Faculty & Staff
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Administrators | ||
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Jennifer Andrews |
Chair of the Department |
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Stephen Schryer |
Co-Director of Honours and Majors (A-K) |
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Mary Rimmer |
Co-Director of Honours and Majors (L-Z) |
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Edith Snook |
Director of Graduate Studies |
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Ross Leckie |
Director of Creative Writing |
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Diana Austin |
Director for First and Second Year |
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Janet Noiles |
Administrative Assistant |
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| Theresa Keenan | Graduate Program Assistant | contact |
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Current Faculty Members | |
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| Jennifer Andrews |
nineteenth- and twentieth-century English-Canadian and American literature, Native North American literature, literary theory, border studies, and cultural studies |
| Diana L. Austin | 20th/21st century British poetry and fiction, with a particular interest in areas such as World War I, women’s writing, and contemporary fiction |
| John C. Ball | contemporary postcolonial and Canadian literatures, postcolonial theory, cultural geography, urban fiction, historical fiction, creative writing, and drama production |
| A. E. Christa Canitz | Middle English and Older Scots poetry, 20th/21st-century medievalism |
| Len Falkenstein | playwriting, theatre, and drama |
| Tatrina (Triny) Finlay | creative writing, contemporary Canadian literature, poetics, genre theory, and writing by women |
| Robert Gray | film theory, screenwriting, popular culture, creative writing (prose) |
| Mark Anthony Jarman | creative writing (fiction), travel writing, non-fiction, 20th Century Fiction, popular culture |
| Ross Leckie | 20th-century American and Canadian literature, post-colonial literature, and cultural studies |
| Randall Martin | English Renaissance drama, culture, and ecology, early modern women's writing, and bibliographical and textual studies |
| Mary Rimmer | Victorian literature, Thomas Hardy, women's writing and post-colonial literatures |
| Wendy Robbins | women's studies, Canadian literature, Commonwealth literature, campus fiction, auto/biography |
| Stephen Schryer | 20th/21st century American literature, African-American literature, and literary theory |
| Edith Snook | early modern English literature, with a particular interest in writing by women |
| Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos | twentieth-century American Literature with a focus on difficult modernist texts |
| Writer-In-Residence: | Douglas Glover (2013-2014) |
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TBA
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Anthony BoxillBA (St. F.X.), MA, PhD (UNB)Commonwealth Literature (West Indian and African), and the modern novel
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A. Barry CameronBA, MA (Windsor), PhD (Rutgers)Screenwriting, film studies, and film and multimedia production
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Theodore ColsonBA (Roberts Wesleyan), MA (Syracuse), PhD (Michigan)American prose and poetry of the Modernist period
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W.R. GairBA, MA, PhD (Cambridge)Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre, Edmund Spenser, and John Milton
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Richard GuerinBA, MA (California State), PhD (Colorado)Chaucer, Middle English, and Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature
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James Noble
BA (Bishop’s), MA, PhD (Western Ontario)
Arthurian legend, medieval, Victorian, and contemporary texts -
Mary Elizabeth SmithBA (King’s), MA (Dalhousie), PhD (Exon)Renaissance drama, the drama and theatre history of Atlantic Canada, and the Bible as literature and as a source of literary allusion
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M. J. TaylorBA, Dip Ed (Wales), PhD (Birmingham)Shakespeare and other Renaissance dramatists, Alice Munro, Henry James, and the prose romance
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Kent E. ThompsonBA (Hanover), MA (Iowa), PhD (Wales)Creative writing and theatre

