Dr. Stan Beeler completed his PhD in comparative literature from the University of Alberta, Canada, and his MA and BA from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. He is interested in popular culture, film and television studies, and the application of technology to research and teaching in the humanities. He has published on 17th century literature, popular culture, television studies and humanities computing. He is a member of several professional societies including the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Science Fiction Research Association, Emblem Studies Association and Canadian Association of Chairs of English. Dr. Beeler is the Past President  of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association. 

 

O:	ADM 3056
T:	250-960-6619
E:	stan@unbc.ca

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Dr. Karin Beeler's research and teaching are television studies,  film studies, women in popular culture, Canadian literature, and Comparative literary studies. Her book publications include: Seers, Witches and Psychics on Screen: An Analysis of Women Visionary Characters in Recent Television and Film (2008).  Tattoos, Desire and Violence: Marks of Resistance in Literature, Film and Television (2006) and Investigating Charmed: The Magic Power of TV (co-edited with Dr. Stan Beeler (2007). She is President of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association, and a member of the Popular Culture Association, the Society for Cinema and Media Studies  and ACCUTE (Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English).
 
When not occupied with academic activities, she enjoys spending time with her family and competing with her Newfoundland dogs and her Cavalier King Charles Spaniel in obedience trials.  

 

O:	ADM 3062
T:	250-960-6640
E:	beeler@unbc.ca

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Dr. Rob Budde teaches Creative Writing, Postcolonial Literature, Northern BC Literature, and Contemporary Critical Theory.  He has previously published six books (three poetry collections Catch as Catch, traffick, and, most recently, Finding Ft. George), two novels - Misshapen and The Dying Poem, and a book of short short fiction - Flicker).  In 2002, Rob facilitated a collection of interviews - In Muddy Water: Conversations with 11 Poets.  

 

Forthcoming in Fall 2008 Budde has a fourth book of poetry called declining america and he is working on a cyberpunk novel called The Overcode.  

 

O:	ADM 3016
T:	250-960-6693
E:	rbudde@unbc.ca

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“Rob Budde sees what glimmers at the edge of our peripheral vision” -The Georgia Strait   “… the pages of his book bubble with satisfying sentences.” - Prairie Fire “. . . his beautiful second novel . . . luminous, wry, and unflinchingly macabre . . .a stunning work . . .” --The Globe & Mail

BA Guelph, MA & PhD McMaster

 

Dr. Lisa Dickson is a specialist in Renaissance Literature (Shakespeare) with secondary specializations in Literary Theory, Canadian Literature and Cultural Studies. She has published articles on Hamlet and the early histories, as well as on contemporary film. Her primary research concerns performance on stage and in film, with a focus on the politics and aesthetics of represented violence, and particularly the intersection of violence and beauty. She is currently working on a book-length study of these issues in the context of Shakespearean drama, and is working on a proposal for an edited collection of essays dealing with this topic in a broad range of genres and historical and cultural contexts. Her interest in editing was sparked by her latest project in which she co-edited with Dr. Stan Beeler Reading Stargate SG-1. This collection of essays examines the cultural circulation of the popular science fiction series, its marketing, its treatment of place, American (and/or Canadian) nationalism, its politics of gender and identity, as well as its generic, filmic and thematic qualities. The collection is forthcoming from I.B. Tauris and Palgrave/St. Martin's in 2006. 

 

O:	ADM 3005
T:	250-960-5364
E:	dicksonl@unbc.ca

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BA & MA Western Ontario, PhD Toronto

 

My long term research interests are in nineteenth century theatre and Victorian popular culture.  I have published on Victorian melodrama, cannibalism, and on popular authors such as Marie Corelli (the first big "bestseller” in the modern sense of the term) and Isabella Beeton (the nineteenth-century Martha Stewart, minus the prison time).  I am currently at work on a SSHRCC-funded project focusing on Victorian detective fiction that I hope to publish as a scholarly monograph. This project is exciting for me because it extends my interests popular culture and theatre.   It will also include a chapter on depictions of policing and detection in western Canada in popular fiction about the North West Mounted Police.  Since taking up residence in Prince George, my husband and I have also tried to explore northern B.C. as much as possible.  We’ve enjoyed the great powder skiing, and spent last Christmas camping in the Queen Charlotte Islands. 

 

O:	ADM 3072
T:	250-960-6642
E:	kguest@unbc.ca

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MA Toronto, PhD 

Dr. Dee Horne is a creative writer, editor, and publisher. She is also the chair of the English Department at UNBC where she teaches Creative Writing as well as Modern and Contemporary Literature. She has published over 35 poems in literary journals in Canada and abroad as well as books and scholarly articles on First Nations Literature, American Literature, and Literary Publishing. In addition, Dee is the editor of Scroll in Space, an online literary journal. She is also the founder of Scroll Press, a small literary book publisher.
 
For further details about this research project and her full cv, see: http://scrollinspace.com/dee or http://scrollpress.com/dee 

 

O:	ADM 3086
T:	250-960-6641
E:	dee@unbc.ca

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Dr. Kevin Hutchings is Professor of English and Canada Research Chair in Literature, Culture, and Environmental Studies. A winner of the UNBC Award for Excellence in Teaching, he teaches courses in Romantic literature and culture, Ecocriticism, and environmental literature. He is the author of Romantic Ecologies and Colonial Cultures in the British Atlantic World 1770-1850 (2009) and Imagining Nature: Blake’s Environmental Poetics (2002).  He is also co-author of the BC Book Prize-winning Birds of the Raincoast: Habits and Habitat (2004), and his co-edited books include Transatlantic Literary Exchanges 1790-1870 (2011) and Native Americans and Anglo-American Culture 1750-1850 (2009). Kevin also works as the founding co-editor of the Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies.  He is currently writing a book entitled British Romanticism and North American Indigenous Governance 1800-1940.  In his spare time, Kevin has recorded several indie music CDs, including Songs of William Blake, On the Bridge You Were Burning, and Light to Shine. 

 

O:	ADM 3024
T:	250-960-6621
E:	hutchink@unbc.ca

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Dr. Maryna Romanets holds two doctoral degrees, from the former Soviet Union and Canada, was a recipient of a two-year SSHRC post-doctoral fellowship, and prior to coming to UNBC taught in the Departments of English at the Chernivtsi State University, University of Saskatchewan, and University of Lethbridge. Her research interests include Comparative Literature; Twentieth-Century Literature, especially Irish and British; Postcolonial and World Literatures; Women’s Literature; Contemporary Literary Theory: Postcolonial, Gender, Intertextual, Representation, and Translation theories.   She has published articles on contemporary Irish, British and Ukrainian literatures focusing on the issues of representation and gender, postcolonialism and intertextual relations, and politics and language, as well as on the mechanisms of textual production and translation theory and praxis in Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, and USA. The author of Anamorphosic Texts and Reconfigured Visions: Improvised Traditions in Contemporary Ukrainian and Irish Literature (2007), she is currently working on a book project titled “Postcolonial ‘Erotomaniac’ Fictions and the Making of New Identities in Ukraine,” funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. In addition, Dr. Romanets is interested in visual art and has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Two Rivers Gallery for several years. 

 

O:	ADM 3009
T:	250-960-6658
E:	romanets@unbc.ca

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MA British Columbia, PhD British Columbia

 

Dr. Blanca Schorcht came to UNBC from Simon Fraser University in the Fall of 2004, after several years of trying to determine how to do the apparently impossible—blend an academic career with small-town, rural living. Based in Quesnel, she travels to Prince George frequently and finds that driving 100 km in the North is easier than driving 10k in the Lower Mainland. Blanca’s specialty is First Nations and Canadian literatures, and her particular interest is in the interface between oral and written traditions. Her book, Storied Voices in Native American Texts, was published by Routledge in 2003; in it she explores the on-going connections among contemporary Native literatures and older, indigenous oral traditions. She is currently working on a project to catalogue and digitize the entire body of storytelling performances of the Okanagan storyteller, Harry Robinson, and to publish an interdisciplinary anthology of essays focusing on Robinson’s narratives.

Blanca’s degree in Comparative Literature makes her teaching focus very interdisciplinary; her background includes graduate work in Linguistics, Anthropology, and History. As Regional Chair, she teaches primarily in Quesnel, though her pedagogical forays include courses at Cariboo-Chilcotin Weekend University in Williams Lake. She likes teaching theory as well as literature.

When she has spare time, Blanca still enjoys reading for pleasure. She is also a devotee of pop culture, and has been known to watch Trailer Park Boys. In the winter, she and her family can be found at any one of the local ski hills—or those a little farther afield—and in the summer, they are likely to be kayaking along the many lakes and rivers of the region. 

 

O:	South Central Regional Campus, Quesnel
T:	250-991-7541
E:	schorcht@unbc.ca

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Dr. Debbie Keahey was born in Texas and has lived in New Mexico, Tennessee, Alberta, Italy, Manitoba, and Michigan. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Manitoba with a focus on old and middle English and 20th century American and Canadian literature, and her MA and PhD from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) with a focus in post-colonial English language and literature. An award-winning writer and editor, her books include a study of the construction of place, Making it Home: Place in Canadian Prairie Literature, a book of poetry, waking blood, and two collections of women’s writing, The Madwoman in the Academy: 43 Women Boldly Take On the Ivory Tower (co-edited with Deborah Schnitzer) and Unfurled: Collected Poetry by Northern BC Women.  In addition to teaching and trying to keep up with her four young children, she runs a small fibre-arts studio, Nuthatch Designs. 

 

E:	keahey@unbc.ca

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Marilyn Iwama was born and raised in Saskatchewan, in a Cree, Saulteaux, Metis and Mennonite family. She has a BA and MA in English and a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies, all from the University of British Columbia. Her scholarship and poetry attend the construction of identity - especially what happens when individuals and communities integrate different worldviews.  Marilyn is particularly curious about the healing aspects of food and language.