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Deborah Torkko January 28, 2022 - 9:41am
  • B.A. (Victoria)
  • MA (Simon Fraser)
  • PhD (Sunderland)

20th Century and Contemporary Canadian Literature, 20th Century and Contemporary British Literature, Transcultural Literature, Autobiography, Biography. 

Brenda Sully January 28, 2022 - 9:41am
  • B.A. (Alberta)
  • MA (Victoria)

Twentieth-century American and British novel, nineteenth-and twentieth-century fantasy, science fiction/speculative fiction, Anglo-Irish literature.

Zora Soprovich December 7, 2022 - 3:08pm
  • B.A., MA (UBC)

Canadian fiction, Victorian literature, children’s literature, folk / fairy tale


I grew up in Powell River, graduating from the former Max Cameron Secondary School in 1989, and then moving to Vancouver temporarily to study at UBC.  I returned home in 1997 to raise a family and restore a Wildwood house and property after completing my Bachelor’s Degree and my Master’s Degree in English Literature on a full graduate fellowship.

Toni Smith October 12, 2016 - 3:49pm
  • BA: McGill,
  • MA: UVic,
  • PhD: Alberta.

Research Areas:  Canadian literature (especially early 20th century); Postcolonial literature and theory; Cultural Studies; Race and Whiteness Studies; Eco-Criticism, and Food Studies.

Jay Ruzesky January 24, 2024 - 10:56am
  • B.A.
Katharina Rout October 12, 2016 - 3:42pm
  • Ph. D. (Muenster)

Literary translation and translation studies, literary theory, comparative literature (European literatures from antiquity to early Renaissance, twentieth century, special focus on German literature).

Maureen Okun January 28, 2022 - 9:41am
  • B.A. (SFU)
  • MA (UBC)

Old and Middle-English literature, linguistics, composition.

Cynthea Masson November 30, 2023 - 12:04pm
  • B.A. (Guelph)
  • MA (McMaster)
  • PhD (McMaster)

Middle English literature and language; medieval visionary, mystical, and alchemical literature and rhetoric; television studies; composition.

Jeannie Martin January 28, 2022 - 9:41am
  • B.A. (Victoria)
  • MA (Guelph)
  • PhD (Alberta)
Jeannie Martin

John Lepage January 28, 2022 - 9:39am
  • B.A. (McGill)
  • PhD (Glasgow)

Late medieval literature, Renaissance poetry, poetics, poetry and science, poetic diction, drama, English and French comparative literatures, Biblical and classical backgrounds.

Janis Ledwell-Hunt January 28, 2022 - 9:40am
  • B.A Hons (Mount Saint Vincent University)
  • MA (University of Guelph)
  • PhD (University of Alberta)

My research and teaching draw from material feminisms, theories of embodiment, affect studies, Deleuze studies, posthumanisms, socio-historical constructions of illness, excess, gender, and sexuality.

I am particularly apt to experiment with connections between literature and philosophy, and am currently revising a book-length project exploring disordered eating from a posthumanist perspective. 

Richard Lane January 28, 2022 - 9:49am
  • BA (North London)
  • MA (UBC)
  • D. Phil. (Sussex)

Twentieth century British and Canadian literature, postcolonial literature and theory, twentieth-century continental philosophy, literary theory, literature and philosophy, digital humanities, digital phenomenology and desktop fabrication.

Janina Hornosty January 28, 2022 - 9:41am
  • B.A., MA, PhD (McMaster)

Canadian fiction, the short story, interdisciplinary study of Western culture (Liberal Studies).

Sandra Hagan January 28, 2022 - 9:41am
  • B.A., MA (Ottawa)
  • PhD (McMaster) Victorian literature

The Brontës; the British novel; single women and cultural production; literature and the arts.

Nelson Gray January 28, 2022 - 9:50am
  • B.A. in English (Simon Fraser University)
  • MFA in Directing (University of British Columbia)
  • PhD in Theatre History (University of Victoria)
Daniel-Burgoyne September 7, 2022 - 8:40am
  • B.A. (Simon Fraser)
  • MA (Washington)
  • PhD (Washington)

Teaching Subjects

Romanticism: I’m generally interested in the ideas and movements called “Romantic,” but usually this focuses on British or continental literature between 1780 and 1830 or transatlantic expressions of this literature in the United States and Canada later in the nineteenth century.

Anna Atkinson January 28, 2022 - 9:41am
  • B.A. (Calgary)
  • MA, PhD (Queen’s)

Early American Literature, Eighteenth-century British Literature, Captivity Narratives, Women’s Writing, Biblical literature.

Richard Arnold January 28, 2022 - 9:41am
  • B.A. (South Alabama)
  • MA (Victoria)
  • PhD (Alabama)
Richard Arnold

Clay Armstrong January 28, 2022 - 9:41am
  • B.A. (Southern Mississippi)
  • MA (Victoria)
  • PhD (Southern Mississippi)

American Literature, especially 20th Century and the Southern Tradition; Modernism, with emphasis on WB Yeats; Environmental Literature and Outdoor Writing; College Composition; Business and Technical Writing.

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