University of Calgary

Research

Continuing Faculty by Specialty

Listing of faculty members by field of expertise.

Current winners of SSHRC Standard Research Grants

Prof. James Ellis
“Gardens, Space and Motion in The Faerie Queen

Prof. Murray McGillivray
“Cotton nero A.x. project conclusion”

Prof. Jeanne Perreault
“Feminizing Photojournalism, World War II”

Current winners of the SSHRC Research/Creation grants in Fine Arts

Prof. Christian Bök
“The Xenotext Experiment”

Prof. Robert Majzels
“85, experiments in the reception of Chinese poetry: a multimedia, trans-cultural approach”

 

Creative Writing Research Group: Christian Bök, Robert Majzels, Clem Martini, Suzette Mayr, Aritha van Herk

Ethics and Political Philosophy Research Group: Clara Joseph

Medieval and Renaissance Cultural Studies Research Group (MARCS): Jacqueline Jenkins, Mary Polito, Jim Ellis, Susan Bennett, Murray McGillivray, Maria Zytaruk, and Michael Ullyot are active researchers in medieval and Renaissance literature. For details on research, events, undergraduate courses, and graduate theses in these periods, visit the Medieval and Early Modern home page.

Postcolonial Studies Research Group: Since 1970, the English Department has been the home of ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, one of the early journals in the field that became postcolonial studies. Under the recent editorship of Pamela McCallumj, and now co-edited by Faye Halpern and Michael Clarke (with Reviews Editor Shaobo Xie), it is supported by SSHRC and the Department of English, as well as by subscribers and contributors in more than fifty countries around the world. Postcoloniality, globalization and diasporic studies have continued to be areas of research and increasing publication by Clara Joseph, Pamela McCallum, Victor Ramraj, and Shaobo Xie.

Research Group in Texts and Images: Watch this space.

U.S. Studies Group Research Group: Michael T. Clarke, Jeanne Perreault