Undergraduate Faculty
Joel Baetz
Associate Professor and Acting Chair, English
B.A., M.A. (McGill), Ph.D. (York)
Durham Campus, OSH 158, ext. 5074, 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. 6039, 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.
Rita Bode
Professor, English
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; 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)
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)
The Symons Award for Excellence in Teaching
Kathryn 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
Sally 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
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
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
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
Associate Professor, Department of English Literature and Department of Cultural Studies
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
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.
George 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.
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 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
Amanda 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
Rob 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