Faculty & staff
Office
General inquiries
The general office is in room C343 in the Clearihue Building, and is open 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday to Friday. Call us at 250-721-7230 or email englreception@uvic.ca.
Advising
For advising questions, see our academic advising page.
Mailing address
Department of English
University of Victoria
PO Box 1700 STN CSC
Victoria BC V8W 2Y2
Canada
Courier or in-person address
Department of English
University of Victoria
Clearihue C343
3800 Finnerty Road
Victoria BC V8P 5C2
Canada
Faculty
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Chair & associate professor English
Office: CLE C343a englchr@uvic.ca 250-721-7236
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Modern and contemporary American poetry, aesthetic theory
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Professor English
Office: CLE C354 gkblank@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- English Romantic poetry, cultural studies, theories of influence, university writing
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Assistant professor English
Office: CLE C325 sboyarin@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Medieval Hebrew and Arabic literature, the Bible and literature
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Professor & honours program adviser English
Office: CLE D333 nbradley@uvic.ca / englhonsad@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Canadian literature, American literature, literatures of the West Coast, poetry
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Associate teaching professor English
Office: CLE C312 chaly@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Canadian Literature
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Status: On leave
Professor English
Office: CLE C335 alisonc@uvic.ca 250-721-7237
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Nineteenth-century literature and culture, Victorian poetry, women's writing, Anglo-Italian studies, digital humanities
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Professor English
Office: CLE C319 mdean@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Early Canadian writing on animals and the natural world, the Canadian novel, representation, contemporary critical theory, feminisms
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Professor English
Office: CLE C323 jdopp@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Canadian literature, hockey
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Professor & English student liaison English
Office: CLE C322 cdouglas@uvic.ca / englishliaison@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Literature and religion, Bible as literature, contemporary American fiction
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Associate professor & graduate adviser English
Office: CLE D335 ele@uvic.ca / englgradad@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Renaissance literature, Shakespeare
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Status: On leave
Associate teaching professor English
Office: CLE C339 rmgagan@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Romanticism, pedagogy, academic writing, scholarship of teaching and learning, community-engaged learning
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Professor English
Office: CLE D323 grossij@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Old and middle English literature
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Assistant teaching professor & professional communication adviser English
Office: CLE C317 rebeccahalliday@uvic.ca / pcadviser@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Communication studies, fashion studies, media studies, performance studies, digital media and mediatization, social media, influencers, AI, fashion and streetwear, affect theory, material culture, immaterial labour, popular culture, corporate communication, crisis communication
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Status: On leave
Professor English
Office: CLE C321 imh@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Medieval English and Scottish literature, poetry, travel writing, utopian and dystopian fiction
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Professor English
Office: CLE C327 jenstad@uvic.ca 250-721-7245
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Shakespeare, renaissance drama, London studies, bibliographical and print culture, digital humanities
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Professor English
Office: CLE C359 magdakay@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Twentieth- and twenty-first-century British poetry, Irish poetry, Polish poetry, comparative literature, poetics
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Associate professor English
Office: CLE D229 ekelly@uvic.ca / atwpdir@uvic.ca 250-853-3738
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Rhetoric, Renaissance, Shakespeare, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English drama
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Professor & undergraduate adviser English
Office: CLE C329 kucharg@uvic.ca / engllitadv@uvic.ca 250-721-7248
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Renaissance literature, seventeenth-century poetry and prose, intellectual history, Reformation culture and thought, Shakespeare, literary/critical theory, the Renaissance in Canada
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Associate teaching professor English
Office: CLE D217 sulast@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Academic and technical writing, curriculum development
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Professor English
Office: CLE C337 mleighto@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Victorian literature
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Status: On leave
Associate teaching professor English
Office: CLE C333 krdmf@uvic.ca 250-721-7249
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Academic writing, early modern literature, book history, women writers, digital humanities
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Associate professor English
Office: CLE D329 millere@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Poetry, the lyric essay, Friedrich Hoelderlin, Ann Radcliffe, Elizabeth Simcoe
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Professor English
Office: CLE C331 amitch@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Medieval literature
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Assistant teaching professor English
Office: CLE D233 admurray@uvic.ca
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Professor English
Office: CLE C320 mnowlin@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- 19th - and 20th-Century American literature
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Associate teaching professor English
Office: CLE D325 rpickard@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Environmental humanities, composition, 18th C. poetry, BC writing, professional and technical writing
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Assistant professor English
Office: CLE D337 gabrielquigley@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Global modernism, postcolonial studies, philosophy, aesthetics, legal studies, disability studies
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Associate professor English
Office: CLE C313 rabillar@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Modern & contemporary drama, women's writing, literature & ecology
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Professor English
Office: CLE C357 saross@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Modernism, theory, the novel, literature and theory of climate change
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Director of Media Studies & associate professor English
Office: CLE D331 jentery@uvic.ca / dirmdia@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Media studies, game studies, American literature, critical theory
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Associate professor & AWR adviser English
Office: CLE D327 shlensky@uvic.ca / awradviser@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Cultural studies, film and media studies, postcolonialism, Caribbean literature, Jewish and Hebrew studies
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Status: On leave
Distinguished professor English
Office: CLE C315 siemens@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Renaissance literature, textual culture, editorial theory, humanities computing
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Status: On leave
Associate teaching professor English
Office: CLE D317 monikasm@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Academic and technical writing
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Professor & associate dean academic English
Office: CLE A415 lsurridg@uvic.ca 250-721-7246
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Victorian fiction and culture, Victorian fictions of marital violence, illustrated Victorian serial fiction, Victorian and Edwardian children’s literature, legal writing
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Professor English
Office: CLE D231 rvanoort@uvic.ca 250-853-3737
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Shakespeare, literary theory, generative anthropology, literature and anthropology
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Professor & associate dean research English
Office: CLE B402 aboyarin@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Medieval Literature
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Assistant teaching professor English
Office: CLE D315 samuelw@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Early modern literature, history of ideas, genre theory
Sessional instructors
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Sessional lecturer English
Office: CLE D226 babakashrafkhanilim2@uvic.ca
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Sessional lecturer English
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Sessional lecturer English
Office: CLE C326 maryssagrayer@uvic.ca
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Sessional lecturer English
Office: CLE C330 jhawkes@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- British modernism, cultural anthropology (ritual), performance and text, place and space
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Sessional lecturer English
Office: CLE C233 sghenry@uvic.ca 250-721-7269
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Sessional lecturer English
Office: CLE D357 tesshole@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Modernism, medicine and literature, twentieth-century British literature
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Sessional lecturer English
Office: CLE D226 jnash33@uvic.ca
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Sessional lecturer English
Office: CLE C324 jniemann@uvic.ca
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Sessional lecturer English
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Migration studies and theory, migration literature, memoir, modernism, contemporary migrant figure, the crisis of displacement; borders, refugees, immigration, exile, identity crisis, language, memory
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Sessional lecturer English
Office: CLE D363 tim@personn.com
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Sessional lecturer English
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Sessional lecturer
Office: HSD 202 yazganog@uvic.ca
Staff
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Kaye Miller
Undergraduate & administrative assistant English
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Katie Croudy-Hollot
Assistant to the chair English
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Deborah Ogilvie
Graduate secretary English
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Dailyn Ramirez
Administrative officer English
Postdoc & others
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Adjunct (former English faculty member, supervising graduate students) |
Currently researching narrative strategies, such as the braided narrative and child narrators, that contemporary women authors use to help readers face issues of racial and sexual violence. Her work seeks to build connections between cognitive approaches to literature and Critical Race Theory. | corinnebancroft@uvic.ca |
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Affiliate (available for graduate supervisory committee membership only) |
Medieval literature and intellectual history; manuscript studies; history of the book; reading practices before print. | kerbyful@uvic.ca |
Emeriti
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Dr. Gerald Baillargeon
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20th-Century literature
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Dr. Doug Beardsley
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Dr. Edward Berry
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Dr. Michael Best
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Dr. Celeste Derksen
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Canadian and B.C. drama, dramatic comedy, first year teaching
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Susan Doyle
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eighteenth-century studies
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Dr. Bryan Gooch
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Dr. Patrick Grant
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Dr. Elizabeth Grove-White
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John Hayman
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Dr. Arnold Keller
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Claire McKenzie
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Romanticism; the eighteenth century; 19th century British literature
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Dr. Judith Mitchell
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Dawn Neil
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Dr. Victor Neufeldt
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Dr. Ann Saddlemyer
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Dr. Robert Schuler
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Dr. Stephen Scobie
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Dr. Terry Sherwood
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Theories of biopower; politics of nature and animals; cultures of globalization
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Karen Smith
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Dr. Henry Summerfield
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Judith Terry
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Dr. David Thatcher
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Dr. Diane Tolomeo
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Scandinavian studies; Medieval studies
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Dr. Trevor Williams
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Shakespearean drama; seventeenth-century English poetry; literature and legal history; literature, religion and film.
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Employment opportunities
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