Director
Karleen Pendleton Jiménez
Professor
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).
English Faculty
Joel Baetz
Associate Professor
BA, MA (McGill), PhD (York)
Research Interests: Canadian literature, comics, urban studies, and poetry
Suzanne Bailey
Professor and Associate Dean, School of Graduate Studies
BA (Queen's), MA, PhD (Toronto)
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
Professor
Director, M.A. English Literature (Public Texts)
BA, MA, PhD (Toronto)
Research Interests: 19th and early 20th-century British and American; the novel; drama
Stephen Brown
Professor
Director, Theatre Emphasis Program
BA, MA (Windsor), BA, PhD (Queen's), FSA (Scot)
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
Charmaine Eddy
Associate Professor
MA (Western Ontario), PhD (Toronto)
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
Hugh Hodges
Associate Professor
BA (Queen's), MA, PhD (Toronto)
Research Interests: African; West Indian; Black British and South Asian Literature; Oral Traditions and popular music; Postcolonial theory
Aaron Kreuter
Assistant Professor
B.A. (Concordia); M.A. (University of Victoria), Ph.D. (York University)
Research Interests: Creative writing; world literature; settler colonial fiction; Jewish fiction; Israel/Palestine studies; eco-fiction.
Andrew Loeb
Assistant Professor
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
Kelly McGuire
Associate Professor
BA (Queen’s); MA (Western); PhD (Western)
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
Amanda Paxton
Assistant Professor
B.A. (Toronto), M.A., Ph.D. (York)
Concetta Principe
Assistant Professor
B.A. (Trent), M.A. (Concordia), M.A., Ph.D. (York)
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.
Rob Winger
Associate Professor
BA (Mount Allison), BEd (Ottawa), MA (Guelph), PhD (Carleton)
Research Interests: Canadian Literature & Culture, Creative Writing, Creative Critique, Contemporary & 20th-century Poetry and Fiction, Gender Studies
Cultural Studies Faculty
Michael Epp
Associate Professor
BA (Saskatchewan), MA (McGill), PhD (Alberta)
Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-century American literature and culture; public and political violence; print culture and book history; Irish Republicanism
Ihor Junyk
Professor
BA Hons. (U.W.O.), MA (Queen’s), PhD (University of Chicago)
Research Interests: modernism and the avant-garde; classicism and myth; opera; trauma, memory, and history; and the contemporary novel.
Liam Mitchell
Associate Professor
BA (Thompson Rivers), MA (York), PhD (Victoria)
Research Interests: Game studies, media theory, political theory, cultural politics, social media, Heidegger, Foucault.
Joshua Synenko
Associate Professor
Director, MA & PhD Cultural Studies
BA PhD (York), MA(Western)
Research Interests: Cinema studies, media theory, social and political thought, visual culture
Education Faculty
Denise Handlarski
Associate Professor
Denise teaches courses in history and social justice education, particularly gender studies and anti-racist education, for the B.Ed. and M.Ed. programs, while also leading the School of Education well-being program, and Sex Education Alternative Settings Placement. Having served as the M.Ed. Director and B.Ed. Coordinator, Denise's research areas include: spirituality and community in education, sex education, well-being and education, Jewish studies, and birth/motherhood studies. In addition to being faculty at the Trent School of Education, Denise is a rabbi and labour/birth doula.
Karleen Pendleton Jiménez
Professor
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
Sally Chivers
Professor
BA (Calgary), PhD (McGill)
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.
Jenn Cole
Assistant Professor
B.A. (Trent), M.A. (Trent), Ph.D. (Toronto)
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)
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)
Research Interests: Ethics; Feminist philosophy; Environmental philosophy; Sociopolitical issues
Psychology Faculty
Michael Chan-Reynolds
Associate Professor
BSc (Trent), MA, PhD (Waterloo)
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)
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.
Trent Centre for Language and Linguistics
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
Adjunct Faculty
Brent Bellamy
Assistant Professor
B.A. (Trent), M.A. (Trent), Ph.D. (Alberta)
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
Emily Bruusgaard
Assistant Professor, English
B.A. (Waterloo), M.A. (Trent), Ph.D. (Queen's)
Research Interests: Canadian and Indigenous literatures; material culture and narratives of domestic production, needlework and textiles; mental illness and generational trauma; intersections of fat, disability, and aging studies, and the production of white femininities. Martha Ostenso; Laura Goodman Salverson; Sara Jeannette Duncan; Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Michael Eamon
Principal, Catharine Parr Traill College
B.A. Hon. (Ottawa) M.A.(Queen’s), M.Phil (Cambridge), Ph.D. (Queen’s)
Research Interests: Print Culture, Enlightenment, Cultural and Intellectual History.
Joanne Findon
Professor
BA (British Columbia), MA, PhD (Toronto)
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
Catherine Hobbs
Research Associate; Literary Archivist (English) and Senior Archivist, Library and Archives Canada
BA (McMaster), MA, MLIS (Western)
Mary Polito
Associate Professor Emerita, University of Calgary, Department of English
BA, BEd (Trent), MA (York), PhD (York)
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