English and Cultural Studies Graduate Faculty and Areas of Specialization
Faculty Member / email | 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. Chris Parkes | Children's literature, and eighteenth-century 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. Jenny Roth Adjunct to Department of English | Feminist law and literature, cyberfeminism, feminist cultural studies and fan studies, and women and leadership |
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 |