Faculty of Arts

Kyle Frackman, PhD

Kyle Frackman, PhD

Associate Professor

German, Germany, Austria, Scandinavia, Sweden, Finland, literature, film, cinema, theory, cultural studies, gender, sexuality, social justice, teaching, East Germany

Dr. Ken Denike, BSc, MSc, PhD

Dr. Ken Denike, BSc, MSc, PhD

Assistant Professor Emeritus

Transportation Planning, Medical Geography, Trade-off between equity and efficiency of delivery of public and private economic activity in transportation and education, Using spatial data analysis to plan public infrastructure, Distribution of COVID-19 vaccination, Efficient routes and tracing vaccination of at-home patients,

Rose-Marie Déchaine

Associate Professor

Native American languages, Algonquian language family, Cree, Blackfoot, Ojibwe, French / English bilingualism policy, formal linguistics, generative grammar (Chomsky), West African languages (Niger-Congo, Yoruba, Igbo, Edo), Nigerian languages, literacy vs. oralcy, language planning re: French, Indigenous languages

Anthony Dawson

Professor Emeritus

Theatre, Shakespeare, history of Shakespearean performance, Shakespeare in contemporary culture, Elizabethan drama

Henry Davis, PhD

Professor

First Nations languages, Salish languages, language survival, language education, Wakashan languages

Pamela Dalziel

Associate Professor

Victorian literature, Victorian culture, visual representation, illustration, gender studies, religion, interdisciplinary studies, textual criticism, scholarly editing, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, George Eliot

Kenneth Craig, OC, PhD, LLD (Hon)

Kenneth Craig, OC, PhD, LLD (Hon)

Professor Emeritus

Pain, pain measurement, psychology of pain, social influences on pain, pain in children, pain in people with cognitive impairment

Dr. Tiffany Potter, PhD

Professor of Teaching

eighteenth-century British literature and theatre (1660-1820), television, popular culture, women and popular culture (current and historical), eighteenth-century captivity narratives, “The Wire,” “Battlestar Galactica,” teaching, research on university teaching,

David Edgington, PhD

David Edgington, PhD

Professor

Japanese economy, Japan-Canada trade and investment links, Pacific Rim trade and investment patterns, Japanese cities and regions, multiculturalism and local government in Vancouver, Australia

Terence Eastwood

Associate Professor

Preservation and appraisal of electronic records

Don Dutton, PhD

Don Dutton, PhD

Professor Emeritus

Domestic violence, domestic homicide, personality disorder: paranoia, borderline personality, antisociality

Luciana Duranti

Luciana Duranti

Professor

Digital records, digital authenticity, digital preservation, blockchain, archives, records, duty to document, recordkeeping

Sima Godfrey, MA

Associate Professor, French

French culture, fashion and French culture, North American reception of French culture, French, teaching French in Canada and U.S., French literature, European Studies

Neil Guppy, PhD

Neil Guppy, PhD

Professor

Education, social inequality, immigration

Serge Guilbaut

Professor Emeritus

Post war cultural trends in U.S. and France, art history

Ernest Mathijs, PhD

Ernest Mathijs, PhD

Professor

Cult cinema, film audiences, censorship, horror movies, controversies and aesthetically provocative films,

Alison Green, BFA, MFA

Alison Green, BFA, MFA

Professor Emeritus

Sociology and history of costume, set and costume design, costume and social history, theatre in Vancouver

Sherrill Grace, OC, FRSC, PhD

Sherrill Grace, OC, FRSC, PhD

University Killam Professor Emerita

Timothy Findley biography, representations of Canada in WWI and II, Malcolm Lowry archives, Canadian literature and arts, the Canadian North, the visual arts, theatre, literature, autobiography & biography, Sharon Pollock, Canadian women’s writing including drama

Greg Henry, PhD

Professor

Arctic tundra ecosystems, climate change, warming experiments, plant adaptation, caribou and muskox populations, Arctic climate reconstruction, the International Tundra Experiment (ITEX), ArcticNet, the International Polar Year (IPY), biological diversity, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases

John Helliwell, DPhil

John Helliwell, DPhil

Professor Emeritus

The science of happiness, including its policy applications