ARTISS, Phyllis Associate professor
Keywords
• Adult literacy; rhetoric; composition; feminist pedagogy;
collaborative learning
Current research
• Feminist pedagogy in Canada, Indonesia and Pakistan
• Adult literacy and computers
Past research
• Case studies of two students' writing at university
• Analysis of Inuit tales
• Applications of rhetorical theory to women's writing
• Gender issues in the teaching of writing
• The political correctness debate in North American universities
BALISCH, Faith Assistant professor
Keywords
• Canadian literature, 19th - century Canadian humour
and satire; Canadian women's humour
Current research
• History of Canadian humour, from 1752 to present
• Bibliography of Canadian humour, from 1752 to present
• Canadian women humourists
Past research
• Nineteenth century romance in maritime Canada
• Canadian humour from 1752-1912
• Humour in the fiction of Robertson Davies
Potential research
• History of Canadian humour, to present
• The humour of Jessie K. Lawson, May Agnes Flemming and
others
• Canadian literature, emergence from colonialism
BARKER, William Professor
Keywords
• Renaissance literature; books; printing
Current research
• Marginal glosses in Renaissance texts
• Edition of Gabriel Harvey
• The book as a medium of communication
• A Web edition of Alciato's Book of Emblems
• Erasmus' Adages
Past research
• Robert Greene's narratives
• Renaissance portrait books
• Oxford English dictionary
• Social role of the photocopier
• Newfoundland Christmas annuals
• Spenser Encyclopedia
• Edition of Richard Mulcaster
• Abraham Fraunce
BUCHANAN, Roberta Professor
Keywords
• Women writers; autobiography; sixteenth-century Newfoundland
Current research
• An annotated edition of Mina Hubbard's diary of Labrador
Expedition, 1905
• The expedition narrative: gendered perceptions of landscape
• The Labrador expedition diaries of Dillon Wallace and Clifford
H. Easton
Past research
• Biography and an annotated edition of Ulpian Fulwell:
Ars Adulandi or The Art of Flattery
• English women writers in print, 1475 - 1558
• Margaret Duley, Newfoundland novelist
• Women's autobiographical writings, including Margery Kempe;
Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Margaret Cavendish; duchess of Newcastle;
nurse autobiographies; incest autobiographies; autobiographies
of Newfoundland and Labrador women: Lydia Campbell, Margaret Baikie,
and Elizabeth Goudie
• Diaries of Lucy Maud Montgomery
• Journal writing as a means of developing creativity
DALTON, Mary Associate professor
Keywords
• Twentieth-century poetry: British, Anglo-Irish, Newfoundland
Current research
• Enquiry into poetic form via poetic form
• Dialogue novels of I. Compton-Burnett
• Archetypal patterns in the work of Samuel Beckett
• Newfoundland poetry
Past research
• Images in the plays of Samuel Beckett
• The severed-head motif in the work of Samuel Beckett
• Baktinian analysis in the work of I. Compton-Burnett
• Representation of women in the work of Samuel Beckett
• Beothuk motif in Newfoundland literature
• Symbolism of Gerald Squires' Boatman paintings
Potential research
• Irish influences on Newfoundland poetry
• Analysis of Newfoundland poetry
• Samuel Beckett and Johnathan Swift
GARDNER, Philip G. Professor
Keywords
• Twentieth-century; poetry and fiction: Britain and
the United States; E. M. Forster's journals and diaries; T. S.
Eliot and post-war poetry; a critical study of A. E. Houseman's
poetry
Past research
• E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book
• E. M. Forster's Maurice
• A. E. Houseman: The Critical Heritage
Potential research
• Life and works of Constance Holme
• The poetry of Geoffrey Hill
GOLFMAN, Noreen Associate professor
Keywords
• Feminist theory; A. M. Klein; modernity
Research specialty
• Canadian literature
• Film studies
• Literary and feminist theory
Current research
• A social and cultural history of 1953
• Canadian film, two chapters for anthologies of essays on
Canadian cinema
• A. M. Klein and modernity
Past research
• A. M. Klein research and publication committee (textual
and editorial work)
• Film columnist for Canadian Forum magazine
Potential research
• Film genres
• Cultural studies
• Study of cultural production
JONES, Gordon P. Professor
Keywords
• Shakespeare; theatre; reviewing
KROMM, Sandra Assistant professor
Keywords
• Malcolm Lowry; Sherlock Holmes; Joseph Conrad; Barbara
Pym; modern British novel; Newfoundlandia
Research specialty
• Twentieth-century British novel
Current research
• Quest for truth in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
and Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano
Past research
• Landscape and gender in Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano
• The novels of Barbara Pym
• A feminist appraisal of Sherlock Holmes stories
• The Dawe family of Coley's Point
• The political life of Senator Joan Cook
LEGGE, Valerie Associate professor
Keywords
• Women's writing; feminist theory; travel literature
Current research
• Writing a critical biography
• Writing a dramatic script
Past research
• Essays on Canadian literature and book reviews
LYNDE, Denyse Associate professor
Keywords
• Modern Canadian drama; Canadian theatre research; Newfoundland
theatre research; Newfoundland drama
Current research
• Newfoundland theatre research: the community
• Newfoundland drama, 1960 to 1972
Past research
• Various articles on Canadian drama
MILLER, Elizabeth Professor; President's Award for Distinguished
Teaching (1991)
Keywords
• Gothic fiction (19th-century British); Dracula; Byron,
the Shelleys; Newfoundland literature
Current research
• Dracula: sense and nonsense
• Dracula (fictional and historical)
• Bram Stoker
• Nineteenth-century British Gothic fiction
Past research
• Reflections on Dracula
• Dracula: The Shade and the Shadow
• Norman Duncan
• Ted Russell
• Newfoundland poetry of the Great War
O'DEA, Shane Professor
Keywords
• Architecture; urban morphology; heritage preservation;
cultural landscape; Newfoundland
Current research
• St. John's heritage preservation
• Newfoundland church architecture
• Architecture and rebuilding of post-fire St. John's, Newfoundland
Past research
• Historic buildings, datafile
• Vertical-log construction, Newfoundland
• Outport buildings, Newfoundland
O'DWYER, Bernard Associate professor
Keywords
• Sociolinguistics; grammar; language; medical communication;
literature and medicine
Current research
• Physician-patient interviews
• Literature and medicine
• Domestic Newfoundland servant girls
• Attitudes towards doctor-patient communication
• Medicine and humour
Past research
• Manual for first-year medical students
• Newfoundland domestics
• Doctor-patient communication survey
• Medical language and linguistics
Other research and consulting
• Co-director for pastoral care study, Canadian Alliance
on Health Research 2000
• Member of an interdisciplinary team for a study on perceptions
of nursing workloads
PETERS, Helen Professor
Keywords
• Seventeenth-century British and Newfoundland theatre;
bibliography
Current research
• Newfoundland and Labrador theatre
Past research
• John Donne
• Newfoundland collective theatre CODCO
ROMPKEY, Ronald Professor
Keywords
• Eighteenth-century; biography and autobiography; satire;
Labrador; Sir Wilfred Grenfell
Past research
• St. Anthony and the French Shore
• Labrador in 1893
• Collected Labrador short fiction of Elliott Merrick
• Biography of Sir Wilfred Grenfell
• Biography of Soame Jenyns, 1704 to 1787
• Halifax, N.S., 1704 to 1753
SHORROCKS, Graham Professor
Keywords
• Dialectology; English language and literature; literature;
folklore; popular culture; translation; Newfoundland studies
Current research
• Dialects of North-West England
• Cumbrian dialects
• Newfoundland and Labrador English
• Glossary of the dialect of Longtown, Cumbria
• Dialectology of English in the British Isles
• Literary dialect (incl. Percy Janes); dialect literature;
popular culture
• Phonology, morphology, syntax and lexis of English
dialects
• Bibliographical dictionary of western linguistics since
1450
• Translation of Theodor Storm's Zur Chronik von Grieshuus
Past research
• Phonology, syntax, and lexis of English dialects calendar
customs; narrative; contemporary legends; transcriptional practices
• Literary dialect (incl. Percy Janes); dialect literature;
orthographical conventions
• Dialectological bibliography; historiography; theory and
method; translation
Potential research
• Phonology, syntax, and lexis of English dialects (incl.
Newfoundland dialects)
• Literary dialect; dialect literature; popular culture
• Dialectological bibliography; historiography; fieldwork;
theory and method
• Translation of works from German into English
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