Full-time Faculty

Margaret Steffler, Associate Professor and Chair

B.A. (Victoria), M.A., Ph.D. (McMaster) 
Catharine Parr Traill College, Wallis Hall 134

(705) 748-1011 ext. 7732

msteffler@trentu.ca

msteffler@trentu.ca

Suzanne Bailey, Associate Professor ON LEAVE 2011-12
B.A. (Queen's), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)

Catharine Parr Traill College, Wallis Hall 125
(705) 748-1011 ext. 6039
sjbailey@trentu.ca
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Joel Baetz, Assistant Professor
B.A., M.A. (McGill), Ph.D. (York)
Trent in Oshawa, Thornton Building
(905) 435-5100
joelbaetz@trentu.ca 

Rita Bode, Associate Professor
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)
Research interests:
19th- and early 20th century British and American; the novel; drama
Oshawa Campus, Thornton Building
Trent in Oshawa (905) 435-5100
rbode@trentu.ca

Gary Boire, Professor

B.A., (Montreal), M.A., Ph.D.(McMaster)

Vice-President Academic Office

BL 108.9

(705) 748-1011 ext. 6139

provost@trentu.ca

Executive Assistant: Tracy Flaherty; ext. 6225;

tflaherty@trentu.ca

Stephen Brown, Associate Professor
B.A., M.A. (Windsor), B.A., Ph.D. (Queen's), F.S.A. (Scotland)
Champlain College K2
(705) 748-1011 ext. 7421
swbrown@trentu.ca
Administrator: Dana Gee; (705) 748-1011 ext. 1339; danagee@trentu.ca  

Kathryn Chittick, Professor
B.A., M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Edinburgh)
Research interests: 
Romantic literature, Eighteenth-century literature, Victorian literature, Periodical literature, Modern American poetry Authors: Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Henry James, William Faulkner, George Gordon Byron, William Cobbett, William Hazlitt, W.H. Auden.
Catharine Parr Traill College, Wallis Hall 121
705-748-1011 ext. 6028
kchittick@trentu.ca

Sally Chivers, Associate Professor

B.A. (Calgary), Ph.D. (McGill)

Office:  Lady Eaton College, EC S112

Telephone: (705) 748-1011, ext. 7950

Email: sallychivers@trentu.ca

Administrator: Kathy Fife; (705) 748-1011 ext. 7736; kfife@trentu.ca

Lorraine Clark, Associate Professor
B.A., M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Virginia)

ON LEAVE 2011-12
Research interests:
Romantic literature; Restoration and 18th century literature;  Victorian poetry; Austen; Conrad
Lady Eaton College, EC 117
(705) 748-1011 ext. 7630
lclark@trentu.ca
Administrator: Sue Devlin; (705) 748-1011 ext. 7626;
sdevlin@trentu.ca  

Leonard Conolly, Professor
B.A. (Wales), M.A. (McMaster), Ph.D. (Wales), F.R.S.C.

Research interests:
English-Canadian drama; Canadian theatre history; censorship; 18th, 19th, and 20th century British theatre and drama, especially Shaw
Catharine Parr Traill College, Wallis Hall 107
(705) 748-1011 ext. 6029
lconolly@trentu.ca

Charmaine Eddy, Associate Professor
M.A. (Western Ontario), Ph.D. (Toronto)

Research interests:
Modern and contemporary American fiction; African-American fiction; 19th century American women poets; black literary and critical theory; theories of subjectivity and the body; Faulkner; Morrison
Champlain College S403
(705) 748-1011 ext. 7398
ceddy@trentu.ca
Administrator: Dana Gee ; (705) 748-1011 ext. 1339; danagee@trentu.ca

Leif Einarson, Assistant Professor
B.A. (Fraser Valley), M.A., Ph.D. (Western)
Office: Catharine Parr Traill College, Wallis Hall 118
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 ext.
E-mail: leifeinarson@trentu.ca
Administrative Assistant: Patricia Heffernan; (705) 748-1011 ext. 7733;
pheffernan@trentu.ca

Michael Epp, Assistant Professor
B.A. (Saskatchewan), M.A. (McGill), Ph.D. (Alberta)
Post-Doctoral Fellow at Duke University (2006-2007)
Research interests: 
19th and 20th century American literature and culture; literary and cultural theory; modern British literature; international modernism; modern poetry and fiction; print culture and book history

Office: Catharine Parr Traill College, Wallis Hall 105
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 ext. 6252
E-mail: michaelepp@trentu.ca
Administrative Assistant: Patricia Heffernan; (705) 748-1011 ext. 7733;
pheffernan@trentu.ca

John Fekete, Professor
B.A., M.A. (McGill), PH.D. (Cambridge)
Research areas:
Literary and cultural theory; postmodernism; science fiction; utopian narratives; contemporary American and East European fiction; Marshall McLuhan and cultural technology; censorship, civil liberties, theory of rights
Office: Catharine Parr Traill College, Wallis Hall 111
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 ext. 6038
E-mail: jfekete@trentu.ca
Administrator: Rosemary Devlin; 748-1011 ext. 1771;
cultstudies@trentu.ca

Joanne Findon, Associate Professor
B.A. (British Columbia), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)

Research interests:
Middle English literature; Middle Irish and Middle Welsh literature; in medieval literature; myth and folklore; children's literature; creative writing                                        
Office: Catharine Parr Traill College, Wallis Hall 116
Telephone:(705) 748-1011 ext. 6023
E-mail: jfindon@trentu.ca
Administrative Assistant: Patricia Heffernan; (705) 748-1011 ext. 7733; pheffernan@trentu.ca

Hugh Hodges, Associate Professor
B.A. (Queen's), Ph.D. (Toronto)

ON LEAVE Winter 2012
Research interests:
African; West Indian; Black British and South Asian Literature; Oral Traditions and popular music; Postcolonial theory
Office: Catharine Parr Traill College, Wallis Hall 124
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 ext. 6078
E-mail: hughhodges@trentu.ca
Administrative Assistant: Patricia Heffernan; (705) 748-1011 ext. 7733; pheffernan@trentu.ca
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Sara Humphreys, Assistant Professor
B.A. (Nipissing), M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Waterloo)
Research interests:
American literature and culture, captivity narratives, frontier literature, sentimentality, visual rhetoric, and new media.
Office: Trent in Oshawa, Thornton Building
Telephone: (905) 435-5100
E-Mail: sarahumphreys@trentu.ca
Administrative Assistant: Trent@Uoit & Durham Office; (905) 721-3003

Sarah Keefer, Professor
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)
Research interests:
Old and Middle English language and literature; pre-Conquest liturgical history and influence; editing Old English verse within its manuscript context; computing in medieval disciplines
Office:  Catharine Parr Traill College, Wallis Hall 117                        Telephone:  (705) 748-1011 ext. 6033
E-mail: skeefer@trentu.ca
Administrative Assistant : Jeannine Crowe; (705) 748-1011 ext. 1817; jeanninecrowe@trentu.ca
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Lewis MacLeod, Associate Professor
B.A. (Windsor), M.A. (McMaster), Ph.D. (Memorial)
Research interests: 
Modern and postmodern British literature; postcolonialism; masculinities; narratology
Office: Catharine Parr Traill College, Wallis Hall 123
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 ext. 6022
E-mail: lewismacleod@trentu.ca
Administrative Assistant : Patricia Heffernan; (705) 748-1011 ext. 7733; pheffernan@trentu.ca

Kelly McGuire, Assistant Professor
B.A. (Queen’s); M.A. (Western); Ph.D. (Western)

Research interests:
Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature; nineteenth-
century British and Canadian literature; literary theory; cultural history; the novel and print culture; transatlantic writing; gender studies and women's writing
Office: Catharine Parr Traill College, Wallis Hall 120
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 ext. 7574
E-mail: kellymcguire@trentu.ca
Administrative Assistant : Patricia Heffernan; (705) 748-1011 ext. 7733; pheffernan@trentu.ca

Zailig Pollock, Professor and Director, M.A. English Literature (Public Texts)
B.A. (Manitoba), Ph.D. (London)               
Research interests:
Renaissance literature; Canadian literature, especially A.M. Klein and E.J. Pratt; computers and the humanities, especially hypertext
Office: Catharine Parr Traill College, Wallis Hall 105 & 132
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 ext. 6093
E-mail: zpollock@trentu.ca;
Administrative Assistant : Patricia Heffernan; (705) 748-1011 ext. 7733; pheffernan@trentu.ca

Elizabeth Popham, Associate Professor
B.A., M.A. (Manitoba), Ph.D. (Queen's)  

ON LEAVE Fall 2011           
Research interests:
Renaissance literature; Elizabethan political pageantry; Canadian literature, especially A.M. Klein and E.J. Pratt; computers and the humanities
Office:  Traill College, Wallis Hall 119
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 ext. 6233
E-mail: epopham@trentu.ca
Administrative Assistant : Patricia Heffernan; (705) 748-1011 ext. 7733; pheffernan@trentu.ca
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Part-time Faculty (2011-12)

Natalee Caple
B.A. (Toronto), M.A. (York)
Office:  Catharine Parr Traill College, Wallis Hall 122
E-mail: nataleecaple @trentu.ca

Mac Fenwick
B.A., M.A. (Ottawa), Ph.D. (Queen's)
Research interests:  
Post colonial literatures and comparative literature, with special focuses on Wilson Harris, Salman Rushdie and cross-cultural hermeneutics
Office: Champlain College
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 ext. 7136
E-mail: mfenwick@trentu.ca;
home page: http://www.trentu.ca/~mfenwick/

Keith Friedlander
B.A. (Toronto), M.A. (Waterloo)
Office:  Lady Eaton College, EC 117
E-mail: keithfriedlander@trentu.ca

Graham J. Murphy
B.A., M.A. (Carleton), Ph.D. (Alberta)
Research interests:
Science fiction; utopian narrative; cyberculture/postmodern discourse; cultural studies; Australian literature; popular literature; the graphic novel
Office:  Catharine Parr Traill College, Wallis Hall 125
Telephone: (705) 748-1011
E-mail: grahammurphy@trentu.ca

Michael Wells
B.A. (Ryerson), M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (British Columbia)

Office: Oshawa Campus
E-mail: mdwells@trentu.ca

Adjunct Faculty

M. Allcott
M.A. (Utah), Ph.D. (SUNY, Buffalo)
Research interests:
Creative writing; gender theory; performance art
Office:  Champlain College, Trent International Program Office
Telephone: (705) 748-1314
E-mail: michaelallcott@trentu.ca

Edward Berry
A.B. (Wesleyan), M.A. Ph.D. (UC-Berkley), Emeritus (Victoria)
Research interests:
Shakespeare; Elizabethan drama; Renaissance literature; law and literature
E-mail:  reasons@cogeco.ca

Emeritus and Retired Faculty

Richard Dellamora
A.B. (Dartmouth College), B.A. (Cambridge), M.Phil., Ph.D. (Yale)

Geoffrey Eathorne
B.A. (New Zealand), M.A. (Canterbury)

Gordon Johnston
B.A. (Toronto), M.A. (Harvard)

Sean Kane
B.A. (Carleton), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)

Orm Mitchell
B.A., M.A. (Alberta), Ph.D. (London)

James Neufeld
B.A. (Toronto), M.A., Ph.D. (Chicago)

Michael Peterman
B.A. (Princeton), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)

Elisabeth Orsten
M.A. (Oxford), Ph.D. (Toronto)

Fred Tromly
B.A. (Grinnell), M.A., Ph.D. (Chicago)