SOTEC Graduate Faculty Research and Areas of Specialization
If you are a current graduate student or a potential graduate student seeking an advisor or advisory committee member, please research our faculty specializations and reach out to faculty directly.
Paul Barrett*
Associate Professor
Areas of specialization: Canadian literature, critical race studies, digital humanities.
Susan Brown
Professor
Areas of specialization: digital humanities, Victorian writing and women’s writing, feminist theory.
Julie Cairnie*
Professor
Areas of specialization: Southern African literature (South African and Zimbabwean), land crisis and the crisis of childhood through Zimbabwean literature and other cultural texts, Canadian Indigenous-Settler relationships, postcolonial sport.
Gregor Campbell
Assistant Professor / Graduate Program Coordinator, English and Theatre Studies (2024-25)
Areas of specialization: American Literature, Literary Theory, Media Studies, Harlem Renaissance, Postmodernism.
Elaine Chang
Associate Professor
Areas of specialization: Cultural theory; Marxist-materialisms (Frankfurt School, Birmingham School, materialist feminisms); 20th and 21st-century anglophone prose fiction; Asian North American cultural studies; decolonial and postcolonial literature and thought; film and media cultures; screenwriting.
Michelle Elleray
Associate Professor
Areas of specialization: Victorian literature, particularly in relation to literature of empire, the South Pacific, children's literature, missionary culture, and ecocriticism.
Jade Ferguson
Associate Professor
Areas of specialization: 19th to mid-20th century Canadian literature, Civil Rights Movement literature and photography, New Southern Studies, Critical Race Theory.
Mark Fortier
Professor
Areas of specialization: Shakespeare; Law and Literature; Theatre Theory. Current Project(s): Shakespeare's Law
Lawrence Hill
Faculty
Area of specialization: Writing fiction and creative nonfiction. Black history in Canada and around the world, slavery and freedom, human rights, migration, the search for home, mixed-race identity, blood as a marker of individual and collective identity, and the experiences of refugees.
Troy Hourie*
Associate Professor
Areas of specialization: Scenography/performance design, installation art, mediated performance creation, augmented realities, puppetry, storytelling, art history, architecture and theatre design; current work revolves around the themes of wonder, immersion, spectatorship and intermediality.
Peter Kuling
Associate Professor
Areas of specialization: Canadian Theatre and Literature, Early Modern Theatre, Performance Studies, Queer Theory, Video Games / Professional Sports, Digital Media
Mark Lipton
Professor
Areas of specialization: Digital knowledge production, Culture, Communication, Media, Technology, Education, Teaching, Learning, Pedagogy, English Education, Writing Across the Curriculum, Literacy, Media Literacy, Activism, Educational Technology, Digital Divides, Social Inclusion, Digital Storytelling, Research-Creation, Social Media, Digital Humanities, Social Justice, Confronting Sexism, Health, Wellness, Digital Policy Literacy, Privacy, Surveillance, Visual Communication, Bio-Hacking, Bio-Art, Perception, Performance, Identity, Queer Theory, LGBTQ+ Youth, Camp.
Canisia Lubrin
Assistant Professor / Graduate Program Coordinator, Creative Writing MFA
Areas of specialization: Ideas of social justice and the limits and possibilities of art, form, and language.
Aylin Malcolm
Assistant Professor
Areas of specialization: Their other research interests include premodern astronomy, maritime history, and the digital editing of medieval manuscripts.
Kimberley McLeod*
Assistant Professor
Areas of specialization: Digital performance; gaming; activist performance; satire; practice-based research; political performance and participatory media.
Daniel O'Quinn
Professor
Areas of specialization: European relations with the Ottoman Empire, British-India, and on various trans-Atlantic topics are part of the ongoing re-evaluation of British imperial culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His research focuses on theatre, performance and sociability; on the historical analysis of race, class, sexuality, and gender; and on genealogies of present norms regarding the body and social relations.
Pablo Ramirez
Associate Professor
Areas of specialization: Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Law and Literature, Latinx Literature and Cultural Production, Memory Studies, Nineteenth-Century Literature of the Supernatural and the Occult, Creative Writing.
Jennifer Schacker
Professor
Areas of specialization: folk narrative and history of folklore study; fairy tale and theatre; children's literature and culture; material culture, craft, costume.
Judith Thompson
Professor
Areas of specialization: Playwrighting, Devising, Acting, Theatre Creation.
*Currently on leave/sabbatical and not accepting graduate students.
Creative Writing Faculty and areas of specializations can be found in the Faculty section of Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing.