Degrees: BA Hons (London), MA PhD (McMaster)

Nicholas Ruddick has taught at the University of Regina since 1982. He currently teaches undergraduate courses on science fiction, fairy tales, and horror fiction, and graduate courses on Darwinism's influence on literary-cultural history and sexual politics.

He is the author of Christopher Priest (Starmont, 1989), British Science Fiction: A Chronology 1478-1990 (Greenwood, 1993), and Ultimate Island: On the Nature of British Science Fiction (Greenwood, 1993), and the editor of the critical anthology State of the Fantastic (Greenwood, 1992). He has also published scholarly editions of The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (Broadview, 2001), Caesar's Column by Ignatius Donnelly (Wesleyan UP, 2003), and The Woman Who Did by Grant Allen (Broadview, 2004).

He has published book chapters and articles on a wide variety of North American and European nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors from Atwood to Zola. Most recently, his chapter, "The Fantastic Literature of the Fin de Siècle," appeared in the Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle (2007). He has recently completed a book entitled The Fire in the Stone: Prehistoric Fiction from Charles Darwin to Jean M. Auel for Wesleyan University Press. He is currently editing a new scholarly edition of Jack London's The Call of the Wild in the Broadview Editions series and writing a chapter on Michael Moore for a critical anthology on contemporary American literature and politics.

Ruddick served as Vice-President of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) from 1992-95. He was appointed University of Regina President's Scholar from 2002-04. Since January 2003 he has served as Director of the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Regina.