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A photograph of Dr. Joel BaetzJoel Baetz

Associate Professor and Chair, English
B.A., M.A. (McGill), Ph.D. (York)

Durham Campus, OSH 158, ext. 5074 
Peterborough Campus, WH 122 ext. 7732
joelbaetz@trentu.ca 

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

Joel Baetz in the News: Professor Baetz welcomes Oscar-Nominated Director, Hubert Davis  -  The Symons Award for Excellence in Teaching  -  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. 6093, 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.

 

 

A photgraph of Dr. Rita BodeRita Bode

Professor, English
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)

Durham Campus, OSH 155, ext. 5002, rbode@trentu.ca

Research Interests: 19th- and early 20th-century British and American; 19th-century American women writers, and transatlantic studies; early 20th-century Canadian.

Rita Bode in the News: Q & A with Jean Mitchell and Rita Bode, Editors of L.M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature(s)

 

 

A photgraph of Dr. Stephen BrownStephen 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
 

 

 

A photograph of Dr. Kathryn ChittickKathryn Chittick

Professor, English
B.A., M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Edinburgh)

Traill College, Wallis Hall 121, ext. 6028, kchittick@trentu.ca

Research Interests:  Poetic Metre; Romantic literature; Old English/Middle English studies 1760-1880; Eighteenth-century literature. Authors: Walter Scott, George Gordon Byron, William Cobbett, William Hazlitt, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Henry James, W.H. Auden, Wallace Stevens. I teach a range of courses, including Milton, Eighteenth-century poetry and prose, Romantic poetry and prose, the history of the novel, and modern poetry.

Kathryn Chittick in the News:  The Symons Award for Excellence in Teaching 

 

 

 

 

 

A photograph of Dr. Sally ChiversSally Chivers-Storey

Professor, English Department and Gender & Social Studies Department
B.A. (Calgary), Ph.D. (McGill)

Lady Eaton College S112, ext. 7950, sallychivers@trentu.ca

Research Interests: Disability and Age Studies. Health Humanities. Digital Storytelling for Social Change

Sally Chivers in the News: Trent University in Peterborough Honours Dr. Sally Chivers with Distinguished Research Award

 

 

A photograph of Dr. Charmaine Eddy​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; Black American fiction; critical race theory; new materialisms and object-oriented ontology; William Faulkner; Toni Morrison 

 

 

 

A photgraph of Dr. Michael EppMichael 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, Scott House 211, 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"

 

 

A photograph of Dr. Joanne FindonJoanne 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
 

 

 

 

Rohan Ghatage

Visiting Assistant Professor of Racial Justice, Literature, and Culture
B.A. (Mount Royal), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)

Traill College, Wallis Hall 115, ext. 7703, rohanghatage@trentu.ca

Research interests: nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature; African American studies; transatlantic literatures; critical theory; intellectual history

 

 

 

Hugh Hodges

Chair, Cultural Studies
Associate Professor, English and Cultural Studies

B.A. (Queen's), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)

Traill College, Scott House 202 ext. TBA, 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
 

 

 

A photograph of Dr. Ihor Junyk​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. 

 

 

A photograph of Dr. George KovacsGeorge Kovacs

Associate 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.
 

 

 

A photograph of Dr. Andrew Loeb
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

 

 

 

A photograph of Dr. Lewis MacLeodLewis 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

 

 

A photograph of Dr. Kelly McGuire

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

 

 

 

A photograph of Dr. Amanda PaxtonAmanda Paxton

Assistant Professor, English
B.A. (University of Toronto), M.A. (York University), Ph.D. (York University)

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, queer studies

 

Amanda Paxton in the News: OUSA's Teaching Excellence Award Recipients
 

 

 

A photograph of Dr. Rob Winger by Kristal DavisRob Winger

Associate 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
 

 

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