Faculty

Dwayne Avery

Associate Professor

  • Director, Diploma in Stage and Screen Technique

Research Interests

Media Studies, Film Studies, Urban Media and Cultures, Motherhood Studies

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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

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Bradley Clissold

Full Professor

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);

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Joel Deshaye

Full Professor

Research Interests

Canadian literature, especially fiction and poetry; metaphor; celebrity; film; genre

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Danine Farquharson

Full Professor

Research Interests

Irish literature, 20th and 21st Century British literature, energy humanities, literary theory, postcolonial studies

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John A. Geck

Associate Professor and Graduate Officer

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)

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Ágnes Juhász-Ormsby

Associate Professor

Research Interests

Early Modern English Literature (poetry and drama), Book History and Print Culture, Neo-Latin Literature

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Valerie Legge

Full Professor

Research Interests

Canadian Literature, Women's Literature, Critical Theory, Aboriginal Studies, Travel Literature

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Christopher Lockett

Associate Professor

Research Interests

Postwar American literature and culture; film, media, and popular culture; fantasy and science fiction

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Jennifer Lokash

Associate Professor 

Research Interests

British Romantic Literature, Literature and Environment, Literature and Medicine, The Gothic, Posthumanism

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Andrew Loman

Associate Professor

Research Interests

Nineteenth Century American Literature, Comics Studies, Popular Culture

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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

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Robert Ormsby

Associate Professor

Research Interests

Shakespeare, Shakespeare in Performance, Theatre History

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Nancy Pedri

Full Professor and Department Head

Research Interests

Image-Word Relations, Photography in Fiction, Comics, Graphic Memoir

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Fiona Polack

Full Professor

Research Interests

Petrocultures and Energy Humanities, Island and Ocean Studies, Settler Colonialism, Newfoundland and Labrador Literary and Cultural Studies, Australian Literature

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Michelle Porter

Assistant Professor

Research Interests

Arts-based Research, Métis Studies, Geographies of Home, Creative Writing  

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William Schipper

Full Professor

Research Interests

Old English; Carolingian studies; Biblical commentaries; Hrabanus Maurus

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Jamie Skidmore

  • Full Professor

Research Interests

Theatre, Drama, Newfoundland Theatre, Puppetry

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Annette Staveley

Full Professor

Research Interests

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century British Literature, Comedy, Gender and Comedy, Shakespeare

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Sarah Thorne

Associate Professor

Research Interests

Critical Media Theory, Game Studies, Narrative, New Media, Digital Humanities

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Aaron Tucker

Assistant Professor

Research Interests

Media Studies, Artificial Intelligence, Facial Recognition Technologies, Film Studies 
Creative Writing: Fiction, Creative Writing: Poetry

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