Faculty members
Our faculty are well grounded in the study and practice of writing in English, and engaged in interdisciplinary and inter-university research centres in areas such as media studies, sexuality studies, print culture, game studies, poetics, globalization, sustainability, and research creation.
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Arseneault, JesseResearch areas: African literature & culture / animal studies / cultural studies / posthumanism / postcolonial studies / queer theory
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Bardill, Jessica
- Associate Professor, English
Research areas: Indigenous studies, Indigenous literatures, bioethics, American Literature, Contemporary Canadian Literature -
Bobker, Danielle
- Professor, English
- Fellow, Simone de Beauvoir Institute & Womens Studies
Research areas: 17th & 18thC literature & culture gender & sexuality feminisms intimacy & affect humour studies material culture drama/performance pedagogy -
Bolster, Stephanie
- Professor, English
Research areas: creative writing / poetry / the long & the serial poem / ekphrasis / "ruin porn" -
Brown, Nathan
- Professor, English
- Canada Research Chair in Poetics, English
- Director, Centre for Expanded Poetics, English
Research areas: Poetry & Poetics, Theory & Philosophy, Modernism, 20th Century American Literature, Interdisciplinary Methods -
Camlot, Jason
- Concordia University Research Chair (Tier I) in Literature and Sound Studies, English
- Professor , English
Research areas: Victorian literature & culture / 19th century print culture & rhetoric, history of technology, sound recording, poetry -
Evans, Meredith
- Associate Professor, English
Research areas: Renaissance literature / Shakespeare / Milton / gender studies / philosophy & literature / critical theory -
Frank, Marcie
- Professor, English
Research areas: Restoration & 18th century British literature / drama / the novel / literary criticism / 20th century American popular culture / media theory -
Howard, Liz
- Assistant Professor, English
Research areas: Indigenous/Anticolonial Poetics Innovative and Hybrid Forms Science and Poetry Social Poetry Research Creation -
Iossel, Mikhail
- Associate Professor, English
Research areas: creative writing / international literature -
Furlani, Andre Ondino
- Full Professor, English
- Fellow, School of Irish Studies
Research areas: modernism / postmodernism / philosophy & literature / modern & contemporary literature / Samuel Beckett / Guy Davenport / urban and mobility studies -
Leroux, Louis Patrick
- Professeur titulaire, Études françaises
- Professor, English
Status: Professor and Associate Dean, Research -
McDonnell, Maggie
- Coordinator, Composition & Professional Writing, English
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McLeod, Katherine
- Assistant Professor, Limited Term Appointment, English
Research areas: Canadian and Indigenous literatures (poetry, fiction, drama, non-fiction), performance studies, feminist theory, sound, archives, radio, publishing in Canada, public humanities, podcasting. -
Moses, Omri
- Associate Professor, English
Research areas: modernism & 20th century literature / neuroscience & neurohumanities / theories of embodied and extended cognition / affect theory / vitalism / aesthetics -
Nixon, Nicola
- Associate Professor, English
Research areas: American literature/ 19th & early 20th century fiction & poetry / American gothic / science fiction / detective fiction -
Novakovich, Josip
- Professor, English
Research areas: fiction & nonfiction writing / culture, politics & history of the former Yugoslavia -
O’Leary, Daniel
- Assistant Professor, English
Research areas: early Canadian print culture & book history / Canadian intellectual history / early & modern Canadian writing -
Pask, Kevin
- Professor, English
Research areas: Renaissance literature / Shakespeare / nationalism / fantasy / literary publics / popular literature -
Powell, Stephen
- Associate Professor, English
Research areas: Old and Middle English / History of the English Language / post-medieval reception of the Middle Ages / editorial history -
Queyras, Sina
- Professor, English
Research areas: poetry writing / fiction & narrative writing / entre-genre / Canadian poetry / women’s literature -
Ross, Stephen
- Associate Professor, English
Research areas: Poetry and poetics, modernism, comparative literature -
Sachs, Jonathan
- Professor, English
Research areas: British Romantic period / relationship between literary & political discourse / reception of classical antiquity -
Sterns, Kate
- Associate Professor, English
Status: Co-ordinator, Creative Writing ProgramResearch areas: creative writing / 19th century drama & literature / anatomical waxworks / botanical gardens / medical history -
Taher-Kermani, Reza
- Assistant Professor of 18th and 19th Century British Literature (LTA), English
Research areas: nineteenth-century English literature; medieval Persian poetry; empire and colonialism; translation studies -
Wershler, Darren
- Associate Professor, English
- Concordia University Research Chair, Media & Contemporary Literature, Tier 2, English
Research areas: media history / video game studies / communication studies / contemporary literature / avant-garde poetics -
Yeager, Stephen
- Professor, English
Research areas: medieval / manuscript studies / law & literature / Indigenous studies / digital culture / media archaeology / videogames
Professors Emeriti
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di Michele, Mary
- Professor, English
Research areas: poetry / poetics / fiction/ cross genre / collaborative writing -
Herz, Judith
- Professor, English
Research areas: early modern literature / Bloomsbury / poetics / literary history -
Pechter, Edward
- Professor Emeritus, English
Research areas: practical criticism, history of criticism, Renaissance
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Bligh, Kate
- Part-time Faculty, School of Irish Studies
- Part-time Faculty, Theatre
- Part-time Faculty, English
- Part-time faculty, Education
- Part-time faculty, Applied Human Sciences
Status: part-time professorResearch areas: Theatre director & acting teacher; dramaturgy and playwrighting; postcolonial/intercultural drama and performance; late C20th British & Irish playwrights; performance skills for public & professional figures. -
Gilchrist, Bruce
- Part-Time Faculty Member, English
- Part-Time Faculty Member, Liberal Arts College
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Peters, Brian Mitchell
- Part-time faculty, PERC, Theatre
- Part-time faculty: literature, drama, composition , English
Research areas: Comparative studies, youth (sub)culture, music/performance culture, queer/gender theories, cinema and literature. -
Rozahegy, Mark
- Part-Time Faculty, Liberal Arts College
- Part-Time Faculty, English
- Part-Time Faculty, Philosophy
Research areas: 19th and 20th Century Continental, Existentialism, Phenomenology