Faculty & Research
Joel Baetz
Assistant Professor and Acting Chair, English
B.A., M.A. (McGill), Ph.D. (York)
2016 Symons Award Winner for Excellence in Teaching
2016 OUSA Teaching Award
Durham Campus, OSH 158, ext. 5074, joelbaetz@trentu.ca
Joel Baetz in the News: Professor Baetz welcomes Oscar-Nominated Director, Hubert Davis, into his classroom, The Symons Award for Excellence in Teaching 2016 and OUSA Award for Excellence in Teaching
Suzanne Bailey
Professor, English
Director, M.A. English Literature (Public Texts)
B.A. (Queen's), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)
Traill College, Wallis Hall 125, ext. 6039, sjbailey@trentu.ca
Research Interests: women’s writing, North-American and postcolonial; travel writing; visual arts, including printmaking and book illustration; nineteenth-century Canadian writing; Victorian literature; literature and science; literary theory; aging and the life course.
Brent Bellamy
English
B.A. (Trent), M.A. (Trent), Ph.D. (Alberta)
Traill College, Wallis Hall 107, ext. 6252, bbellamy@trentu.ca
Research Interests: American Literature & Culture, Literary Criticism (Literary & Genre Theory), Science Fiction Studies, Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Narrative, Critical Theory (Marxism & Feminism), World-Systems Theory, Energy Humanities (Petrocultures), and Environmental Humanities
Brent Bellamy in the News: Award for Excellence in Online Teaching 2021
Rita Bode
Professor, English
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)
Durham Campus, OSH 155, ext. 5002, rbode@trentu.ca
Peterborough Campus, WH 125 x 6160
Research Interests: 19th- and early 20th-century British and American; the novel; drama
Rita Bode in the News: Q & A with Jean Mitchell and Rita Bode, Editors of L.M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature(s)
Stephen Brown
Professor, English & Director, Theatre Emphasis Program
B.A., M.A. (Windsor), B.A., Ph.D. (Queen's), F.S.A. (Scot)
Champlain College K2, ext. 7421, swbrown@trentu.ca
Affiliated Fellow of the Centre for the History of the Book,University of Edinburgh
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
3M National Teaching Fellow
Honorary Lifetime Fellow of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Recipient of a CILIP Besterman McColvin Print Award (2012)
The Symons Award for Excellence in Teaching
Kathryn Chittick
Professor, English
B.A., M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Edinburgh)
Traill College, Wallis Hall 121, ext. 6028, kchittick@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Romantic literature, 18th-century literature, Periodical literature, Modern American poetry. Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Henry James, William Faulkner, George Gordon Byron, William Cobbett, William Hazlitt, W.H. Auden
Kathryn Chittick in the News: Symons Award for Excellence in Teaching 2020
Sally Chivers
Professor, English
B.A. (Calgary), Ph.D. (McGill)
Lady Eaton College S112, ext. 7950, sallychivers@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Disability and Age Studies, mainly connected with Cinema, Literature, TV, and other Media; Crip Culture; Architecture, Literature, and Film; Promising Practices for Long-Term Residential Care, especially creativity and culture; Digital Storytelling; Feminism; Canadian Literature; Activist Art; Austerity.
Sally Chivers in the News: Trent University in Peterborough Honours Dr. Sally Chivers with Distinguished Research Award
Charmaine Eddy
Associate Professor, English
M.A. (Western Ontario), Ph.D. (Toronto)
Champlain College S403, (705) 748-1011 ext. 7398, ceddy@trentu.ca
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
Michael Epp
Associate Professor, English Literature and Cultural Studies
Director of Theory, Culture & Politics M.A. Program
B.A. (Saskatchewan), M.A. (McGill), Ph.D. (Alberta)
Traill College, Wallis Hall 122, ext. 6252, michaelepp@trentu.ca
Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-century American literature and culture; violent labor; print culture and book history; Irish Republicanism
Mike Epp in the News: Director of Public Texts, Dr. Michael Epp, on the idea of "publics"
Joanne Findon
Professor, English
B.A. (British Columbia), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)
Traill College, Wallis Hall 119, ext. 6023, jfindon@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Middle English literature; Middle Irish and Middle Welsh literature; women in medieval literature; feminist criticism, myth and folklore; children's literature; creative writing
Joanne Findon in the News: A profile on Dr. Joanne Findon by Writers' Federation of New Brunswick
Hugh Hodges
Associate Professor, Department of English Literature and Department of Cultural Studies
B.A. (Queen's), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)
Traill College, Wallis Hall 134.1 ext. 7732, hughhodges@trentu.ca
Research Interests: African; West Indian; Black British and South Asian Literature; Oral Traditions and popular music; Postcolonial theory
Hugh Hodges in the News: Professor Hodges provides insight into the humanities
Ihor Junyk
Associate Professor, Cultural Studies and English
Director, Journalism & Creative Writing Program, Durham-GTA
B.A. Hons. (U.W.O.), M.A (Queen’s), Ph.D (University of Chicago)
Traill College, Scott House 204, ext. 6052, ihorjunyk@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Literature and visual culture across the modern period (from the late eighteenth century to the present), the complex relationship between cultural artifacts and the contexts of their production and reception. Current areas of interest include Victorian popular fiction, the modernist novel, magical realism and the postmodern fantastic, media history, early cinema, and the graphic novel.
George Kovacs
Assistant Professor, Ancient Greek and Roman Studies & Director, Classics Drama Group
B.A. (Trent), M.A. (Memorial), Ph.D. (Toronto)
Lady Eaton College, S106, ext. 7355, gakovacs@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Greek poetry of the Archaic and Classical periods with special interests in Greek and Roman drama and stagecraft and in the reception of Greek myth in modern popular culture.
Andrew Loeb
Assistant Professor, English
B.A., M.A. (McMaster), Ph.D. (Ottawa)
Traill College 124, ext. 7168, andrewloeb@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Early modern drama; music theory and practice; cognitive literary studies; theatre history; gender and sexuality; witchcraft; audience studies; subjectivity
Lewis MacLeod
Associate Professor, English
B.A. (Windsor), M.A. (McMaster), Ph.D. (Memorial)
Traill College, Wallis Hall 123, ext. 6022, lewismacleod@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Modern and postmodern British literature; postcolonialism; masculinities; narratology
Lewis MacLeod in the News: Dr. MacLeod welcomes some of Canada's top authors to Peterborough
Kelly McGuire
Associate Professor, English and Gender & Social Justice
Director, Gender and Women's Studies
B.A. (Queen’s); M.A. (Western); Ph.D. (Western)
Lady Eaton College, N130.1 ext. 7574, kellymcguire@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Health Humanities and the cultural representation of disease; gender, social justice, and public health; 18th-century world literature; literary theory; cultural history; feminist studies and women's writing
Amanda Paxton
Assistant Professor, English
Durham Greater Toronto Area Campus, Oshawa, Room: DUR 156, ext. 5025, amandapaxton@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Nineteenth-century literature and culture; Pre-Raphaelitism; Gothic literature; gender studies; religious poetry and subjectivity; composition theory; theories of aesthetics
Amanda Paxton in the News: OUSA's Teaching Excellence Award Recipients
Elizabeth Popham
Professor Emeritus, English
B.A., M.A. (Manitoba), Ph.D. (Queen's)
Research Interests: Renaissance literature; Elizabethan political pageantry; Canadian literature, especially A.M. Klein and E.J. Pratt; computers and the humanities
Beth Popham in the News: Leadership in Faculty Teaching Award
Concetta Principe
English
B.A. (Trent), M.A. (Concordia), M.A., Ph.D. (York)
Durham Greater Toronto Area Campus, Oshawa, Room 156 ext. 5025, cprincipe@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Comparative Literature (biblical studies and twentieth-century genres, including science fiction); Modernist and Postmodernist poetry and fiction; Canadian Literature; experimental genres; Trauma Literature; Creative Writing; Postcolonial Studies and Diaspora Literature.
Margaret Steffler
Professor, English
B.A. (Victoria), M.A., Ph.D. (McMaster)
Lady Eaton College N117, ext.6015, msteffler@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Canadian women’s life writing and autofiction; girlhood studies; Canadian Mennonite literature; YA literature; P.K. Page, L.M. Montgomery, Miriam Toews
Margaret Steffler in the News: PK Page remembered
Rob Winger
Assistant Professor, English
B.A. (Mount Allison), B.Ed (Ottawa), M.A. (Guelph), PhD (Carleton)
Traill College, Wallis Hall 120 Ext. 7484, Email: robwinger@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Canadian Literature & Culture, Creative Writing, Creative Critique, Contemporary & 20th-century Poetry and Fiction, Gender Studies
Rob Winger in the News: Celebrating Dr. Winger's New Book of Poetry