Faculty & Staff

Administrators

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

Current Faculty Members

Name Research Areas
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)

UNBSJ Faculty
Professors Emeriti
Honorary Research Professors
Honorary Research Associates
Adjunct Professor
Affiliated Research Professors
  • TBA

Retired Professors
  • Anthony Boxill
    BA (St. F.X.), MA, PhD (UNB)
    Commonwealth Literature (West Indian and African), and the modern novel
  • A. Barry Cameron
    BA, MA (Windsor), PhD (Rutgers)
    Screenwriting, film studies, and film and multimedia production
  • Theodore Colson
    BA (Roberts Wesleyan), MA (Syracuse), PhD (Michigan)
    American prose and poetry of the Modernist period
  • W.R. Gair
    BA, MA, PhD (Cambridge)
    Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre, Edmund Spenser, and John Milton
  • Richard Guerin
    BA, MA (California State), PhD (Colorado)
    Chaucer, Middle English, and Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature
  • James Noble
    BA (Bishop’s), MA, PhD (Western Ontario)
    Arthurian legend, medieval, Victorian, and contemporary texts
  • Mary Elizabeth Smith
    BA (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
  • M. J. Taylor
    BA, Dip Ed (Wales), PhD (Birmingham)
    Shakespeare and other Renaissance dramatists, Alice Munro, Henry James, and the prose romance
  • Kent E. Thompson
    BA (Hanover), MA (Iowa), PhD (Wales)
    Creative writing and theatre