Degrees: BA, MA (Simon Fraser), PhD (Dalhousie)

Nils Clausson has taught at the University of Regina since 1984. His teaching interests include detective fiction, Victorian and modernist British literature, and genre theory. He served as Coordinator of First-Year English from 2003 to 2005 and from 2007 to 2009. He also served on the Dean of Art's Task Force on Reading and Writing. In 2008 he coordinated the International Arthur Conan Doyle Symposium held at the University of Regina. His articles have appeared in such journals as Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Genre, Journal of Narrative Theory, Papers on Language and Literature, Journal of Modern Literature, The Victorian Newsletter, Journal of the Gaskell Society, The Wildean, English Literature in Transition, and College Literature. Authors and topics on which he has published include Benjamin Disraeli, Elizabeth Gaskell, Oscar Wilde, D. H. Lawrence, Wilfred Owen, H. G. Wells, Susan Glaspell, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edmund Blunden, G. K. Chesterton, and WWI poetry. His current research project is a book on Arthur Conan Doyle. He is active in community theatre, having directed numerous one-act and full-length plays for Regina Little Theatre and the Cathedral Village Arts Festival. His most recent credits include directing Yasmina Reza's ‘Art', Alan Ayckbourn's Living Together, and Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park. He served as Chair of the 2008 and 2009 Cathedral Village Arts Festival in Regina.