The department of English offers a range of courses to all students, from first-year courses focusing on the basics of writing, composition, and literary study, to more specialized period and genre courses at the senior levels, In all of our courses, students will hone their writing and research skills and gain a body of knowledge that will help them succeed in both your studies and the workplace. Students will also apply critical reading and thinking skills, and add to their general education the opportunity to study many facets of language, aspects of popular culture, and thought-provoking works of literature.

Chair

Pamela Farvolden, PhD (Alberta)
English

Faculty

Jacqueline Baker, MA (Alberta)
Creative Writing

Michael Brisbois, PhD (Calgary)
English

David Buchanan, PhD (Alberta)
English

Sarah Copland, PhD (Toronto)
English

Robert Einarsson, PhD (Alberta)
English

Pamela Farvolden, PhD (Alberta)
English

Sara Grewal, PhD (Michigan-Ann Arbor)
Comparative Literature

Kathryn Holland, D.Phil. (Oxford)
English

David Hollingshead, PhD (Brown)
English

Chris Hutchinson, PhD (Houston)
Literature and Creative Writing

Rashmi Jyoti, PhD (Maharaja Sayajirao)
Canadian Diasporic Literature

Svitlana Krys, PhD (Alberta)
Slavic Languages and Literatures

Romuald Lakowski, PhD (British Columbia)
English Literature

Daniel Martin, PhD (Western Ontario)
English

Lisa Martin, PhD (Alberta)
Creative Writing

Craig Monk, D.Phil. (Oxford)
English

Mike Perschon, PhD (Alberta)
Comparative Literature

Julia Peters, PhD (Alberta)
Linguistics

Jillian Skeffington, PhD (Arizona)
Rhetoric and Composition

Mark Smith, PhD (California, Irvine)
English Literature

William Thompson, PhD (Alberta)
Children and Young Adult Literature

Joshua Toth, PhD (Western Ontario)
English

Camille van der Marel, PhD (Alberta)
English

Robert Wiznura, PhD (British Columbia)
English