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SETS Graduate Faculty Research and Areas of Specialization

If you are a current graduate student or a potential graduate student seeking an advisory or advisory committee member, please research our faculty specializations and reach out to faculty directly. Note: not all faculty are accepting graduate students.

Paul Barrett
Assistant Professor
Areas of Specialization: Canadian literature, critical race studies, digital humanities.
barrettp@uoguelph.ca

Susan Brown
Professor
Areas of specialization: digital humanities, Victorian writing and women’s writing, feminist theory.
sbrown@uoguelph.ca

Julie Cairnie
Professor

Areas of Specialization: Southern African literature (South African and Zimbabwean), land crisis and the crisis of childhood through Zimbabwean literature and other cultural texts, Canadian Indigenous-Settler relationships, postcolonial sport.
jcairnie@uoguelph.ca

Gregor Campbell
Assistant Professor

Areas of Specialization: American Literature, Literary Theory, Media Studies, Harlem Renaissance, Postmodernism.
gregorc@uoguelph.ca

Elaine Chang
Associate Professor
Areas of Specialization: Cultural theory; Marxist-materialisms (Frankfurt School, Birmingham School, materialist feminisms); 20th and 21st-century anglophone prose fiction; Asian North American cultural studies; decolonial and postcolonial literature and thought; film and media cultures; screenwriting.
echang@uoguelph.ca

Michelle Elleray
Associate Professor

Areas of Specialization: Victorian literature, particularly in relation to literature of empire, the South Pacific, children's literature, missionary culture, and ecocriticism.
melleray@uoguelph.ca

Jade Ferguson
Associate Professor

Areas of Specialization: 19th to mid-20th century Canadian literature, Civil Rights Movement literature and photography, New Southern Studies, Critical Race Theory.
jfergu05@uoguelph.ca

Mark Fortier
Professor
Areas of Specialization: Shakespeare; Law and Literature; Theatre Theory.
Current Project(s): Shakespeare's Law 
mfortier@uoguelph.ca

Troy Hourie
Assistant Professor
Areas of Specialization: Scenography/performance design, installation art, mediated performance creation, augmented realities, puppetry, storytelling, art history, architecture and theatre design; current work revolves around the themes of wonder, immersion, spectatorship and intermediality.
houriet@uoguelph.ca

Peter Kuling
Assistant Professor

Areas of Specialization: Canadian Theatre and Literature, Early Modern Theatre, Performance Studies, Queer Theory, Video Games / Professional Sports, Digital Media Production
pkuling@uoguelph.ca

Mark Lipton
Professor
Areas of Specialization: Digital knowledge production, Culture, Communication, Media, Technology, Education, Teaching, Learning, Pedagogy, English Education, Writing Across the Curriculum, Literacy, Media Literacy, Activism, Educational Technology, Digital Divides, Social Inclusion, Digital Storytelling, Research-Creation, Social Media, Digital Humanities, Social Justice, Confronting Sexism, Health, Wellness, Digital Policy Literacy, Privacy, Surveillance, Visual Communication, Bio-Hacking, Bio-Art, Perception, Performance, Identity, Queer Theory, LGBTQ+ Youth, Camp.
liptonm@uoguelph.ca

Kimberley McLeod
Assistant Professor
Areas of specialization: Digital performance; gaming; activist performance; satire; practice-based research; political performance and participatory media.
kimberley.mcleod@uoguelph.ca

Daniel O'Quinn
Professor

Areas of Specialization: European relations with the Ottoman Empire, British-India, and on various trans-Atlantic topics are part of the ongoing re-evaluation of British imperial culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.  His research focuses on theatre, performance and sociability; on the historical analysis of race, class, sexuality, and gender; and on genealogies of present norms regarding the body and social relations.
doquinn@uoguelph.ca

Pablo Ramirez
Associate Professor
Areas of Specialization: Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Law and Literature, Latinx Literature and Cultural Production, Memory Studies, Nineteenth-Century Literature of the Supernatural and the Occult, Creative Writing.

pramirez@uoguelph.ca

Jennifer Schacker
Professor
Areas of specialization: folk narrative and history of folklore study; fairy tale and theatre; children's literature and culture; material culture, craft, costume.

jschack@uoguelph.ca

Sandra Singer
Professor

Areas of specialization: Narrative, trauma studies, and terrorism in fiction and film, Critical Practices and 19th century to contemporary literatures.
ssinger@uoguelph.ca

Judith Thompson
Professor
Areas of Specialization: Playwrighting, Devising, Acting, Theatre Creation.
juditht@uoguelph.ca
 

Creative Writing Faculty and areas of specializations can be found in the Faculty section of Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing.