Joel Baetz
Associate Professor and Chair, English
B.A., M.A. (McGill), Ph.D. (York)
Durham Campus, OSH 158, ext. 5074
Peterborough Campus, WH 122 ext. 7732
joelbaetz@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Canadian literature, comics, urban studies, and poetry
Joel Baetz in the News: Professor Baetz welcomes Oscar-Nominated Director, Hubert Davis - The Symons Award for Excellence in Teaching - OUSA Award for Excellence in Teaching
Jan Anderson
Assistant Professor, English
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (York)
Traill College, Wallis Hall 125, ext. 7703, jananderson@trentu.ca
Research Interests:
Suzanne Bailey
Professor, English
Director, M.A. English Literature (Public Texts)
B.A. (Queen's), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)
Traill College, Wallis Hall 119, ext. 6093, sjbailey@trentu.ca
Research Interests: women’s writing, North-American and postcolonial; travel writing; visual arts, including printmaking and book illustration; nineteenth-century Canadian writing; Victorian literature; literature and science; literary theory; aging and the life course.
Rita Bode
Professor, English
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)
Durham Campus, OSH 155, ext. 5002, rbode@trentu.ca
Research Interests: 19th- and early 20th-century British and American; 19th-century American women writers, and transatlantic studies; early 20th-century Canadian.
Rita Bode in the News: Q & A with Jean Mitchell and Rita Bode, Editors of L.M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature(s)
Stephen Brown
Professor, English & Director, Theatre Emphasis Program
B.A., M.A. (Windsor), B.A., Ph.D. (Queen's), F.S.A. (Scot)
Champlain College K2, ext. 7421, swbrown@trentu.ca
Affiliated Fellow of the Centre for the History of the Book,University of Edinburgh
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
3M National Teaching Fellow
Honorary Lifetime Fellow of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Recipient of a CILIP Besterman McColvin Print Award (2012)
The Symons Award for Excellence in Teaching
Emily Bruusgaard
Assistant Professor, English
B.A. (Waterloo), M.A. (Trent), Ph.D. (Queen's)
Trail College, Wallis Hall 118, ext. TBA, emilybruusgaard@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Canadian and Indigenous literatures; material culture and narratives of domestic production, needlework and textiles; mental illness and generational trauma; intersections of fat, disability, and aging studies, and the production of white femininities. Martha Ostenso; Laura Goodman Salverson; Sara Jeannette Duncan; Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Kathryn Chittick
Professor, English
B.A., M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Edinburgh)
Traill College, Wallis Hall 121, ext. 6028, kchittick@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Poetic Metre; Romantic literature; Old English/Middle English studies 1760-1880; Eighteenth-century literature. Authors: Walter Scott, George Gordon Byron, William Cobbett, William Hazlitt, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Henry James, W.H. Auden, Wallace Stevens. I teach a range of courses, including Milton, Eighteenth-century poetry and prose, Romantic poetry and prose, the history of the novel, and modern poetry.
Kathryn Chittick in the News: The Symons Award for Excellence in Teaching
Sally Chivers-Storey
Professor, English Department and Gender & Social Studies Department
B.A. (Calgary), Ph.D. (McGill)
Lady Eaton College S112, ext. 7950, sallychivers@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Disability and Age Studies. Health Humanities. Digital Storytelling for Social Change
Sally Chivers in the News: Trent University in Peterborough Honours Dr. Sally Chivers with Distinguished Research Award
Charmaine Eddy
Associate Professor, English
M.A. (Western Ontario), Ph.D. (Toronto)
Champlain College S403, (705) 748-1011 ext. 7398, ceddy@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Modern and contemporary American fiction; Black American fiction; critical race theory; new materialisms and object-oriented ontology; William Faulkner; Toni Morrison
Hugh Hodges
Chair, Cultural Studies
Professor, English and Cultural Studies
Graduate Faculty, M.A. English Literature (Public Texts),
PhD Cultural Studies
B.A. (Queen's), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)
Traill College, Scott House 212 ext. 7733, hughhodges@trentu.ca
Research Interests: African; West Indian; Black British and South Asian Literature; Oral Traditions and popular music; Postcolonial theory
Hugh Hodges in the News: Professor Hodges provides insight into the humanities
Ihor Junyk
Associate Professor, Cultural Studies and English
Director, Journalism & Creative Writing Program, Durham-GTA
B.A. Hons. (U.W.O.), M.A (Queen’s), Ph.D (University of Chicago)
Traill College, Scott House 204, ext. 6052, ihorjunyk@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Modernism and the avant-garde; war, trauma, memory (particularly in Ukraine); exile, displacement, diaspora; creative writing; visual culture; popular music
George Kovacs
Associate Professor, Ancient Greek and Roman Studies & Director, Classics Drama Group
B.A. (Trent), M.A. (Memorial), Ph.D. (Toronto)
Lady Eaton College, S106, ext. 7355, gakovacs@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Greek poetry of the Archaic and Classical periods with special interests in Greek and Roman drama and stagecraft and in the reception of Greek myth in modern popular culture.
Aaron Kreuter
Assistant Professor, English
B.A. (Concordia); M.A. (University of Victoria), Ph.D. (York University)
Research Interests: Creative writing; world literature; settler colonial
fiction; Jewish fiction; Israel/Palestine studies; eco-fiction.
Andrew Loeb
Assistant Professor, English
B.A., M.A. (McMaster), Ph.D. (Ottawa)
Traill College 124, ext. 7168, andrewloeb@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Early modern drama; music theory and practice; cognitive literary studies; theatre history; gender and sexuality; witchcraft; audience studies; subjectivity
Lewis MacLeod
Professor, English
B.A. (Windsor), M.A. (McMaster), Ph.D. (Memorial)
Traill College, Wallis Hall 123, ext. 6022, lewismacleod@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Modern and postmodern British literature; postcolonialism; narratology
Lewis MacLeod in the News:Dr. MacLeod welcomes some of Canada's top authors to Peterborough
Kelly McGuire
Associate Professor, English and Gender & Social Justice
Director, Gender and Women's Studies
B.A. (Queen’s); M.A. (Western); Ph.D. (Western)
Lady Eaton College, N130.1 ext. 7574, kellymcguire@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Health Humanities and the cultural representation of disease; gender, social justice, and public health; 18th-century world literature; literary theory; cultural history; feminist studies and women's writing
Amanda Paxton
Assistant Professor, English
B.A. (Toronto), M.A., Ph.D. (York)
Durham Campus A165, amandapaxton@trentu.ca
Research Interests:
Concetta Principe
Assistant Professor
B.A. (Trent), M.A. (Concordia), M.A., Ph.D. (York)
Durham-GTA Campus, Oshawa, Room 156 ext. 5025, cprincipe@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Comparative Literature (biblical studies and twentieth-century genres, including science fiction); Modernist and Postmodernist poetry and fiction; Canadian Literature; experimental genres; Trauma Literature; Creative Writing; Postcolonial Studies and Diaspora Literature.
Rob Winger
Associate Professor, English
Coordinator, Creative Writing Option
B.A. (Mount Allison), B.Ed (Ottawa), M.A. (Guelph), PhD (Carleton)
Traill College, Wallis Hall 120 Ext. 7484, Email: robwinger@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Canadian Literature & Culture, Creative Writing, Creative Critique, Contemporary & 20th-century Poetry and Fiction
Rob Winger in the News: Celebrating Dr. Winger's New Book of Poetry