Part-time Undergraduate Faculty
Please note that the offices and reading rooms of the School for the Study of Canada in Kerr House are currently closed to public access. If you would like to make a virtual appointment with one of our faculty or staff, please send them an email.
The School benefits enormously from the dedicated work of part-time staff who bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the classroom.
Derek Newman-Stille
Course Instructor, Canadian Studies: CAST 4551H PTBO FA 2021
Secretary: Jeannine Crowe, (705) 748-1817
Derek Newman-Stille (they/them) is a disabled, queer, nonbinary, fat femme activist, author, artist, academic, and editor. They teach at Trent University where they are currently completing their PhD examining representations of disability in Canadian speculative fiction. Derek’s research interests include disability studies, Queer theory and LGBTQ2IA studies, digital humanities, arts-based research, and speculative fiction. Derek is the 9 time Aurora Award-winning creator of the digital humanities hub Speculating Canada. They have published in academic fora such as Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, Creative Teamwork: Developing Rapid, Site-Switching Ethnography, The Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, The Canadian Fantastic in Focus, and Misfit Children: An Inquiry into Childhood Belongings. They have also published in the public press in fora such as Quill & Quire, Uncanny Magazine, Nothing Without Us, Accessing the Future, The Playground of Lost Toys, and The Spoonie Authors' Network. Derek's most recent books are Whispers Between Fairies (Renaissance Press, 2020), Over the Rainbow: Folk and Fairy Tales from the Margins (Exile, 2019), and We Shall Be Monsters: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein 200 Years On (Renaissance Press, 2019)
Mike Perry
Course Instructor, Canadian Studies: CAST 2090H FA 2022
Barrister & Solicitor, R.S.W., B.A. (Queen's), LL.B. (Windsor), LL.M. (Duke), M.S.W. (York), Ph.D. (Trent, in progress)
Secretary: Jeannine Crowe, (705) 748-1817
Email: michaelperry@trentu.ca
Research interests: impacts of climate change on modern slavery (human trafficking); Canadian law and social policy especially critical legal studies, anti-oppressive practice, and legal activism; and public leadership for transformative, progressive change
Select Publications:
"'That Happens Up There?' Human Trafficking and Security in the North American Arctic," in Dwayne Menezes and Heather Nicol, eds, 2019. The North American Arctic: New Trends in Regional Security. (London: University College London Press, 2019).
The Law and Governance of Trafficking, Forced Labour and Modern Slavery, by Prabha Kotisawarn, ed. Review. (2008) 82 Labour/Le Travail 304.
"'The Tip of the Iceberg': Human Trafficking, Borders, and the Canada-U.S. North (2018) 42 Canada-U.S. Law Journal 204.
"Lining Up at the Border: Renewing the Call for a Canada-U.S. Insolvency Convention in the 21st Century" (2000) 10:2 Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law 469.
"Beyond Dispute: A Comment on Human Rights Adjudication" (1998) 53:2 Arbitration Law Review 50.
David Tough
Course Instructor, Canadian Studies, CAST 1100H FA 2022
B.A. (Trent), M.A. (Trent), Ph.D. (Carleton)
Secretary: Jeannine Crowe, (705) 748-1817
Email: davidgtough@trentu.ca
Research interests:
History of politics, the welfare state, taxation, poverty, and inequality in 20th century Canada; writing instruction; historiography, narrative, memory; political rhetoric and political imaginaries
Publications:
Books:
Who Pays for Canada? Taxes and Fairness, co-edited with Elsbeth Heaman (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020)
The Terrific Engine: Income Taxation and the Modernization of the Canadian Political Imaginary (University of British Columbia Press, 2018)
Journal Articles:
“‘At Last! The Government’s War on Poverty Explained:’ The Special Planning Secretariat, the Welfare State, and the Rhetoric of Poverty in the 1960s” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association Volume 25 #1 2015.
“‘The rich … should give to such an extent that it will hurt’: ‘Conscription of Wealth’ and Political Modernism in the Parliamentary Debate on the 1917 Income War Tax” Canadian Historical Review Volume 93 #3 September 2012.
