Although I was trained as a Romanticist, my scholarship now focuses on teaching and learning. In particular, I am interested in how and why students read. I am also interested in undergraduate research experiences and faculty academic development.

I'm currently the Chair of the English Department at Lakehead University, where I teach CanLit, Science Fiction, Popular Fiction, and environmental literary and cultural studies. I'm also the incoming President of ACCUTE.

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Carolyn Lesjak is Professor and Chair of English at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of Working Fictions: A Genealogy of the Victorian Novel (Duke University Press, 2006) and The Afterlife of Enclosure: British Realism, Character and the Commons (Stanford University Press, 2021). She has published essays in numerous journals, including ELH, Novel, Criticism and Historical Materialism, and edited collections on Marxist theory, nineteenth-century literature and culture, and contemporary criticism. Recent projects include work on the status of theory and the university within the current neoliberal moment, new developments within the environmental humanities, and involvement in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada calls to Indigenize or decolonize the university.

Madeleine Reddon is a member of the Métis Nation of Alberta and an assistant professor of English literature at Loyola University of Chicago. She has recently published an article in Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies: “Indigenous Modernism: Dehabituating Reading Practices.” Her research interests include global avant-garde and modernist literatures, Indigenous studies, critical nationalisms, and psychoanalysis. 

 Sheila Giffen is a PhD Candidate in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia and a P.E.O. Scholar (2021-2022). Her dissertation analyses evocations of the sacred in literary responses to the HIV/AIDS crisis from the U.S. and South Africa.

Deena is a PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia's English Department, and a lecturer in African Studies at UBC. He works on contemporary South African literature.

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Kit Dobson is a faculty member at the University of Calgary and is the current Chair of ACCUTE’s Committee for Professional Concerns. He is most recently a co-editor of the books All the Feels / Tous les sens: Affect and Writing in Canada / Affect et écriture au Canada (U Alberta P, 2021) and Dissonant Methods: Undoing Discipline in the Humanities Classroom (U Alberta P, 2020). His non-fiction book Field Notes on Listening is forthcoming with Wolsak & Wynn.

 Jonathan Goossen is Associate Professor of English and Chair of Humanities at Ambrose University in Calgary where he teaches early modern literature, poetry, and early literary theory. He has recently published Jonson, Shakespeare, and Aristotle on Comedy (Routledge) and other articles on Renaissance drama.

Mario Trono's research focuses on various topics in film studies and the environmental humanities, and he and maintains a secondary interest in American Literature Post-1945.  He is an editor (with Robert Boschman) of two essay collections, Found in Alberta: Environmental Themes for the Anthropocene and On Active Grounds: Agency and Time in the Environmental Humanities, both from Wilfrid Laurier University Press as is his currently contracted monograph, Ecocinematics: Film, Consciousness, Environment.

Dr. Brandon McFarlane is a Professor of Creativity and Leadership in Sheridan College's Pilon School of Business. He founded the Creative Humanities Applied Research and Innovation Initiative which has completed several grant-funded, social innovation projects and pedagogic pilots. His scholarship delineates how the creative economy is transforming culture and higher education, and imagines optimistic futures for post-secondary education grounded in creativity and innovation. He authored the annual "Omnibus Review of Emergent Fiction" for the University of Toronto Quarterly from 2015-18 and edited the recent special issue on the Creative Humanities. Forthcoming contributions include chapters in Uncertainty: A Catalyst for Creativity, Learning, and Development and Creative Industries in Canada. Brandon has won numerous awards for teaching excellence, research impact, and equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Randy Schroeder teaches theory, creative writing, and all things narrative, including cognitivist and evolutionary studies of storytelling. As either Randy Nikkel Schroeder or A.M. Arruin, he is the author of the Surrealist CrimePunk novel Arctic Smoke, the Urban Magic Realist collection Crooked Timber: Seven Suburban Faerie Tales, and over fifty published short stories.

His scholarship covers Speculative Fiction, gaming, and the implications of interdependence for policy-making in emerging democracies. He is editor, with Lee Easton, of The Influence of the Imagination: Essays on Science Fiction and Fantasy as Agents of Social Change, and of numerous academic essays that hardly anyone has ever read.

Clifford Werier is Professor of English at Mount Royal University, where he has been teaching early modern literature since 1987. He is the editor of Shakespeare and Consciousness (Palgrave, 2016) and of Much Ado About Nothing for the Internet Shakespeare Editions. His recent publications investigate the phenomenology of time across media in the processing of Shakespearean jokes and the application of meme theory to the spread of contagious ideas in Coriolanus. He is the editor of the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Interface (2021), a collection which focuses on the ways in which the interface features of page, screen, stage and other media influence Shakespearean cognition and understanding. He is also the co-author of three composition textbooks for Nelson Canada.

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Philip Mingay is Associate Professor of English at The King’s University in Edmonton.  He teaches postcolonial and Canadian literature, literature and film, as well as painting and literature.  He has written about V.S. Naipaul, pedagogy, and art education in early postcolonial literature. He is currently working on a book tentatively titled The Climate of Lament, about poetic responses to environmental and social crises linked to ecological degradations.

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