Current Faculty Members
Jennifer Andrews 
BA (McGill), MA, PhD (Toronto)
Carleton Hall 319 ~ (506) 458-7403
jandrews@unb.ca
Jennifer Andrews’s areas of interest include nineteenth- and twentieth-century English-Canadian and American literature, Native North American literature, literary theory, and cultural studies (especially in relation to fashion and television). Jennifer has supervised MA and PHD theses on a wide variety of academic topics including: studies of Leonard Cohen, English-Canadian short fiction by women, Dionne Brand's poetry, Native adaptations of Shakespearean drama, English-Canadian female fiction writers' use of humour, Douglas Coupland, and depictions of female adolescence in Maritime literature. She has also supervised creative theses. She has published articles in a variety of scholarly journals including American Literary History, ESC, American Indian Quarterly, ECW, The Canadian Review of American Studies and The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. Her co-authored book, Border Crossings: Thomas King’s Cultural Inversions, was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2003 and her SSHRC-funded book on Native North American women poets, titled In the Belly of a Laughing God, is forthcoming from University of Toronto Press in fall 2010. She is currently co-authoring a book on fashion and television with a Canadian focus. Jennifer is co-editor of Studies in Canadian Literature. Current member of the Graduate Academic Unit.
Diana L. Austin
BA (UNB), MA (Queen’s), DPhil (Oxford)
Carleton Hall 243 ~ (506) 458-7400
daustin@unb.ca
Diana Austin’s main interest is twentieth-century British poetry and fiction, particularly in such areas as World War I, women’s writing, and contemporary fiction. She has published and presented papers in these areas, as well as in modern Canadian literature, in Canada, the United States, and England. She is a contributor to the twentieth-century British section of the Yale Feminist Companion to Literature and an occasional submissions reader in the areas mentioned above for journals like Mosaic, English Studies in Canada, and ACCUTE. She has served on the editorial boards of Studies in Canadian Literature and The Fiddlehead. Currently she is finishing a book about the feminine presence in British World War I trench literature. Current member of the Graduate Academic Unit.
John C. Ball
BA, MA, PhD (Toronto)
Carleton Hall 327 ~ (506) 458-7409
jball@unb.ca
John C. Ball is interested in contemporary postcolonial and Canadian literatures, particularly fiction, as well as postcolonial theory, cultural geography, urban fiction, historical fiction, and creative writing. He is co-editor of Studies in Canadian Literature and the author of two books: Satire and the Postcolonial Novel: V.S. Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie (Routledge, 2003) and Imagining London: Postcolonial Fiction and the Transnational Metropolis (University of Toronto Press, 2004); he has also edited the World Fiction volume of the forthcoming three-volume Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction (Blackwell, 2010). He has published articles and book chapters on David Dabydeen, Jamaica Kincaid, Hanif Kureishi, Robert Kroetsch, Yann Martel, V.S. Naipaul, Kate Pullinger, Salman Rushdie, Maurice Sendak, M.G. Vassanji, and Derek Walcott, among others. His current research explores postcolonial representations of oceans and sea voyages. A former Director of Graduate Studies and lifelong theatre practitioner, he has supervised or co-supervised more than twenty graduate theses at UNB, both in his academic fields and in creative writing. Current member of the Graduate Academic Unit.
Sandra Bell (UNBSJ)
BA, MA (McMaster), PhD (Queen’s)
sbell@unbsj.ca
Sandra Bell teaches Renaissance prose, poetry and drama (including Shakespeare). She has published a number of articles on literature of the Scottish Renaissance. She is currently editing an anthology of sixteenth-century prose and poetry for Broadview Press, and is working on a book-length study of James VI’s first collection of poetry. Current member of the Graduate Academic Unit.
A. E. Christa Canitz
BA, MA (Birmingham), PhD (UBC)
Carleton Hall 245-1 ~ (506) 458-7396
canitz@unb.ca
Christa Canitz specializes in Middle English and Middle Scots poetry (especially the reception of the Classics in early English and Scots literature), with a sideline in 20th/21st-century medievalism, i.e., the representation of the Middle Ages in post-medieval periods including contemporary culture. She is the editor of Florilegium, an international, peer-reviewed journal of medieval studies owned by the Canadian Society of Medievalists/Société canadienne des médiévistes. She has also co-edited two interdisciplinary collections of medieval and medievalist papers entitled From Arabye to Engelond (1999) and Confronting the Present with the Past (2006, published as a special issue of Florilegium) and has written articles and book chapters on subjects as diverse as Beowulf, Chaucer, the poetry of the Middle Scots "makars," the short stories of Alice Munro, and medievalist movies including Braveheart. A few years ago, she organized and hosted the SSHRC-funded 19th Annual International Conference on Medievalism. She is a past recipient of the Faculty of Arts Award for Excellence in Teaching. Current member of the Graduate Academic Unit.
David Creelman
BA, BEd (UNB), MA, PhD (English - York)
creelman@unbsj.ca
David Creelman teaches in the fields of Canadian Literature and Modern British Literature, and is also interested in literary theory and children’s literature. He has published articles on the Canadian writers Nancy Bauer, Charles Bruce, Ernest Buckler, Robertson Davies, Robert Kroetsch, Alistair MacLeod, and Thomas Raddall. In 2002, he edited and introduced Weathers: New and Selected Poems by Douglas Lochhead, and his book entitled Setting in the East: Maritime Realist Fiction was published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in 2003. Current member of the Graduate Academic Unit.
Len Falkenstein
BA, MA (Saskatchewan), PhD (Alberta)
Carleton Hall 322 ~ (506) 458-7406
lfalken@unb.ca
Len Falkenstein is Director of Drama at the University of New Brunswick, where he teaches playwriting, theatre, and drama. A playwright, director, dramaturg, and actor, his plays, which include Doppelganger (published in Ryga Vol. 1), Futures, Free/Fall, and Happy City, have been produced across Canada at Toronto's Summerworks Theatre Festival and Fringe Festivals in Vancouver, Victoria, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal, and Halifax. He is Artistic Director of the NotaBle Acts Theatre Company, whose mandate is to develop and produce new plays by New Brunswick dramatists, as well as Bard in the Barracks, Fredericton's outdoor summer Shakespeare festival. Since 1999 he has directed over thirty productions for Theatre UNB, Bard in the Barracks, the NotaBle Acts Theatre Company, and his own company, Theatre Free Radical. His research interests include all areas of theatre and drama, especially contemporary Canadian, Irish, and Postcolonial drama. He is an active member of the Canadian Association for Theatre Research and has published essays and reviews on drama in Canadian Theatre Review, Canadian Literature, The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, as well as an essay in Theatre in Atlantic Canada for Playwrights Canada Press's Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English series. Current member of the Graduate Academic Unit.
Tatrina (Triny) Finlay
Carleton Hall 229 ~ (506) 458-7564
tfinlay@unb.ca
Triny Finlay's research and teaching interests include contemporary Canadian literature, poetics, genre theory, writing by women, and creative writing. She is the author the the poetry collections Splitting Off (Nightwood, 2004) and Histories Haunt Us (Nightwood, 2010), and her poetry has been anthologized in Breathing Fire 2: Canada's New Poets, Qwerty Decade, and Gaspereau Gloriatur: Book of the Blessed Tenth Year. Her writing has also appeared in various Canadian periodicals, including ARC, Broken Pencil, Contemporary Verse 2, The Fiddlehead, The Globe and Mail, Grain, Other Voices, and University of Toronto Quarterly. She is currently working on a book-length long poem entitled Scavenge.
Robert Gray
BA (Victoria), MA (Manitoba), PhD (Alberta)
Carleton Hall 325~ (506) 458-7401
robgray@unb.ca
Robert Gray's most recent produced short script, "alice & huck," has screened at several film festivals, including The Big Easy Shorts Festival and the Beverley Hills Shorts Festival. He has had ten of his short scripts made into films and is in development on his first feature script, set to be shot in early 2011. He also wrote an original TV pilot for actor Maurie Chaykin and was one of the creators of the Screenwriting program at Vancouver Film School where he was head of that program for five years. In Fredericton he is the producer/organizer of the 48 Hour Filmmaking Competition and the Fredericton Film Calendar. His poetry and prose have appeared in numerous journals including Malahat Review, ARC, and Douglas College Review. He wrote two novels which were published in serial fashion in Xtra West. His first collection of short stories, Crisp, is forthcoming from NeWest press in early 2010 and he is revising the second collection for publication, tentatively entitled Entropic.
Mark Anthony Jarman
BA (Victoria), MFA (Iowa)
Carleton Hall 228-1 ~ (506) 458-7398
mjarman@unb.ca
Mark Jarman’s main interests are creative writing and fiction, particularly the short story. He has won a National Magazine Award, been short-listed for the O. Henry Prize and the Journey Prize, included in Best Canadian Stories, and nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. He has twice won the Maclean-Hunter Endowment for Literary Non-Fiction. He reviews fiction for The Globe & Mail, Amazon.ca, and the Literary Review of Canada. His latest book of stories is 19 Knives (House of Anansi). His hockey novel, Salvage King Ya!, is on Amazon’s list of 50 Essential Canadian Books, and he recently published a travel book entitled Ireland’s Eye, a finalist for an American Independent Publishers’ Award. Current member of the Graduate Academic Unit.
Miriam Jones (UNBSJ)
BA, MA, PhD (York)
mjones@unbsj.ca
Miriam Jones’s PhD dissertation was entitled “‘Too Common and Most Unnatural!’: rewriting the ‘infanticidal woman’ in Britain, 1764-1859.”; Her areas of specialization are eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literature, cultural studies, gender studies, science fiction, media studies, popular culture, print culture, prose narrative, and women’s writing. She has published articles about George Eliot, ballads, street literature, vampires, science fiction, and erotic literature. Her current project involves representations of the “murderous sweetheart”; in eighteenth-century popular literary culture. She co-ordinates the Minor and Certificate in Gender Studies at UNBSJ, and she blogs at ScribblingWoman. Current member of the Graduate Academic Unit.
Ross Leckie
BA (McGill), MA (Concordia), PhD (Toronto)
Carleton Hall 245-2 ~ (506) 458-7395
leckie@unb.ca
Ross Leckie has published three books of poetry, A Slow Light with the Signal Editions series of the Véhicule Press; The Authority of Roses with Brick Books and Gravity’s Plumb Line with Gaspereau Press. His creative work has appeared in such journals as The Fiddlehead, The Antigonish Review, Descant, ARIEL, The New Republic, Denver Quarterly, Southwest Review, and American Literary Review. His academic interests include 20th-century American and Canadian literature, post-colonial literature, and cultural studies. His articles in these areas have appeared in Essays in Literature, Studies in Short Fiction, Weber Studies, Verse, and University of Toronto Quarterly. He is the editor of The Fiddlehead and the poetry editor for Goose Lane Editions. Current member of the Graduate Academic Unit.
Sarah E. Maier (UNBSJ)
BA, MA, PhD (Alberta)
smaier@unbsj.ca
Sarah Maier is a graduate of The School of Criticism and Theory. She has published scholarly editions of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles, as well as articles on the work of J.M. Barrie,
C. Bronte, E. D'Arcy, G. Egerton, G. Eliot, J.K. Rowling, M. Wollstonecraft and others. Her
current research projects include “Millennial Madnesses: Cultural Paradigms at the Fin(s) de Siecle(s),” decadents/ce and the 1880s/1890s, the New Woman, Marie Corelli, adaptations of Victorian
texts
to film, children's literature, Thomas Hardy, Jack the Ripper, Vampires, gothic fiction, neo/Victorianism, and fictional representations of serial killers and forensic science in film and TV. Dr. Maier has recently introduced a minor in Comparative Literature at UNBSJ. She was the recipient of the Dr. Allan P. Stuart Award for excellence in teaching (2003) and was appointed University Teaching Scholar in 2006. Current member of the Graduate Academic Unit.
Randall Martin
BA (Toronto), MA (Birmingham), DPhil (Oxford)
Carleton Hall 325 ~ (506) 458-7407
rmartin@unb.ca
Randall Martin’s research interests include English Renaissance drama, theatre, and culture, early modern women writers in English, and bibliographical and textual studies. He has edited a pair of related Elizabethan history plays, Edmond Ironside and Anthony Brewer’s The Love-sick King (1991), The Merchant of Venice (2001), and most recently Henry VI Part Three for the Oxford Shakespeare and Oxford World Classics (2001). His critical anthology Renaissance Women Writers in England was published by Longmans in 1997. He is currently completing an edition of Every Man Out of His Humour for the Cambridge Complete Works of Ben Jonson, as well as a book on early modern news pamphlets about women murderers and infanticides. He has also prepared a new critical introduction for The Comedy of Errors for the re-launch of the New Penguin Shakespeare in September 2005. Current member of the Graduate Academic Unit.
Robert Moore (UNBSJ)
BA, MA, PhD (McMaster)
rjmoore@unbsj.ca
Robert Moore is the author of a dozen plays, including Rougher Magic. A frequent contributor to Books in Canada, he’s the founding Editor of Dianoia: A Liberal Arts Interdisciplinary Journal. His poems have appeared in Descant, The Fiddlehead, Wascana Review, Contemporary Verse 2, The New Quarterly, Canadian Author, Prairie Fire, Pottersfield Portfolio, The Gaspereau Review and Quadrant. His book of poetry, So Rarely in Our Skins (finalist for both the Atlantic Poetry Prize and the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award), came out in 2002. A second book of poetry, Museum Obscondita, was released in 2006, and his most recent, Figuring Ground, was released in the Spring of '09 (see robertmoorepoet.com). Apart from Creative Writing, his research interests include twentieth-century American literature, the construction of masculinity, and postmodern fiction. Current member of the Graduate Academic Unit.
James Noble (UNBSJ)
BA (Bishop’s), MA, PhD (Western Ontario)
noble@unb.ca
James Noble’s areas of interest are Middle English literature and the Arthurian Romance, both medieval and modern. He has contributed to The Arthurian Encyclopedia and Medieval England: An Encyclopedia and has published several articles on Layamon’s Brut, the Middle English verse romances, and modern Arthurian literature. Current member of the Graduate Academic Unit.
Roger Ploude
BA (STU), MA (Dalhousie), PhD (Queen’s)
Carleton Hall 253 ~ (506) 453-4676
plou@unb.ca
Roger Ploude is Chair of the English Department and a former editor of The Fiddlehead and co-founder and former editor of Studies in Canadian Literature. He has co-edited an anthology of short stories and has published on Tennyson and Arthur Hallam. He is especially interested in Romantic and Victorian poetry and non-fiction prose, and is currently studying the impact of the Enlightenment on Victorian thought. Current member of the Graduate Academic Unit.
Mary Rimmer
BA (Concordia), AM, PhD (Harvard)
Carleton Hall 244 ~ (506) 458-7393
mrimmer@unb.ca
Mary Rimmer is primarily a Victorianist, but her research interests include post-colonial literature, narrative and women's writing. She edited Thomas Hardy's Desperate Remedies for Penguin Books and is working on a book on Hardy's allusions. She has published on Hardy, Nino Ricci and Margaret Laurence, and collaborated on editions of four early Trinidadian novels. The MA and PhD theses she has supervised include ones on Hardy, Anne Bronte, Gaskell, Austen, Dickens, sensation fiction, and fairy-tale motifs. Current member of the Graduate Academic Unit.
Wendy Robbins
BA (Bishop’s), MA, PhD (Queen’s)
Carleton Hall 329~ (506) 458-7411
wjr@unb.ca
Wendy Robbins is a co-founder of Women’s Studies at UNB. She has developed numerous courses on women’s writing and feminist approaches to literature, winning the Allan P. Stuart Award for excellence in teaching. She publishes widely on Canadian and Commonwealth literature and is a past president of the Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (CACLALS). Her editorial work includes the pioneering “Women Writers of the Commonwealth” special issue of World Literature Written in English (University of Texas, 1978). In the 1980s, she was managing editor of Studies in Canadian Literature, turning it into one of the first scholarly journals in Canada to accept electronic manuscripts. After serving in Ottawa as Director of Research at the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women, she co-founded PAR-L, one of the world’s first feminist online discussion lists. In 2005, Dr. Robbins was elected Chair of the Women’s Committee of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT). Her annual “Ivory Towers: Feminist and Equity Audits” is published online by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Her current literary research focuses on campus fiction, especially representations of professors in Canadian literature. Current member of the Graduate Academic Unit.
Stephen Schryer
BA (McMaster), MA (Western), PhD (California, Irvine)
Carleton Hall 318 ~ (506) 458-7402
sschryer@unb.ca
http://people.unb.ca/~sschryer
Stephen Schryer's areas of interest include 20th/21st century American literature, African-American literature, and literary theory. His first book, Fantasies of the New Class: Ideologies of Professionalism in Post-World War II American Fiction, is forthcoming from Columbia University Press. It explores one of the central fantasies of post-World War II literary and intellectual culture: the idea that professional knowledge workers (the "new class") would displace traditional classes such as the proletariat and bourgeoisie as the uncontested ruling elite. He has also published articles in PMLA and Modern Fiction Studies. His new project, tentatively titled "Cultures of Poverty: American Literature and the Politics of Welfare" focuses on literary representations of poverty in the post-New Deal welfare state. Current member of the Graduate Academic Unit.
Edith Snook
BA, MA (Alberta), PhD (Western Ontario)
Carleton Hall 228-2 ~ (506) 458-7397
esnook@unb.ca
Edith Snook works on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature, with a particular focus on writing by women. Her book, Women, Reading, and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England (2005), is a study of representations of reading in early modern women’s writing. She has just completed a second SSHRC-funded book project on the beauty practices of seventeenth-century women; Becoming Beautiful in Seventeenth-Century England is a consideration of health, politics, and race in print and manuscript writing about cosmetics, clothing, and hairstyling by Aphra Behn, Mary Wroth, Margaret Cavendish, Anne Clifford, and others. Her next SSHRC-funded research project is a study of the influence of women's medical practice on women's writing in seventeenth-century England. Among her publications on early modern women's writing are essays on women and reading in The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing (2009) and sixteenth-century maternal advice in The Palgrave History of Women's Writing, 1500-1610 (2010). She is interested in supervising theses on early modern non-dramatic literature, particularly women's writing, but also including Milton and writing about politics, medicine, beauty, reading, and manuscript culture. She is able to hire a research assistant with an interest in manuscript culture and early modern women's writing. Current member of the Graduate Academic Unit.
Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos
BA, MA, PhD (Western Ontario)
Carleton Hall 317 ~ (506) 458-7410
demetres@unb.ca
Teaching, Research, and Graduate Supervision: I teach and research in twentieth-century American Literature with a focus on difficult modernist texts (especially long poems) often approaching them through the lenses of poetics, translation theory and practice, prosody and rhetoric, and editorial theory and textual criticism. My research interests have taken me to such archives, among others, as those at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale U.; the New York Public Library; the Lilly Library, U. of Indiana at Bloomington; the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, U. of Texas at Austin; the British Library, London, UK; and several manuscript libraries in Italy and Greece. My graduate students have been trained in various aspects of modernist research, have visited archives (with SSHRC support) and have published their work in journal and book form; they have also had the opportunity to attend international conferences like the Modernist Studies Association (MSA) and the American Literature Association (ALA). Over the past twenty years, I myself have attended more than eighty conferences in Canada, the U.S., England, France, Italy, and Greece.
My current projects include The Correspondence of H.L. Mencken and Ezra Pound (forthcoming from Oxford UP, 2010); Ezra Pound's and H.D.'s Hellenistic Prosodies; Approaches to Teaching Ezra Pound’s Poetry and Prose (forthcoming from MLAP, 2011); The Inmate at St Elizabeths: The Correspondence of Ezra Pound and Archibald MacLeish; The Sound of Poetry: The Poetry of Sound--Free Verse and After; The Modernist Greek Long Poem: George Seferis, Nikos Gatsos and Odysseas Elytis; and a book on Constantine Cavafy’s language(s).
Publications: My essays on Ezra Pound and other modernists have appeared in North American and European journals; I have contributed essays to many collections, including Dante e Pound (Longo Editore, 1998) and The H.D. Companion (Cambridge UP, 2010). I am the author of The Celestial Tradition: A Study of Ezra Pound's "The Cantos" (WLUP, 1992), translated into Italian under the title Pound e l'occulto: le radici esoteriche dei Cantos (Roma: Mediterranee, 1998); and I have edited or co-edited many books, including Literary Modernism and the Occult Tradition (NPF, 1996); "I Cease Not to Yowl": Pound's Letters to Olivia Rossetti Agresti (U. of Illinois P, 1998); Fiddlehead Gold: Fifty Years of the Fiddlehead Magazine (Goose Lane Editions, 1995); William Carlos Williams and the Language of Poetry (NPF, 2002); and The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia (Greenwood P, 2005). The year 2009 saw the publication of H.D. (writing as Delia Alton), Majic Ring, ed. Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos (Gainesville: UP of Florida); a Greek translation of L'America, Roosevelt e le cause della guerra presente (preface and editorial supervision by Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos; trans. and introd. Ioannis Kotoulas, Athens: Periplous); and a Japanese edition of The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia. Eds. Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos and Stephen J. Adams; Trans. Takaomi Eda (Tokyo: Yushodo P).
Other interests/professional activities: For the past several years I have served as Book Review Editor for Paideuma: Studies and American and British Modernist Poetry; and on behalf of the Ezra Pound Society of North America, I am responsible for arranging annually two sessions at each of the Modern Language Association Congress and the ALA. Finally, for the past ten years (1999-present) I have also served as Associate or Assistant Dean, School of Graduate Studies, UNB.
Current member of the Graduate Academic Unit.
Professors Emeriti
Robert Cockburn
BA, MA (UNB)
Robert Cockburn’s interests include Modern American fiction and poetry, the literature of war, and the literature of travel and of the outdoors. At an early period in his career, he wrote The Novels of Hugh MacLennan and published essays on Canadian writers. His poetry has been published in some twenty journals and six anthologies and featured on five CBC radio programmes. He recently edited Toward Magnetic North (2000), a photographic account of Ernest Oberholtzer’s epic canoe voyage of 1912. His edition of P.G. Downes’s Sleeping Island was published in 1988 and reprinted in 2004. Articles by him on far northern travellers and explorers can be found in Appalachia, Arctic, The Beaver, and The Journal of Polar Studies. He supervised twenty-one MAs and eight PhDs. He is currently writing a history of the Lowland Scottish regiments of the British Army.
Gwendolyn Davies
BA (Dalhousie-King's), Educ. Certif. (Toronto),
MA (Toronto), PhD (York),
DCL (U. of King's College), FRSC
daviesg@unb.ca
Gwen Davies' main research and supervisory areas are pre-1950 Canadian literature, Atlantic literature (1628 to current), and the History of the Book in Canada. She has authored, edited, or co-edited five books, including a scholarly edition of Thomas McCulloch's The Stepsure Letters, Studies in Maritime Literary History, and, with Carole Gerson, Canadian Poetry: From the Beginnings Through the First World War. Over her career, she has served on various national funding and professional committees, including being President of the Canadian Association of Chairs of English, President of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, and a member of the Executives of both Canadian and Northeastern U.S. Associations for Graduate Studies. From 2000-2008, she was Associate Vice President of Research and Dean of Graduate Studies at UNB. She is editing a critical edition of James DeMille's A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder for 2010-11 publication; is working on four 1890s reform women writers from the Maritimes; and is planning a book on Loyalist women as agents of cultural transfer in the late 1800s. She was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada in 2004 and since 2008 has been Professor and Dean Emerita at UNB. She currently sits on the Vanier CGS Program Selection Board, is on the Advisory Board of the W.A. Deacon Literary Foundation, and is General Editor of Formac's Maritime Fiction Reprint Series. She is a member of the Graduate Academic Unit.
Robert Gibbs
BA, MA (UNB), MA (Cambridge), PhD (UNB)
Robert Gibbs’ chief interest is poetry. Since retirement in 1989, he has concentrated more on his own writing than on research. He has published a chapbook, Earth Aches, his seventh collection of poems, and a second collection of stories, Angels Watch Do Keep (Oberon Press, 1997). As literary executor of the Alden Nowlan Estate, he has edited a selected poems and a selection in two parts of newspaper columns, one of which appeared in 1996 under the title White Madness from Oberon Press. His bio-critical essay “Various Persons Named Alden Nowlan” appears as the introduction to the archival catalogue, The Alden Nowlan Papers, published by the University of Calgary.
Honorary Research Professors
Daniel W. Doerksen
BA (Manitoba), MA, PhD (Wisconsin)
Daniel Doerksen’s main areas of interest are seventeenth-century poetry and prose, English Renaissance literature, the Bible both as literature and as background for English literature, and historical scholarship. He is the author of Conforming to the Word: Herbert, Donne, and the English Church before Laud (1997), and has edited, with Christopher Hodgkins of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, a collection of essays, Centered on the Word: Literature, Scripture, and the Tudor-Stuart Middle Way (U of Delaware Press, 2004). His 1974 article on Margaret Avison was reprinted in Poets and Critics and excerpted substantially in Contemporary Literary Criticism (Gale, 1997). He has published articles on Donne, Herbert, Spenser, and Milton, and contributed to the Spenser Encyclopedia. He has also been a contributing editor for the Donne Variorum project, Associate Editor for English Studies in Canada (1977-85), and Book Review Editor (1991-97) for Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme. He is at work on the context for Donne and Herbert’s contributions to religious toleration, and on a book-length study of Donne and the Bible.
Anne Klinck
BA, MA (Oxford), MA (McGill), MA, PhD (UBC)
Anne Klinck's field is Medieval English and language studies; she also has a strong secondary interest in classics. Her critical edition and genre study, The Old English Elegies, was published by McGill-Queen's University Press in 1992 and reissued in 2001. Her co-edited fifth and final volume of the Middle English The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi was published in 2000 by the University of Ottawa Press. She published Cross-Cultural Approaches to Medieval Woman's Song, a co-edited collection of essays, with the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2002, and An Anthology of Ancient and Medieval Woman's Song with Palgrave Press in 2004. She has also published on Sappho and other ancient Greek lyric, and is currently publishing a collection and translation of Songs for Girls and Women in Early Greece.
Edward Mullaly
BA (Windsor), MA, PhD (UNB)
Edward Mullaly is the web representative for Theatre Research in Canada, has edited an anthology of early plays by Archibald MacLeish, and published Desperate Stages, a study of nineteenth-century theatre history. He has taught courses in Shakespeare, theatre history, American literature, Canadian drama, and drama production. As well as a checklist on MacLeish, he has published a number of articles and reviews on nineteenth- and twentieth- century American and Canadian theatre. He is the founding webmeister of the extensive Atlantic Canada Theatre Site, a much-praised research tool sustained in recent years by a SSHRC research grant.
Honorary Research Associates
Madeline Bassnett
BA (U of T), MFA (Antioch), MA (UNB), PhD (Dalhousie)
bassnett@unb.ca
Madeline Bassnett's areas of interest include sixteenth- and seventeenth-century prose and poetry, with a particular focus on early modern women's writing, Elizabethan prose fiction, and instructional manuals (recipe books, husbandry and military manuals). Currently a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto, she is examining Elizabethan representations of and responses to the environmental effects of war. Her academic work has been published in The Dollhouse Review, English Studies in Canada, and Early English Studies. Her poetry has been published in The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review, echolocation, Room of One's Own, and The Paradelle: An Anthology.
Gerard Beirne
BA, BAI (Trinity College Dublin), MFA (Eastern Washington University)
gbeirne@unb.ca
Gerard Beirne is an Irish writer who has lived in Canada since 1997. His main interests are fiction and poetry. He teaches part-time in the English Department at UNB and was appointed as Writer-in-Residence at UNB for 2008/2009. He is a past recipient of The Sunday Tribune/Hennessy New Irish Writer of the Year Award. His novel The Eskimo in the Net (Marion Boyars Publishers, London) was short-listed for The Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award 2004. His collection of poetry Digging My Own Grave (Dedalus Press) was runner-up in The Patrick Kavanagh Award. His short story Sightings of Bono was adapted for film featuring Bono (U2). His most recent novel Turtle was published by Oberon Press, 2009.
Alan C. Burk
BA (Hanover), MA (Brown), PhD (Brown), MLS (Western)
Alan Burk is the Associate Director for the Libraries and was the founding director of the Electronic Text Centre from 1996-2005. His broad research interests are in the areas of Humanities Computing and Electronic Publishing. He has been involved in many grants, including a recent Canada Foundation award for $11,000,000 to build a Pan-Canadian electronic publishing and research infrastructure. One of his main research interests, supported by a research agreement with Elsevier and a grant from the New Brunswick Innovation Fund, is in using applications of machine learning to automatically build metadata or cataloguing data to index and describe scholarly information on the Web. He is a frequent presenter at conferences and contributor to journals and other literature related to Humanities Computing, including a forthcoming Blackwell's book on Humanities Computing.
Anne Compton
BA (UPEI), MA (York), PhD (UNB)
Anne Compton is Lorenzo Writer-in-Residence at UNB Saint John. In this capacity, she works with writers on the campus and in the community, runs workshops, and is the director of three series---The Lorenzo Reading Series; Backtalk: lectures, on-stage interviews, panel discussions; and The Cormorant Noontime Series.
Compton is the author of Processional--winner of the Governor-General's Award for Poetry (2005) and The Atlantic Poetry Prize (2006), shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Prize--and Opening the Island--winner of The Atlantic Poetry Prize (2003), shortlisted for The John and Margaret Savage First Book Award. Compton is the author as well of the scholarly works, A.J.M. Smith: Canadian Metaphysical (1994) and Meetings with Maritime Poets: Interviews (2006), and numerous scholarly articles. She is the Co-editor of Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada (2002) and the editor of The Edge of Home: Milton Acorn from the Island (2002). Compton's most recent poetry collection--asking questions indoors and out--was published in 2009.
In 2008, she won The Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence in the Literary Arts and a National Magazine Award in Poetry. At UNB Saint John, she won the Excellence in Teaching Award for the Department of Humanities and Languages (2008) and the Excellence in Teaching Award for the Faculty of Arts (2008).
Dennis Desroches
BA (Wilfrid Laurier), MA (Guelph), PhD (McMaster)
desroches@stu.ca
Jennifer Harris
BA (UWO), MA-English (York), MA-Women's Studies (York), PhD (York)
jharris@mta.ca
Dr. Harris works in the area of American literature and culture. She has been a Fulbright scholar at NYU, and holds a SSHRC grant. She is also the review editor of the Canadian Review of American Studies, the secretary of the Canadian Association for American Studies, and the Cultural Studies and Film Director of NeMLA. She has published in African American Review, American Transcendental Quarterly, Journal of American Culture, and elsewhere, and is included in the anthologies The Cultural History of Reading, Popular Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and the Literary Marketplace, and Women Writers and the Artifacts of Celebrity in the Long Nineteenth Century (forthcoming). Her co-edited anthology (with Elwood Watson) The Oprah Phenomenon is in its second edition. Accepted forthcoming publications include "Wax Coquettes: Elizabeth Whitman, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and the Nineteenth-Century Traveling Waxwork Exhibition" (Canadian Review of American Studies); "Aprons and Pearls: Images of Phillis Wheatley" (Resources for American Literary Study); and "The Legend of John Ruskin in Nineteenth-Century Upper Canada" (Ruskin Review and Bulletin).
M. Travis Lane
BA (Vassar), MA, PhD (Cornell)
M. Travis Lane, born 1934, Canadian citizen 1973, B.A. Honours, junior Phi Beta Kappa Vassar; M.A. and PhD Cornell, PhD thesis "Agnosticism as technique in the poetry of Robert Frost" 1967. Has taught english survey, contemporary American poetry, West Indian writing. Major Honours: Pat Lowther 1980, NBWF 1994, Atlantic Poetry prize 2001, Alden Nowlan Award 2003, Bliss Carman prize 2006. Honorary Research Associate for UNB English department since 1967; outside reader for several theses. Numerous (over 100) reviews and essays. Books and chapbooks: An Inch or So of Garden (1969), Poems 1968-1972 (1973), Homecomings (1977), Divinations and shorter poems (1980), Walking under the nebulae, Reckonings (1988), Solid Things (1989), Temporary Shelter (1993), Night Physics (1994), Keeping Afloat (2001), Touch Earth (2006), and The Crisp Day Closing on my Hand, selected poems, Sir Wilfrid Laurier University Press and, forthcoming, The All Nighter's Radio and The Book of Widows.
Sharon McCartney
BA (Pomona College), MFA (Iowa), LLB (Victoria)
Sharon McCartney's main area of interest is contemporary poetry. She is the author of The Love Song of Laura Ingalls Wilder (Nightwood Editions, 2007), Switchgrass Stills (littlefishcartpress, 2006), Karenin Sings the Blues (Goose Lane Editions, 2003) and Under the Abdominal Wall (Anvil Press, 1999). She works as a legal editor for Maritime Law Book.
Kathleen McConnell
BFA (NSCADU), BA (MSVU), MA (Wilfrid Laurier), PhD (Dalhousie)
kathymac@stu.ca
Kathleen McConnell (pen name Kathy Mac) teaches 19th Century Literature, Women Writers, Gothic Literature and Creative Writing at St. Thomas University. She has published two books of poems: The Hundefraulein Papers (Roseway, 2009), and Nail Builders Plan for Strength and Growth (Roseway, 2001), which was a finalist for the Governor General's Award, and won the Lampert Award for Best First Book of Poems published in Canada in 2001. In 2006 she received a SSHRC Research/Creation grant to produce a manuscript of Scholarly Long Poems, which has led to work such as the most recent of her eight refereed publications, "Omar Khadr is not Harry Potter." It explores the differences between the child soldiers of fiction and reality.
Matt Robinson
BA (St. Mary's), BSc (St. Mary's), BEd (MSVU), MA (UNB), PhD (UNB)
Matt Robinson received his PhD in 2009. He is the author of no cage contains a stare that well (ECW Press, 2005), tracery & interplay (Frog Hollow Press, 2004), how we play at it: a list (ECW Press, 2002) and A Ruckus of Awkward Stacking (Insomniac Press, 2000).
Roger Seamon
AB (University of California, Berkeley), MA, PhD (Claremont)
Dr. Roger Seamon is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of British Columbia, where he taught in the department of English and ArtsOne, a first year humanities program, which he also directed. Since his retirement in 2002, he has taught Literary Theory and English 2902 at UNB. He has also taught in Bhutan as part of UNB's "Bhutan Project." His main research interests are literary theory, the philosophy of art, and the history of academic criticism. A recent concern, based on earlier work in the history of criticism, is a critique of the current effort to base literary study on evolutionary theory. Dr. Seamon's current project is a brief historical account of literary study in the modern research university.
Anne Simpson
BA, BEd, MA (Queen’s University)
Anne Simpson's main interests are poetry and fiction. A winner of the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prize for her second poetry collection, Loop (M&S, 2003), she has also been nominated for the Governor-General's Award. Four of her six books have been selected as Globe & Mail Best Books. Her second novel, Falling (M&S, 2008), won the Dartmouth Fiction Award and was longlisted for the IMPAC Dublic Literary Award. She has also written a book of essays, The Marram Grass: Poetry and Otherness, (Gaspereau, 2009). She teaches part-time at St. Francis Xavier University.
Anthony Tremblay
BA (St. Francis Xavier), MA (Victoria), PhD (UNB)
Tony Tremblay is Professor of Canadian and Cultural Studies at St. Thomas University. His areas of research include contemporary Maritime and Canadian literature; media, film, technology, McLuhan, and popular culture; and postcolonial theory and literature. His articles have appeared in English Studies in Canada, Studies in Canadian Literature, Essays on Canadian Writing, Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, Topia: A Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, The New Quarterly, ellipse, Paideuma, The Dalhousie Review, Pottersfield Portfolio, Brick, The Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada, and a number of book-length scholarly collections on Louis Dudek, Quebec poetry, Atlantic literature, and Canadian modernism. He has also edited three collections of essays. His critical biography, David Adams Richards of the Miramichi, is forthcoming in 2007. He has lectured in India and the US as a Shastri and ICUSTA fellow. He is currently co-Director of the New Brunswick and Atlantic Studies Research and Development Centre at St. Thomas, and is on the editorial boards of The Antigonish Review and Nashwaak Review. His current research involves two archival projects: one on New Brunswick's pioneering modernists (A.G. Bailey and Desmond Pacey) and one editing the Selected Letters of Louis Dudek.
Adjunct Professor
Christl Verduyn
BA (Trent), MA & PhD (Ottawa)
Mount Allison University
cverduyn@mta.ca
Christl Verduyn is Professor in the Department of English and the Canadian Studies Program at Mount Allison University. Her research and teaching interests include Canadian and Québécois literatures; women's writing and criticism; multiculturalism and minority writing; life writing and Canadian studies. She has published books, articles, special issues of journals and reviews in these areas, and has been an active participant in and organizer of conferences in them as well. Her research has been generously supported over the years by grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada and the Canadian Federation for the Humanities, and has received a number of awards and recognitions, including the Gabrielle Book Prize for Lifelines: Marian Engel's Writing (1995) and the Association for Asian American Studies Honourable Mention for Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography (2008, with E. Ty). She is currently co-editing collections in Canadian studies and Canadian literature and serving as Editor of the Journal of Canadian Studies (2008-2011). Before joining the faculty at Mount Allison, Christl Verduyn taught at Wilfrid Laurier University (2000-2006), where she chaired the Canadian Studies Program, and at Trent University (1980-2000), where she was Chair of Women's Studies (1987-90) and Chair of Canadian Studies (1993-99). She was President of the national Association for Canadian Studies (2000-2002) and in 2006 she received the Governor General's International Award for Canadian Studies. She is a member of the Royal Society of Canada and served as President of its Academy of Arts and Humanities from 2007-2009.
Retired Professors
William A. Bauer
BA (Amherst), MAT (Wesleyan), PhD (N. Carolina)
Prose non-fiction literature of the Restoration and eighteenth century
Anthony Boxill
BA (St. F.X.), MA, PhD (UNB)
Commonwealth Literature (West Indian and African), and the modern novel
A. Barry Cameron
BA, MA (Windsor), PhD (Rutgers)
Screenwriting, film studies, and film and multimedia production
Theodore Colson
BA (Roberts Wesleyan), MA (Syracuse), PhD (Michigan)
American prose and poetry of the Modernist period
Gwendolyn Davies
BA (Dalhousie-King’s), Educ. Certif. (Toronto),
MA (Toronto), PhD (York)
Canadian (and Atlantic) literature and the History of the Book in Canada
W.R. Gair
BA, MA, PhD (Cambridge)
Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre, Edmund Spenser, and John Milton
Richard Guerin
BA, MA (California State), PhD (Colorado)
Chaucer, Middle English, and Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature
Anne Klinck
BA, MA (Oxford), MA (McGill), MA, PhD (UBC)
Medieval English and language studies
Mary Elizabeth Smith
BA (King’s), MA (Dalhousie), PhD (Exon)
Renaissance drama, the drama and theatre history of Atlantic Canada, and the Bible as literature and as a source of literary allusion
M. J. Taylor
BA, Dip Ed (Wales), PhD (Birmingham)
Shakespeare and other Renaissance dramatists, Alice Munro, Henry James, and the prose romance
Kent E. Thompson
BA (Hanover), MA (Iowa), PhD (Wales)
Creative writing and theatre