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Department Chair

Janet Allwork (Chair)
allworkj@douglas.bc.ca
604-527-5295
BA (hons) (Simon Fraser), MA, MLS (British Columbia)
Drama, 19th Century Literature, Composition Theory

  

Departmental Assistants

New Westminster Campus: 604-527-5465
David Lam Campus: 604-777-6243

  

English Department Faculty

Janet Allwork
allworkj@douglas.bc.ca
604-527-5295

BA (hons) (Simon Fraser), MA, MLS (British Columbia)
Drama, 19th Century Literature, Composition Theory


Jason Bourget
bourgetj@douglas.bc.ca

BA (British Columbia), MA (Leeds)
Science Fiction, Horror Fiction, 20th and 21st Century Mainstream Fiction, Masculinity Studies, Gender Studies


Susan Briggs
briggss@douglas.bc.ca
604-527-5295

BA, MA (British Columbia)
Biblical and Classical Literature, Urban Studies


Roger Clark
ryoclark@gmail.com
604-527-5286

BA (Calgary), MA (Calgary), PhD (British Columbia)
International Writing, World Literature


Karen Cowan
cowanka@douglas.bc.ca
604-527-5291

BA (hons) (Guelph), MA (Simon Fraser)
19th Century Novel/Jane Austen, Women's Literature


Stephen Dunning
dunnings@douglas.bc.ca
604-777-6111

BA, MA (Ottawa), PhD (Cambridge)
Cultural Studies, Children's Literature, Post-Modernism


Wilhelm Emilsson
emilssonw@douglas.bc.ca
604-777-6313

BA (Iceland), MA (East Anglia), PhD (British Columbia)
Aestheticism, Decadence, Post Modernism, Popular Culture, 19th and 20th Century Literature and Culture, Children's Literature


Dorritta Fong
fongd@douglas.bc.ca
604-527-5294

BA (British Columbia), MA (Queen's)
Postcolonial Writing, Asian North American, Modernism, Life Writing, Gender Studies, Popular Culture


Brenna Clarke Gray
grayb@douglas.bc.ca

BA (hons), MA (Carleton), PhD (New Brunswick)
Canadian and American Contemporary Literatures, Pop Culture, September 11th, Popular Fiction


Jon Paul Henry
henryp@douglas.bc.ca
604-527-5298

BA (British Columbia), MA (Simon Fraser)
Medieval, 18th Century, Theory, Popular Culture


Trish Matson
matsont@douglas.bc.ca
604-777-6283

BA, MA (Simon Fraser)
20th Century Poetry and Fiction, Women's Literature and Women's Studies


Lorna McCallum
mccalluml@douglas.bc.ca
604-527-5287

BA (Carleton), MA, PhD (Alberta)
Nineteenth Century Literature, Poetry, Composition Studies


Elizabeth McCausland
mccauslande@douglas.bc.ca
604-527-5288

BA (Bryn Mawr), MA, PhD (California, Irvine)
19th Century, The Novel, Critical Theory


Ryan Miller
millerr@douglas.bc.ca
604-777-6030

BA (British Columbia), MA (Simon Fraser)
Contemporary Canadian and American Literatures, Irish Modernism, Religious Studies, Gender Studies


Jasmine Nicholsfigueiredo
nicholsj@douglas.bc.ca
604-527-5294

BA, BEd (Simon Fraser), MA (Queen's)
Women's Writing, African Literature, Medieval and Renaissance, Shakespeare, Bible and Mythology


Nancy Squair
squairn@douglas.bc.ca
604-527-5294 

BEd (Alberta), MA (Arizona)
Rhetoric, Composition and Academic Writing, 19th Century British Literature, Literacy



Diane Stiles
stilesd@douglas.bc.ca
604-527-5290

BSc, (McGill), MA, PhD (British Columbia)
Modern Poetry, Canadian Literature, Cultural Studies 


Karen Thomson
thomsonk@douglas.bc.ca
604-777-6001

BA (hons), MA (Regina)
Children's Literature, Mark Twain, Canadian Literature


David West
davidw@douglas.bc.ca
604-777-6283

BA (hons) (British Columbia), MA (New Brunswick)
Canadian and 20th Century American, 19th Century British, Poetry, Genre Fiction and Children's Literature


Peter Wilkins
wilkinsp@douglas.bc.ca
604-527-5286

BA, MA (British Columbia), PhD (California, Irvine)
North American Literature, Critical Theory


David N. Wright
wrightd@douglas.bc.ca
604-527-5297

BA (Concordia), MA (Concordia), PhD (McGill)
Modernism, Graphic Novel, Popular Culture

Retired and Affiliated Faculty

Howard Eaton
hleaton@telus.net 

Brian Marrs
bmarrs@shaw.ca 

Susan McCaslin
smccaslin@shaw.ca 

Meg Stainsby (Dean)  stainsbym@douglas.bc.ca

Susan Wasserman
susanwasserman@shaw.ca

 

Faculty on Educational Leave

Our Department is committed to recognizing and encouraging teaching excellence and innovation through regular support of instructors seeking professional development funding and educational leaves.