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TRENTU.CA / English / Faculty & Research / Graduate Faculty

Graduate Faculty

English Faculty

Joel Baetz​

​Assistant Professor
BA, MA (McGill), PhD (York)

joelbaetz@trentu.ca

Research Interests: Canadian literature, comics, urban studies, and poetry

 

 

 

Suzanne Bailey

Professor
BA (Queen's), MA, PhD (Toronto)

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

 

 

 

Rita Bode

Rita Bode

Professor
Director, M.A. English Literature (Public Texts)
BA, MA, PhD (Toronto)

rbode@trentu.ca

Research Interests: 19th and early 20th-century British and American; the novel; drama

 

 

photo of Dr. Stephen BrownStephen Brown

Professor
Director, Theatre Emphasis Program
BA, MA (Windsor), BA, PhD (Queen's), FSA (Scot)

swbrown@trentu.ca

Research Interests: history of the book, with emphasis on material print culture; Scottish literature; history of journalism, especially early newspapers and magazines; advertising and print; satire and print media

 

 

Sally Chivers

Professor
BA (Calgary), PhD (McGill)

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​Charmaine Eddy

Associate Professor
MA (Western Ontario), PhD (Toronto)

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

 

 

 

photo of Dr. Joanne FindonJoanne Findon

Professor
BA (British Columbia), MA, PhD (Toronto)

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
BA (Queen's), MA, PhD (Toronto)

hughhodges@trentu.ca

Research Interests: African; West Indian; Black British and South Asian Literature; Oral Traditions and popular music; Postcolonial theory

 

 

 

Andrew Loeb

Assistant Professor, English
B.A., M.A. (McMaster), Ph.D. (Ottawa)

andrewloeb@trentu.ca

Research Interests:  Early modern drama; music theory and practice; cognitive literary studies; theatre history; gender and sexuality; witchcraft; audience studies; subjectivity

 

 

 

Kelly McGuire

Associate Professor
BA (Queen’s); MA (Western); PhD (Western)

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

 

 

 

Rob WingerRob Winger

Assistant Professor
BA (Mount Allison), BEd (Ottawa), MA (Guelph), PhD (Carleton)

robwinger@trentu.ca

Research Interests: Canadian Literature & Culture, Creative Writing, Creative Critique, Contemporary & 20th-century Poetry and Fiction, Gender Studies

 

 

 

Cultural Studies Faculty

Martin Boyne

Assistant Professor
BA (Trent), MA (Toronto), PhD (Lancaster)

Research Interests: stylistics, specifically linguistic creativity in twentieth-century "speculative" fiction, stylistic analysis of non-literary texts

Kelly Egan

Assistant Professor
BA (Carleton), MA (York/Ryerson), MFA (Bard), PhD (York/Ryerson)

kellyegan@trentu.ca

Research Interests: Avant-Garde Cinema, Media Arts, Media Archaeology, Film Preservation and Archival Theory, Aesthetics, Visual Culture, Materiality

Michael Epp

Associate Professor
BA (Saskatchewan), MA (McGill), PhD (Alberta)

michaelepp@trentu.ca

Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-century American literature and culture; public and political violence; print culture and book history; Irish Republicanism

Ihor Junyk

Associate Professor
BA Hons. (U.W.O.), MA (Queen’s), PhD (University of Chicago)

ihorjunyk@trentu.ca

Research Interests: modernism and the avant-garde; classicism and myth; opera; trauma, memory, and history; and the contemporary novel.

Liam Mitchell

Assistant Professor & Chair
BA (Thompson Rivers), MA (York), PhD (Victoria)

liammitchell@trentu.ca

Research Interests: Game studies, media theory, political theory, cultural politics, social media, Heidegger, Foucault.

Education Faculty

Karleen Pendleton Jiménez

Professor
Acting Associate Dean, Durham

kpendletonjimenez@trentu.ca

In my research, I investigate sociocultural influences on learning, and work with creative writing research methodologies.  I have studied Latina community and writing, LGBTTQI2S experiences in education, and gender transgression in schools (e.g. what happens when children and youth express their gender diversity as they wish).

Gender & Social Justice Faculty

Nael Bhanji

Assistant Professor
BAH (Queen's), MA (Toronto), PhD (York)

naelbhanji@trentu.ca

Research Interests: Race and Racialization; Necropolitics; Biopolitics; Trans theory; Affect; Emotion; Psychoanalysis; Queer theory; Masculinities; Memory and memorialization; Diaspora; Transnationalism; Political economies of violence; Surveillance; Social Justice

 Jenn Cole

 Assistant Professor
 B.A. (Trent), M.A. (Trent), Ph.D. (Toronto)

 jenncole@trentu.ca

Research Interests: Indigenous Performance as it intersects with settler/Indigenous relations and reciprocal relationship to the land, especially at the site of the Kiji Sibi/Ottawa River in Algonquin Territory.

History Faculty

Finis Dunaway

Professor
BA (N. Carolina), PhD (Rutgers)

finisdunaway@trentu.ca

Research Interests: Modern United States cultural and environmental history; American Studies; visual culture; mass media and the environment; arctic landscapes

Philosophy Faculty

Kathryn Norlock

Professor; Kenneth Mark Drain Endowed Chair in Ethics
Ph.D. (Wisconsin-Madison)

kathrynnorlock@trentu.ca

Research Interests: Ethics; Feminist philosophy; Environmental philosophy; Sociopolitical issues

Psychology Faculty

Michael Chan-Reynolds

Associate Professor
BSc (Trent), MA, PhD (Waterloo) 

michaelchanreynolds@trentu.ca

Research Interests: Utilization of Environment in everyday situations

Sociology Faculty

Naomi Nichols

Associate Professor & Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Community-Partnered  Social Justice
BA (Trent), BEd(Queen's), MA & PhD (York)

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

Emily Bruusgaard

Assistant Professor
B.A. (Waterloo), M.A. (Trent), Ph.D. (Queen's)

emilybruusgaard@trentu.ca

Research Interests: Canadian literature, Indigenous literatures, particularly contemporary poetry; American women's literature; material culture and narratives of domestic production, needlework and textiles; mental illness and generational trauma; Martha Ostenso; Laura Goodman Salverson; Sara Jeannette Duncan; Nella Larsen; Edith Wharton

Michael Eamon

Principal, Catharine Parr Traill College
B.A. Hon. (Ottawa) M.A.(Queen’s), M.Phil (Cambridge), Ph.D. (Queen’s)

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)

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)

catherine.hobbs@bac-lac.gc.ca

Stephen Katz

Professor Emeritus
BA (York), MA (McGill), PhD (York)

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

Mary Polito

​Associate Professor Emerita, University of Calgary, Department of English
BA, BEd (Trent), MA (York), PhD (York)

Zailig Pollock

Professor Emeritus
A (Manitoba), PhD (London)
Editing of Canadian poetry; computing and the humanities

Elizabeth Popham

Emeritus
BA, MA (Manitoba), PhD (Queen’s)
Renaissance literature; Elizabethan political pageantry; Canadian literature; computers and the humanities; textual editing

Concetta Principe

Assistant Professor
B.A. (Trent), M.A. (Concordia), M.A., Ph.D. (York)

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

Emeritus
BA (Victoria), MA, PhD (McMaster)
19th- and 20th-century Canadian literature, especially prose; women’s life-writing; children’s literature; postcolonial theory; textual editing

Nathan Whitlock

Program Coordinator, Creative Book Publishing Program at Humber College

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