Faculty Listing

Susan Johnston

Department Head; Associate Professor
PhD (McGill University); MA (University of Hull); BA (McGill University)

Office: AH 312
E-mail: Susan.Johnston@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4672
Website: https://www.uregina.ca/arts/english/faculty-staff/faculty/1-johnston-susan-.html

Current classes
ENGL 386AK

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).

Jesse Archibald-Barber

Professor, First Nations University of Canada (On Sabbatical)
PhD (Univeristy of Toronto); MA (University of Toronto); BA (University of Victoria)

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

Associate Professor
PhD (Simon Fraser University); MA (Simon Fraser University); BA (University of the Fraser Valley)

Office: AH 366
E-mail: Jes.Battis@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5616
Pronoun(s): (he/they)
Website: https://jbattis.com/

Current classes
ENGL 211 Lit. Survey I and ENGL 252 Creative Writing I

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
Website: https://www.luthercollege.edu/university/academics/faculty-profiles/noel-chevalier

Michelle Coupal

Associate Professor; Canada Research Chair in Truth, Reconciliation, and Indigenous Literatures
PhD (Western University); MA (University of Waterloo); BEd (Western University); BA (University of Waterloo)

Office: AH 361
E-mail: Michelle.Coupal@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5068

Research interests

  • Indigenous Literatures of Turtle Island
  • Residential School Literatures
  • Teaching Indigenous Literatures, Truth and Reconciliation Studies
  • Indigenous Film
  • Canadian Literature

Marcel DeCoste

Professor
PhD (McGill University); MA (York University); BA (University of Toronto)

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

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
PhD (York University); MA (McMaster University); BA (Queen's University)

Office: AH 357
E-mail: Jason.demers@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4465

Current classes
ENGL 100-015

Research interests

  • Prison Writing
  • American Literature and Culture since 1945
  • Poststructuralist Theory
  • Cultural Studies (The Birmingham School)
  • Underground and Alternative Presses
  • The Literature of Social Movements
  • Law and Narrative
  • Social and Political Thought

 

Troni Grande

Associate Professor
PhD (University of Alberta); MA (Queen's University); BA Hons (Queen's University)

Office: CL 436.2; AH 353
E-mail: troni.grande@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4570
Pronoun(s): she/her

Current classes
ENGL 110-991 The Initiation Story and ENGL 303 Milton

Research interests

  • Creative Nonfiction
  • Shakespeare and Early-Modern Drama
  • Adaptations of Shakespeare
  • 18th-century Drama (she-tragedy)
  • Literary Theory (especially feminism)
  • Genre Studies
  • Editing

Jean Hillabold

Instructor III
MA (University of Regina); BA

Office: AH 369
E-mail: Jean.Hillabold@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4669

Current classes
ENGL 100-009 and ENGL 251 Expository Persuasive Writing

Research interests

  • Writing by Women, particularly Lesbians and African-Americans
  • Erotica
  • Speculative Fiction

Anne James

Adjunct Professor
PhD (University of Alberta); MA (University of Regina); MLS (Western University); BA (University of Victoria)

Office: AH 359
E-mail: anne.james@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4299

Research interests

  • Early Modern British Literature and Culture, focusing particularly on John Donne
  • Plots and Conspiracies
  • Sermon Culture
  • Digital Humanities

 

Dorothy Lane

Professor; Assistant Dean (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)
PhD (University of London); MA (University of Saskatchewan); BA (University of Saskatchewan)

Office: CM 410
E-mail: Alex.MacDonald@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-359-1223
Website: https://campioncollege.ca/resources/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: AH 367
E-mail: Carmen.Mathes@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4790
Website: https://carmenfayemathes.com/

Current classes
ENGL 390 History of Criticism and ENGL 425/805AH Romanticism and Labour

Research interests

  • Romanticism
  • Long-Eighteenth Century British Literature
  • Affect Theory
  • History of Feeling
  • Aesthetics
  • Poetry and Politics

Craig Melhoff

Assistant Professor
PhD (Concordia University); MA (University of Regina); BA Hons. (University of Regina)

Office: AH 320
E-mail: Craig.Melhoff@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4432

Research interests

  • Twentieth-Century British Fiction and Poetry
  • Urban Fiction
  • Spatial Theory
  • Literature and Cognition
  • Subways and City Transit systems in Literature.

      

Medrie Purdham

Associate Professor
PhD (McGill University); MA (University of Toronto); BA

Office: AH 315
E-mail: Medrie.Purdham@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4307

Research interests

  • Prosody
  • Creative Writing
  • Modern to Postmodern Canadian Poetry and Fiction
  • 20th-century Drama

Jan Purnis

Associate Professor (Campion College), Graduate Coordinator
PhD (University of Toronto); MA, BA Hons (University of Guelph)

Office: CM 512
E-mail: jan.purnis@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-359-1261
Fax: 306-359-1200
Website: https://campioncollege.ca/resources/dr-jan-purnis/

Research interests

  • Depictions of Cannibalism
  • Representations of Digestion
  • Early Modern Emotions
  • The Body/Mind Relationship
  • Colonialism
  • Gender
  • Early Modern Medicine
  • Wordplay
  • Shrews
  • Sugar

Christian Riegel

Professor (Campion College)
PhD (University of Alberta); MA (Acadia University); BA Hons (Bishops University)

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

Research interests

  • Canadian Literature
  • Mourning and Memorial in Literature
  • Health Humanities
  • Digital Humanities
  • Holocaust Studies
  • Creative Writing
  • Disability
  • Technology and Culture
  • Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Epistemologies.

Melanie Schnell

Assistant Professor
MFA (University of British Columbia); BEd (University of Regina)

Office: AH 311
E-mail: melanie.schnell@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4429

Current classes
ENGL 352AB Creative Writing: Fiction

Research interests

  • Writing Pedagogy
  • Creative Writing
  • Fiction
  • War Literature

Garry Sherbert

Professor
PhD (University of Alberta); MA (Queen's University); BA

Office: AH 360
E-mail: Garry.Sherbert@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4966

Current classes
ENGL 110-001 and ENGL 315AE Canadian Cultural Studies

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

Research interests

  • Creative Writing
  • American Literature and Culture
  • The Visual Arts
  • Short Stories

Scott J. Wilson

Instructor, Writing Across the Disciplines Coordinator (Luther College)

Office: LC 218
E-mail: scott.j.wilson@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-206-2091
Website: https://www.luthercollege.edu/university/academics/faculty-profiles/scott-wilson/

Research interests

  • Writing Pedagogy
  • Illness Narratives
  • Transgressive Fiction
  • Masculinities
  • Abjection and Consumerism
  • Serial Killers and Wound Culture
  • Popular Culture (including comics, graphic novels, video games, and fan culture)
  • Media Discourse and Rhetoric