Faculty & Research
Faculty associated with either the Undergraduate English Literature program or the Graduate English M.A. (Public Texts) Program:
Hugh Hodges
Associate Professor and Chair, English Literature (on leave 2020-21)
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
Suzanne Bailey
Professor and Acting Chair, English Literature 2020-21
B.A. (Queen's), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)
Traill College, Wallis Hall 125, ext. 6039, sjbailey@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Victorian literature, Robert Browning, Victorian science, literary annuals and periodicals, nineteenth-century Canadian settler narratives, Catharine Parr Traill, Susanna Moodie, P.K. Page, women writers, travel writing, history of printmaking, Inuit printmaking, indigenous art
Joel Baetz
Assistant Professor, 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
Brent BellamyEnglish
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
Rita Bode
Professor, English
Acting Director 2018-19, M.A. English Literature (Public Texts)
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 teh 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)
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
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 hosting international symposium on aging
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
Ihor Junyk
Associate Professor, Cultural Studies and English
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
Acting Director 2018-19, Gender and Women's Studies
B.A. (Queen’s); M.A. (Western); Ph.D. (Western)
Champlain College H25, ext. 7574, kellymcguire@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Restoration and 18th-century British literature; 19th-century British and Canadian literature; literary theory; cultural history; the novel and print culture; transatlantic writing; gender studies and women's writing
Liam Mitchell
Associate Professor, Cultural Studies & English, Chair of Cultural Studies, Coordinator of Media Studies
B.A. (Thompson Rivers), M.A. (York), Ph.D. (Victoria)
Traill College, Scott House 201, ext. 6072, liammitchell@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Game studies; media theory; political theory; cultural politics; social media; Heidegger; Foucault.
Amanda Paxton
Assistant Professor, English
Durham Campus, 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
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
Concetta Principe
Assistant Professor, English
B.A. (Trent), M.A. (Concordia), M.A., Ph.D. (York)
Durham Campus 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. TBA 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: Guest Author at Trent's Writers Reading Series