Brook, Susan
Assistant Professor
AQ 6114

(778) 782-3064
susan_brook@sfu.ca

BA (Otago), PhD (Duke); taught at the University of Manchester and at Staffordshire University before coming to Simon Fraser University in 2004. Her book, Literature and Cultural Criticicism in the 1950s: The Feeling Male Body, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2007. She is currently writing an introduction to postwar literature and culture for Continuum, and also working on a new project on representations of suburbs across a range of media in twentieth-century Britain.

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Budra, Paul
Associate Professor
AQ 6139

(778) 782-4085

budra@sfu.ca
www.sfu.ca/personal/budra/

BA, MA, PhD (Toronto); teaches Shakespeare and early modern literature and has published articles on Renaissance literature and contemporary popular culture. He is the author of A Mirror for Magistrates and the de casibus Tradition and co-editor of the essay collections Part Two: Reflections on the Sequel and, most recently, Soldier Talk: Oral Narratives of the Vietnam War. He is a past president of the Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society, and winner of the SFU Excellence in Teaching Award for 2004. He is currently the Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

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Burnham, Clint
Associate Professor
AQ 6083

(778) 782-3438
clint_burnham@sfu.ca

BA, MA (Victoria), PhD (York); has taught at Capilano College, the Emily Carr Institute, and UBC. Clint's research interests include contemporary literature, theory (esp. psychoanalysis and Marxism), visual culture, and popular culture. His novel Smoke Show (Arsenal) was shortlisted for the 2005 BC Book Prize and his latest book of poetry, The Benjamin Sonnets, was published in 2009 by BookThug. Clint has published essays, reviews, and articles in English Studies in Canada, Open Letter, Flash Art, fillip, Camera Austria, The Vancouver Sun, and The Globe and Mail. He is also the author of a study of Steve McCaffery (ECW) and The Jamesonian Unconscious: The Aesthetics of Marxist Theory (Duke U.P.). Present projects include a monograph on the Kootenay School of Writing (KSW), and a book-length project on Slavoj Žižek. Clint is a founding member of the Vancouver Lacan Salon, and can be followed on twitter @Prof_Clinty.

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Chariandy, David
Assistant Professor
AQ 6105

(778) 782-5438
chariand@sfu.ca

BA, MA (Carleton), PhD (York); specializes in contemporary fiction, (especially Canadian, Caribbean, and Black Atlantic), as well as interdisciplinary theories of postcoloniality, diaspora and ‘race.’  He has published scholarly articles and reviews in the Essays on Canadian Writing, The Canadian Association of American Studies, The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures, Canadian Literature, The Journal of West Indian Literature, Postcolonial Text, Topia, New Dawn, and Callaloo.  He is a co-founder of Commodore Books, the co-editor of a special issue of the Canadian Association of American Studies, and the co-editor of a forthcoming special issue of West Coast Line.  His novel entitled Soucouyant was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2007, and was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award, and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Best First Novel Prize. His creative and critical writings are featured in a special section of the 30.3 (Summer 2007) 30th anniversary issue of Callaloo, the international journal of African diaspora arts and letters; and his second novel, entitled Brother, is forthcoming from McClleland and Stewart.

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Coe, Rick
Professor
AQ 6121

(778) 782-4316
coe@sfu.ca

BA (City College, New York), MA (Utah), PhD (California)
Rhetorical theory and history; contrastive rhetoric; composition theory and pedagogy; literacy; discourse analysis (including "Public Doublespeak" and "Plain Language"); genre theory; rhetorical approaches to literary criticism; drama.

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Coley, David
Assistant Professor
AQ 6148

(778) 782-3672
david_coley@sfu.ca

BA (Connecticut College), MA (Pennsylvania), PhD (Maryland); David's research interests include Chaucer and 15th century Chaucerians; Middle English alliterative poetry; medieval vernacularity; and the discursive dimensions of non-written "texts" such as stained glass, seals, and coins. His current book project, The Wheel of Language: Representing Speech in Middle English Narrative, explores depictions of speech in Middle English texts and their relationship to the religious, cultural, and political upheavals of late-medieval England. He is also preparing an edition of the alliterative Destruction of Troy for the Middle English Texts Series. David has published in the Journal of English and Germanic Philology, and his fiction has appeared in the Southwest Review and Harper's Magazine.

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Colligan, Colette
Associate Professor
AQ 6119

(778) 782-5437
ccolliga@sfu.ca
www.sfu.ca/~ccolliga

BA (Victoria), MA and PhD (Queen's); Colette teaches and publishes in the fields of nineteenth-century literature and culture, print and media culture, and obscenity studies. She is the author of The Traffic in Obscenity from Byron to Beardsley: Sexuality and Exoticism in Nineteenth-Century Print Culture (Palgrave, 2006). She has also published on nineteenth-century sexuality and imperialism in journals such as Nineteenth-Century Literature, Victorian Literature and Culture, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, and the Victorian Review.  She is currently working on a monograph on Obscenity, Media, and Realism, 1880-1930 and is co-editing with Margaret Linley a collection of original essays on Image, Sound, and Touch in the Nineteenth-Century.

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Collis, Steve
Associate Professor and

Associate/Undergraduate Chair
AQ 6108

(778) 782-6606
scollis@sfu.ca

BA (Victoria), PhD (Simon Fraser); contemporary poetry and poetics, creative writing, American literature, modernism, and anarchism and culture; books include Mine (2001), Through Words of Others: Susan Howe and Anarcho-Scholasticism (2006), Phyllis Webb and the Common Good: Poetry/Anarchy/Abstraction (2007), and several parts of the on-going Barricades Project, which includes the books Anarchive (2005) and The Commons (2008). He also edits the on-line journal The Poetic Front.

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Cramer, Peter
Assistant Professor
AQ 6102

(778) 782-5639
pcramer@sfu.ca
www.sfu.ca/~pcramer/

Peter A. Cramer (MA and PhD Carnegie Mellon University) is interested in the ways that speakers and writers represent the kinds of situations, events, and participants that have been central to the rhetorical tradition and to the study of argument.  Keywords: Rhetoric, Argumentation, Discourse Analysis.

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Davis, Leith
Professor
AQ 6111

(778) 782-4833
leith@sfu.ca
www.sfu.ca/personal/leith/

BA (Saskatchewan, MA, PhD (Berkeley); author of Acts of Union: Scotland and the Negotiation of the British Nation (Stanford UP, 1998) and Music, Postcolonialism and Gender: The Construction of Irish Identity, 1724-1874 (Notre Dame UP, 2005) as well as co-editor (with Ian Duncan and Janet Sorensen) of Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004). She is currently working on two book projects: a collection of essays on "Robert Burns in Transatlantic Context" (co-edited with Sharon Alker and Holly Faith Nelson) and a monograph, Transnational Articulations: Print Culture and the Imagining of Global Communities in Britain and Ireland, 1690-1820. She is a co-founder of the Department of English's MA with Specialization in Print Culture and is currently serving as Director of Simon Fraser University's Scottish Studies Centre.

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Derksen, Jeff
Associate Professor
AQ 6081

(778) 782-5431
jderksen@sfu.ca

BA (Victoria), MA, PhD (Calgary); works with an interdisciplinary view of culture and globalization in the 20th century. It deals with the relationship of cultural production (what Raymond Williams called "creative practices") and the nexus of social, political, economic and cultural forces that constitute globalization. His areas of special interest are national cultures and the role of the state in the era of globalization; cultural imperialism and the politics of aesthetics; the poetry and poetics of globalized cities; the emergent global cultural front (in a general cultural context and in avant-gardes); culture and gentrification in global-urban spaces; architecture and urbanism; cultural poetics, cultural studies, & cultural geography.

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Dickinson, Peter
Associate Professor
AQ 6117

(778) 782-3762
peter_dickinson@sfu.ca
www.sfu.ca/~ped

BA (Toronto), MA, PhD (British Columbia); counts among his research and teaching interests modern drama and performance studies, film studies, comparative Canadian literature, and queer theory and gender studies. He is the author of three books: World Stages, Local Audiences: Essays on Performance, Place, and Politics (forthcoming from Manchester University Press); Screening Gender, Framing Genre: Canadian Literature into Film (University of Toronto Press, 2007); and Here is Queer: Nationalisms, Sexualities, and the Literatures of Canada (University of Toronto Press, 1999). Recent articles have appeared in Modern Drama, Screen, Theatre Journal, Literature/Film Quarterly, CinéAction, Text and Performance Quarterly, and The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama. Current projects include: Solo Performance and Sexual Citizenship in the United States, 1984-2004; and The Work of Theatre Companies in an Age of Digital and Electronic Mediation. His blog's at performanceplacepolitics.blogspot.com.

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Didicher, Nicky
Senior Lecturer
AQ 6143

(778) 782-4337
didicher@sfu.ca
www.sfu.ca/~didicher/index.htm

BA (Guelph), MA and PhD (Queen's); teaches a wide range and large number of courses per year; her areas of expertise and interest include eighteenth-century British literature, children’s literature, Chaucer, detective fiction, and science fiction. Nicky uses blended learning via WebCT, and student-centered techniques in teaching, assessment, and syllabus choices. Her commitment to pedagogy has also had outlets in being a member of the Senate Committee for University Teaching and Learning and the English Undergraduate Curriculum Committee. Nicky is the Academic Integrity Advisor for English.

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Everton, Michael
Assistant Professor
AQ 6120

(778) 782-5385
meverton@sfu.ca
www.sfu.ca/~meverton

BA (James Madison), MA (Tennessee), PhD (North Carolina at Chapel Hill); Michael Everton teaches American literature and print culture to 1900 and writes primarily on American publishing history, authorship, literary ethics, and intellectual property. His first book, Authorship and the Ethics of American Publishing, 1776-1870, will be published by Oxford UP. A second project, on the business of nineteenth-century transnational publishing, is underway. He has held research fellowships from the Bibliographical Society of America, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Huntington Library, and his articles have appeared in Early American Literature, Legacy, Style, the Southern Literary Journal, and ESQ. He is currently the coordinator of the department’s MA Specialization in Print Culture.

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Fleming, J.D.
Associate Professor
AQ 6149

(778) 782-4713
jfleming@sfu.ca

BA (British Columbia), MA (Toronto), PhD (Columbia).

Interests:

Renaissance, epistemology, hermeneutics.

Selected Publications:

Milton’s Secrecy (Ashgate, 2008).

 “Making Sense of Science and the Literal: Modern Semantics, Early-Modern Hermeneutics.” The Word and the World: Biblical Exegesis and Early-Modern Science. Eds Peter Forshaw and Kevin Killeen (Palgrave, 2007). 45-60.

 “Prevent is not Prevent: Rape and Rhetoric in The Tempest.” Exemplaria 15 (Autumn 2003): 449-470.

“Meanwhile, Medusa in Paradise Lost.” ELH 69.4 (2002): 1009-1028.

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Gerson, Carole
Professor and Department Chair
AQ 6109

(778) 782-4097
gerson@sfu.ca

BA (Simon Fraser), MA (Dalhousie), PhD (British Columbia). Carole Gerson (FRSC) has worked extensively on early Canadian literature and Canadian book history. A contributor to all three volumes History of the Book in Canada, she co-edited volume 3 (University of Toronto Press, 2007) which covers the 1918-80 period. Her particular focus on women writers has resulted in many articles that include well-known authors such as L.M. Montgomery and Susanna Moodie, as well as studies of the canonization of Canadian women writers that involve more obscure figures. With Veronica Strong-Boag, she issued two books on Pauline Johnson: Paddling Her Own Canoe: The Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) (2000) and E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake: Collected Poems and Selected Prose (2002). Her forthcoming book from Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Canadian Women in Print, 1750-1918, applies the principles of print culture analysis to a wide range of early authors. Her work has been consistently supported by SSHRC grants and by a Killam Research Fellowship.

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Gillies, Mary Ann
Professor
AQ 6145

(778) 782-4837
gillies@sfu.ca
www.sfu.ca/english/Gillies

BA (Alberta), MPhil, DPhil (Oxford); chiefly researches the Anglo-America area; publishing history, popular culture (in particular detective fiction), and philosophy and literature are secondary research areas. She has a book on The Literary Agent in Britain 1880-1920 under consideration at the University of Toronto Press and also has a text book on modernism entitled Decade by Decade: Modernity, Modernism, and British Literature, 1900–1939 (co-authored with Aurelea Mahood) under consideration at Oxford University Press. She is collaborating with colleagues from New Zealand and New York on a collection of essays, provisionally entitled Pacific Rim Modernisms. This collection grew out of a plenary session and a seminar at the recent Modernist Studies Association Conference (MSA6) held in Vancouver in 2004. She co-chaired the conference and they received a $50,000 SSHRC conference grant for MSA6. Other research projects include a study of the construction of literary reputation on which she is collaborating with colleagues in Linguistics, and an examination of the cross cultural interrelationships between Chinese and Anglo-American modernisms.

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Grieve, Tom
Associate Professor
AQ 6132

(778) 782-3121
grieve@sfu.ca

BA, MA (Simon Fraser), PhD (Johns Hopkins); primarily interested in modernism, particularly the work of the so-called “high” modernists, such as Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Stein and Joyce. He has published a number of articles on the poetry of Ezra Pound and a book, Ezra Pound’s Early Poetry and Poetics (University of Missouri Press, 1997). Currently, his research is focused on the new “materialist turn” in modernist studies, specifically on a critique of the new orthodoxy that sees modernist literature as everywhere contaminated by the market and the material manifestations of modernist works as providing unproblematical interpretive evidence. Recent research grants and fellowships have enabled him to examine major North American archives of modernist material, not only drafts, manuscripts and letters, but records pertaining to publication, distribution and royalties. He teaches modernist poetry and fiction, critical theory and the history of criticism, modern British literature, the essay as literature and rhetoric. A winner of SFU’s Excellence in Teaching Award, he never does not teach writing.

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Higgins, Anne
Associate Professor
AQ 6147

(778) 782-4864
ahiggins@sfu.ca

BA (Connecticut), MA (Massachusetts, McGill, Yale), PhD (Yale); trained in Medieval Studies, and takes an interdisciplinary approach to works in early popular drama, from the guild plays through Shakespeare, Chaucer and his contemporaries, and medieval popular culture. She has published on questions of guild affiliation and dramatic responsibilities, and on the guild plays as part of the contestation for dominance in the new urban community after the Black Death. She has also published on medieval theories of time, The Legend of Good Women, Spenser’s appropriations of Chaucer, and Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. Completing a book about the guild drama as a cultural consequence of the plague in constituting a new urban community, she has begun the groundwork for a new study to be called Mary’s Body, a study of the obsession with Mary’s physical body in literature, art, and devotional works of the late Middle Ages. She has prepared a new Field School in Florence, for the study of Italian Humanism through letters, art, and history, for Fall 2005.

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Huenemann, Karyn
Lecturer (limited term)
AQ 6098

(778) 782-8507
kme@lightspeed.ca

BA (UBC), MA (U of Toronto), MPhil (Goldsmiths' College, U of London); specializes in Children's Literature, Canadian Literature before 1920, and Literature of the South Asian Diaspora. Karyn has published a book chapter on Flora Annie Steel and a number of articles on Sara Jeannette Duncan; forthcoming publications include "Kipling's Indian Women" and an article on James De Mille's Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder, "Dystopia in a New Land". She is currently working on a critical edition of Sara Jeannette Duncan's The Path of a Star for Ronsdale Press.

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Hungerford, Anne
Lecturer
HC2300

(778) 782-5246
hungerfo@sfu.ca

BA, MA (Simon Fraser)
Composition; drama

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Hussey, Matthew
Assistant Professor
AQ 6140

(778) 782-4662
mhussey@sfu.ca

BA (California, Santa Cruz), MA (Wales, Bangor), PhD (Wisconsin, Madison)

Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and manuscript culture; Old English poetry, prose and glossing; Anglo-Latin literature; early medieval English schools and learning

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Kehler, Torsten
Lecturer (limited term)
AQ 6086

(778) 782-5693
kehlert@telus.net

BA (SFU), MA (Warwick [Philosophy]), PhD (McGill); has taught at universities and colleges in Denmark and Finland. His dissertation was on the emotions in literature from Greek thought to the Renaissance, specifically in relation to Shakespearean drama. His current book project is entitled Shakespeare and Evil, and he is editing Charles Olson's manuscript on Shakespeare. Research interests include: literature and political agency; Tacitus, Machiavelli and early modern dystopian thought; Orwell and Shakespeare.

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Kim, Christine
Assistant Professor
AQ 6110

(778) 782-4314
christine_kim_4@sfu.ca

(BA, MA, PhD York); teaching and research focus on Asian North American literature and theory, contemporary Canadian literature, feminist theory, print publics, and diasporic writing. Recent essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Mosaic, Studies in Canadian Literature, Open Letter, and Essays on Canadian Literature. She is currently working on two book-length projects: From Multiculturalism to Globalization: The Cultural Politics of Asian North American Writing and Shaping Fiction: Contemporary Feminist Publics in Canada.

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Lesjak, Carolyn
Associate Professor and Graduate Chair
AQ 6118

(778) 782-4333
clesjak@sfu.ca

BA (Swarthmore College), MA and PhD (Duke); she specializes in Victorian literature and culture and has also taught courses in women's studies, feminist theory and theory of the novel. Her book, Working Fictions: A Genealogy of the Victorian Novel, is forthcoming from Duke University Press (October 2006). She has published articles on Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, and Oscar Wilde as well as on contemporary Marxist criticism. Her work has appeared in ELH, Novel, Studies in the Literary Imagination, Utopian Studies, and a number of collected volumes of essays, including, most recently, On Jameson: From Postmodernism to Globalization. Her current book project examines the ethics of Victorian object relations and reassesses the related critical paradigms of new historicism, thing theory, and studies in material culture.

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Levy, Michelle
Associate Professor
AQ 6116

(778) 782-5393
michelle_levy@sfu.ca

BA, JD, MA (Toronto), PhD (UCLA); joined the English Department faculty in 2003, and teaches courses in British Literature and Culture of the Romantic period.  Her research interests range broadly and include the history of authorship; media theory and the cultures of manuscript and print; gender, family and national discourse; law and literature; and literature of the environment, including discourses of place, travel, and tourism. Her book, Family Authorship and Romantic Print Culture (Palgrave, 2008), explores the conjunction of authorship and family life as a distinctive cultural formation of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. She has published articles in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Studies in English Literature, and Studies in Romanticism, on authors including Anna Barbauld, S.T. Coleridge, Mary Shelley, and the Wordsworths. She is coordinator of the specialized M.A. in Print Culture through 2008.

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Linley, Margaret
Assistant Professor
AQ 6107

(778) 782-3038
mlinley@sfu.ca
www.sfu.ca/~mlinley

BAA (Ryerson), Hons BA (Wilfrid Laurier), MA, PhD (Queen´s); teaches 19th century literature and culture and is a member of the print culture specialized MA. Her teaching and research interests are in the history of media and technology, 19th century colonialism and imperialism, and cyberculture. Selected recent publications include “Conjuring the Spirit: Victorian Poetry, Culture and Technology” in the Special Issue of Victorian Poetry, “Whither Victorian Poetry” (2003); “Nationhood and Empire” in the Blackwell Companion to Victorian Poetry (2002); "A Centre that Would Not Hold: Annuals and Cultural Democracy" in Defining Centres: Nineteenth-Century Media and the Construction of Identities (Palgrave, 2000); "Dying to Be a Poetess: The Conundrum of Christina Rossetti" in The Culture of Christina Rossetti: Female Poetics and Victorian Contexts (Ohio UP, 1999). She has also published on 19th century Sapphic poetry as well as on sexuality and nationality in Alfred Tennyson’s poetry. Her book in progress is on “Literary Annuals and the Poetics of the Ornament: New Print Media and British Empire , 1822-1857.”

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Macarty, Jami
Lecturer (limited term)
SFU Harbour Centre
jmacarty@sfu.ca

BA (University of New Hampshire), MFA (University of Arizona); teaches contemporary American poetry. Her research focuses on the formation of artistic community and collaboration, especially among the rebel poets of the Beat Generation, Black Mountain School, New York School, and San Francisco Renaissance in the 1950s and 60s. In her classes, she empowers students to combine exquisite attention and the deep desire to understand with their unique capacity to be transformed by what they read and write.

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McCall, Sophie
Assistant Professor
AQ 6112

(778) 782-4866
smccall@sfu.ca

BA, MA (British Columbia), PhD (York); includes in her main fields of interest contemporary Canadian and First Nations literatures, postcolonial theory and globalization studies. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled ‘Where is the Voice Coming From?’: Collaboration and Authorship in Told-to Narratives in Canada. She explores the complexity of the issue of ‘voice’ by examining double-voiced, cross-cultural, composite productions. Her most recent article, on Anishinaabe performance and installation artist, Rebecca Belmore, appeared in Aboriginal Oral Traditions: Theory, Practice, Ethics (Fernwood 2008). She has published articles in Essays on Canadian Writing, Canadian Review of American Studies, Resources for Feminist Research, Canadian Literature, and C.L.R. James Journal.

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Ogden, Stephen
Lecturer (limited term)
AQ 6094

(778) 782-5820
ogden@sfu.ca

BA (SFU), MA (UBC), PhD (SFU). Lectures on English literature of the 17th century to the present, Japanese classical, Meiji and modern literature in translation, and Canadian literature; on topics including the history of ideas, lad lit and chick lit, the Edwardians, and literature of the moment. Publications include "Nodes: Literature, Science and Artificial Intelligence" (Arhus, 1995); "Darwinian Scepticism in George Gissing's Born in Exile" (A Garland for Gissing, Rodopi, 2001); and the article on Frank Richards for the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Twentieth Century British Literary Humorists, upcoming 2008. Pedagogical ideal is classical dialectic and modern participatory instruction combined to develop -- not assume -- capacities for literary judgement.

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Reder, Deanna
Assistant Professor
ASSC 9081
(778) 782-8192
Deanna_Reder@sfu.ca

(BA Concordia, MA York, PhD UBC) Deanna Reder's main fields of study are Indigenous literatures in Canada, Indigenous literary theories and epistemologies, and autobiography theory.  She teaches 75% in the First Nations Studies Program (www.sfu.ca/fns/) and 25% in the Department of English. As a Cree-Métis scholar, she is working on a monograph on Cree and Métis autobiography in Canada. She has recently co-edited an anthology with Dr. Linda Morra (Bishops University) entitled Troubling Tricksters: Revisioning Critical Conversations (2010). Her work has appeared in Studies in Canadian Literature, American Indian Quarterly and recently, an article entitled "Writing Autobiographically: A Neglected Indigenous Intellectual Tradition" is included in Across Cultures, Across Borders: Canadian Aboriginal and Native American Literatures (2009). Recently she has been appointed Series Editor of the Indigenous Studies Series at Wilfrid Laurier University Press: http://wlupress.wlu.ca/press/Series/IS.shtml

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Sawatsky, Marlene
Senior Lecturer
AQ 6101

(778) 782-5439
marlena@sfu.ca

Marlene Sawatsky (BA, MA Simon Fraser); teaches writing and rhetoric courses. She is associate author of Academic Writing: An Introduction, and is currently working on the 2nd edition. She uses discourse analysis and genre theory in her research into writing and learning in the disciplines. Other interests include auto/biographical writing and life writing pedagogies. She has published essays in Village of Unsettled Yearnings: Yarrow, British Columbia, focusing on 'occasional poems' written by Canadian settlers. She continues examination of discursive and rhetorical aspects of epistolary writing in the contexts of Mennonite diaspora.

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Schellenberg, Betty
Professor
AQ 6103

(778) 782-3095
schellen@sfu.ca

www.sfu.ca/~schellen/

BEd, BA (Winnipeg), MA, PhD (Ottawa); has recently published The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge, 2005), Reconsidering the Bluestockings (Huntington Library, 2003, co-edited with Nicole Pohl), and Part Two: Reflections on the Sequel (Toronto, 1998, co-edited with Paul Budra). She has also published various articles on feminist literary history, Defoe’s Tour of the Whole Island of Great Britain, and the eighteenth-century novel. Among her current projects are a volume of the forthcoming Cambridge University Press edition of Samuel Richardson’s complete correspondence and a collaborative book on Lake District tourism. She is a founding member of the Department’s Print Culture MA specialization.

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Smith, Jon
Associate Professor
AQ 6146

(778) 782-3124

jsa106@sfu.ca

BA (Yale), MA/MEd/PhD (Virginia); Jon presently works chiefly on the U.S. South from postcolonial and cultural-studies perspectives. His essays and essay-reviews have appeared in American Literary History, American Literature, Contemporary Literature, The Global South, and Modern Fiction Studies, as well as in several essay collections on topics ranging from Faulkner to alt-country. With Deborah Cohn of Indiana University, he coedited Look Away! The U.S. South in New World Studies (Duke UP 04), and, with Riché Richardson of Cornell University, he coedits the University of Georgia Press series The New Southern Studies. His own book, Alabama and the Future of American Cultural Studies, is under contract in that series.

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Solomon, Diana
Assistant Professor
AQ 6138

(778) 782-5436
diana_solomon@sfu.ca

BA (Vassar), MA (Hawaii), PhD (UCSB); she specializes in Restoration and eighteenth-century theatre, comedy, performance studies, and print culture. Her current book project is entitled Bawdy Language: Actresses’ Prologues and Epilogues in London, 1660-1713, and she has published on actresses, genre hybridity, and theatre music.  She has held fellowships at the Clark, Folger, Huntington, and Noel Libraries, and spent two years as a Mellon Fellow at Duke.

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St. Pierre, Paul
Associate Professor
AQ 6115

(778) 782-5360
stpierr@sfu.ca

http://pmstpierre.com/

BA (British Columbia), MA (Queen's), PhD (Sydney); specializes in postcolonial literature, orature, and theory, critical theory, and performance studies. He is author of A Portrait of the Artist as Australian: L'Oeuvre bizarre de Barry Humphries (Montreal: McGill-Queen's UP, 2004) and Song and Sketch Transcripts of British Music Hall Performers Elsie and Doris Waters (Lewiston: Mellen, 2003), and co-author with Xiaolin Liu of Preheat for an Overseas Life (Nanjing: Southeastern UP, 2003). His work-in-progress is a monograph titled On the Halls on the Screen: Music Hall Mimesis in British Film, 1895-1960. His sculpture Black Bird Swinging in the Dead of White was "Best in Show" at the 2002 Faculty, Staff and Student Show, Simon Fraser Gallery. He delivered lectures in the 2004 and 2005 Nobel Prize Lecture Series, on literature laureates J. M. Coetzee and Elfriede Jelinek. Dr. St. Pierre was the recipient of the Excellence in Teaching award in 2005.

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Valiquette, Michele
Senior Lecturer
AQ6104

(778) 782-3127
valiquet@sfu.ca

BA, MA (Simon Fraser)
Critical discourse analysis; language and gender studies; feminist literary criticism

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Werth, Tiffany
Assistant Professor
AQ 6099

(778) 782-3137
talkan@sfu.ca

Tiffany Werth (BA University of Portland, MA, PhD Columbia) focuses her research and teaching on Tudor literature and culture. She specifically enjoys romance in all its literary forms (prose, poetry, and drama) as well as religious polemic, print culture, and satire. Her other areas of research interest include contemporary fantasy and genre theory. She has published articles on Spenser (edited collection 2006), Shakespeare (Shakespeare International Yearbook 2008) and Sidney (forthcoming in ELR 2010). Her book manuscript, The Fabulous Dark Cloister: Reforming Romance in Early Modern England (under press consideration) investigates how post-Reformation English authors sought to discipline romance, appropriating its popularity while simultaneously distilling it of its alleged Catholic taint. Her current research turns from religion to explore the status of the “ungodly” in early modern England.

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Zwagerman, Sean
Assistant Professor
AQ6141

(778) 782-4831
sean_zwagerman@sfu.ca

BA (Berkeley), MA (Sonoma State), PhD (University of Southern California); writes and teaches primarily in the areas of rhetoric and language, with particular interests in speech-act and performativity theories, issues of motive and intentionality, the rhetoric of humour, and pedagogy. Recent publications include “The Scarlet ‘P:’ Plagiarism, Panopticism, and the Rhetoric of Academic Integrity” in College Composition and Communication, and “A Day That Will Live in Irony: 9/11 and the War on Humor,” forthcoming in The War on Terror and American Popular Culture.

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Whatley, John
WL Instructor
CODE Academic Program Director
BA (Chapman College, California), MA, PhD (Simon Fraser)
Tel: (778) 782-4354/8138,

Email: whatley@sfu.ca
Web: www.sfu.ca/~whatley

Currently Academic Program Director at CODE (Centre for Online and Distance Education), Dr. Whatley is responsible for the development and supervision of distance and online programs in English, Criminology and German at Simon Fraser University. He has held this position since 1996. Before this, he was a Lecturer in the Department of English at SFU, and a Lektor in the Fachbereich Anglistik at Justus Liebig Universität in Hessen, Germany.  He is an Associate Member of the School of Criminology and the Department of English and has published articles on both literary subjects and in distance education.  In Literature his interests include Romantic & Gothic Literature, Crime & Literature, the literary essay, and the relation between the social sciences and literary criticism.

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