Part-Time Faculty (2026–27 Fall/Winter)
English Studies |
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Nigel Joseph njoseph3@uwo.ca UC 1423 |
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Greg MacArthur gmacart2@uwo.ca |
Greg MacArthur is a queer, award-winning Canadian playwright, dramaturg, director, and educator. For over thirty years he has been involved in the creation and development of new work for the stage. His plays have been produced extensively across Canada, as well as in South Africa, South Korea, Germany, the UK, Mexico, Romania, Hungary, and the United States. They have been translated into numerous languages. His selected work includes: My Testimonial; A City; A Man Vanishes; Horror Story; Kate Bowie; The Missionary Position; Tyland: The Toxic Bus Incident; Recovery; Get Away; Snowman; girls! girls! girls!. He was Artist-In-Residence at Playwrights Workshop Montreal from 2005-2011 and was the Lee Playwright-In-Residence at The University of Alberta (2011 - 2013). He was short-listed for the 2011 Siminovitch Award for Playwriting. He has taught in the Creative Writing Department at Concordia University (Montreal) and most recently in the Department of Drama at the University of Lethbridge. He continues to write + collaborate with artists across disciplines, spaces, and places |
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Andrew Sargent asargen@uwo.ca |
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Writing Studies |
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Marielle Aylen maylen@uwo.ca |
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Melanie Chambers mchambe4@uwo.ca UC 1425 |
Melanie’s writing career began as a travel journalist covering cycling adventures on monstruous mountains throughout the globe. Writing for the likes of CBC, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star and Canadian Cycling Magazine, Melanie’s stories delve into the culinary, cultural and personal connections one makes on a bike. After graduating recently with an MFA in creative non-fiction from King’s College in Halifax, Melanie is turning her pen to memoir writing with tales of sexuality, mothers and burlesque dance. |
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Miguel Antonio Chávez |
Miguel Antonio Chávez holds a PhD in Hispanic Studies from Western University and an MFA in Creative Writing from NYU. His research examines national discourses in the appropriation of canonical literature across novel, radio drama, and mockumentary film. His fiction includes Conejo ciego en Surinam (Blind Rabbit in Suriname) and Yo, Beato (I, Blessed). A Juan Rulfo Short Story Award finalist and David Ledesma Poetry Prize recipient, he served as Winter 2024 Writer/Storyteller-in-Residence at the University of Manitoba, where he mentored fiction and non-fiction projects. |
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Timothy Freeborn tfreebor@uwo.ca |
Office Hours: Mondays from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. University College 1426 |
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Christopher Lee clee222@uwo.ca UC 1426 |
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Claudia Manley cmanley2@uwo.ca |
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Taylor Mendonca tmendon2@uwo.ca |
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Bryce Sage bsage3@uwo.ca |
Bryce Sage is an award-winning writer, director, and educator based in Ottawa. He teaches screenwriting virtually at Western University and filmmaking and digital media production at Carleton University. He holds a BFA in Film and an MFA in Documentary Media from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson) and is also a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre’s Primetime Television Program, with several television pilots and feature scripts in development. Bryce has written and directed two documentaries for CBC’s The Nature of Things, including Survival of the Fabulous, about the biology of homosexuality, and an episode of Marketplace on personalized genetic testing. He has also worked in the writing room of Rookie Blue and other series, and created the award-winning animated short Cindy, which has garnered over a million views on YouTube. His writing and films have been broadcast and recognized internationally in festivals, and he is currently adapting one of his science-fiction short films about genetically engineered teenagers into a YA book series. |
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Andrew Wenaus awenaus@uwo.ca |
Andrew C. Wenaus’ writing has been described as "beautiful" (Blonk), "quantum modernism" (Barwin), "visionary" (Bett), "an ex-static onslaught" (Karasick), "dazzlement for… the mind" (Joron), "dreamwork beyond… psychoanalysis" (Roden), "sublimely ambivalent" (Armand), and a machine that sings (Negarestani). He is also an associate faculty member at Western’s Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism and a prolific publisher of academic theory. |
Film Studies |
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Barbara Bruce bbruce2@uwo.ca |
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Greg De Souza gdesouz@uwo.ca |
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Anmol Dutta adutta24@uwo.ca |
Anmol Dutta is Lecturer in Film Studies and Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies at Western University, Canada. Her doctoral dissertation (to be submitted in 2026) is about cultural identity at the intersection of caste, gender, and religion in Indian originals on Netflix. Anmol specializes in Feminist/Postcolonial Media and Cultural Studies, specifically, in South Asian popular culture and politics, stand-up comedy and activism, and 21st century mainstream Hindi cinema. She has published journal articles, book chapters, and contributed to various public fora (such as CBC and The Conversation) on these topics. |
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Taylor Tomko ttomko@uwo.ca |
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