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Faculty Research Interests
FACULTY
Katherine Acheson, PhD, is a specialist in English Renaissance literature, especially of the seventeenth-century. She has published articles on Milton, Shakespeare, Anne Clifford, women's closet drama and the marketing of Renaissance play-texts, and she is the editor of The Diary of Anne Clifford, 1616-1619. A new edition of Clifford's diary and memoir of 1603 is forthcoming from Broadview Press in their Literary Texts series. Her present research is toward a book entitled Early Modern Multimedia: Visual and Verbal Rhetoric in Seventeenth-Century England. She teaches graduate courses on various topics, including early modern literature and culture, literary theory, editorial practice, and the production of multimedia materials for teaching historical works of literature.
James Downey, PhD, has taught courses in the Romantics, the Victorians, and literary theory, but his principal scholarly interest is the literature of the eighteenth century. For seventeen of the past twenty years he has been a university president where he has attempted to apply his professional skills as a professor of English to academic administration and governance. As a result he has developed an interest in academic discourse and analysis which he hopes to pursue further through his teaching. His range of publication is broad, and includes books and articles on eighteenth-century preaching, the poetry of Thomas Gray, the craft of Laurence Sterne, Canadian humour, university management, and educational reform.
Fraser Easton, BA (Hons) British Columbia, MA, PhD Princeton, specializes in Restoration, eighteenth-century, and early nineteenth-century literature. Dr. Easton is currently pursuing three distinct areas of interdisciplinary literary-historical research: (1) a long-term archival project on early modern plebeian identity, as manifested in newspaper and other reports of disguised women workers from 1660 to 1820, (2) a book-length investigation of political economy, para-colonialism, and the novel from Defoe to Conrad, and (3) studies of Restoration and early eighteenth-century poetics from Dryden to Smart. Graduate courses he has taught include "The Eighteenth-Century Black Atlantic," "Libertine Theatre, 1600-1720," "Sexual Fiction, 1660-1800," "The Sexual Politics of Race," and "History Before and After Foucault." He has articles published or forthcoming in such journals as Eighteenth-Century Life, Genre, Journal x, Past and Present, Studies in Romanticism, and Textual Practice, and he is a contributor to Encyclopedia of the Novel and Christopher Smart and the Enlightenment. His article on "Cosmopolitical Economy: Exchangeable Value and National Development in Adam Smith and Maria Edgeworth" is forthcoming in Studies in Romanticism. Professor Easton is Associate Chair and Undergraduate and Co-op Officer for 2002-2003. He is on leave from July to December, 2003.
Danine
Farquharson, PhD, specializes in 20th Century British and Irish
literature. Her research focuses on Irish political history, violence
and writing, and the relationship between nationalism and literature.
Recent work has been published in The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies
and Writing Ulster, with forthcoming publications in Wild Colonial
Girl: Essays on Edna O'Brien and Probing the Boundaries: Prison
Writing. She now works as Literature Editor for The Canadian Journal
of Irish Studies.
Stanley Fogel, PhD, is the author of A Tale of Two Countries: Contemporary Fiction in English Canada and the United States and The Postmodern University: Essays on the Deconstruction of the Humanities. He has co-authored Changing Identities: Reading and Writing Ourselves with Lynette Thoman and, with Gordon Slethaug, Understanding John Barth. In addition he has published in such journals as Queen's Quarterly, The Dalhousie Review, and Modern Fiction Studies. His interests are contemporary critical theory and contemporary fiction.
David Goodwin, PhD, specializes in the history and theory of rhetoric and the analysis of non-literary texts. He has published in Dalhousie Review, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, The Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, Argument and Advocacy, Informal Logic, Rhetorica, and Rhetoric Review, and has published in the Proceedings in The Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric and the Carleton Centre for Rhetorical Studies. Dr. Goodwin is on sabbatical until the end of August, 2003.
Kenneth Graham, BA Alberta, MA Toronto, PhD California (Berkeley), specializes in English Renaissance literature, especially Shakespeare, poetry, and non-fiction prose. His research concentrates on early modern religious culture and on the rhetorical culture of Renaissance humanism. He is the author of The Performance of Conviction: Plainness and Rhetoric in the Early English Renaissance (Cornell UP, 1994) and has published essays and reviews in Reinventing the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1998), Shakespeare Quarterly, Style, The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance and Reformation, Sixteenth Century Journal, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, and Modern Philology. He is currently at work on a book on the relationship between the history of Reformed church discipline and the development of Renaissance poetry.
Randy Harris, BA (Hons) Queens, MA Dalhousie, MSc Alberta, MS, and PhD Rensselaer, specializes in rhetoric, especially rhetoric of science; in linguistics; and in professional communication, especially document design, usability testing, and interface design (graphic and voice). He is the author of Acoustic Dimensions of Functor Comprehension in Broca's Aphasia (1988), and The Linguistic Wars (1993), editor of Landmark Essays in Rhetoric of Science (1997); and co-editor of the Special Issue on Technical Communication in Canada of The Journal of Technical Writing and Communication (1995), and The Special Issue on Rhetoric of Science in Canada of Technostyle (1999). He is currently editing Rhetoric and Incommensurability, and writing Voice Interface Design.
Shelley Hulan, PhD (University of Western Ontario) teaches Canadian literature, specializing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her areas of interest include the discourses of memory and the emotions in Confederation and Modern Canadian writing. Publications: "Amelia Paget's The People of the Plains: Imperialist and Ethnocritical Nostalgia," forthcoming in the Journal of Canadian Studies.
Victoria Lamont, BA Alberta, MA Guelph, PhD Alberta, specializes in 19th- and early-20th century American literature and culture, particularly representations of the American West and American women's writing. She has published articles in The Canadian Review of American Studies, a/b Auto/Biography Studies, Western American Literature, Updating the Literary West, American Women Prose Writers, and New Western Literature: the Many Faces of Owen Wister's The Virginian. She is also the author of the introduction to The Rustler, a recently recovered early-20th century women's western. Lamont is a recipient of the Don D. Walker Award for best published essay in Western American Literary Studies.
Kate
Lawson, PhD (Toronto) specializes in nineteenth-century British
literature, especially fiction. Her research interests include psychoanalytic
and feminist approaches to literature. She is co-author of The Marked
Body: Domestic Violence in Mid-Nineteenth Century Literature (SUNY
Press 2002) and has published articles in SEL: Studies in English Literature,
Victorian Review, Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, ELN:
English Language Notes, English Studies in Canada and Brontë
Society Transactions. She is also interested in the journals and fiction
of L. M. Montgomery and has published articles on her work in Children's
Literature, Canadian Children's Literature, and Gothic Studies.
Michael MacDonald, BA (Hons), MA Program, British Columbia, MA, PhD, Berkeley, specializes in the history and theory of rhetoric and literary criticism. His reviews and articles in the fields of rhetoric, philosophy, and literary theory have appeared in Philosophy Today, SubStance, Review of Comparative Literature, Rhetorica, Studies in the Literary Imagination, The Canadian Journal of Rhetorical Studies, Review of Communication, Between Freedom and Terror: Fiction and Politics (forthcoming, Stanford UP), and elsewhere. He is currently nearing completion of a book-length study of the rivalry between sophistry and philosophy from Kant to the present.
Murray McArthur, BA Manitoba, MA, PhD Western Ontario, specializes in Modern British Literature and Critical Theory. He is the author of Stolen Writings: Blake's "Milton," Joyce's "Ulysses," and the Nature of Influence (1988). He is the editor of Contest: Essays by Canadian Students (Third edition, 1998) and co-author of The Little, Brown Compact Handbook (First Canadian Edition, 1997) and The Little, Brown Handbook (Second Canadian Edition, 1998). He has published articles in ELH, American Literature, Recherches semiotiques/Semiotic Inquiry, Images of Joyce, Reading Derrida Reading Joyce, "Ulysses" Hypertext, The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Criticism and Theory, as well as several articles in the James Joyce Quarterly. He is currently at work on a book on T.S. Eliot and Jacques Lacan. Dr. McArthur currently serves as Chair of the Department.
Ted McGee, PhD, specializes in Renaissance dramatic literature. Besides Shakespeare, he regularly teaches courses on Canadian Drama and Canadian Children's Literature. His work on Renaissance entertainments has appeared in the Records of Early English Drama Newsletter, Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama, English Literary Renaissance, Renaissance Studies, and Renaissance Drama. He is co-editor of the Records of Early English Drama: Dorset; a contributor to The Complete Works of Thomas Middleton, ed. Gary Taylor, forthcoming from OUP; an associate director of the Waterloo Conference on Elizabethan Theatre; a member of The Board of the Stratford Festival; and Associate Professor of English at St. Jerome's University.
Kevin McGuirk, Ph.D. teaches American literature and contemporary poetry. He has published in journals such as Contemporary Literature, Cultural Critique, and Postmodern Culture. He was a Fulbright fellow at Cornell University in 2002-2003.
Andrew McMurry, BSc (Hons) Wilfrid Laurier, MA Waterloo, PhD Indiana, specializes in new media theory and design, American literature, and environmental discourse. He is the author of Environmental Renaissance: Emerson, Thoreau, and the American System of Nature (2003).
John North, PhD, specializes in Victorian literature, children's literature, bibliogra-phy, and the Bible. He has edited The English Quarterly, five volumes of The Pascal Lectures on Christianity, including Malcolm Muggeridge's The End of Christendom, Donald MacKay's Science and the Quest for Meaning, Charles Malik's A Christian Critique of the University, Josef Pieper's What is a Feast? and Margaret Avison's A Kind of Perseverance. He has co-edited Computing in the Humanities as well as Vital Candle: Victorian and Modern Bearings in the Poetry of G.M. Hopkins, and The Waterloo Directory of Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900. He has written the opening chapter of the MLA's Victorian Periodicals; A Study Guide, and published The Waterloo Directory of Irish Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900 (1986), The Waterloo Directory of Scottish Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900, 2 vols. (1989) and The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900 (10 vols. on CD-ROM, 1994; Print 1997; web, 2000). He is also preparing for publication The Papers of the Metaphysical Society, 1869-1880.
Neil Randall specializes in rhetorical and semiotic theories and practices of the design of computer interfaces and multimedia texts, as well as rhetorical principles surrounding the reception and understanding of technological concepts and issues. He is a contributing editor and technology writer for PC Magazine, the leading computer magazine in North America, and has written extensively for most other major computer magazines since 1984. He has authored or co-authored eight computer books about Internet technologies and is currently under contract for a book about peer-to-peer technologies. His graduate courses typically combine theorization, critique, and design/redesign of interfaces or multimedia texts, with others offering methods and techniques for analyzing the articulation of computing concepts in the media. Dr. Randall is on sabbatical until the end of June 2003.
Catherine Schryer, PhD, specializes in professional writing, composition and rhetoric, and genre theory. She is especially interested in qualitative research techniques as well as genre research and the development of on-line courses. Dr. Schryer has published in such journals as Written Communication, Textual Studies in Canada, Technostyle, Journal of Advanced Composition, Journal of Business and Technical Communication, and Social Science and Medicine. She also has an interest in writing across the curriculum and together with Laurence Steven has published Contextual Literacy: Writing Across the Curriculum and Towards Writing Across the Curriculum. She is presently engaged in several collaborative, SSHRC funded projects constructing case studies that investigate discourse in medical settings and online learning in professional contexts. She recently received the National Council of Teachers of English award (2001) for Best Article Reporting Qualitative or Quantitative Research in Technical or Scientific Communication.
Heather Smyth, BA (Hons) Queen's, MA Guelph, PhD Alberta, specializes in postcolonial literature and theory, with particular interests in Caribbean literature, Canadian multiculturalism, postcolonial feminisms, and postcolonial queer theory. Her work appears in Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, ARIEL: a Review of International English Literature, Studies in Canadian Literature, Topia: A Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, and Sex and Sexuality in Early America. She is currently working on a book about the relationship between Caribbean women writers and theories of difference and creolization.
Glenn Stillar, PhD, specializes in discourse analysis, Burkean criticism, and social theory. He is especially interested in theories which investigate multi-model semiosis in its social context and emphasize its role in the shaping of ideologies. He has published a book called Analyzing Everyday Texts: Discourse, Rhetoric, and Social Perspectives with Sage Publications. He has published articles in journals such as Language and Style and Social Semiotics.
Sarah Tolmie is a medievalist with an MA from the Centre for Medieval Studies at U of T and a PhD from Cambridge (1998). After writing a dissertation on royalist historiography, and lecturing for two years in the departments of English and History and Literature at Harvard, she is now writing a book on the fifteenth-century poet and civil servant Thomas Hoccleve.
Linda Warley, BA, MA Guelph, PhD Alberta, specializes in 20th-century Canadian literature. Her research focuses on Canadian autobiography, Indigenous literatures, and the theoretical contributions postcolonial studies and cultural geography can make to readings of Canadian texts. Two recent articles (both co-authored with Renée Hulan) have been published in Creating Community: A Roundtable on Canadian Aboriginal Literature and the Journal of Canadian Studies. Other articles appear in Painting the Maple: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Construction of Canada, and the journals Canadian Literature, Essays on Canadian Writing, Kunapipi, Open Letter, and a/b: Auto/Biography Studies. She is a member of the editorial board of Studies in Canadian Literature and co-edited a special issue titled "Writing Canadian Space/Ecrire l'éspace canadienne" in 1998. Dr. Warley serves as Associate Chair and Graduate Officer until the end of June 2003.
ADJUNCT APPOINTMENTS
Brenda Cantar, PhD, specializes in the prose and poetry of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and theories of gender. Her research combines these interests, as well as utilizing the methodologies of "new historicism" in investigating the politics of gender in early modern romance narratives. Her modernized, critical edition of Robert Greene's romance, Menaphon: Camilla's Alarm to the Slumbering Euphues in his Melancholy Cell at Silexedra (1589) was published in 1996 in the Barnabe Riche Society Series. She has published articles on Bronwen Wallace, Sir Philip Sidney, Thomas Lodge and Robert Greene, has given papers on Spenser, Shakespeare, Nashe, Sidney and Lodge, and is presently engaged in research that investigates the rhetorical strategies employed by women writers of romance in the seventeenth century.
Roman Dubinski, PhD, specializes in seventeenth-century literature. He has published a critical edition of Alexander Brome: Poems, A Bibliography of English Religious Poetry 1475-1640 and articles and reviews in Christianity & Literature, English Quarterly, English Studies in Canada, and Renaissance and Reformation.
Rota Lister, PhD, specializes in dramatic literature and criticism, particularly in Jacobean and Canadian drama, and in Women's Studies and Feminist Criticism. She has published A Critical Edition of John Fletcher's Comedy `The Wild-Goose Chase' and is the founding editor of the bilingual journal Canadian Drama/L'Art dramatique canadien. She is the editor of the first comprehensive anthology of Canadian women writers. Her articles and reviews have appeared in Canadian Literature, English Studies in Canada, The American Review of Canadian Studies, The English Quarterly, World Literature Written in English, Canadian Drama, Scene Changes, Canadian Issues, Resources for Feminist Research, Textual Studies in Canada, Theatre History in Canada/Histoire du Theatre au Canada, The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, and elsewhere. She is a contributor to The Canadian Encyclopedia, The Oxford Companion to Canadian Theatre and Gynocritics/La Gynocritique and has presented numerous conference papers on her research in many North American locations.
Harry Logan, specializes in linguistics and Middle English. He has published The Dialect of the Life of St. Katherine and articles on linguistics in the Canadian Journal of Linguistics, Humanities Association Bulletin, Language and Style, Computers in the Humanities, Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing Journal, International Conference on Computers and the Humanities, Mythlore, Canadian Drama, Computing Reviews, and Dictionaries. He is currently working on a study of the History of New Words in connection with the second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary and a discourse analysis of Chaucer's poetry. He has also produced with Neil Hultin the First Canadian Edition of Fromkin & Rodman's An Introduction to Languages.
William Macnaughton, PhD, specializes in nineteenth-century and twentieth-century American literature. His articles have appeared in such journals as Mark Twain Journal, Modern Fiction Studies, The Canadian Review of American Studies, Studies in American Fiction, American Notes and Queries, Studies in the Novel, American Literary Realism, and Henry James Review. He has contributed to a festschrift called Literature and Ideas in America. He has also published books entitled Mark Twain's Last Years as a Writer and Henry James: The Later Novels and edited a collection of essays entitled Critical Essays on John Updike.
Lynne Magnusson, PhD, has published on Shakespeare's language, early modern women's writing, the genre of the letter, and discourse analysis. She is the author of Shakespeare and Social Dialogue: Dramatic Language and Elizabethan Letters (1999), a co-author and coeditor of Reading Shakespeare's Dramatic Language (2001), and a coeditor of The Elizabethan Theatre, volumes XI to XV. Currently she is working on a book on early modern women's letters and an edition of Love's Labour's Lost.
Gordon Slethaug, PhD, specializes in contemporary American literature and film, American Studies and cultural studies, Native American fiction, and pedagogy. He has recently published articles in English Studies in Canada, Canadian Literature, Studies in American Indian Literatures, Journal of American Studies, American Drama, Literature/Film Quarterly, and Literature and Aesthetics. He is the sole author of Beautiful Chaos and The Play of the Double in Postmodern American Ficton and co-author, with Stanley Fogel, of Understanding John Barth. He is currently at work on studies of American realism and American road culture.