Faculty and staff

Ellis Davidson
Intersections of narratology, digital humanities, and linguistics, particularly through the study of tragedy, fantasy, science fiction and horror.

Mallory Pelly
Psychological approach to literary works from the 17-19th century, focusing on psychosocial and emotional development. 

Cheyenne Wright
Medieval Literature and Shakespeare. Gender roles and power dynamics within the Canterbury Tales. Female agency in Shakespeare's works. Women’s agency and autonomy in the Elizabethan Era. How societal expectations and restrictions placed on women during the Elizabethan Era influenced Shakespeare's portrayals of female characters. Gender roles, society, and power dynamics. 
 

Morgan Dereniwski
Contemporary literature, creative writing, romanticism, postmodernism, gender and feminist theory, and rural literature. 

Amelia Furlinger
Creative approaches to literary and theoretical analyses with a fond interest in social evolution around "madness", maladies, legalities and advocacy.

Sean Hetherington
Romantic literature, gothic fiction, critical theory, psychoanalysis and hauntology.

Keenan Hosfield
Indigenous literature, gothic and horror literature, as well as non-fiction writing and historical accounts in Canadian and Indigenous history.

Ariella Gunn
Restoration literature and theatre, text and performance, theories of gender and sexuality.

Ilianna Hoople
English Romanticism focusing on the interactions of 18th-19th century literature with concepts of gender and sexuality. Comparing the past and present values of inclusion has sparked an interest in how genre and media categorization have altered throughout time.

Hoyong Jeong
Conflict theory, (neo)colonialism, deconstruction, imperialism, macroeconomic environment in literary works, exploitation and its societal consequences.

Lakshmisree Shaji Marar
Marxist theory, fan theory, critical race studies, gender and sexuality studies. Currently researching the racial and gender aspects of affective fan responses to North American popular fiction that feature South Asian women protagonists.

Bren McKay
Indigenous literatures (Indigenous futurisms, Indigenous horror, Indigenous poetry), Indigenous and decolonial theory, and Indigenous representations, misrepresentations, and absences in 19th and 20th century North American literature. Other interests include research-creation, queer theory, Marxist theory and creative writing.

Augustus Stearns
Moral recapitulation/retention amongst target demographics in modern filmic adaptations of children’s and young adult literature against source material

Sasha Braun
Intersections of queerness, exile and nation-building; INdigenous and settlement literatures; deconstruction; perplexity and the ineffable; equivocation and power.

GG Dascal
Representations of Bisexuality and Queer culture in visual media, within the Horror genre and specifically on film. Other interests include the power of imagery and the ways in which it can affect pre-established social categories and prescriptions, especially when dealing with themes and subjects that are often relegated to the periphery of the dominant socio-cultural paradigm.

Theo Farough
Medieval and Medievalist literature, with a focus in chivalric literature and Arthurian legend. Other interests include creative writing, sci-fi and fantasy, manga and graphic novels, critical theory, poetry and the intersection of literary studies with History and Philosophy. Avid One Piece fan.

Joel Ferguson
Romanticism and its creative processes, the poetics of space, 18th-19th century travel writing, working class representations of rural Britain, the pastoral mode.

Amy-Leigh Gray
Figurations of girlhood in twentieth-century American literary and cultural representations of farming and meat production. Looking to the intimacies between farmed animals and girls, she tends to questions of reproductive rights and race, disposability and deviancy and queer attachments and interspecies futures. Other research interests include critical animal studies, Black feminist thinking, queer theory, modernist literature and performance and dance studies.

Virginia Page Jähne
Bibliographic study which will include an exploration of the importance of preserving the materiality and aesthetic of the book, particularly when confronted with technological change.

Golnaz Heidar Jamshidi
Postcolonial literature, postcolonial theories, modern and contemporary literature: 20th and 21st century, neocolonialism, Persian literature, Iranian women writers, American literature, Indigenous literature, comparative literature and drama.

Heidi Malazdrewich
Contemporary Canadian theatre for social change and human rights related theatrical practices.

Eva Miranda
Theatre performance and history; theatrical design (costume, sets, props and eco-friendly materials); disability, cultural accessibility; South American drama, literature, cultural dialogues and translation; ASL, deaf cultures; culture & arts policy.

Zoé Ringes
Queer and time studies in 21st century speculative fiction, the interdisciplinary analysis of queer and gender studies, « post-colonial » studies and ecocriticism, with fantasy and weird fiction, through the examination of time and the temporal aspect of these models.

Shelby Steele
Victorian literature, British literature, women writers, gender and feminist theory, capitalism and Marxist theory and industrial fiction.

Sakshi Tyagi
Postcolonial novel, West African literature, Bildungsroman and African girlhood studies. Other interests include Africanfuturism and literature of the African diaspora.