Literature / Creative Writing

Jerry Wasserman, PhD

Jerry Wasserman, PhD

Professor Emeritus

Canadian theatre, history of theatre, Vancouver film, blues music

Robert Daum

Faculty Associate

Dialogue, public engagement, community engagement, conflict management,diversity, religion, Jewish law, Jewish ethics, gender, sexuality, rhetoric, equity, inclusion, religious authority, history of Judaism, Talmud, Bible, biblical interpretation, translation, cultural studies, ancient and medieval Hebrew literature, critical theory, creativity, innovation, racism

 

 

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

Bruce Fulton

Associate Professor

Young-Bin Min Chair in Korean Literature and Literary Translation

Modern Korean fiction, literary translation

Judith Plessis

Judith Plessis

Executive Director Emerita of Continuing Studies

Leadership in university lifelong learning, Second language acquisition for adults, Authorship by women filmmakers (Margarethe von Trotta, Marguerite Duras, Maya Deren)

Ira Nadel, PhD

Professor

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

Stefania Burk

Assistant Professor

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

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

Judith Saltman

Professor

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

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,

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

Dr. Carellin Brooks, PhD Oxon

Dr. Carellin Brooks, PhD Oxon

Lecturer

communications, oral presentations, academic writing, creative writing, women’s and gender studies, literature, fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction,

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

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

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

Gillian Jerome

Sessional Lecturer

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

Sarika Bose, PhD

Sarika Bose, PhD

Sessional Lecturer

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

Christina Laffin

Christina Laffin

Associate Professor

Canada Research Chair in Premodern Japanese Literature and Culture

Women writers of Japan before the 19th century, history of women in Japan before the 19th century, Japanese diaries and memoirs, Japanese poetry, Japanese travel writing