James Gifford

James Gifford is an assistant professor of English and the director of the university core at Fairleigh Dickinson University - Vancouver. He has taught courses in English, communications and media studies, humanities, and music to a wide range of audiences, including seniors, northern communities, and the military.

James was born and raised on the BC coast. He was a postdoctoral fellow of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and he completed his PhD in English at the University of Alberta as a Killam doctoral fellow. He also holds degrees in humanities and music, and he is a three-time alumnus of the Opera Studio at the Victoria Conservatory of Music.

Much of James's work derives from archival research. He recently prepared scholarly editions of Lawrence Durrell's novels, Pied Piper of Lovers and Panic Spring, and is now editing the 10-year correspondence between Robert Graves and Aemilia Laracuen as well as a critical edition of the works of Edward Taylor Fletcher, a 19th-century Canadian poet.

Gifford has also completed a teaching edition of Oscar Wilde's 1890 version of The Picture of Dorian Gray. Some of his past editorial work includes a scholarly edition of the letters of Henry Miller and Herbert Read as well as the Culture + the State series.

Previously taught: