Faculty
Dwayne Avery
Associate Professor
- Director, Diploma in Stage and Screen Technique
- Office: AA 3034
- Telephone: (709) 864-8928
- Email: davery@mun.ca
- Website: https://dwayneaveryblog.wordpress.com/
Research Interests
Media Studies, Film Studies, Urban Media and Cultures, Motherhood Studies
Caitlin Charman
Assistant Professor
- Office: AA 3040
- Telephone: (709) 864-8290
- Email: ccharman@mun.ca
Research Interests
Newfoundland and Labrador literature; Atlantic Canadian literature; Canadian literature; Ocean Studies; Energy Humanities and Petrocultures; Environmental Writing and Theory; Cultural Geography and Place Studies; Regionalism; Heritage and Tourism Studies; Public Policy; Food
Bradley Clissold
Full Professor
- Office: AA 3041
- Telephone: (709) 864-8276
- Email: bradleyc@mun.ca
Research Interests
Twentieth-Century Literature (Modernism and Postmodernism, esp. British and American); Literary and Cultural Theory; Cinema and Popular Culture Studies; Adaptation Practices and Reception Aesthetics; Materialist Close Readings of Objecthood (postcards, bowling, slumming, taboo drug cultures, phantom limb, parallax, ekphrasis);
Joel Deshaye
Full Professor
- Office: AA 3031
- Telephone: (709) 864-8983
- Email: jdeshaye@mun.ca
- Website: https://www.mun.ca/english/jdeshaye/
Research Interests
Canadian literature, especially fiction and poetry; metaphor; celebrity; film; genre
Chinelo Ezenwa
Assistant Professor
- Office: AA 3006
- Telephone: (709) 864-8052
- Email: cezenwa@mun.ca
Research Interests
African, Black, and Caribbean Studies, Decolonial and Postcolonial Studies, 19th Century British Literature, Community and Cultural Studies, Black Music, Folklore, and Contemporary Films, English Language Teaching
Danine Farquharson
Full Professor
- Office: AA 3038
- Telephone: (709) 864.2448
- Email: daninef@mun.ca
- Website: https://www.mun.ca/english/daninef/
Research Interests
Irish literature, 20th and 21st Century British literature, energy humanities, literary theory, postcolonial studies
John A. Geck
Associate Professor and Graduate Officer
- Office: AA 3032
- Telephone: (709) 864-8058
- Email: jgeck@mun.ca
- Website: https://www.morrois.net
Research Interests
- Medieval literary transmissions of high to low culture (romance, drama, hagiography)
- Medievalist transmissions of medieval to modern (literature and film)
- Historical and documentary contexts of late medieval English drama and public performance
- Textual criticism and editing
- Medieval literary place and space; travel, trade, and other intercultural and interreligious contact; historical geographic information systems (GIS)
Ágnes Juhász-Ormsby
Associate Professor
- Office: AA 3012
- Telephone: (709) 864-6899
- Email: ajormsby@mun.ca
Research Interests
Early Modern English Literature (poetry and drama), Book History and Print Culture, Neo-Latin Literature
Valerie Legge
Full Professor
- Office: AA 3023
- Telephone: (709) 864 8592
- Email: valerie@mun.ca
- Website: https://www.mun.ca/english/valerie/
Research Interests
Canadian Literature, Women's Literature, Critical Theory, Aboriginal Studies, Travel Literature
Christopher Lockett
Associate Professor
- Office: AA 3044
- Telephone: (709) 864-7699
- Email: clockett@mun.ca
Research Interests
Postwar American literature and culture; film, media, and popular culture; fantasy and science fiction
Jennifer Lokash
Associate Professor
- Office: AA 3013
- Telephone: (709) 864-8064
- Email: jlokash@mun.ca
Research Interests
British Romantic Literature, Literature and Environment, Literature and Medicine, The Gothic, Posthumanism
Andrew Loman
Associate Professor
- Office: AA 3036
- Telephone: (709) 864-8293
- Email: aloman@mun.ca
- Website: https://www.mun.ca/faculty/aloman/
Research Interests
Nineteenth Century American Literature, Comics Studies, Popular Culture
Lisa Moore
Full Professor
- Office: AA 3021
- Telephone: (709) 864-8296
- Email: lisam@mun.ca
Research Interests
Writing fiction, creative non-fiction, art criticism, stage plays, and collectively written dramatic podcasts
Robert Ormsby
Associate Professor
- Office: AA 3010
- Telephone: (709) 864-8275
- Email: rormsby@mun.ca
Research Interests
Shakespeare, Shakespeare in Performance, Theatre History
Nancy Pedri
Full Professor and Department Head
- Office: AA 3042
- Telephone: (709) 864-8067
- Email: npedri@mun.ca
- Website: https://www.mun.ca/english/npedri/
Research Interests
Image-Word Relations, Photography in Fiction, Comics, Graphic Memoir
Fiona Polack
Full Professor
- Office: AA 3024
- Telephone: (709) 864-8055
- Email: fpolack@mun.ca
- Website: https://www.mun.ca/english/fpolack/
Research Interests
Petrocultures and Energy Humanities, Island and Ocean Studies, Settler Colonialism, Newfoundland and Labrador Literary and Cultural Studies, Australian Literature
Michelle Porter
Assistant Professor
- Office: AA 3007
- Telephone: 709-864-8298
- Email: michelleporter@mun.ca
Research Interests
Arts-based Research, Métis Studies, Geographies of Home, Creative Writing
William Schipper
Full Professor
- Office: AA 3027C
- Telephone: (709) 864-4406
- Email: schipper@mun.ca
Research Interests
Old English; Carolingian studies; Biblical commentaries; Hrabanus Maurus
Jamie Skidmore
- Full Professor
- Office: AA-3027B
- Telephone: (709) 864-8404
- Email: skidmore@mun.ca
- Websites:
- http://skidmore2.wixsite.com/isleauxmortstheatre
- http://skidmore2.wixsite.com/under-the-bridge
Research Interests
Theatre, Drama, Newfoundland Theatre, Puppetry
Annette Staveley
Full Professor
- Office: AA 3008
- Telephone: (709) 864-8279
- Email: astaveley@mun.ca
Research Interests
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century British Literature, Comedy, Gender and Comedy, Shakespeare
Sarah Thorne
Associate Professor
- Office: AA 3009
- Telephone: (709) 864-8289
- Email: sthorne@mun.ca
Research Interests
Critical Media Theory, Game Studies, Narrative, New Media, Digital Humanities
Aaron Tucker
Assistant Professor
- Office: AA 3029
- Telephone: 709-864-8060
- Email: aaron.tucker@mun.ca
Research Interests
Media Studies, Artificial Intelligence, Facial Recognition Technologies, Film Studies
Creative Writing: Fiction, Creative Writing: Poetry