Graduate Faculty
English Faculty
Suzanne Bailey
Professor, English
Director, M.A. English Literature (Public Texts)
BA (Queen's), MA, PhD (Toronto)
Traill College, Wallis Hall 125, ext. 6039, sjbailey@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Darwin; science and visual culture; age and disability studies; Canadian modernism; history of the book, photography; theories of landscape; travel writing and mobilities; autobiography and women's writing; digital media; literary theory.
Rita Bode
Professor, English
BA, MA, PhD (Toronto)
Durham Campus, OSH 155, ext. 5002, rbode@trentu.ca
Traill Campus, WH 125, ext. 6160
Research Interests: 19th- and early 20th-century British and American; the novel; drama
Joel Baetz
Assistant Professor, English
BA, MA (McGill), PhD (York)
2016 Symons Award Winner for Excellence in Teaching
Durham Campus, OSH 158, ext. 5074, joelbaetz@trentu.ca
Stephen Brown
Professor, English & Director, Theatre Emphasis Program
3M National Teaching Fellow
BA, MA (Windsor), BA, PhD (Queen's), FSA (Scot)
Visiting Research Scholar, Centre for the History of the Book, University of Edinburgh 2017
Recipient of the Michael Von Poser Society of Edinburgh Medal for Contributions to Scottish Culture
Recipient of a Besterman McColvin Print Award (2012)
Champlain College K2, ext. 7421, swbrown@trentu.ca
Sally Chivers
Professor, English
BA (Calgary), PhD (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.
Charmaine Eddy
Associate Professor, English
MA (Western Ontario), PhD (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
BA (Saskatchewan), MA (McGill), PhD (Alberta)
Traill College, Wallis Hall 105, ext. 6093, michaelepp@trentu.ca
Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-century American literature and culture; public and political violence; print culture and book history; Irish Republicanism
Joanne Findon
Professor, English
BA (British Columbia), MA, PhD (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
Hugh Hodges
Associate Professor and Chair, English Literature and Cultural Studies
BA (Queen's), MA, PhD (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
Kelly McGuire
Associate Professor, English
BA (Queen’s); MA (Western); PhD (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
Margaret Steffler
Professor, English
BA (Victoria), MA, PhD (McMaster)
Lady Eaton College 117, ext.6015, msteffler@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Canadian fiction; children's literature; Canadian women’s life-writing; literary and cultural constructions of childhood and girlhood; postcolonial literature and theory
Rob Winger
Assistant Professor, English
BA (Mount Allison), BEd (Ottawa), MA (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
Cultural Studies Faculty
Kelly Egan
Assistant Professor, Media and Cultural Studies
BA (Carleton), MFA (Bard), MA, PhD (York/Ryerson)
Certificate in Film Preservation (George Eastman Museum)
Traill College, Scott House 203, ext. 6042, kellyegan@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Media archeology, technology and art, avant-garde cinema, photochemical arts, research-creation, media preservation and archival theory
Ihor Junyk
Associate Professor, Cultural Studies and English
BA Hons. (U.W.O.), MA (Queen’s), PhD (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.
Liam Mitchell
Assistant Professor & Chair, Cultural Studies
Coordinator, Media Studies
BA (Thompson Rivers), MA (York), PhD (Victoria)
Traill College, Scott House 201, ext. 6072, liammitchell@trentu.ca
Research Interests: The effects of our continual immersion in media, particularly those social media services that seem to fall under our control. Liam's research brings a phenomenological perspective to bear on everyday cultural practices (like social media) and their transgressive opposites (like trolling). He is currently preparing a manuscript that investigates the ontological implications of different moods associated with internet browsing, particularly the twinned moods of boredom and interest. Activities like internet browsing seem to be both the cause of and solution to “negative” moods like boredom.
Gender & Women's Studies
Nael Bhanji
Assistant Professor, Gender & Women's Studies
BAH (Queen's), MA (Toronto), PhD (York)
Lady Eaton College, N112, naelbhanji@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Trans theory; Affect; Race and Racialization; Necropolitics; Biopolitics; Emotion; Psychoanalysis; Queer theory; Masculinities; Memory and Memorialization; Diaspora; Transnationalism; Political Economies of Violence; Surveillance; Social Justice
History Faculty
Finis Dunaway
Professor, History
BA (N. Carolina), PhD (Rutgers)
Traill College, Wallis Hall 118, ext. 7026, finisdunaway@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Modern United States cultural and environmental history; American Studies; visual culture; mass media and the environment; arctic landscapes
Psychology Faculty
Michael Chan-Reynolds
Associate Professor, Psychology
BSc (Trent), MA, PhD (Waterloo)
Otonabee College 151, ext. 7534, michaelchanreynolds@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Generally speaking, I am interested in how people utilize information in their environment during everyday situations. I examine this issue using three complementary approaches; (1) standard laboratory tasks and (2) observing and describing behaviours during everyday tasks for data collection and (3) computational modeling as a form of theory construction. I am presently conducting research in two different areas (1) how people read and (2) how things in our environment capture (or fail to capture) our attention.
Sociology Faculty
Stephen Katz
Professor Emeritus
BA (York), MA (McGill), PhD (York)
Otonabee College 230, ext. 6020, skatz@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Social and cultural theory, social gerontology and aging, expertise and the human sciences, sociology of the body. 'Perceptions and Realities of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI): Diagnosis and Treatment for Older Individuals.' www.trentu.ca/mciproject
Naomi Nichols
Associate Professor & Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Community-Partnered Social Justice
BA (Trent), BEd(Queen's), MA & PhD (York)
Otonabee College 232, ext. 7822, naominichols@trentu.ca
Research interests: Social inequality; poverty; youth homelessness; youth justice; child welfare; education; "youth at risk"; youth mental health; higher education, research impact and community-academic research collaborations.
Adjunct Faculty
Jodi Aoki
Univeristy Archivist
Michelle Berry
Michael Eamon
Principal, Catharine Parr Traill College
B.A. Hon. (Ottawa) M.A.(Queen’s), M.Phil (Cambridge), Ph.D. (Queen’s)
Catharine Parr Traill College, Scott House 107, 705-748-1011 ext. 6218, michaeleamon@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Print Culture, Enlightenment, Cultural and Intellectual History.
Cynthia Good
Director Emeritus, Creative Book Publishing Program
Director, Student and Industry Initiatives, CBPP, Humber College
BA, MA (Toronto)
Cottage D., Room 103, Humber College, (416) 675-6622 ext. 3462, cynthia.good@humber.ca
Research Interests: Canadian publishing, technological trends in international publishing and writing, 19th century British fiction; Canadian literature; Jewish function
Catherine Hobbs
Research Associate; Literary Archivist (English) and Senior Archivist, Library and Archives Canada
BA (McMaster), MA, MLIS (Western)
6-51, 550 blvd de la Cité, Gatineau, QC, K1A 0N4, (613) 617-6745, catherine.hobbs@bac-lac.gc.ca
Alison Maclean
Past Director, Creative Book Publishing at Humber College
Mary Polito
Associate Professor Emerita, University of Calgary, Department of English
BA, BEd (Trent), MA (York), PhD (York)
Nathan Whitlock
Program Coordinator, Creative Book Publishing Program at Humber College