Faculty of Arts

Richard Menkis

Associate Professor

Jews and Judaism in Canada, antisemitism in Canada, Canada and the Holocaust, Jewish historical memory and identity

Ira Nadel, PhD

Professor

Biography, Modernism, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Ezra Pound, Leonard Cohen, Philip Roth, Oriental Modernism

Jamie Peck, PhD

Canada Research Chair in Urban and Regional Political Economy

Professor of Geography

Creative cities, urban policy, labour market and welfare programs, temporary employment, outsourcing

Glen Coulthard

Assistant Professor, First Nations Studies Program and Political Science

First Nations politics – national, political theory

Jessica Tracy, PhD

Associate Professor

Emotion, nonverbal expression, self-conscious emotions (pride, shame), the self, self-esteem, narcissism, trends in psychological science

Stefania Burk

Assistant Professor

Japanese poetry, women poets, waka, tanka, haiku, renga, anthologies, patronage

Dr. Coll Thrush, PhD

Dr. Coll Thrush, PhD

Professor

US Indigenous-settler relations

Patrick Moore

Associate Professor

Anthropological linguistics, languages of North America, sub-Arctic ethnography, ethno-history, gender

Sheryl Lightfoot

Associate Professor

Canada Research Chair, Global Indigenous Rights and Politics

First Nations, international relations, foreign affairs, global affairs, Indigenous politics

Toph Marshall

Toph Marshall

Professor

popular culture, comics, games, science fiction, television, superheroes, Greek poetry, theatre, Homer, tragedy, comedy, modern productions, Roman theatre, comedy, tragedy, modern productions, improvisation

E David Klonsky, PhD

E David Klonsky, PhD

Professor

Suicide, self-injury, cutting, self-harm

Nathan Hesselink, BM, MA, PhD

Professor of Ethnomusicology

British rock music, popular music, ethnomusicology, rhythm, Radiohead, The Police

Alex Fisher, PhD

Alex Fisher, PhD

Associate Professor

Music, religion, identity, ritual, medieval, renaissance, baroque, Germany, reformation, counter-reformation, Lutheranism, catholicism, sound

Judith Saltman

Professor

Children’s literature, Canadian children’s literature, publishing for children

Catherine Soussloff

Professor and Department Head

Art, art history, European art, performance art, performance studies, art theory, aesthetics

Stefan Dollinger, PhD

Stefan Dollinger, PhD

Associate Professor

English language, World Englishes, Canadian English, dialectology, sociolinguistics, multilingualism, historical linguistics, lexicography, lexicology, dictionaries, Oxford English Dictionary, World English, language variation and change, orthography, Canada, North America, English, American English, sociolinguistics, society and language, dialects, identity, history of English, English as a Lingua Franca, German language, Austrian German, German German.

Jeremy Biesanz

Jeremy Biesanz

Assistant Professor

personality,accuracy

Carla Hudson Kam, PhD

Professor & Canada Research Chair

Language development, second language acquisition, critical periods for learning, input and language learning, language learning and language change, children’s books

Roger Wilson

Professor Emeritus

Archaeology of the Roman world, especially Sicily, Britain and north Africa

Dr. Robert Rouse, PhD

Associate Professor

medieval, middle ages, anglo-saxon, romance, geography, sexuality, medievalism, fantasy literature, game of thrones, colonialism, spatiality, spatial studies, eco-criticism, environmental humanities,