served as lead during the University’s provincial 2021-22 Quality Assurance Process Audit (QAPA), and spearheaded CapU’s recent successful application for Degree Quality Assessment Board (DQAB) exempt status at the baccalaureate level. In her role as director, she also assisted with the development and approval of numerous minor POSTs as well as the Bachelor of Kinesiology, Bachelor of Science – General, Bachelor of Arts with a Major in Psychology, and Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Psychology.

In November 2024, Aurelea was appointed associate vice president, academic, and vice-provost. She is excited to serve the University in her role as CapU continues to develop its distinctive academic programming serving the North Shore, Sunshine Coast, and Sea-to-Sky Corridor.

Additionally, Aurelea has served on numerous university committees and advisory groups, including the Board of Governors (elected faculty representative), Cap Core Working Group, Digital Learning Framework Advisory Group, Faculty Professional Development Committee, Micro-Credentials Advisory Group, Senate Curriculum Committee (SCC), and Senate Academic Planning and Program Review Committee (SAPPRC).

Her academic areas of expertise and research interests include 20th-century British literature, literary modernism, print culture/history of the book, and electronic literature/digital poetry. Her teaching-related interests include digital pedagogy, ePortfolios, and team-based learning.

Aurelea holds an Honours BA in English and Communications from Simon Fraser University, an MA in English from the University of Toronto, and a DPhil from the Faculty of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford.

She lives in North Vancouver with her family and dog, all of whom enjoy spending as much as possible on the North Shore trails.