Faculty Listing
Jesse Archibald-Barber
Professor (First Nations University of Canada)
BA (Victoria), MA, PhD (Toronto)
Office: FNUniv 3001
E-mail: jbarber@firstnationsuniversity.ca
Phone: 790-5950 ext. 3155
Research interests
Saskatchewan Indigenous literatures, Indigenous theatre and performance, Cree language and literature, Indigenous science fiction.
Jes Battis
(he/they)
Associate Professor | BA (UFV), MA (SFU), PhD (SFU), Postdoc (CUNY)
Office: AH 366
E-mail: Jes.Battis@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5616
Website: https://jbattis.com/
Research interests
Medieval Literature and Medievalism; Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature; LGBTQ2+ Histories and Cultures; Creative Writing; Children’s and Young-Adult Literature; Fantasy and Speculative Fiction; Neurodiversity and Disability Studies
Noel Chevalier
Associate Professor (Luther College)
Office: LC 221
E-mail: noel.chevalier@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4852
Fax: 306-585-2949
Website: http://www.luthercollege.edu/university/noelchevalier
Michelle Coupal
Associate Professor
BA (Waterloo), BEd (Western), MA (Waterloo), PhD (Western) Canada Research Chair in Truth, Reconciliation, and Indigenous Literatures.
Office: AH 361
E-mail: Michelle.Coupal@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5068
Research interests
Indigenous literatures of Turtle Island, Literatures of Indian Residential Schools in Canada, Teaching Indigenous literatures, Indigenous media and film, and Canadian Literature.
Marcel DeCoste
Professor
BA (Toronto), MA (York), PhD (McGill)
Office: AH 306
E-mail: Marcel.Decoste@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4691
Fax: 306-585-5429
Research interests
20th-century British and American literature, particularly: modernism, literature of the World Wars, the fiction of Evelyn Waugh, Flannery O’Connor, and Cormac McCarthy.
Jason Demers
Assistant Professor
Office: AH 357
E-mail: Jason.demers@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4465
Research interests
The politics of translation, prison writing, 20th and 21st-century American literature, cultural studies, literary theory, literature and social justice.
Troni Grande
Associate Professor
Degrees: BA Hons, MA (Queen's), PhD (Alberta)
Office: AH 353
E-mail: troni.grande@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4570
Fax: 306-585-5429
Research interests
Creative nonfiction, Shakespeare and early-modern drama, 18th-century drama (she-tragedy), literary theory (especially feminism), genre studies, editing.
Jean Hillabold
Instructor III
Degrees: BA Hons, MA (Regina)
Office: AH 369
E-mail: Jean.Hillabold@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4669
Fax: 306-585-5429
Research interests
Jean Hillabold’s main interests are writing by women, particularly lesbians and African-Americans, and erotica. She has written a research article on the politics of smoking in lesbian social space (Girlfriends, 2002). Two of her articles, “Lesbian Publishing” (1988) and “Tribal Consciousness Reborn” (1989) appeared in Lesbian and Gay Studies Newsletter (Modern Languages Association). She has given an informal academic talk on the history and status of erotica (Department of English, 2001), and has written reviews of erotica for various websites and newsletters. Her erotic fiction has been widely published since 1999. Her fiction (erotic and otherwise) has won various awards
Anne James
Assistant Professor
Office: AH 359
E-mail: anne.james@uregina.ca
Research interests
Early modern British literature and culture, focusing particularly on John Donne, plots and conspiracies, sermon culture, and digital humanities. Recent publications include Poets, Players, and Preachers: Remembering the Gunpowder Plot in Seventeenth-Century England (2016), and (co-authored with Jeanne Shami) “GEMMS (Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons 1530–1715): Confronting the Challenges of Sermons Research,” Digital Studies/Le champ numérique 9 (1), 21, DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/dscn.329. Current projects include the Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons (gemms.itercommunity.org) and contributing commentary for the Oxford edition of John Donne’s prose letters (forthcoming).
Susan Johnston
Associate Professor
BA (McGill), MA (Hull), PhD (McGill)
Office: AH 322
E-mail: Susan.Johnston@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4672
Fax: 306-585-5429
Research interests
19th century British literature and culture; literary historiography; criminality and print culture; nationhood and nationalism; masculinities; theological criticism; film and television adaptation; popular culture, particularly fantasy literature, Harry Potter studies, and George R.R. Martin (A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones).
Dorothy Lane
Professor (Luther College)
Office: LC 227
E-mail: dorothy.lane@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5217
Website: https://www.luthercollege.edu/university/academics/faculty-profiles/dorothy-lane
Research interests
Postcolonial literature and theory, Canadian literature, children's literature
Alex MacDonald
Associate Professor (Campion College)
Office: CM 3221
E-mail: Alex.MacDonald@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-359-1223
Fax: 306-359-1200
Website: http://campioncollege.ca/contact-us/faculty-listing/dr-alex-macdonald
Research interests
Utopian literature, thought and experiment, 19th century literature, Saskatchewan history, ideas of the university
Carmen Faye Mathes
Assistant Professor
Office: AH367
E-mail: Carmen.Mathes@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4790
Craig Melhoff
Instructor
Office: AH 320
E-mail: craig.melhoff@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4432
Research interests
Dystopian fiction, Urban fiction, Anglo-American literature of the twentieth century, with particular emphasis on high-modernist writers of the 1920s (James Joyce and T. S. Eliot) and contemporary British fiction, in particular the works of Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie and Contemporary British fiction
Medrie Purdham
Associate Professor
Office: AH 315
E-mail: Medrie.Purdham@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4307
Fax: 306-585-5429
Research interests
Prosody, creative writing, modern to postmodern Canadian poetry and fiction, 20th-century drama
Jan Purnis
Associate Professor
Campion College
Office: CM 512
E-mail: jan.purnis@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-359-1252
Fax: 306-359-1200
Website: https://campioncollege.ca/resources/dr-jan-purnis
Research interests
Cannibalism; Digestion; Early Modern Emotions; Body/Mind Relationship; Colonialism; Gender; Early Modern Medicine; Wordplay; Shrews; Sugar
Christian Riegel
Professor, Campion College
B.A. Hons., Bishop's, M.A., Acadia, Ph.D., University of Alberta, F.R.S.A (Fellow, Royal Society for the Arts—UK)
Office: CM 505
E-mail: Christian.Riegel@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-359-1219
Fax: 306-359-1200
Research interests
Canadian Literature, mourning and memorial in literature, health humanities, digital humanities, Holocaust Studies, creative writing, disability, technology, and culture, and interdisciplinary collaborative research epistemologies. Riegel is Director of the IMPACT (Interactive Media, Poetics, Aesthetics, Cognition, and Technology) Lab and has received multiple SSHRC grants in support of his research, currently holds a SSHRC Insight Grant, and has been awarded CFI (Canada Foundation for Innovation) funding. Current projects include “‘Disrupt/ability’: Eye Tracking, Ableism, and Art Creation,” and a monograph on mourning and memorializing in recent fiction.
Melanie Schnell
English Lecturer
Office: AH 311
E-mail: melanie.schnell@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4429
Fax: 306-585-5429
Research interests
Creative writing, Fiction, War literature.
Garry Sherbert
Professor
Office: AH 360
E-mail: Garry.Sherbert@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4966
Fax: 306-585-5429
Research interests
Culture, literary theory, especially Jacques Derrida and Northrop Frye, 16th-century non-dramatic literature, 18th-century and Romantic literature, Menippean satire
Michael Trussler
Professor
PhD (University of Toronto), MA (York University), BA Hons
Office: AH 314
E-mail: Michael.Trussler@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4315
Fax: 306-585-5429