Clay Armstrong
Professor
Building: 459
Room: 102
Phone: 250.753.3245 Ext. 2421
Mail drop: 345
Email: Clay.Armstrong@viu.ca
Areas of Interest: 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.
Anna Atkinson
Professor
Building: 345
Room: 132
Phone: 250.753.3245 Ext. 2046
Mail drop: 345
Email: Anna.Atkinson@viu.ca
Areas of Interest: Biblical Studies, Theology, 16-18c Literature, Antebellum American Literature, Eco-Criticism, Literature of the Apocalypse, BIPOC Apocalyptic authors; Folk Song and Folk Traditions.
Kathryn Barnwell
Professor Emeritus
Mail drop: 345
Email: Kathryn.Barnwell@viu.ca
Timothy Brownlow
Professor Emeritus
Mail drop: 345
Daniel Burgoyne
Professor
Building: 345
Room: 131
Mail drop: 345
Email: Daniel.Burgoyne@viu.ca
Areas of Interest: Late-eighteenth and nineteenth century British and American literature and culture, especially Romanticism, the Gothic, and scientific romance; speculative literature, including science fiction and fantasy; rhetoric and composition; and literary theory.
Sally Carpentier
Professor
Cowichan Campus
Building 700, Room 314
Phone: 250.746.3552
Email: Sally.Carpentier@viu.ca
Mail drop: 001
Sarah Crover
Professor
Nanaimo Campus
Building: 345
Room: 124
Phone: 250.753-3245 Ext. 2125
Mail drop: 345
Email: Sarah.Crover@viu.ca
Areas of Interest: Late medieval/early modern English literature, especially Shakespeare Studies, early English drama and pageantry, and London civic culture; Environmental Humanities; Ecocriticism, with a focus on Blue Ecologies and the River Thames; Cultural Studies; Shakespearean tourism in Canada.
Terri Doughty
Honorary Research Associate
Mail drop: 345
Email: Terri.Doughty@viu.ca
Areas of Interest: Children's and Young Adult Literature, Environmental Humanities, Critical Plant Studies, Speculative Fiction, Girlhood and British Imperialism.
Theo Finigan
Professor
Building: 459
Room: 103
Phone: 250.753.3245 Ext. 2053
Mail drop: 345
Email: Theo.Finigan@viu.ca
Areas of Interest: 20th-century American literature, especially the novel post-1945; the literature and culture of the Cold War; postmodernism and literary theory; historical fiction; New Journalism and the non-fiction novel; composition.
Janet Grafton
Professor
Building: 345
Room: 232
Mail drop: 345
Email: Janet.Grafton@viu.ca
Areas of Interest: Children's Literature; Environmental Humanities; Food Studies; Gender & Sexuality.
Sandra Hagan
Professor
Building: 345
Room: 206
Phone: 250.753-3245 Ext. 2385
Mail drop: 345
Email: Sandra.Hagan@viu.ca
Areas of Interest: Nineteenth-Century British Literature; the Victorian Novel, especially the Sensation Novel and the Rural Novel; literature of the sea; literature and the arts; the Brontës; Public Speaking.
Amelia Horsburgh
Professor
Building: 345
Room: 235
Phone: 250.753.3245 Ext. 2123
Mail drop: 345
Email: Amelia.Horsburgh@viu.ca
Areas of Interest: Canadian Literature, Indigenous Literature, Educational Development, and Universal Design in Pedagogy.
Nicole Klan
Professor
Building: 459
Room: 106C
Phone: 250.753.3245 Ext. 2047
Fax: 250.740.6459
Mail drop: 345
Email: Nicole.Klan@viu.ca
Areas of Interest: Children’s literature, particularly graphic novels and picture books; the short story; Canadian drama, business and technical writing; public speaking.
Sonnet L’Abbé
Professor
Building: 459
Room: 104
Phone: 250.753.3245 Ext. 2107
Mail drop: 345
Email: Sonnet.L’Abbe@viu.ca
Areas of Interest: Twentieth and twenty-first century American and Canadian poetry; lyric forms and hybrid writing forms; creative writing; Black writing and Black/Caribbean studies; plant writing in poetry of the long Romantic period; environmental writing, plantation studies and plant studies; postcolonial theory; decolonial, anti-oppression and feminist pedagogy and methodology, critical fabulation.
Richard Lane
Professor
Building: 345
Room: 120
Phone: 250.740.6185
Mail drop: 345
Email: Richard.Lane@viu.ca
Areas of Interest: 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.
Steve Lane
Honorary Research Associate
Mail drop: 345
Email: Steve.Lane@viu.ca
John Lepage
Honorary Research Associate
Mail drop: 345
Email: John.Lepage@viu.ca
Cynthea Masson
Professor
Building: 345
Room: 233
Phone: 250.753.3245 Ext. 2117
Mail drop: 345
Email: Cynthea.Masson@viu.ca
Areas of Interest: Middle English literature and language; medieval visionary, mystical, and alchemical literature and rhetoric; television studies; composition.
Farah Moosa
Professor
Building: 345
Room: 205
Phone: 250.753.3245 Ext. 2133
Mail drop: 345
Email: Farah.Moosa@viu.ca
Areas of Interest: Canadian literature; Asian Canadian literature; South Asian Canadian literature; diasporic literature; world literature; cultural memory, trauma, and intergenerational legacies.
Mike Roberson
Professor
Building: 459
Room: 106A
Phone: 250.753.3245 Ext. 2489
Mail drop: 345
Email: Mike.Roberson@viu.ca
Areas of Interest: Modernist and contemporary poetry and poetics; experimental and avant-garde writing; critical theory; ethics and literature; American/Canadian road trip literature; mythology and literature; working-class writing and the literature of work.
Katharina Rout
Professor Emerita
Mail drop: 345
Email: Katharina.Rout@viu.ca
Jay Ruzesky
Professor
Cowichan Campus
Building: 700
Room: 316
Phone: 250.746.3566
Mail drop: 001
Nanaimo Campus
Building: 345
Room: 127
Email: Jay.Ruzesky@viu.ca
Areas of Interest: Film, especially experimental and documentary film; Creative writing: poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction; Blues lyrics from the folk tradition; Polar Exploration; Canadian literature, environmental literature, American poetry.
Kaia Scott
Instructor
Building: 355
Room: 325
Phone: 250.753.3245, , Ext. 2176
Mail drop: 345
Email: Kaia.Scott@viu.ca
Areas of Interest: visual culture; institutional media, especially use of film and visual technologies surrounding mental health in mid-century; critical theory; mediated public sphere; the city and cinema; cultural studies.
Bryn Skibo
Email: Bryn.Skibo@viu.ca
Areas of interest: Narratology, Indigenous / Native North America Studies, Anishinaabeg Studies, Animal Studies, Vegan Studies, Science Fiction.
Toni Smith
Professor and Chair
Building: 345
Room: 130
Mail drop: 345
Email: Toni.Smith@viu.ca
Areas of Interest: Canadian literature (particularly early 20th century); Postcolonial literature and theory; Globalization (including Petrocultures and fiction); literature and the environment (particularly Food Studies and Back-to-the-Land movements); Cultural Studies.
Zora Soprovich
Professor
tiwšɛmawtxʷ Campus (Powell River)
Building: 610
Room: 119
Phone: 604.485.8056
Mail drop: 070
Email: Zora.Soprovich@viu.ca
Areas of Interest: Tiwšɛmawtxʷ Campus Writing Centre and Learning Hub support for students.
Marni Stanley
Honorary Research Associate
Mail drop: 345
Email: Marni.Stanley@viu.ca
Melissa Stephens
Professor
Building: 345
Room: 234
Phone: 250.753.3245 Ext. 2367
Mail drop: 345
Email: Melissa.Stephens@viu.ca
Areas of Interest: Post-colonial and globalization studies with a focus on anti-racism, climate crisis, and social justice; Black Caribbean and American literatures; Black feminisms; gender and sexuality; travel literature; auto/biography; reportage and documentary film.
Neil Surkan
Dawn Thompson
Honorary Research Associate
Mail drop: 345
Email: Dawn.Thompson@viu.ca
Deborah Torkko
Honorary Research Associate
Mail drop: 345
Email: Deborah.Torkko@viu.ca
Areas of Interest: 20th Century and Contemporary Canadian Literature, 20th Century and Contemporary British Literature, Transcultural Literature, Autobiography, Biography.
Paul Watkins
Professor
Building: 345
Room: 204
Phone: 250.753.3245 Ext. 2118
Mail drop: 345
Email: Paul.Watkins@viu.ca
Areas of Interest: Canadian Literature; Black Canadian Literature; Indigenous literatures; African American literature; Jazz and improvisation; Graphic novels; Multiculturalism; Speculative fiction; DJ culture, sound, and remix; Hip Hop Studies; Poetry and Poetics; Film Studies.
Ian Whitehouse
Professor
Cowichan Campus
Building: 700
Room: 314
Phone: 250.746.3552, Local 3552
Mail Drop: 345
Email: Ian.Whitehouse@viu.ca
Areas of Interest: Semiotics, culture, language, postmodernism (philosophical, literary, cinematic, etc.), socio-linguistics, history of criticism, critical theory.
Lynn Wytenbroek
Honorary Research Associate
Mail drop: 345
Email: Lynn.Wytenbroek@viu.ca