Faculty

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

    Professor
    Nanaimo, Campus
    Building: 345
    Room: 237
    Mail Drop: 345

    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

    Professor
    Building: 459
    Room: 106-c
    Mail Drop: 345
    Areas of Interest:Contemporary Poetry, Creative Writing, Histories of Poetry, Queer Theory, Ecopoetics.

    Dawn Thompson

    Honorary Research Associate

    Mail drop: 345
    Email: Dawn.Thompson@viu.ca

    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