Faculty and Staff

Kait Pinder
Department Head

Christine Sattler
Department Administrative Assistant

 

FULL-TIME FACULTY

Stephen Ahern

British literature of the eighteenth century; history and theory of the novel; cultural theory; affect theory and history of emotions.

Wanda Campbell

Creative Writing, Writing by Women, Canadian Poetry

Richard Cunningham

Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Literature; Book History, Print Culture, Digital Humanities

Michelle Damour

Introductory English, Composition

Claire Jewell

English as a Second Language

Lance La Rocque

Modern Canadian Poetry; The Writer and Nature

Tom Laughlin

Nineteenth Century Fiction

Lisa Narbeshuber

American Literature; Feminist Theory; Sylvia Plath

Amanda Peters

Creative Writing, Indigenous Literature

Kait Pinder

Canadian literature, modernism, literary theory, literature and philosophy, Canadian Studies

         

Anne Quéma

Experimental Poetry; Theories of Critical Analysis; Law and Literature; Queer Studies; Modern and Contemporary Fiction and Poetry in the UK

Laura Robinson

Canadian women’s writing, children’s literature, feminist and queer theory, L.M. Montgomery

Jon Saklofske

Romantic Period literature; William Blake; The Sister Arts; Digital Humanities; Media Studies; Video Game Studies

Jordan Sheridan

Writing and Reading Critically, Children's Literature

Jessica Slights:

Shakespeare; Early Modern Drama and Culture

Nandini Thiyagarajan

Postcolonial Literature, World Literature, Asian Diasporic Studies, Animal Studies, Environmental Humanities

Kevin Whetter

Medieval and Arthurian Literature, particularly romance and Thomas Malory; Tolkien; Classical Literature in Translation; manuscript study

 

PART-TIME FACULTY, ADJUNCT AND TEACHING AFFILIATES

 

Selena Crosson

Composition:  Collaborative Nursing Program (Yarmouth)

Barry Fox

Learning through talking and writing; translating medieval and early modern drama

Billy Johnson

Writing and Reading Critically

Richard Joseph

Writing and Reading Critically

 

Zohreh Ramin

Writing and Reading Critically

   

 

PROFESSORES EMERITI

Richard A. Davies: Eighteenth-Century Literature; The Short Story, particularly in Canada; Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Roger C. Lewis: Victorian Studies

Patricia Rigg: Nineteenth-Century Poetry; Gender Studies; British Aestheticism

Raymond H. Thompson: Medieval and Arthurian Literature

IN MEMORIAM

Herb Wyile: Canadian Literature, Postcolonialism, Globalization, Neoliberalism, Postmodernism, Regionalism, Historical Fiction, and Atlantic Canada

Alan R. Young: Shakespeare; Renaissance Literature; the Emblem; Atlantic Canadian Fiction; Hypermedia; Teaching & Technology