SASAH Fellows

Manina Jones

Director, SASAH/Dept. of English and Writing Studies

Research Interests / Specializations: I have been fortunate to have the opportunity to work across the field of Canadian literature, publishing work with a historical range from the early nineteenth century to contemporary writing, and spanning poetry fiction, drama, and autobiography. Recent research in Canadian literature, on collaborative writing, extends my ongoing interest in composite authorship and in the ways competing desires, motives, ideologies, and historical and aesthetic sensibilities can make themselves felt in a single text. My research in popular culture addresses detective fiction, understanding the genre in its aesthetic, social, and economic contexts.

Sarah Bassnett

Professor, Dept. of Visual Arts

Research Interests / Specializations: Histories and theories of photography, especially in relation to issues of power and resistance, social crisis and reform, and movements for social change; late nineteenth and early twentieth-century art and visual culture, with an emphasis on cities and modernity; contemporary art, especially photo-based practices; museum and exhibition histories as they relate to nation building and liberalism.

Barbara Bruce

Assistant Professor, Experiential Learning Specialist

Research Interests / Specializations: Student Professional Development; Classic Hollywood Cinema; Film History, Theory, and Criticism; Popular Culture; Canadian Literature and Culture; Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory; Museum Studies

Kyle Gervais

Professor/ Dept. of Classical Studies

Research Interests / Specializations: Classical Latin epic and lyric (literary interpretation and textual criticism), Late Antique and Medieval Latin literature, violence in the ancient world, Classical reception in popular culture, digital humanities

Miranda Green-Barteet

Associate Professor / Dept. of GSWS and English and Writing Studies

Research Interests / Specializations: 19th-century U.S. literature written by women and contemporary young adult literature. Much of her research focuses on the ways in which female characters transgresssocietal and familial limitations as they claim their own subjectivity. She has published on Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Wilson, Sarah Pogson, and Laura Ingalls Wilder as well as young adult dystopian fiction.

John Hatch

Associate Professor / Dept. of Visual Arts

Research Interests / Specializations: 20th-century art, art theory, and architecture, specifically Dada and Neo-Dada; Post-WWII European and American Art; early abstract art (1910-1940); intersections between art and science.

Kate Korycki

Assistant Professor / Dept. of GSWS

Research Interests / Specializations: Identity politics; collective memory (and amnesia); critical theory, critical race theory & critical whiteness theory; structural intersections of gender, race and class; French post-structuralism; anti-communism and neo-liberalism

Dennis Klimchuk

Associate Professor / Dept. of Philosophy

Research Interests / Specializations: Philosophy of Law, History of Political Philosophy

Jan Plug

Professor / Dept. of English and Writing Studies, Associate Dean, Academics

Research Interests / Specializations: My research focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century English and German literature, especially Romanticism and Modernism, and on theory from German Idealism to deconstruction.

Ruth Skinner

Assistant Professor, Community Engagement and Outreach Coordinator

Research Interests / Specializations: Artists' publishing and distribution practices; digital and media literacy; archival practices and principles; artist-run culture and advocacy in Canada; histories and theories of photography.; intersections of art, esotericism & forensics.

Kate Stanley

Associate Professor/Dept. of English and Writing Studies

Research Interests / Specializations: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, philosophy, and culture, with an emphasis on the modernist period.

Bernd Steinbock

Associate Professor / Dept. of Classical Studies

Research Interests / Specializations: Social Memory, Archaic and Classical Greek History, Greek and Roman Historiography, Classical Rhetoric and Oratory, Roman Republican History, Late Antiquity.