The School benefits enormously from the dedicated work of part-time staff who bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the classroom.
Eyitayo Aloh
Sessional Faculty Member, Canadian Studies
Dr. Eyitayo Aloh is a graduate of the Canadian Studies Ph.D program at Trent University, Peterborough. His research focuses on humour and the representation/portrayal of Black/African Canadian Identity in Literature and Popular Culture, and how immigration plays a role in shaping this representation. He is particularly interested in how such representations are problematised in Political satires, humour and comedy productions in the mainstream Canadian media. Dr. Aloh has authored four Children's books, contributed to poetry and prose anthologies and is a regular writer and columnist for New Telegraph Newspaper, Nigeria. His research interest includes Cultural Studies (broadly defined but with a particular focus on Yoruba oral culture), postcolonial studies and its political/socio- cultural interpretations, Masculinity, Media and Communication Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies.
Derek Newman-Stille
Sessional Faculty Member, Canadian Studies: CAST-SOCI-GESO 4551H: Gender & Disability in Canada FA 24
Secretary: Jeannine Crowe, (705) 748-1817
Derek Newman-Stille (they/them) is a disabled, queer, nonbinary, fat femme activist, author, artist, academic, and editor. They teach at Trent University where they are currently completing their PhD examining representations of disability in Canadian speculative fiction. Derek’s research interests include disability studies, Queer theory and LGBTQ2IA studies, digital humanities, arts-based research, and speculative fiction. Derek is the 9 time Aurora Award-winning creator of the digital humanities hub Speculating Canada. They have published in academic fora such as Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, Creative Teamwork: Developing Rapid, Site-Switching Ethnography, The Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, The Canadian Fantastic in Focus, and Misfit Children: An Inquiry into Childhood Belongings. They have also published in the public press in fora such as Quill & Quire, Uncanny Magazine, Nothing Without Us, Accessing the Future, The Playground of Lost Toys, and The Spoonie Authors' Network. Derek's most recent books are Whispers Between Fairies (Renaissance Press, 2020), Over the Rainbow: Folk and Fairy Tales from the Margins (Exile, 2019), and We Shall Be Monsters: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein 200 Years On (Renaissance Press, 2019)
Mike Perry
Sessional Faculty Member, Canadian Studies
Barrister & Solicitor, R.S.W., B.A. (Queen's), LL.B. (Windsor), LL.M. (Duke), M.S.W. (York), Ph.D. (Trent, in progress)
Secretary: Jeannine Crowe, (705) 748-1817
Email: michaelperry@trentu.ca
Research interests: impacts of climate change on modern slavery (human trafficking); Canadian law and social policy especially critical legal studies, anti-oppressive practice, and legal activism; and public leadership for transformative, progressive change
Select Publications:
"'That Happens Up There?' Human Trafficking and Security in the North American Arctic," in Dwayne Menezes and Heather Nicol, eds, 2019. The North American Arctic: New Trends in Regional Security. (London: University College London Press, 2019).
The Law and Governance of Trafficking, Forced Labour and Modern Slavery, by Prabha Kotisawarn, ed. Review. (2008) 82 Labour/Le Travail 304.
"'The Tip of the Iceberg': Human Trafficking, Borders, and the Canada-U.S. North (2018) 42 Canada-U.S. Law Journal 204.
"Lining Up at the Border: Renewing the Call for a Canada-U.S. Insolvency Convention in the 21st Century" (2000) 10:2 Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law 469.
"Beyond Dispute: A Comment on Human Rights Adjudication" (1998) 53:2 Arbitration Law Review 50.
Heather Shpuniarsky
Sessional Faculty Member, Canadian Studies
Email: hshpuniarsky@trentu.ca
David Tough
Sessional Faculty Member, Canadian Studies
B.A. (Trent), M.A. (Trent), Ph.D. (Carleton)
Secretary: Jeannine Crowe, (705) 748-1817
Email: davidgtough@trentu.ca
Research interests:
History of politics, the welfare state, taxation, poverty, and inequality in 20th century Canada; writing instruction; historiography, narrative, memory; political rhetoric and political imaginaries
Publications:
Books:
Who Pays for Canada? Taxes and Fairness, co-edited with Elsbeth Heaman (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020)
The Terrific Engine: Income Taxation and the Modernization of the Canadian Political Imaginary (University of British Columbia Press, 2018)
Journal Articles:
“‘At Last! The Government’s War on Poverty Explained:’ The Special Planning Secretariat, the Welfare State, and the Rhetoric of Poverty in the 1960s” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association Volume 25 #1 2015.
“‘The rich … should give to such an extent that it will hurt’: ‘Conscription of Wealth’ and Political Modernism in the Parliamentary Debate on the 1917 Income War Tax” Canadian Historical Review Volume 93 #3 September 2012.