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Faculty
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| | Adam Beardsworth, Assistant Professor; BA(Mt.Allison), MA (Memorial University), Ph.D (Memorial University) Office: AS332K
Phone: 637-6200, ext. 6217
Email: abeardsworth@grenfell.mun.ca Research Interests: Dr. Adam Beardsworth specializes in twentieth-century poetics, literary theory, Cold War literatures, and contemporary American literature. He is currently completing a manuscript on autobiographic poetry in relation to its Cold War contexts, and is co-editing a collection of essays on the 1963 Vancouver Poetry Conference. |  |
| | Basil Chiasson, Visiting Assistant Professor; BA(St.Mary's), MA (York University), Ph.D. (University of Leeds) Office: AS332D
Phone: 637-6200, ext. 6428
Email: bchiasson@grenfell.mun.ca Research Interests: Dr. Basil Chiasson specializes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century drama, with special attention to Harold Pinter and his post-war contemporaries in Britain. He is foremost interested in the relationships and intersections between aesthetics and politics. Currently, he is working on a project which traces changes in dramatic and performance aesthetics in Britain and Ireland since the 1980s and their connection to the ascendancy of “neoliberal” rationalities in those nations. | |
| | Tony Fabijancic, B.A. (St. Francis Xavier), M.A. (Victoria), Ph.D. (New Brunswick); Associate Professor Office: AS332M
Phone: (709) 637-6200 ext 6564
Email: afabijan@grenfell.mun.ca Research Interests: Dr. Tony Fabijancic is a travel writer whose other research interests include modernity, modernism, urban space, and the history of the Balkans. He has published travel pieces and essays in a number of international magazines and newspapers. He is the author of "Croatia: Travels in Undiscovered Country" (University of Alberta Press, 2003) and "Bosnia: In the Footsteps of Gavrilo Princip" (U. of Alberta Press, 2009)."
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| | Shoshanna Ganz, M.A. (Carleton), Ph.D. (University of Ottawa); Assistant Professor Office: AS332N
Phone: 637-6200 ext. 6243
Email: shganz@grenfell.mun.ca Research Interests: Dr. Ganz works within Early and Contemporary Canadian Literature, travel writing, pilgrimage literature, comparative island literature, Canadian writing on Mexico, and Canadian Environmental Literature. |  |
| | Paul Grant, M.A. (Glasgow), M.Phil., Ph.D. (Cambridge); Assistant Professor;
On Leave 2010-2011 Office: AS332Q
Phone: (709) 637-6200 ext 6149
Email: pgrant@grenfell.mun.ca Research Interests: Dr. Grant’s research interests lie in 19th- and 20th-century literature, with emphasis on the post-1950 period. Forthcoming publications include Lolita: A Biography (Harvard University Press), co-authored with Brian Boyd, and Mind and Matter: The Humour of Vladimir Nabokov. He is also editing Carver Across the Curriculum: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching the Fiction and Poetry of Raymond Carver (Cambridge Scholars Publishing).
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| | Margaret Hepditch, BA (Memorial University), LL.B (UNB), MA (Memorial University); Per-Course Appointee, Fall 2011 Office: AS327
Email: mhepditch@grenfell.mun.ca | |
| | Ken Jacobsen, B.A. (Trinity Western), M.A. (Queen's), Ph.D. (Queen's); Assistant Professor Office: AS332G
Phone: (709) 637-6200 ext 6333
Email: kjacobse@grenfell.mun.ca |  |
| | Stephanie McKenzie, B.A. (Victoria), M.A. (Concordia), Ph.D. (Toronto); Associate Professor Office: AS332R
Phone: (709) 637-6200 ext 6324
Email: smckenzi@grenfell.mun.ca Research Interests: Dr. McKenzie works within Canadian Literature, with specializations in Aboriginal Studies, Caribbean-Canadian Literature, and Women's Writing. She is the author of "Before the Country: Native Renaissance, Canadian Mythology" (University of Toronto Press, 2007), a study of the evolution of aboriginal Canadian writing. She has also written two volumes of poetry, "Cutting My Mother's Hair" (Salmon, 2006) and "Grace Must Wander" (Salmon, 2009), and edited or co-edited a number of poetry anthologies, including "The Echoing Years" (with John Ennis and Randall Maggs) and "An Island in the Sky: Selected Poetry of Al Pittman." (with Martin Ware). |  |
| | Holly Pike, B.A. (Memorial), M.A. (Dalhousie), Ph.D. (S.U.N.Y./Buffalo); Associate Professor; On Leave 2011-2012 Office: AS332P
Phone: (709) 637-6200 ext 6560
Email: hpike@grenfell.mun.ca Research Interests: Dr. Pike is the author of "Family and Society in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell," has published a number of articles on the works of L. M. Montgomery, and is currently working on a study of the social, cultural, and economic contexts of Montgomery's career.
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| | Lois Sherlow, B.A. (Birmingham), M.A. (Carleton), Ph.D. (Ottawa); Associate Professor. On Sabbatical 2011-2012
Office: AS332D
Phone: (709) 637-6219
Email: lsherlow@grenfell.mun.ca | |
| | Marc Thackray, B.A. (Waterloo), M.A., Ph.D. (S.U.N.Y./Buffalo); Associate Professor; Chair of Programme Office: AS332L
Phone: (709) 637-6200, ext. 6129
Email: thackray@grenfell.mun.ca Research Interests: Dr. Thackray specializes in American literature; modern and contemporary poetry, with interest in the contemporary long poem; and science fiction. He is the editor of Noel Murphy's "Cottage Hospital Doctor," among other works. He is currently working on a study of Daphne Marlatt's Steveston-related works.
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| | Heather Wellman, B. A. (Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Memorial), M. A. (Memorial); Per-Course Appointee, Fall 2011 Office: AS327
Email: hwellman@grenfell.mun.ca |  |
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