Faculty and Staff

Jesse Rae Archibald-Barber

Member
  • Assistant Professor (First Nations University of Canada)
  • PhD, Toronto

Research Interests

  • First Nations and Métis literatures; representations of games of chance in literature, film, and popular culture; elegiac literature and critical theory; Canadian colonial history; cognitive studies on oral and written traditions

Jes Battis

Member
  • Assistant Professor
  • PhD Simon Fraser

Research Interests

  • Fantasy, Queer Studies, Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature

Brenda Beckman-Long

Member
  • Sessional (Luther College)
  • PhD, Alberta

Research Interests

  • 20th-century Canadian literature, Canadian women's writing, autobiography theory

Noel Chevalier

Member
  • Associate Professor (Luther College)
  • PhD, Queen's

Research Interests

  • 18th- and early 19th-century fiction and drama, women's literature, economic and political theory, colonialism, literature and the Bible, textual editing

Nils Clausson

Member
  • Instructor III
  • Co-ordinator of First-Year English
  • PhD, Dalhousie

Research Interests

  • Victorian literature, genre theory and criticism, Arthur Conan Doyle, detective fiction

Marcel DeCoste

Member
  • Associate Professor
  • PhD, McGill

Research Interests

  • 20th-century British and American literature particularly modernist fiction and poetry, literature of the world wars, mid-century British fiction, the work of Evelyn Waugh

Lloyd Dubois

  • Sessional (First Nations University of Canada)

Jo-Ann Episkenew

Member
  • Professor (First Nations University of Canada - on leave) (First Nations University of Canada)
  • Director, Indigenenous Peoples' Health Research Centre
  • PhD, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt

Research Interests

  • Indigenous Literature of Canada and the U.S.; applied literatures, including literature and trauma, literature and public policy, literature and health; Aboriginal youth health

Chris Gbekorbu-Matters

Member
  • Sessional Lecturer
  • MA, Regina

Jean Hillabold

Member
  • Instructor III
  • MA, Regina

Research Interests

  • Writing by women, particularly lesbians and African-Americans, erotica

Gerald Hill

Member
  • Instructor (Luther College)
  • MA, Alberta

Research Interests

  • Saskatchewan literature , creative writing , travel writing , expository writing, poetry , Canadian historical fiction

Deborah Hoffmann

  • Sessional (Campion College)
  • Ph.D. McGill University.

Research Interests

  • My specialty is poetry, particularly Romantic and Modernist poetry, and prosody.

Anne James

Member
  • Sessional Lecturer
  • PhD, University of Alberta

Susan Johnston

Member
  • Associate Professor
  • PhD, McGill

Research Interests

  • 19th-century fiction and culture, genre studies, Kipling, Dickens, adaptation and interpretation theory, masculinity, theological criticism

Sherry Klein

  • Sessional Lecturer
  • PhD, Alberta

Dorothy Lane

Member
  • Professor (Luther College)
  • Currently on Sabbatical Leave until June 30, 2012
  • PhD, Queen's

Research Interests

  • Postcolonial literature and theory, Canadian literature, children's literature

Cameron Louis

Member
  • Professor
  • Associate Dean (Undergraduate)
  • PhD, Toronto

Research Interests

  • Manuscript studies, Middle English language and literature, proverbs, medieval and early modern theatre

Alex MacDonald

Member
  • Associate Professor (Campion College)
  • Graduate Chair
  • PhD, London

Research Interests

  • Utopian literature, thought and experiment, 19th century literature, Saskatchewan history, ideas of the university

Cindy Mackenzie

Member
  • Instructor III
  • PhD, Colorado

Research Interests

  • 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson, contemporary American women poets, poetics, editing

Jared McGeough

Member
  • Sessional Lecturer
  • PhD, University of Western Ontario

Heather Meek

Member
  • Assistant Professor
  • PhD, Dalhousie

Research Interests

  • 18th-century literature, women's writing, medicine and literature

Craig Melhoff

Member
  • Instructor II
  • MA, Regina

Bev Montague

Member
  • Instructor III
  • MA, Regina

Research Interests

  • Contemporary British and Irish fiction, Irish film and theatre, British crime fiction

Frank Obrigewitsch

Member
  • Lecturer (Campion College)
  • Dean of Campion College
  • MA, Toronto

Research Interests

  • Modern literature, W.B. Yeats

Medrie Purdham

Member
  • Assistant Professor
  • PhD, McGill

Research Interests

  • Prosody, creative writing, modern to postmodern Canadian poetry and fiction, 20th-century drama

Christian Riegel

  • Professor (Campion College)
  • Head of English, Campion College
  • Currently on leave
  • PhD, Alberta

Research Interests

  • Mourning and literature, Canadian Literature, contemporary poetry, Holocaust Studies, cognition, literary language, and media, and creative writing.

Rob Rose

Member
  • Sessional Lecturer
  • MA, Dalhousie

Nicholas Ruddick

Member
  • Professor
  • Head of the Department of English
  • PhD, McMaster

Research Interests

  • Science fiction, Darwinism and literature, late 19th-century literature and culture, fairy tales, novel-to-film adaptation studies

Melanie Schnell

Member
  • Sessional Lecturer
  • M.F.A., U.B.C.

Jeanne Shami

Member
  • Professor
  • Currently on Sabbatical leave until December 31, 2011.
  • PhD, Toronto

Research Interests

  • Early modern literature and culture, John Donne, sermons, women and sermons, material culture, historical formalisms

Garry Sherbert

Member
  • Associate Professor
  • PhD, Alberta

Research Interests

  • Culture, literary theory, especially Jacques Derrida and Northrop Frye, 16th-century non-dramatic literature, 18th-century and Romantic literature, Menippean satire

Andrew Stubbs

Member
  • Professor
  • PhD, York

Research Interests

  • Rhetoric and composition, cognitive and social theories of writing, poetry & poetics, psychoanalysis and literature, creative writing

Evelyn Symes

Member
  • Instructor III
  • MA, Regina

Research Interests

  • 20th-century fiction of the U.K., Ireland, New Zealand, and Canada.

Michael Trussler

Member
  • Professor
  • PhD, Toronto

Research Interests

  • Contemporary American literature, studies in the short story, creative writing

Kathleen Wall

Member
  • Professor - On Sabbatical leave
  • PhD, Manitoba

Research Interests

  • Virginia Woolf, the poetics of the British modern novel, theories of beauty and the aesthetic, gender theory, new historicism

Lynn Wells

Member
  • Professor
  • Vice-President Academic, First Nations University of Canada
  • PhD, Western Ontario

Research Interests

  • Contemporary British fiction, contemporary culture, urban fiction, ethics and literature

Kenneth Wilson

Member
  • Sessional Lecturer
  • PhD, York