Faculty Research and Teaching Specializations

The Department of English Language and Literature Graduate faculty listed by the following:

By surname

By approach

Environmental Literary Criticism
Erin Akerman
Adam Dickinson
Leah Knight

Marxism
Andrew Pendakis

Creative Non-Fiction
Robert Alexander

Queer Theory
Lynn Arner

Scholarly Editing and Textual Criticism
Tim Conley
Mathew Martin  
Leah Knight

Critical Race Theory
Carole Lynn Stewart

Literary Journalism
Robert Alexander

Science & Literature
James Allard
Adam Dickinson
Leah Knight

Critical University Studies
Lynn Arner
Barbara K. Seeber

Masculinity Studies
Martin Danahay
Neta Gordon

Literary History of Early Imperialism and Postcolonialism
Elizabeth Sauer

Literary History of Nationhood 1500-1900
Erin Akerman
Elizabeth Sauer

Transatlantic Studies 1500-1900
Erin Akerman
Elizabeth Sauer

Early Worlding Theory
Elizabeth Sauer 

Indigenous Literary Theory
Erin Akerman

By genre

Arthurian Literature
Lynn Arner
Ann Howey

Fiction, Eighteenth Century
Barbara K. Seeber

Political/Legal Discourse
Gale Coskan-Johnson

Children and Young People Literature
Ann Howey

Gothic
James Allard

Comic Book Studies
Neta Gordon

Slipstream
Natalee Caple

Poetry, Early Modern
Leah Knight
Elizabeth Sauer

Early Pamphlet Literature
Elizabeth Sauer

Early Women’s Writing
Erin Akerman
Elizabeth Sauer
Leah Knight

Drama, Elizabethan and Jacobean
Mathew Martin

Literary Journalism
Robert Alexander

Fiction, Contemporary
Erin Akerman
Tim Conley

Poetry, Contemporary
Erin Akerman
Tim Conley
Adam Dickinson

Steampunk
Martin Danahay

Travel Narratives
Erin Akerman

Poetry, 19th Century
Erin Akerman

By period and place

African American
Carole Lynn Stewart

Medievalism
Ann Howey

Early and Contemporary Indigenous Literatures of Turtle Island
Erin Akerman

Contemporary Canadian
Gregory Betts
Neta Gordon

Avant-garde Canadian
Gregory Betts

Neo-Victorianism
Martin Danahay
Ann Howey

Eighteenth Century
James Allard
Barbara K. Seeber

British Romantic
Erin Akerman
James Allard

Early Canadian Literature
Erin Akerman

Indigenous Writing
Natalee Caple

Canadian Literature
Natalee Caple

Canadian Modernism
Gregory Betts

Restoration
Elizabeth Sauer 

Nineteenth Century Transatlantic: Britain and Turtle Island
Erin Akerman

By author

Jane Austen
Barbara K. Seeber

Ben Jonson
Mathew Martin

John Milton
Elizabeth Sauer

Geoffrey Chaucer
Lynn Arner

James Joyce
Tim Conley

Robert Louis Stevenson
Martin Danahay

John Gower
Lynn Arner

Christopher Marlowe
Mathew Martin

Hester Pulter
Leah Knight

Anne Bradstreet
Elizabeth Sauer