Faculty Listing

Jesse Archibald-Barber

Associate Professor (First Nations University of Canada)

Office: SI 1535
E-mail: jbarber@firstnationsuniversity.ca
Phone: 790-5950 ext. 3155

Research interests

Degrees: BA(Victoria), MA, PhD (Toronto)

Presently, he teaches Indigenous literatures at the First Nations University of Canada, offering courses on Canadian Indigenous fiction, poetry, and drama.

 

Jes Battis

Associate Professor
BA (UFV), MA (SFU), PhD (SFU), Postdoc (CUNY)

Office: AH 366
E-mail: Jes.Battis@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5616

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; Detective 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; teaching trauma and Indian residential school literature; trauma and testimony: theories and artistic practices; Indigenous pedagogies and classroom protocols; and pedagogies of truth and reconciliation

Marcel DeCoste

Professor, Head of English
BA (Toronto), MA (York), PhD (McGill)

Office: AH 312
E-mail: Marcel.Decoste@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4691
Fax: 306-585-5429

Research interests
20th-century British and American literature, particularly: modernist fiction and poetry, literature of the World Wars, mid-century British fiction, the fiction of Evelyn Waugh and Flannery O’Connor.

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

Office: AH 353
E-mail: troni.grande@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4570
Fax: 306-585-5429

Research interests
Early-modern drama, 18th-century drama, 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

E-mail: anne.james@uregina.ca

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; 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

Craig Melhoff

Assistant Professor
Currently on Education leave

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

      

Bev Montague

Instructor III

Office: AH 367
E-mail: Bev.Montague@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4790
Fax: 306-585-5429

Research interests
Contemporary British and Irish fiction, Irish film and theatre, British crime 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

Assistant Professor
Campion College

Office: CM 402
E-mail: jan.purnis@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-359-1261
Fax: 306-359-1200
Website: http://campioncollege.ca/contact-us/faculty-listing/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

Office: CM 505
E-mail: Christian.Riegel@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-359-1219
Fax: 306-359-1200

Research interests
Mourning and literature, Canadian Literature, contemporary poetry, Holocaust Studies, cognition, literary language, and media, and creative writing.

Melanie Schnell

English Lecturer

Office: AH 311
E-mail: melanie.schnell@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4429
Fax: 306-585-5429
Website: http://www.melanieschnell.com

Research interests

Creative writing, Fiction, War literature. 

Garry Sherbert

Associate 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

Office: AH 314
E-mail: Michael.Trussler@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4315
Fax: 306-585-5429