Faculty
Actively engaged at national and international levels in creative and critical research, our teaching faculty offer contemporary approaches to writing and workshopping.
Chair, Associate Professor
Stage, screen, collaborative creation, site-specific theatre, multimedia performance.
Associate Professor
Areas of research & creative activity
Poetry, filmmaking, screenwriting, fiction, nonfiction, film/literature/visual art/music/dance of the African diaspora, poetics, philosophy, hip hop culture, and more.
Professor
Areas of research & creative activity
Film production, experimental film, drama, documentary, Canadian and queer media arts.
Associate Professor, Graduate Advisor, Lansdowne Chair in Fine Arts
Creative nonfiction, literary journalism, memoir, biography, travel writing.
Assistant Professor
Areas of research & creative activity
Literary fiction, speculative fiction, poetry, the essay, libretto, sound poetry, the graphic novel, writing for young adults, Black British Columbian literature and history, poetics, anti-racist theory, literary theory.
Assistant Teaching Professor
Poetry, drama, installations, hybrid genres, fiction.
Assistant Teaching Professor
Journalism, media studies, fiction for young adults, nonfiction for children.
Assistant Professor
Areas of research & creative activity
Creative nonfiction, memoir, speculative fiction, documentary studies, archives.
Associate Professor
Fiction, creative nonfiction, the graphic novel.
Associate Professor, Wayne Crookes Professor of Environmental and Climate Journalism
Environmental journalism, investigative journalism, solutions journalism, community building journalism, government and corporate secrecy, freedom of information, and more.
Professor, Director of Professional Writing
Areas of research & creative activity
Creative nonfiction, literary journalism, the nonfiction novel, adventure travel, ecological literacy, magazine publishing, teaching with technology, sports writing, memory and creative writing, interactive narrative, video games, digital storytelling, extended reality (XR) technologies and generative AI.
- Note: I am interested in recruiting MFA or Interdisciplinary graduate students in the fields of interactive narratives and digital storytelling.
Assistant Professor
Short film writing, feature film writing, TV writing, poetry, short fiction, experimental writing, hybrid genres, editing and publishing, climate/eco writing, small press publishing.
Professor
Poetry, memoir
Adjunct Faculty
Adjunct faculty members enrich and augment the Department's research activities, and graduate and undergraduate teaching and training.
Adjunct Associate Professor
Areas of research & creative activity
Investigative journalism, collaborative journalism, data journalism, environmental journalism, health journalism, solutions journalism, freedom of information laws, business model innovation, backfielding and copyediting, producing.