English and Cultural Studies Graduate Faculty and Areas of Specialization
Faculty Member and Area of Specialization
Dr Alice den Otter - British romantic literature (especially William Blake, Anna Letitia Barbauld, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Mary Shelley), gift exchange, and rhetorical theory
Dr. Monica Flegel - Cultural studies, specifically: Victorian literature and culture; children's literature and culture; fan and media
studies; and animal studies
Dr. Anna Guttman - Postcolonial literature and culture, including literature and culture of Asia, Africa, the Caribbean and their diasporas; multicultural literature; travel writing; women's writing; gender and sexuality; nations and nationalisms; globalization
Dr. Max Haiven - Globalization studies; capitalism and ideology; activism, community organizing and social movements; cultural studies; critical theory; debt and financialization; cultural production and culture industries; commons and alternative economies; participatory methodologies; games.
Dr. Daniel Hannah - American literature (especially nineteenth-century); British romantic literature; transatlantic studies; comics and graphic narratives; queer theory; ecocriticism.
Dr. Douglas Hayes - Medieval and Tudor drama, classical, medieval, and Renaissance rhetoric, Scots Makars, scholarly editing, and learning experience design
Dr. Douglas Ivison - Canadian literature; urbanism; space and place; regionalism; globalization; climate crisis; science fiction; popular culture.
Dr. Judith Leggatt - Indigenous literature and theory; speculative fiction; Canadian literature; Caribbean literature; women's literature
Dr. Cheryl Lousley - Contemporary Canadian literature, environmental literary and cultural studies, feminist studies, social and cultural theory, and globalization
Dr. Sarah Olutola - Black and critical race studies, postcolonialism, African and African diasporic, Anglophone literature, popular media culture and youth literature.
Dr. Scott Pound - Modern and contemporary American literature, poetry and poetics, media history, Modernism and the literary avant-gardes, as well as creative projects in a variety of modes and genres.
Dr. Batia Stolar - Immigrant literatures and film, Canadian and American literatures, visual culture, the Gothic
Dr. Rachel Warburton - Early modern (16th and 17th century) English literature and culture; early women's writing; histories of sexuality; feminist, gender, and queer theory