Faculty
Dwayne Avery
Associate Professor
- 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
Associate 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
Assistant 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
Danine Farquharson
Associate Professor
- Office: AA 3038
- Telephone: (709).864.2478
- 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
Robert Finley
Associate Professor
- Office: AA 3024
- Telephone: (709) 864-8052
- Email: rfinley@mun.ca
Research Interests
Creative Nonfiction, The Essay, Translation, Text and Image, Contemporary Poetry, Caribbean Literature, Environment/ Wilderness/ Domestic Landscape
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 3026
- Telephone: (709) 864-8277
- 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
Denyse Lynde
Full Professor
- Office: AA 2047
- Telephone: (709) 864-3201
- Email: dlynde@mun.ca
- Website: https://www.mun.ca/english/dlynde/
Research Interests
Canadian Drama and Theatre History, Irish Drama, Feminist Drama, Contemporary Newfoundland Drama
Lisa Moore
Assistant 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 and Department Head
- Office: AA 3011
- Telephone: (709) 864-8275
- Email: rormsby@mun.ca
Research Interests
Shakespeare, Shakespeare in Performance, Theatre History
Nancy Pedri
Full Professor
- 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
Associate Professor
- Office: AA 3006
- 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
- Coordinator, Diploma in Performance and Communications Media
- 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
Assistant Professor
- Office: AA 3009
- Telephone: (709) 864-8289
- Email: sthorne@mun.ca
Research Interests
Critical Media Theory, Game Studies, Narrative, New Media, Digital Humanities