Faculty of Arts

Michael Tenzer

Michael Tenzer

Professor, Ethnomusicology

Music cultures of the world, rhythm, music and human evolution, music and cultural critique, jazz, Indonesian music, contemporary art music

Robert Taylor

Director of Bands

Music, concert band, wind ensemble, music education, conducting

Catherine Rawn, PhD

Catherine Rawn, PhD

Professor of Teaching

study skills in higher education, large classes, learning, teaching-focused faculty positions

Leslie Paris

Associate Professor

History of American childhood, history of American summer camps

Gunnar Hansson

Associate Professor

Phonetics (speech sounds), phonology (sound patterns, sound systems), language change, linguistic relationships (language families), reconstruction of proto-languages, language contact, Scandinavian languages (esp. Icelandic, Faroese, Swedish), Athabaskan (Dene) languages, Saami (Lapp) languages, Russian

Gage Averill, PhD

Gage Averill, PhD

Dean

Popular music, Caribbean music, barbershop harmony, sound, music and power, music and politics, ethnomusicology, world music

Susanna Braund

Professor

Latin literature, Roman culture, epic poetry, satire, drama, emotions, later reception of ancient literature and culture, myth, modern poetry, translation

Scott MacKenzie

Assistant Professor

Eighteenth century, Romantic, Britain, Scotland, home, poverty, novel, poetry, drama, fiction, domestic, Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Laurence Sterne, Henry Fielding, Gothic, Picturesque, aesthetics

Darlene Weston, PhD

Assistant Professor

Physical anthropology, biological anthropology, forensic anthropology, human osteology, human bones, osteoarchaeology, funerary archaeology, mortuary practices

Michele Koppes, PhD

Associate Professor

Climate change, glaciers, natural hazards, landscape change, polar regions, ice-ocean interactions, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases

Dr. Luisa Canuto, PhD

Dr. Luisa Canuto, PhD

Assistant Professor of Teaching

Second Language Acquisition, Service-Learning, Experiential Education, Language Education,

Prof. Rhea Tregebov, BA, MA

Prof. Rhea Tregebov, BA, MA

Associate Professor Emerita

poetry, fiction, Canadian literature, Canadian poetry, Canadian fiction, feminism, feminist literature, translation, publishing, women’s literature, women’s poetry, women’s fiction, Jewish literature, Jewish poetry, Jewish fiction, BC Yukon Book Prize, Western Canada Jewish Book Award, Writers Union of Canada, League of Canadian Poets,

Michael Griffin

Assistant Professor

Greek philosophy, Ancient philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Proclus, Neoplatonism, Ancient logic

Arjun Chowdhury, PhD

Arjun Chowdhury, PhD

Assistant Professor

Failed states, intervention, civil war, autocrats, revolution

Kim Snowden, PhD

Kim Snowden, PhD

Lecturer

Folk & fairy tales, social justice & feminism, vampires in popular culture, monstrosity in literature & film, science fiction & fantasy, young-adult literature, contemporary fairy tales, fairy-tale film, social media, television, film & pop culture, social networks, social networking

Jon Beasley-Murray, PhD in Literature (Duke)

Jon Beasley-Murray, PhD in Literature (Duke)

Associate Professor, Hispanic Studies; Chair, Latin American Studies Program

Latin America, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Venezuela, Central America, Mexico, politics, political theory, cultural studies, literature, culture, film, history, the Left, revolution, revolutionary movements, populism, civil society, affect, habit, multitude, posthegemony, educational technology, blogs, Wikipedia

Lisa Nathan, PhD, MLIS

Lisa Nathan, PhD, MLIS

Associate Professor

climate, information ethics, Indigenous information, libraries, sustainability, library, human-computer interaction, climate adaptation

Gillian Jerome

Sessional Lecturer

Contemporary poetry and poetics, Vancouver poetry, American Cold War poetry, DTES social justice, advocacy and oral history

Prof. Jiaying Zhao, PhD

Associate Professor

Poverty, sustainability, psychology, cognition, decision making, judgment, perception, attention, learning, sustainable development,

Sarika Bose, PhD

Sarika Bose, PhD

Sessional Lecturer

Victorian drama, Oscar Wilde, British culture, British children’s literature (fantasy), British royal family, royals