Department of English and Cultural Studies

Faculty

Kerrie Charnley | Communicating Indigeneity

Anita Chaudhuri | Communication; Rhetoric and Composition; Second language writing; Critical Discourse Analysis.

Marie Loughlin | Communication and Media

Jordan Stouck | Communication in the Social Sciences

Term Faculty

Sherry Breshears | Science Communication, Public Speaking

Joanne Cockerline | Personal and Professional Identity and Interpersonal Communication

Faculty

Anita Girvan | Cultural Studies; Environmental Humanities; Political Ecology and Environmental Justice; Black and Indigenous Feminist Ecological Thought; Stories, Metaphor; Critical Canadian Studies

David Jefferess | Colonialism and Decolonization, Human Rights Discourse, Heritage and Public Memory

Daniel Keyes | Film, Television, Critical Whiteness Studies

Ruthann Lee | Media and Social Activism, Anti-Colonial Feminisms, Queer Theory

Astrida Neimanis | Feminist studies (with a focus on embodiment, ecofeminisms, material feminisms and intersectionality), environmental studies (with a focus on cultural studies of water, weather and climate change, and multispecies justice), everyday militarisms, interdisciplinarity, epistemologies and non-traditional research methodologies.

Kyong won Yoon | New Media, Youth Culture, East Asian Cinema

Term Faculty

Maria Alexopoulos | Cultural Studies Practices; Modern Critical Theory

Cameron Crookston | Drag, LGBTQ2+ history, Queer Popular Culture, Transgender Studies

Hoornaz Keshavarzian | Internet Culture

Faculty

Emily Murphy | Digital Humanities, text encoding, digital editing

Term Faculty

James Phelan |  Digital Humanities

Faculty

Sakiru Adebayo | African and African Diaspora Literature, Postcolonial Studies, Trauma and Memory Studies

Anderson Araujo | Transnational Modernism, First World War Poetry, Twentieth-Century British and Irish Literature

Jodey Castricano | 19th century studies (Gothic Studies, Psychoanalysis (Freud/Jung)) Critical Animal Studies, Ecofeminism, Critical Theory

Anita Chaudhuri | Writing studies, Rhetoric and Communications

Kerrie Charnley | Indigenous Epistemologies, Indigenous Literacies, Indigenous Land/Ocean-Based Pedagogies and Praxis, Indigenous Storywork, Indigenous Literatures, Indigenous Oral Traditions, Indigenous Languages, Coast/Salish Epistemologies, Multimodal and Multi-sensory Literacies, Cognitive Maps and Geography, Rhetoric, Discourse Analysis, A/r/tography and Arts-Based Research, Writing Education, Autoethnography and Memoir, Mixed Genre Writing, Critical and Transformative Literacy Education.

Alison Conway | Literary and cultural history of the long eighteenth-century in Britain, narrative studies, and gender and sexuality theory

Robert Eggleston | Restoration and 18th-century theatre; ideological instability in the comedies and farces of Edward Ravenscroft; theories of comedy during the late 17th century; political satire and censorship of the stage during the 1720s and 1730s.

Greg Garrard | Ecocriticism, contemporary environmental writing, critical animal studies

Lisa Grekul | Canadian literatures, diaspora literatures and theory

George Grinnell | Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Romanticism, punk culture

Jennifer Gustar |Contemporary British Literature, UK Transculturalism, Gender and Contemporary Literature, Literature of South Asia and the Diaspora

Allison Hargreaves | Indigenous Literature & Theory, Indigenous Feminisms, Settler Studies

Melissa Jacques | Literary Studies and Practices

David Jefferess | Postcolonial Studies, Globalization, Anti-Oppression

Daniel Keyes | Film, Television, Critical Whiteness Studies

Sean Lawrence | Shakespeare, canonical literature and twentieth-century French philosophy

Marie Loughlin | Sixteenth-century poetry and prose, early modern women’s writing, early modern drama

Paul Milton | 20th-century American and Canadian fiction; literature and space; fictional treatments of suburban life; Canadian poets and literature; African-American literature.

Emily Murphy | Digital Humanities, text encoding, digital editing

Margaret Reeves | Early Modern Women’s Writing, Children’s Literary Cultures, Early Modern Childhood and Youth, Milton and Early Modern Political Theory, Satiric Fiction

Karis Shearer | Canadian poetry and fiction, critical pedagogy, gender theory, American poetry, cultural studies

Jordan Stouck | Composition studies, Canadian and Caribbean literature

Bryce Traister | American Literature, religious studies, American Cultural Studies, science fiction

Michael Treschow | Old and Middle English Literature

Term Faculty

Joanne Cockerline | Management communications, science and engineering communications, contemporary Canadian fiction

Claire Halston | Didactic literature, composition and rhetoric studies, intersections of power, politics, and literature.

Shona Harrison | English Literature and Composition

Eva Kasprzyucka | First-year English

Shirley McDonald | Canadian literature and history, life writing, prairie settler narratives, ecocriticism, Scholarship on Teaching & Learning

Jenn Payson | English Composition

James Phelan |  Digital Humanities, English

Daryl Ritchot | First year English

Saeed Sabzian | Studies in Composition for English Language Learners

Cathi Shaw | English Composition

Todd Statham | The Bible in English Literature

Jon Vickery | English Literature and Composition