Jesse Archibald-Barber

Professor, First Nations University of Canada
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

Current classes
Winter 2023: ENGL 440AO/808AO

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): they/them
Website: https://jbattis.com/

Current classes
Winter 2023: ENGL-003; ENGL 252

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

Current classes
Winter 2023: ENGL 310AC; ENGL 310AH

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

Current classes
Winter 2023: ENGL 212; ENGL 387AF

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
Winter 2023: ENGL 100-013; ENGL 110-990

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

Current classes
Winter 2023: ENGL 152; ENGL 301

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
Winter 2023: ENGL 110-002; ENGL 110-006; ENGL 251-001

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

Susan Johnston

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
Winter 2023: ENGL 100-010

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; 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
Winter 2023: ENGL 335AA

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

Current classes
Winter 2023: ENGL 221; ENGL 465CA/813CA

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
Winter 2023: ENGL 110-003

Research interests

• Writing Pedagogy
• Creative Writing
• Fiction
• War Literature
• The lives of trees
• Mental illness narratives

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
Winter 2023: ENGL 100-007; ENGL 480AI/817AI

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
Pronoun(s): He/Him

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

Charity Redding

Adminstrative Assistant

Office: AH 313
E-mail: charity.redding@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4310