English

English offers two areas: English Language and English Literature

The English Language program includes specializations in history and structure of language, discourse and genre analysis, and history and theory of rhetoric. Faculty members in the Language program teach and supervise research in descriptive linguistics, historical linguistics, cognitive linguistics, functional grammar, semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, stylistics, genre studies, and history and theory of rhetoric.

The English Literature program includes specializations across the periods, genres, and major figures of British, North American and World Literature in English. Current research initiatives on the part of faculty include such diverse topics as the ecocritical study of Renaissance drama; the triumph of transport in Romantic poetry; the impact of radio and television on modernist poetics; the politics of post-identity in Asian American literature, and the role of war and its traumatic shocks in twentieth-century Canadian, U.S. and British literature.

Name Research Interests
Akinwole, Tolulope African literatures; African literatures and cultures; global Black literatures; African screen media; Black geographies; critical and cultural theory; Postcolonial Studies; decolonial studies; literature and infrastructure; automobility
Al-Kassim, Dina anti-colonial; Artistic and Literary Movements, Schools and Styles; Artistic and Literary Theories; Arts and Cultural Traditions; Arts, Literature and Subjectivity; comparative literature: Arabic, English, French; feminist; Gender Relationship; Identity and Transnationality; Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies; postcolonial; psychoanalysis; queer theory; sexuality; Subjectivity; Anti-colonial, Artistic and Literary Movements, Schools and Styles, Artistic and Literary Theories, Arts and Cultural Traditions, Arts, Literature and Subjectivity, Comparative literature: Arabic, English, French, Feminist, Gender Relationship, Identity and Transnationality, Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies, Postcolonial, Psychoanalysis, Queer theory, Sexuality, Subjectivity
Anger, Suzy Victorian Literature, Literature and Philosophy, Victorian Literature and Psychology, Victorian Literature and Science, Hermeneutics
Antwi, Phanuel critical black studies; settler colonial studies; black Atlantic and diaspora studies; Canadian literature and culture since 1830; critical race, gender, and sexuality studies; and material cultures;
Badir, Patricia Canadian Modernism; Early Modern Drama; Early Modern Literature and Religion; Medieval Drama; Shakespeare; Shakespeare in Canada; Canadian Modernism, Early Modern Drama, Early Modern Literature and Religion, Medieval Drama, Shakespeare, Shakespeare in Canada
Bain, Kimberly Black Studies; racial capitalism; Anthropocene; critical-creative methodologies; Black studies, racial capitalism, Anthropocene, critical-creative methodologies
Briggs, Marlene war and conflict; cultural transmission and reception of the First World War (1914-1918) in modern and contemporary British literature
Britton, Dennis early modern English literature; history of race; Critical Race Theory; Protestant theology; history of emotion; early modern English literature, history of race, critical race theory, Protestant theology, history of emotion
Burgess, Miranda Arts, Literature and Subjectivity; British and Irish Romanticism; history of feeling (affect, emotion, sensation); history of literary form; history of media and mediation; poetics; riparian and oceanic studies; Arts, Literature and Subjectivity, British and Irish Romanticism, History of feeling (affect, emotion, sensation), History of literary form, History of media and mediation, Poetics, Riparian and oceanic studies
Cavell, Richard Anthony Media and Society; Media Influence on Behavior; Media Types (Radio, Television, Written Press, etc.); media studies; media theory; Media and Society, Media Influence on Behavior, Media Types (Radio, Television, Written Press, etc.), Media studies, Media theory
Chapman, Mary Ann Social Networks; American Literature; Asian American Literature; Asian Canadian Literature; Suffrage; Public Pedagogy of the Arts; Public Humanities; unearthing the uncollected fiction and journalism of Asian-North American author Edith Eaton (
Dalziel, Pamela Victorian-literature, Victorian-culture, visual-representation, illustration, gender-studies, religion, interdisciplinary-studies, textual-criticism, scholarly-editing, Thomas-Hardy, Charles-Dickens, George-Eliot
Dancygier, Barbara Linguistics, grammar
de Villiers, Jessica Linguistics
Deer, Glenn discourse studies, the rhetoric of power in narrative fiction, and postmodernism and Canadian Literature
Dick, Alexander British Romanticism; Scottish Enlightenment; Literature and Economics; Literature and the Environment; Literature and Science; Scottish Literature; literature and economics;
Dollinger, Stefan Language Contact and Linguistic Changes; Linguistic Variation and Society; Lexicography and Dictionaries; Language Interactions; Language Rights and Policies; Bilingualism and Multilingualism; Language Contact and Linguistic Changes, Linguistic Variation and Society, Lexicography and Dictionaries, Language Interactions, Language Rights and Policies, Bilingualism and Multilingualism
Earle, Bo British Romanticism, Critical Theory, Philosophy and Literature
Echard, Sian Literary or Artistic Work Analysis; Literary or Artistic Work Dissemination or Reception Contexts; Modes and strategies of dissemination; Poetry; Media Types (Radio, Television, Written Press, etc.); Anglo-Latin literature; Arthurian literature; History of the Book; John Gower; Manuscript studies; Medieval literature; Literary or Artistic Work Analysis, Literary or Artistic Work Dissemination or Reception Contexts, Modes and Strategies of Dissemination, Poetry, Media Types (Radio, Television, Written Press, etc.), Anglo-Latin literature, Arthurian literature, History of the book, John Gower, Manuscript studies, Medieval literature
Frank, Adam American literature and media, affect theory, modernism, science and technology studies; American literature and media, affect theory, modernism, science and technology studies
Frelick, Nancy 16th century literature, theory &criticism, genre studies, women's writing &gender studies, early modern medicine
Gaertner, David Indigenous literatures; Media, visual and digital culture; Critical identity, ethnic and race studies; Indigenous Literature; Digital storytelling; Digital Humanities; Speculative fiction; Reconciliation; New Media; Indigenous Cyberspace
Guy-Bray, Stephen Renaissance poetry
Hill, Ian rhetoric, persuasion, argumentation, technology, weapons, interrogation, political economy, war rhetoric, conflict rhetoric, dissent, mass movements
Ho, Janice English language; twentieth- and twenty-first century British literature and culture; British and transnational modernisms; postcolonial and world Anglophone literatures; contemporary fiction; histories and theories of the novel; human rights studies; infrastructure studies