Faculty of Arts

Edie Rasmussen, PhD

Professor

Information retrieval, search engines, indexing, digital libraries, multimedia databases

Todd Handy, PhD

Professor

Aging and cognition, aging and exercise, cognitive neuroscience, mind wandering, attention, migraine, fMRI

Jason Snyder

Assistant Professor

plasticity, learning, memory, stress, mental health, emotional behaviour

Dr. Lisa Cooper, PhD

Professor

Archaeology of Ancient Near East, Archaeology of the Ancient Middle East, Mesopotamia, Assyria, Babylonia, Ancient Syria, Material Culture, Artifacts, Gertrude Bell, ancient pottery, Ancient Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan, History of Archaeology, Archaeological Photography, Ancient History of Near East/Middle East, cuneiform,

Dr. Julian Dierkes, PhD

Dr. Julian Dierkes, PhD

Associate Professor

Keidanren Chair in Japanese Research

Japanese education, cram schools, history education, history textbooks, reconciliation, legal education, Canada-Japan relations, contemporary Mongolia,

Bryan Gick

Professor

Phonetics, speech science, speech motor control, speech perception, multimodal perception, tactile perception, ultrasound imaging of speech, sounds of the world’s languages

Jane Coop, BMus, MMus

Jane Coop, BMus, MMus

Professor Emeritus

Piano performances, chamber music

Janet Werker

Janet Werker

Professor and Canada Research Chair

Infancy, speech perception, early language acquisition, bilingualism, baby development, infant development

Stephen Heatley, BA, MFA

Stephen Heatley, BA, MFA

Associate Professor

Theatre, acting, directing, new play development, comedy, commedia dell’arte, solo performance, play producing, Canadian theatre, Canadian plays

Ronald Rensink

Ronald Rensink

Associate Professor

Vision, attention, consciousness, interface design

Ralph Matthews

Ralph Matthews

Professor

Regional development, community development, fisheries, aquaculture, blood donation, environment, resilient community project, infertility, coastal communities, coastal British Columbia, Newfoundland, common property, community, regional development policy, community development policy, Atlantic Canada, social capital, community health, sustainable development

Stephen Malloy, MFA

Professor Emeritus

Theatre, directing, acting, playwriting, contemporary classics, Sam Shepard, David Mamet, Samuel Beckett, Canadian theatre

Eva-Marie Kroller, PhD

Professor

Canadian literature, comparative literature, travel writing, cultural semiotics (for example, the new Canadian embassy in Berlin)

Paul G. Stanwood

Professor Emeritus

English Renaissance and 17th century literature, English Reformation and church history, Edmund Spenser, Richard Hooker, John Donne, The Metaphysical Poets, John Milton, early modern devotional poetry and prose, T.S. Eliot, opera

Susan Rowley, PhD

Associate Professor and Curator

Curator of Public Archaeology, Museum of Anthropology

Museums, collaboration, archaeology, material culture, repatriation, Arctic, the North

Mary Lynn Young, PhD

Associate Professor; Associate Dean

Sociology of the media, gender, media economics, representations, online news, media and crime

Joseph P. Stemberger

Professor

Linguistics, phonology, morphology, psycholinguistics, slips of the tongue, first language acquisition, child language

Laurel J. Brinton

Laurel J. Brinton

Professor

Modern English grammar, history of the English language, English usage, English dictionaries, pragmatics of English,
discourse markers, language change, computers and language study

Rena Sharon, MMus

Professor of Collaborative Piano Studies

Chamber music and conflict resolution, art song / lieder, young artist experience summer camp

Kalina Christoff, PhD

Associate Professor

brain, cognitive neuroscience, psychology, prefronal cortex, fMRI, neuroimaging, neuropsychology, executive functions, problem solving, reasoning, thinking, mind-wandering, attention, consciousness, real-time fMRI, trauma and PTSD