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
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
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
Assistant Professor of Teaching
Second Language Acquisition, Service-Learning, Experiential Education, Language Education,
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
Assistant Professor
Failed states, intervention, civil war, autocrats, revolution
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)
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
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
Sessional Lecturer
Victorian drama, Oscar Wilde, British culture, British children’s literature (fantasy), British royal family, royals