Faculty

André Magnan
Department Head of English; Professor, Department of Sociology
PhD (University of Toronto); MA (University of Regina); BSc Honours (University of Saskatchewan)
Office: AH 312
E-mail: head.english@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4427
Pronoun(s): he/him
Research interests
- Sociology of agri-food systems
- Financialization
- Agrarian change

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
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
On Sabbatical
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
Current classes
Fall 2023: ENGL 100-007; ENGL 445AJ - 809AJ
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
Associate 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
Fall 2023: ENGL 277AA; ENGL 387AK
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
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
Fall 2023: ENGL 100-003; 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

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

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
Current classes
Fall 2023: ENGL 100-006; ENGL 384AJ
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
Fall 2023: ENGL 100-011; ENGL 252-001
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
Fall 2023: ENGL 100-008; ENGL 485CA-820CA
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
Fall 2023: ENGL 328AC; ENGL 399
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
Current classes
Fall 2023: ENGL 100-009; ENGL 339AB
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
Staff

English Dept.
Office: AH 313
E-mail: english.dept@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4310