Faculty and staff

Ellis Davidson
Narratology, horror, queerness, and disability studies in 21st century speculative fiction. Other interests include digital humanities and linguistics.

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.

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.

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.

Mallory Pelly
Book history and print culture, with a focus on bookbinding and art used for European literature between the 17th-19th century. Other interests include poetry, book restoration, ancient manuscripts, calligraphy, and scribal records.

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

Jason Schultz
1990s thriller cinema through the lens of film theory and feminist analysis—including the portrayal of female actors from the Restoration era to contemporary film, with particular focus on themes of mental health, sexuality, and gender. Other interests / passions include horror literature—especially exploring the enduring influence of Frankenstein on modern narratives across books and films.

Cailly VanCaeyzeele
Canadian Literature with a focus on gender studies and Asian Canadian literature.
 

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

GG Dascal
Film studies, especially related to cinematic horror. Other research interests include queer studies and comics studies. Their upcoming dissertation, which calls for the unapologetic enjoyment of abject cinema, establishes analytical concepts intended to broaden scholarly approaches to the horror genre.

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.

Virginia Page Jähne
My research explores experimental literary form as a site where materiality, mourning, and play intersect. With Anne Carson’s Nox as its central focus and in conversation with other experimental texts, my dissertation examines how the book-object functions as a performative archive that invites tactile, affective engagement. As an autoethnographic praxis component, I create STILLE, a hybrid book-object that responds to Nox through constraint-based writing, black-and-white photography, and the reconfiguration of personal archival traces.

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.

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
Representations of women’s and girls’ encounters with animal captivity in zoological gardens and menageries in nineteenth-century literature. Other research interests include Victorian literature, women writers, women’s spaces, gender and feminist theory, and animal studies.

Emily Stobbe-Wiebe
Contemporary Canadian Mennonite fiction with a focus on return to traditional cultural craft and practice such as food preserving, animal husbandry, handicrafts, and traditional foods. Other interests include tradwives, representations of pregnancy, childbirth, and childrearing, material cultures, feminist ethics of care, and Early Modern drama.

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