english and cultural studies graduate faculty and areas of specialization

faculty member / email

area of specialization

dr. alice den otter

adenotte@lakeheadu.ca

british romantic literature (especially william blake, anna letitia barbauld, samuel taylor coleridge, and mary shelley), gift exchange, and rhetorical theory

dr. monica flegel

monica.flegel@lakeheadu.ca

cultural studies, specifically: victorian literature and culture; children's literature and culture; fan and media studies; and animal studies

dr. anna guttman

anna.guttman@lakeheadu.ca

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

mhaiven@lakeheadu.ca

 

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

daniel.hannah@lakeheadu.ca

american literature (especially nineteenth-century); british romantic literature; transatlantic studies; comics and graphic narratives; queer theory; ecocriticism.

dr. douglas hayes

douglas.hayes@lakeheadu.ca

medieval and tudor drama, classical, medieval, and renaissance rhetoric, scots makars, scholarly editing, and learning experience design

dr. douglas ivison

douglas.ivison@lakeheadu.ca

canadian literature; urbanism; space and place; regionalism; globalization; climate crisis; science fiction; popular culture.

dr. judith leggatt

judith.leggatt@lakeheadu.ca

indigenous literature and theory; speculative fiction; canadian literature; caribbean literature; women's literature

dr. cheryl lousley

clousley@lakeheadu.ca

contemporary canadian literature, environmental literary and cultural studies, feminist studies, social and cultural theory, and globalization

dr. sarah olutola

solutola@lakeheadu.ca

 

black and critical race studies, postcolonialism, african and african diasporic, anglophone literature, popular media culture and youth literature.

dr. chris parkes

chris.parkes@lakeheadu.ca

children's literature, and eighteenth-century literature

dr. scott pound

scott.pound@lakeheadu.ca

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

jroth@lakeheadu.ca

feminist law and literature, cyberfeminism, feminist cultural studies and fan studies, and women and leadership

dr. batia stolar

batia.stolar@lakeheadu.ca

immigrant literatures and film, canadian and american literatures, visual culture, the gothic

dr. rachel warburton

rachel.warburton@lakeheadu.ca

early modern (16th and 17th century) english literature and culture; early women's writing; histories of sexuality; feminist, gender, and queer theory