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