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

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

Jordan Sheridan

Writing and Reading Critically, Children's Literature

 

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