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You will read and write in every course you take at university, a fact that helps to explain the importance of English courses in your education.

In addition to offering major, minor and honours programs as part of the Bachelor of Arts degree, the department of English offers a range of courses to all students at MacEwan University, from first-year courses focusing on the basics of writing, composition, and literary study, to more specialized period and genre courses at the senior levels, to highly specialized 400-level seminar courses. In all of our courses, you will hone your writing and research skills and gain a body of knowledge that will help you succeed in both your studies and the workplace. You will strengthen your writing, apply critical reading and thinking skills, and add to your general education with the opportunity to study many facets of language, aspects of popular culture, and thought-provoking works of literature.

In your courses and your classrooms, the department of English strives to create an environment that demands excellence and expresses our commitment to helping you achieve it.

100-level
200-level
300-level
400-level
Special Topics

The course list identifies approved courses that MacEwan University may offer. Not all courses will be offered every year and some courses are restricted to particular programs. Contact an advisor in your program for information on course availability.

Important Prerequisite Information

Please note that a C- in any of the following MacEwan courses will satisfy the prerequisite for all 200 and 300 level English courses: English 101, English 100, English 105, English 132 and English 133, or English 102 and English 103.

2019/20

2019/20

ENGL 205 - Rhetoric and Textual Analysis

ENGL 207 - Sentence Style and Textual Analysis

ENGL 211 - Business Communication

ENGL 218 - Reading Gender

ENGL 215 - Sports in Literature

ENGL 218 - Reading Gender

ENGL 219 - Readings in Speculative Fiction

ENGL 240 - The Bible as Literature

ENGL 243 - Genesis of English Literary Forms: Old English to late Renaissance

ENGL 282 - Introduction to the Short Story

ENGL 283 - Introduction to the Novel

ENGL 284 - Introduction to Drama

ENGL 285 - Introduction to Poetry

ENGL 286 - Introduction to Literary Non-Fiction

ENGL 288 - Introduction to Film Narrative

ENGL 297 - Academic Essay Writing

2019/20

English

ENGL 307 - The History of the English Language

ENGL 319 - Earlier Medieval English Literature

ENGL 320 - Later Middle English Literature

ENGL 324 - Chaucer

ENGL 336 - Studies in Shakespeare

ENGL 337 - English Renaissance Literature

ENGL 340 - Studies in 17th Century English Literature

ENGL 341 - Augustan Literature

ENGL 342 - Topics in the Long 18th Century Literature

ENGL 348 - Milton

ENGL 350 - Topics in Romantic Literature

ENGL 352 - Early Victorian Literature

ENGL 353 - Later Victorian Literature

ENGL 358 - 19th Century American Literature

ENGL 361 - Early 20th Century American Literature

ENGL 362 - Contemporary American Literature

ENGL 364 - Topics in 20th and 21st Century Literature

ENGL 365 - Early 20th Century British & Anglophone Literature

ENGL 366 - Contemporary British and Anglophone Literature

ENGL 368 - Topics in Race and Gender

ENGL 374 - Early Canadian Literature

ENGL 376 - Contemporary Canadian Literature

ENGL 377 - Studies in Indigenous Literature

ENGL 381 - Topics in Post-Colonial Literature

ENGL 382 - Topics in Literary Studies

ENGL 383 - Topics in World Literature

ENGL 388 - Topics in Film Studies

ENGL 389 - Topics in Children's Literature

ENGL 391 - Topics in Literary Theory

ENGL 398 - Independent Study

2019/20

English

ENGL 401 - Studies in Genres

ENGL 402 - Studies in Authors

ENGL 405 - Topics in Canadian Literature

ENGL 481 - Post- Colonial Theory and Practice

ENGL 489 - Literary Themes, Traditions, and Phenomena

ENGL 491 - Early and Later Middle English

ENGL 492 - Elizabethan/17th Century Literature

ENGL 493 - Restoration/Eighteenth Century Literature

ENGL 494 - Nineteenth Century Literature

ENGL 495 - Twentieth Century Literature

ENGL 496 - Intersections - Theory and Culture

ENGL 497 - Twenty-First Century Literature

ENGL 498 - Advanced Independent Study

ENGL 499 - Honours Thesis Project

Fall 2019

ENGL 350: Topics in Romantic Literature

Topic: Prose Works of the Romantic Period

Instructor: Dr. Mark Smith

In this course, students read prose works by novelists and essayists such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Sir Walter Scott, James Hogg and Thomas De Quincey.

Prerequisites: Minimum grade of C- in 6 credits of 100 level University English except ENGL 108, ENGL 111 and ENGL 199.

ENGL 389: Topics in Children's Literature

Topic: British Fantasy for Children and Young Adults

Instructor: Dr. Bill Thompson

This course examines British children’s fantasy from the nineteenth century to the present. It seeks to interrogate those texts that form the core of the Fantasy tradition in Britain, from Alice’s adventures to Harry Potter, and from the Psammead trilogy to the Narnia chronicles. By examining such texts, the course reconsiders the tradition of British children’s fantasy in relation to shifting definitions of the genre and cultural constructions of the child in literature.

Prerequisites: Minimum grade of C- in 6 credits of 100 level University English except ENGL 108, ENGL 111 and ENGL 199.

ENGL 401: Studies in Genres

Topic: Lyric Theory

Instructor: Dr. Sara Grewal

This course focuses on the genre of lyric poetry by examining theoretical approaches to the form in various schools of thought, from Romanticism to New Criticism to Post-structuralism and beyond. The course also traces a historical trajectory through which lyric ballooned from a designation for a specific sub-type of poetry to a designation for poetry and poetic-ness as a whole. Finally, we examine debates in approaches to lyric poetry in academic scholarship produced within the last 5-10 years, while also discussing the extent to which lyric holds as a genre and/or theoretical body when applied to poetic practices outside of the West. Structurally, each week consist of readings on lyric theory from a particular school of thought, mainly taken from The Lyric Theory Reader. Students then present a reading of a poem of their choice that demonstrates an application of that week’s theory to poetic reading practices of a given poem. (For example, if the week’s readings focus on the Frankfurt School, a student would present a reading of a poem based on the Frankfurt School model of lyric theory.)

Prerequisites: Minimum grade of C- in 12 credits of 200- or 300-level English courses.

ENGL 402: Studies in Authors

Topic: Jane Austen

Instructor: Dr. Paul Lumsden

This course has a two-fold objective. First we will read Jane Austen's six completed novels: Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion; we will explore Austen’s writing in the context of her life, the Regency period, Romanticism, and the historical development of the novel. Students will develop their own sense of the patterns running through Austen’s novels and the cultural background that informs them. Second we will explore the enduring popularity of Austen’s work.

Prerequisites: Minimum grade of C- in 12 credits of 200- or 300-level English courses.

ENGL 494: 19th Century Literature

Topic: Fin-de-siecle Fictions of Anthropometry

Instructor: Dr. Daniel Martin

This seminar examines how Victorian fiction and prose non-fiction of the 1890s (also known as the fin de siècle) responded to the emerging scientific study of anthropometry, the science of human measurements and what we now call biometrics. Students study literary texts alongside scientific writing on such topics as eugenic scientific realism; representations of the criminal body; fictions of the racialized other; gothic bodies and anthropometric excess; the psychology and physiology of the “New Woman;” detective fiction and forensic analyses of human behavior; and literary narratives of degeneration and decadence.

Prerequisites: Minimum grade of C- in 12 credits of 200- or 300-level English courses.

Winter 2020

ENGL 342: Topics in the Long 18th-century Literature

Topic: The Comic Novel

Instructor: Dr. Dave Buchanan

The rise of the novel as a genre in the eighteenth century has traditionally been associated with romance and realism. But the 1700s also saw the development of a comic strain in this new genre, inspired by such diverse influences as the physical comedy of Restoration drama, the period’s love of verse satire and the continental examples of Cervantes’ Don Quixote and Moliere’s stage comedies. In this course, students study representative examples of English comic novels of the long eighteenth century, by writers such as Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Frances Burney and Jane Austen.

Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in 6 credits of university English except ENGL 108, ENGL 111 and ENGL 199.

ENGL 364: Topics in 20th and 21st Century Literature

Topic: The Pakistani Novel

Instructor: Dr. Sara Grewal

This course considers the wide range of writing from Pakistani novelists in the late 20th and 21st century, including works by Mohsin Hamid, Kamila Shamsie, Muhammad Hanif, Sara Suleri, Bapsi Sidhwa and Daniel Mueenuddin. In considering these works that range from poignant memoir to political satire to social drama, students gain a familiarity with the historical, social, economic and political circumstances that influence the shape of Pakistani society. We also discuss the historical trajectory that brought the novel to prominence as an English-language literary genre in Pakistan. Finally, we ask to what extent these writers’ works can and/or should be circumscribed by the label “Pakistani;” how do each of these authors simultaneously address both national audiences and international audiences, as well as both local and global concerns?

Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in six credits of university English, not including English 108, English 111 or English 199.

ENGL 381: Topics in Post-colonial Literature

Topic: Between the British and Russian Empires

Instructor: Dr. Lana Krys

The twentieth century saw the fall of the imperial world order that extended over Africa, the Middle East and the Caribbean, and the birth of new forms of imperialism, expressed, for instance, in the political power struggle of the cold war that divided Europe into two separate areas of East and West. It also saw an emergence of a cohort of national states that tried to reassess their colonial past and develop their own, autonomous political and cultural identities. The literature exploring these processes and produced out of such imperial condition is the subject of this course. We employ the post-colonial theory as a unifying arch to focus on the topics of hegemonic discourses, othering, subaltern people and their resistance to colonial power, the question of identities, as well as effects of colonialism. Readings include a selection of works from the ex-colonies of the British Empire, as well as from the national states, particularly Ukraine, that emerged out of the Russian Empire. Overall, the goal of the course is to map historical linkages between colonialism and neo-colonialism and identify the role literature can play in challenging the predominant imperial discourses.

Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in six credits of university English, not including English 108, English 111 or English 199.

ENGL 389: Topics in Children's Literature

Topic: Journeys in Oz: From Baum to Broadway

Instructor: Dr. Mike Perschon

Combining Linda Hutcheon's Theory of Adaptation with Alyssa Burger's The Wizard of Oz as American Myth, this course explores how narratives survive and evolve through adaptation. Our case study is The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, from L. Frank Baum's seminal American fantasy for children, to the MGM film that eclipsed its source material, to Wicked, the novel and stage play that revivified public interest in Oz by changing the primary point-of-view from Kansas farm girl Dorothy Gale to the story's iconic villain, the Wicked Witch of the West.

Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in six credits of university English, not including English 108, English 111 or English 199.

ENGL 391: Topics in Literary Theory

Topic: Imitation, Translation, Modernity

Instructor: Dr. Mark Smith

In this course, students trace the literary theoretical concepts of imitation and translation from canonical ancient texts by Aristotle and Horace through critical statements by writers of the late 17th century, 18th century, Romantic and modernist periods. After the Enlightenment and the Romantic reaction to it, the concept of modernity (or “the modern”) becomes central to most working theories of poetics and writing. The question is no longer only "how does one write?" or "how does one learn the craft of writing well?" It becomes as well "how does one write in a way that is right or fitting for the (modern) era in which one lives?" How to represent "modern life" in poetry or narrative? The concept of modernity, coiled around the older concepts of mimesis and translation, insinuates itself into all of the texts we read in the second half of the semester.

Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in six credits of 200- or 300-level university courses.

ENGL 402: Studies in Authors

Topic: J. K. Rowling and the Boy who Lived

Instructor: Dr. Bill Thompson

Since the publication of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (1997), the Harry Potter series has come to represent a literary and cultural phenomenon that operates across a variety of media platforms. The seven books of the series, the eight films, the Internet sites, the fan fiction, and the merchandizing together form a franchise that has found a fixed place in children’s and young people’s literature and culture. This course seeks to interrogate Rowling’s series within both a literary and cultural context, and address its effect on the shifting landscape of children’s and young adult literature.

Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in 12 credits of 200- or 300-level English courses.

ENGL 495: 20th-century Literature

Topic: Henry James and Diane Johnson

Instructor: Dr. David Grant

In this course, we examine the major-phase novels of Henry James (The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl) in conjunction with Diane Johnson’s American-in-Europe trilogy, Le Divorce, Le Mariage and L’Affaire. We do not group the novels in pairs, but alternate between James and Johnson in order to bring out the parallels between them. Among questions considered are the following: why the sub-genre of the visitor-in-Europe remains so central to American self-representations; how we should interpret the blending of melodramatic elements into the American novel of manners; what it means for a persistent tradition in American literature to be taken up at the waning, rather than at the beginning, of America’s world dominance; and what challenges we face when we compare a hyper-canonical author with a marginally canonical author. A good preparation for the course is reading either or both The American or The Portrait of a Lady, two earlier James' novels.

Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in 12 credits of 200- or 300-level English courses.

The information you will need to plan your degree and your major or minor in English can be found under Current Students.

Planning your BA (Honours) in English

You are eligible for application to the Honours English program after you have completed a minimum of 30 credits (including at least six credits in English courses), 24 of which must have been completed within the last 12 months. You must present a cumulative GPA of 3.0 in these courses and a minimum GPA of 3.3 in all English courses.

Please note that entry into the program is competitive and dependent on department resources; satisfying the minimum requirements may not guarantee admission.

You should consult with the Honours Advisor regarding the requirements of the Honours degree, and to discuss your eligibility for the program.

The honours planning sheet and the BA Honours program planner can be found under Current Students.

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Safia Ahmad

Sessional Instructor, English

MA (Central England), BA (Western Ontario)

AhmadS9@macewan.ca

6-223H, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-633-3384

Francis Aleba

Sessional Instructor, English

MA (Alberta)

alebaf@macewan.ca

6-229C, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5800 Ext. 6848

Rasoul Aliakbari

Sessional Instructor, English

PhD (Alberta); MA (Tehran)

aliakbarir@macewan.ca

6-223Q, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5800 Ext. 6837

David Atkinson

Professor, English
President Emeritus

PhD (Calgary); MA (Calgary)

atkinsond@macewan.ca

6-290, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5800 Ext. 5462

Jacqueline Baker

Assistant Professor, English

MA (Alberta), BA (Victoria)

BakerJ20@macewan.ca

6-274, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5357

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Sherrin Berezowsky

Sessional Instructor, English

PhD (Western)

BerezowskyS1@macewan.ca

6-229A, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5352

Michael Brisbois

Sessional Instructor, English

PhD (Calgary), MA (Northern British Columbia), BA (Northern British Columbia)

BrisboisM@macewan.ca

6-223D, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-633-3428

Dave Buchanan

Assistant Professor, English

PhD (Alberta), MA (Alberta), BA (McMaster)

BuchananD@macewan.ca

6-296, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5366

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Shanelle Ceretzke

Sessional Instructor, English

MA (Alberta)

CeretzkeS3@macewan.ca

6-223B, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5800 Ext. 6922

Anna Chilewska

Sessional Instructor, English

PhD (Alberta), MA (Alberta)

ChilewskaA@macewan.ca

6-223Q, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5800 Ext. 6839

Peter Clandfield

Sessional Instructor, English

PhD (Queens); MA (Queens)

clandfieldp@macewan.ca

6-223B, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-633-3214

Sarah Copland

Associate Professor, English

PhD (Toronto), BAH (Queen's)

coplands2@macewan.ca

6-272, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5486

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Jane Duffy

Sessional Instructor, English

MLS (Toronto); MA (Wilfrid Laurier)

duffyj@macewan.ca

6-223C, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5800 Ext. 6845

Robert Einarsson

Associate Professor, English
Discipline Advisor

PhD (Alberta), MA (Victoria), BA (Calgary)

EinarssonR@macewan.ca

6-278, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-4618

P. Farvolden

Associate Professor, English

PhD (Alberta)

FarvoldenP@macewan.ca

6-288, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5360

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Jennifer Ferguson

Administrative Assistant, Department of English

FergusonJ60@macewan.ca

6-223P, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5661

Taryn Fritz

Faculty, English

MA (Athabasca)

fritzt6@macewan.ca

6-223A, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5800 Ext. 6864

David Grant

Professor, English

PhD (Toronto), MA (Toronto), BA (Toronto)

GrantD@macewan.ca

6-294, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5365

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Sara Grewal

Assistant Professor, English

PhD (Michigan)

grewals42@macewan.ca

6-292, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5800 Ext. 6843

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Harjeet Grewal

Sessional Instructor, English

PhD (Michigan); MA (British Columbia)

grewalh36@macewan.ca

6-292, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5800 Ext. 6844

Susan Hesemeier

Sessional Instructor, English

PhD (Toronto), MA (Alberta), BA (Alberta)

HesemeierS@macewan.ca

6-229E, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-633-3361

Kathryn Holland

Sessional Instructor, English

D.Phil. (Oxford), MA (Alberta), BA (Alberta)

HollandK5@macewan.ca

6-223Q, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-633-3208

Elizabeth Hollis-Berry

Assistant Professor, English

PhD (Alberta)

HollisBerryE@macewan.ca

6-284, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-4414

Christopher Hutchinson

Assistant Professor, English

PhD (Houston)

hutchinsonc5@macewan.ca

6-223G, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-4774

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Colleen Irwin

Sessional Instructor, English

PhD (Alberta), MA (Northern British Columbia), BA (McMaster)

IrwinC5@macewan.ca

6-229C, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5800 Ext. 6847

Rashmi Jyoti

Assistant Professor, English

PhD (Maharaja Sayajirao), MPhil. (Panjab), MA (Guru Nanak Dev), B.Ed. (Annamalai)

JyotiR@macewan.ca

6-268, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497 5354

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Valentyna Kennedy

Sessional Instructor, English

MA (Ukraine)

kennedyv9@macewan.ca

6-223L, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5800 Ext. 6835

Svitlana (Lana) Krys

Kule Chair in Ukrainian Studies
Assistant Professor, English

PhD (Alberta), MA (Alberta)

kryss@macewan.ca

6-264, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-633-3319

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Richard LaRose

Sessional Instructor, English

MFA (Cornell)

laroser9@macewan.ca

6-223A, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5800 Ext. 6863

Romuald Lakowski

Assistant Professor, English

PhD (British Columbia), MA (British Columbia), MA (Toronto), BA (British Columbia)

LakowskiR@macewan.ca

6-276, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5835

Regan Lipes

Sessional Instructor, English

PhD (Alberta); MA (Waterloo)

lipesr@macewan.ca

6-229A, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5355

Paul Lumsden

Assistant Professor, English
Discipline Advisor

PhD (Alberta), MA (Alberta), BA (Lethbridge)

LumsdenP@macewan.ca

6-282, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-4587

Ruth Martin

Sessional Instructor, English

PhD (Alberta), MA (Alberta), BA (Alberta)

MartinR6@macewan.ca

6-223V, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-633-3317

Daniel Martin

Assistant Professor, English

PhD (Western Ontario), MA (Victoria), BA (Victoria)

MartinD86@macewan.ca

6-266, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5800 Ext. 6841

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Samantha Massey

Sessional Instructor, English

BA (MacEwan); MA (Calgary)

masseys0@macewan.ca

6-223B, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5800 Ext. 6833

Don McMann

Assistant Professor, English

PhD (Wales, Trinity St. David), MFA (Bennington College), BA (Alberta)

McMannD@macewan.ca

6-277, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-4712

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Craig Monk

Professor, English
Provost & Vice President, Academic

D. Phil (Oxford), M.St. (Oxford), MA (Western), BA (Hons) (Memorial)

7-210B, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB

Ghaida Naeem

Sessional Instructor, English

MA (Al-Mustansiriyya), BA (Al-Mamoon)

NaeemG@macewan.ca

6-223L, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-633-3360

Marilyn Nikish

Administrative Assistant, Department of English

NikishM@macewan.ca

6-223, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5346

Mike Perschon

Assistant Professor, English
Discipline Advisor

PhD (Alberta), MA (Alberta), BA (Taylor), BA (NABC)

PerschonM@macewan.ca

6-262, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5363

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Julia Peters

Faculty, Linguistics
Sessional Instructor, English

PhD (Alberta)

PetersJ@macewan.ca

6-223C, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-633-3429

Neeraj Prakash

Sessional Instructor, English

MA (Wisconsin), BA (Alberta)

PrakashN@macewan.ca

6-229E, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-633-3361

David Reddall

Sessional Instructor, English
Sessional Instructor, Humanities

PhD (Alberta), MA (Brock), BA (Brock)

ReddallD@macewan.ca

6-229D, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-633-3211

7-353C,
780-633-3612

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Shannon Robertson

Sessional Instructor, English

MA (Alberta), BA (Alberta)

RobertsonS7@macewan.ca

6-223C, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5800 Ext. 6930

Jack Robinson

Associate Professor, English

PhD (Alberta), MA (Carleton)

RobinsonJ@macewan.ca

6-223J, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5364

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Jack Skeffington

Sessional Instructor, English

PhD (Arizona), MA (Iowa), BA (Iowa)

SkeffingtonJ2@macewan.ca

6-223B, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-633-3214

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Jillian Skeffington

Chair, Department of English
Assistant Professor, English
Discipline Advisor

PhD (Arizona)

SkeffingtonJ@macewan.ca

6-223N, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-633-3201

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Mark Smith

Associate Professor, English

PhD (California, Irvine), MA (McGill), BA (McGill)

SmithJ105@macewan.ca

6-270, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5348

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Christina Sommerfeldt

Sessional Instructor, English

PhD (Alberta), MA (Manitoba), BA (Manitoba)

SommerfeldtC2@macewan.ca

6-229D, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-633-3211

William Thompson

Associate Professor, English

PhD (Alberta), MA (Alberta), BA (Alberta)

ThompsonW@macewan.ca

6-286, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5361

Joshua Toth

Associate Professor, English

PhD (Western), MA (SFU), BA (Regina)

TothJ3@macewan.ca

6-223K, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-633-3315

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Irene Tsobrova

Sessional Instructor, English

PhD (Alberta); Candidate of Science Degree (Kyiv National Linguistic University); Specialist's Degree (Kherson)

TsobrovaI@macewan.ca

6-223V, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5800 Ext. 6923

Robert Wiznura

Associate Dean, Students
Assistant Professor, English

PhD (UBC); MA (Alberta); BA (KU Leuven); BA (Alberta)

WiznuraR@macewan.ca

7-310T, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-633-3919

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Cheryl Wold

Sessional Instructor, English

MA (Alberta), BA (Alberta)

WoldC2@macewan.ca

6-223D, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-633-3385

Katherine A. Woodward

Sessional Instructor, English

MA (Alberta), BA (Alberta), TESL Dip. (Alberta)

WoodwardK@macewan.ca

6-223H, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-633-3781

Sergiy Yakovenko

Sessional Instructor, English

PhD (Alberta), MA (Taras Shevchenko National)

yakovenkos@macewan.ca

6-223D, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-633-3386

David Atkinson

Professor, English
President Emeritus

PhD (Calgary); MA (Calgary)

atkinsond@macewan.ca

6-290, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5800 Ext. 5462

Jacqueline Baker

Assistant Professor, English

MA (Alberta), BA (Victoria)

BakerJ20@macewan.ca

6-274, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5357

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Dave Buchanan

Assistant Professor, English

PhD (Alberta), MA (Alberta), BA (McMaster)

BuchananD@macewan.ca

6-296, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5366

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Sarah Copland

Associate Professor, English

PhD (Toronto), BAH (Queen's)

coplands2@macewan.ca

6-272, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5486

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Robert Einarsson

Associate Professor, English
Discipline Advisor

PhD (Alberta), MA (Victoria), BA (Calgary)

EinarssonR@macewan.ca

6-278, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-4618

P. Farvolden

Associate Professor, English

PhD (Alberta)

FarvoldenP@macewan.ca

6-288, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5360

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David Grant

Professor, English

PhD (Toronto), MA (Toronto), BA (Toronto)

GrantD@macewan.ca

6-294, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5365

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Sara Grewal

Assistant Professor, English

PhD (Michigan)

grewals42@macewan.ca

6-292, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5800 Ext. 6843

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Elizabeth Hollis-Berry

Assistant Professor, English

PhD (Alberta)

HollisBerryE@macewan.ca

6-284, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-4414

Christopher Hutchinson

Assistant Professor, English

PhD (Houston)

hutchinsonc5@macewan.ca

6-223G, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-4774

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Rashmi Jyoti

Assistant Professor, English

PhD (Maharaja Sayajirao), MPhil. (Panjab), MA (Guru Nanak Dev), B.Ed. (Annamalai)

JyotiR@macewan.ca

6-268, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497 5354

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Svitlana (Lana) Krys

Kule Chair in Ukrainian Studies
Assistant Professor, English

PhD (Alberta), MA (Alberta)

kryss@macewan.ca

6-264, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-633-3319

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Romuald Lakowski

Assistant Professor, English

PhD (British Columbia), MA (British Columbia), MA (Toronto), BA (British Columbia)

LakowskiR@macewan.ca

6-276, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5835

Paul Lumsden

Assistant Professor, English
Discipline Advisor

PhD (Alberta), MA (Alberta), BA (Lethbridge)

LumsdenP@macewan.ca

6-282, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-4587

Daniel Martin

Assistant Professor, English

PhD (Western Ontario), MA (Victoria), BA (Victoria)

MartinD86@macewan.ca

6-266, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5800 Ext. 6841

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Don McMann

Assistant Professor, English

PhD (Wales, Trinity St. David), MFA (Bennington College), BA (Alberta)

McMannD@macewan.ca

6-277, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-4712

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Craig Monk

Professor, English
Provost & Vice President, Academic

D. Phil (Oxford), M.St. (Oxford), MA (Western), BA (Hons) (Memorial)

7-210B, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB

Mike Perschon

Assistant Professor, English
Discipline Advisor

PhD (Alberta), MA (Alberta), BA (Taylor), BA (NABC)

PerschonM@macewan.ca

6-262, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5363

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Jack Robinson

Associate Professor, English

PhD (Alberta), MA (Carleton)

RobinsonJ@macewan.ca

6-223J, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5364

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Jillian Skeffington

Chair, Department of English
Assistant Professor, English
Discipline Advisor

PhD (Arizona)

SkeffingtonJ@macewan.ca

6-223N, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-633-3201

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Mark Smith

Associate Professor, English

PhD (California, Irvine), MA (McGill), BA (McGill)

SmithJ105@macewan.ca

6-270, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5348

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William Thompson

Associate Professor, English

PhD (Alberta), MA (Alberta), BA (Alberta)

ThompsonW@macewan.ca

6-286, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5361

Joshua Toth

Associate Professor, English

PhD (Western), MA (SFU), BA (Regina)

TothJ3@macewan.ca

6-223K, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-633-3315

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Robert Wiznura

Associate Dean, Students
Assistant Professor, English

PhD (UBC); MA (Alberta); BA (KU Leuven); BA (Alberta)

WiznuraR@macewan.ca

7-310T, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-633-3919

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Safia Ahmad

Sessional Instructor, English

MA (Central England), BA (Western Ontario)

AhmadS9@macewan.ca

6-223H, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-633-3384

Francis Aleba

Sessional Instructor, English

MA (Alberta)

alebaf@macewan.ca

6-229C, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5800 Ext. 6848

Rasoul Aliakbari

Sessional Instructor, English

PhD (Alberta); MA (Tehran)

aliakbarir@macewan.ca

6-223Q, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5800 Ext. 6837

Sherrin Berezowsky

Sessional Instructor, English

PhD (Western)

BerezowskyS1@macewan.ca

6-229A, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5352

Michael Brisbois

Sessional Instructor, English

PhD (Calgary), MA (Northern British Columbia), BA (Northern British Columbia)

BrisboisM@macewan.ca

6-223D, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-633-3428

Shanelle Ceretzke

Sessional Instructor, English

MA (Alberta)

CeretzkeS3@macewan.ca

6-223B, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5800 Ext. 6922

Anna Chilewska

Sessional Instructor, English

PhD (Alberta), MA (Alberta)

ChilewskaA@macewan.ca

6-223Q, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5800 Ext. 6839

Peter Clandfield

Sessional Instructor, English

PhD (Queens); MA (Queens)

clandfieldp@macewan.ca

6-223B, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-633-3214

Jane Duffy

Sessional Instructor, English

MLS (Toronto); MA (Wilfrid Laurier)

duffyj@macewan.ca

6-223C, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5800 Ext. 6845

Taryn Fritz

Faculty, English

MA (Athabasca)

fritzt6@macewan.ca

6-223A, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5800 Ext. 6864

Harjeet Grewal

Sessional Instructor, English

PhD (Michigan); MA (British Columbia)

grewalh36@macewan.ca

6-292, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5800 Ext. 6844

Susan Hesemeier

Sessional Instructor, English

PhD (Toronto), MA (Alberta), BA (Alberta)

HesemeierS@macewan.ca

6-229E, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-633-3361

Kathryn Holland

Sessional Instructor, English

D.Phil. (Oxford), MA (Alberta), BA (Alberta)

HollandK5@macewan.ca

6-223Q, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-633-3208

Colleen Irwin

Sessional Instructor, English

PhD (Alberta), MA (Northern British Columbia), BA (McMaster)

IrwinC5@macewan.ca

6-229C, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5800 Ext. 6847

Valentyna Kennedy

Sessional Instructor, English

MA (Ukraine)

kennedyv9@macewan.ca

6-223L, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5800 Ext. 6835

Richard LaRose

Sessional Instructor, English

MFA (Cornell)

laroser9@macewan.ca

6-223A, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5800 Ext. 6863

Regan Lipes

Sessional Instructor, English

PhD (Alberta); MA (Waterloo)

lipesr@macewan.ca

6-229A, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5355

Ruth Martin

Sessional Instructor, English

PhD (Alberta), MA (Alberta), BA (Alberta)

MartinR6@macewan.ca

6-223V, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-633-3317

Samantha Massey

Sessional Instructor, English

BA (MacEwan); MA (Calgary)

masseys0@macewan.ca

6-223B, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5800 Ext. 6833

Ghaida Naeem

Sessional Instructor, English

MA (Al-Mustansiriyya), BA (Al-Mamoon)

NaeemG@macewan.ca

6-223L, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-633-3360

Julia Peters

Faculty, Linguistics
Sessional Instructor, English

PhD (Alberta)

PetersJ@macewan.ca

6-223C, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-633-3429

Neeraj Prakash

Sessional Instructor, English

MA (Wisconsin), BA (Alberta)

PrakashN@macewan.ca

6-229E, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-633-3361

David Reddall

Sessional Instructor, English
Sessional Instructor, Humanities

PhD (Alberta), MA (Brock), BA (Brock)

ReddallD@macewan.ca

6-229D, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-633-3211

7-353C,
780-633-3612

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Shannon Robertson

Sessional Instructor, English

MA (Alberta), BA (Alberta)

RobertsonS7@macewan.ca

6-223C, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5800 Ext. 6930

Jack Skeffington

Sessional Instructor, English

PhD (Arizona), MA (Iowa), BA (Iowa)

SkeffingtonJ2@macewan.ca

6-223B, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-633-3214

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Christina Sommerfeldt

Sessional Instructor, English

PhD (Alberta), MA (Manitoba), BA (Manitoba)

SommerfeldtC2@macewan.ca

6-229D, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-633-3211

Irene Tsobrova

Sessional Instructor, English

PhD (Alberta); Candidate of Science Degree (Kyiv National Linguistic University); Specialist's Degree (Kherson)

TsobrovaI@macewan.ca

6-223V, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5800 Ext. 6923

Cheryl Wold

Sessional Instructor, English

MA (Alberta), BA (Alberta)

WoldC2@macewan.ca

6-223D, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-633-3385

Katherine A. Woodward

Sessional Instructor, English

MA (Alberta), BA (Alberta), TESL Dip. (Alberta)

WoodwardK@macewan.ca

6-223H, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-633-3781

Sergiy Yakovenko

Sessional Instructor, English

PhD (Alberta), MA (Taras Shevchenko National)

yakovenkos@macewan.ca

6-223D, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-633-3386

Jennifer Ferguson, Administrative Assistant

Administrative Assistant, Department of English

FergusonJ60@macewan.ca

6-223P, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5661

Paul Lumsden, Discipline Advisor

Assistant Professor, English
Discipline Advisor

PhD (Alberta), MA (Alberta), BA (Lethbridge)

LumsdenP@macewan.ca

6-282, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-4587

Marilyn Nikish, Administrative Assistant

Administrative Assistant, Department of English

NikishM@macewan.ca

6-223, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5346

Mike Perschon, Discipline Advisor

Assistant Professor, English
Discipline Advisor

PhD (Alberta), MA (Alberta), BA (Taylor), BA (NABC)

PerschonM@macewan.ca

6-262, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-497-5363

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Jillian Skeffington, Chair and Discipline Advisor

Chair, Department of English
Assistant Professor, English
Discipline Advisor

PhD (Arizona)

SkeffingtonJ@macewan.ca

6-223N, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
780-633-3201

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Department of English

Room 6-229, City Centre Campus
10700 - 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB T5J 4S2

Phone: 780-497-5346
Fax: 780-497-5347

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8:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. and 1 – 4:30 p.m.

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Fall 2019

ENGL 350: Topics in Romantic Literature

Topic: Prose Works of the Romantic Period

ENGL 389: Topics in Children's Literature

Topic: British Fantasy for Children and Young Adults

ENGL 401: Studies in Genres

Topic: Lyric Theory

ENGL 402: Studies in Authors

Topic: Jane Austen

ENGL 494: 19th Century Literature

Topic: Fin-de-siecle Fictions of Anthropometry

Winter 2020

ENGL 342: Topics in the Long 18th-century Literature

Topic: The Comic Novel

ENGL 364: Topics in 20th and 21st Century Literature

Topic: The Pakistani Novel

ENGL 381: Topics in Post-colonial Literature

Topic: Between the British and Russian Empires

ENGL 389: Topics in Children's Literature

Topic: Journeys in Oz: From Baum to Broadway

ENGL 391: Topics in Literary Theory

Topic: Imitation, Translation, Modernity

ENGL 402: Studies in Authors

Topic: J. K. Rowling and the Boy who Lived

ENGL 495: 20th-century Literature

Topic: Henry James and Diane Johnson

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