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
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
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
Lecturer
communications, oral presentations, academic writing, creative writing, women’s and gender studies, literature, fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction,
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)
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
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
Sessional Lecturer
Victorian drama, Oscar Wilde, British culture, British children’s literature (fantasy), British royal family, royals
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