York University: Graduate Program in Humanities

Faculty Members and Their Research Interests

Listed below are the current members of the faculty in the Humanities Graduate Studies program. The list is sorted according to the research interests of the faculty members in the fields of Comparative Perspectives and Cultural Boundaries, Religion, Values and Culture and Science, Technology and Culture
(Last updated: September 2011)

Field I - Comparative Perspectives and Cultural Boundaries
Gisela Argyle MA (Munich), PhD (York) Professor Emeritus Website \| gargyle@yorku.ca	Comparative literature: English/German, eighteenth to twentieth century; transnational genre formation; transformation of female life writings into male fiction.
Ian Balfour BA (York), MA (Tor.), PhD (Yale) Professor Website \| ibalfour@yorku.ca	Romantic poetry and prose (mainly British and German); contemporary theory and criticism; 18th-century literature and philosophy (especially aesthetic theory and philosophy of language).
Deborah Britzman BA, M.ED., ED.D. (Mass.) Distinguished Research Professor Website \| Britzman@edu.yorku.ca	Psychoanalysis and literary study; Freudian studies and the psychoanalytic field; psychoanalysis, critical theory, and education; studies in sexuality.
Gary Butler BEd, BA, MA (Memorial), M.ès.L. (Bordeaux) PhD (Memorial) Professor Website \| gbutler@yorku.ca	Ethnographic analysis of oral discourse; oral traditions of French and African - Caribbean ethnic groups in North America; traditional and popular modes of expression and their influence on contemporary culture.
Carole Carpenter BSc (Dal.), MA, PhD (Penn.) Professor Website \| carolec@yorku.ca	Children's literature; children's culture and Canadian childhoods; folklore as a discourse of identity.
Mark Cauchi MA, PhD (York) Assistant Professor mcauchi@yorku.ca	19th- and 20th-century continental philosophy and social theory; intersections of religious and secular thought and culture; theories of the secular and postsecular; intersections of philosophy and the arts (literature, visual art, and film).
Sylwia Chrostowska BA Honours, MA, PhD (Tor.) Assistant Professor sylwiac@yorku.ca	Utopian/dystopian thought & literature; genre theory; history of literary criticism; Frankfurt School of critical theory; affect & memory
Matthew Clark BA, MA (Tor.), PhD (Harv.) Associate Professor Website \| matthewc@yorku.ca	The epic, from Homer to the Twentieth Century; the rhetorical tradition of persuasion and eloquence; the influence of classical literature on Western culture.
Elicia Clements BA, BMus (UWO), MA, PhD (York) Assistant Professor Website \| elicia@yorku.ca	Modernism; interdisciplinary studies; gender studies; musicology.
Tom Cohen AB (Mich. St.), PhD (Harv.) Professor Website \| tcohen@yorku.ca	Social, cultural and political anthropology of Renaissance Italy; microhistory.
Peter E. Cumming BA (Wil. Laur.), Diploma in Education (McG.), MA (Guelph), PhD (UWO) Associate Professor Website \| cummingp@yorku.ca	Children’s literature; contemporary Canadian fiction; First Nations literatures; gender studies (masculinities); digital humanities.
Andrea Davis BA (West Indies), MA, PhD (York) Associate Professor Website \| aadavis@yorku.ca	Literature and the African Diaspora; Gender and African – Canadian Literature; Caribbean literature.
John Dwyer BA, MA, PhD (UBC) Professor Website \| jdwyer@yorku.ca	The Enlightenment of the eighteenth century; Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment; sentimental philosophy and the literature of the eighteenth century.
Jonathan Edmondson BA, MA, PhD (Camb.) Professor Website \| jedmond@yorku.ca	Roman social, cultural, and economic history; public spectacle in Roman society; the Roman family.
Seth Feldman BA (Johns Hopkins), PhD (SUNY Buffalo) Professor Website \| sfeldman@yorku.ca	National and international cinema; Canadian cinema
Doug Freake BA (McG.), MA, PhD (Tor.) Associate Professor Website \| dfreake@yorku.ca	Literary studies, especially early modern English literature, history and conceptualizations of the body.
Margo Gewurtz BA (Tor.), MA, PhD (Cornell) Professor Emertius Website \| mgewurtz@yorku.ca	Modern Sino-Western cultural relations; Canadian missionaries in China and their Chinese converts/partners.
Ted Goossen BA (Oberlin), MA, PhD (Tor.) Professor Website \| tgoossen@yorku.ca	Traditional or contemporary Japan; western culture and the Oriental other; Asian culture and the Occidental other; comparative examinations of cultural constructs of selfhood, society, nature and the sacred in western and non-western societies.
Maria Constanza Guzman BA (Nacional de Colombia), MA (Kent St.) PhD (SUNY Binghamton) Associate Professor Website \| mguzman@glendon.yorku.ca	Latin American literature; comparative literature and translation studies; contemporary theories of translation; literary translation and translation pedagogy; translation in the Americas.
Philip A. Harland BA (UWO), MA, PhD (Tor.) Associate Professor Website \| pharland@yorku.ca	Social history of religious life in the Roman empire, especially Asia Minor; early Christianity; ancient Judaism; Greco-Roman religions.
Sara Horowitz BA (CCNY), MA (Col.), PhD (Brandeis) Professor Website \| srh@yorku.ca	Gender and the Holocaust; memory, narrative and Jewish culture.
Theresa Hyun BA (SUNY), MA, PhD (Iowa St.) Associate Professor Website \| thyun@yorku.ca	Korean women; writers and translation; translation as a form of cultural interaction; comparative literature and culture.
Susan Ingram BA (Bishop's); MA (McM.), PhD (Alta.) Associate Professor Website \| singram@yorku.ca	Translation and fashion theory; intersections of film and Europe.
Joan Judge BA Honors (Alta.) MA (Institute d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, Col.) PhD (Col.) Professor Website \| judge@yorku.ca	Modern Chinese cultural and women's history; Chinese print culture; the desacrilization of knowledge and the rise of the common reader in China; gender and modernity in the non-Western world.
Marlene Kadar BA (Trent), MA (Wat.), PhD (Alta.) Professor Website \| mkadar@yorku.ca	Race, sex, gender, ethnicity and class in life writing practices; the construction of privilege and knowledge in women's writing; central European women in the Holocaust/Porrajmos.
Eva C. Karpinski MA (Wroclaw, Poland), PhD (Poznan, Poland), PhD (York) evakarp@yorku.ca	Women's writing; feminist, anti-racist, and postcolonial perspectives in auto/biography and life writing; American literature; postmodern fiction; cultural studies; Canadian studies; gender and migration studies; translation studies.
Janine Marchessault BA (Concord.), MA (Wat.), PhD (York) Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair Website \| jmarches@yorku.ca	Cities and architecture; film and media studies; science and technology; aesthetics; feminist cultures; translocalism; global flows; the Toronto School of Communication.
Steven Mason BA, MA (McM.), PhD (St. M. Coll., Tor.) Canada Research Chair, Professor Website \| smason@yorku.ca	Judean history and literature in the Roman period; Roman -provincial relations in the Eastern Mediterranean; Christian origins; ancient historiography and rhetoric.
Peter M McIsaac BS (Mich.), Ph.D (Harv.) Associate Professor Website \| pmcisaac@yorku.ca	Post-1750 Germanophone literature, film and culture; museum studies and theories of collecting; history of science (especially Germany/Austria); German and European cultural policy; theories of sex and gender.
David T. McNab BA (Wat. Luth.), MA (McM.), PhD (Lancaster) Professor Website \| dtmcnab@yorku.ca	Indigenous thought; Canadian indigenous history; land rights and treaty issues.
Jacinthe Michaud MA (Laval), PhD (OISE/Tor.) Associate Professor Website \| jmichaud@yorku.ca	Studies of the relationship between feminism and the left in Québec and Italy; leftist and feminist periodicals during the 70s and 80s in Québec; feminist theories; intersection of culture and social sciences.
Arun Mukherjee MA, PhD (Tor.) Professor Website \| amukherj@yorku.ca	South Asian literature; Dalit literature; Minority Canadian literatures.
Douglas Peers BA, MA (Cal.) PhD (Lond.) Professor	British Imperialism, particularly colonial rule in India; colonial knowledge and colonial historiography; print culture and imperialism; masculinity and empire; militarization of colonial rule.
Nalini Persram BA (Regina), BA (Victoria), MA (East Anglia) PhD (Aberystwyth) Associate Professor Website \| persramn@yorku.ca	Subjectivity and survival; postcoloniality; feminism; Caribbean culture and thought; social and political theory and empire.
Markus Reisenleitner MA, PhD (Vienna) Associate Professor Website \| mrln@yorku.ca	Humanities; visual and textual representations of global cities; European urban culture; theories of space and the environment.
Leslie Sanders BA, MA, PhD (Tor.) Professor Website \| leslie@yorku.ca	African American and African Canadian literature, theatre and culture.
Victor Shea BA (PEI), MA (Tor.), PhD (York) Associate Professor Website \| vshea@yorku.ca	Victorian culture; North American studies; critical theory; childhood culture.
Diana Spokiene Dipl.Phil. (Vilnius), MA (New Brunswick), PhD (Alberta) Website \| spokiene@yorku.ca	Modern German literature and culture; gender, city and identity; inter/cultural studies.
Richard Teleky BA (Case West.), MA, PhD (Tor.) Professor Website \| rtelekey@yorku.ca	Early twentieth-century modernism; Central European literature; Hollywood films before 1950; the creative process.
Malcolm Thurlby BA, PhD (East Anglia) Professor Website \| thurlby@sympatico.ca	Medieval art and architecture and Canadian architecture; Romanesque architecture in the British Isles; Gothic revival architecture in Ireland; nineteenth-century churches in Canada.
Temenuga Trifonova BA (Am.U., Bulgaria), MFA (UCSD), PhD (SUNY) Assistant Professor Website \| temenuga@yorku.ca	European cinema; screenwriting; film theory; philosophy of film; film remakesand adaptations; film criticism; psychopathology and film.
Priscila Uppal BA, PhD (York), MA (Tor.) Associate Professor Website \| puppal@yorku.ca	Creative writing, Canadian prose and poetry.
Jim Vernon BA, (McM.), MA, PhD (Guelph) Associate Professor jvernon@yorku.ca	19th and 20th century continental philosophy, focusing on German Idealism (esp. Kant and Hegel) and post-structuralism (esp. Derrida and Deleuze); political philosophy; philosophy of language.
Keith Weiser BA (Yale), MA, PhD (Columbia) Associate Professor Website \| kweiser@yorku.ca	Modern and eastern European Jewish history; Israel studies; Yiddish language and culture; sociology of language.
Alan Weiss BA, MA (Concord.), PhD (Tor.) Associate Professor Website \| aweiss@yorku.ca	Canadian fiction and fantastic literature; utopian/dystopian thought and literature; science fiction and fantasy.

Field II - Religion, Values and Culture
Michael Brown BA (Harv.), MA (Col.), PhD (SUNY Buffalo) M.H.L., Hon.D.D. (Jewish Theological Seminary) Professor Emeritus Website \| michaelb@yorku.ca	Modern Jewish literature and history; holocaust studies.
Amila Buturovic BA (Sarajevo), MA, PhD (McG.) Associate Professor Website \| amilab@yorku.ca	Islamic Studies; literature and cultural encounters; national, religious, ethnic and gender identities.
Mark Cauchi MA, PhD (York) Assistant Professor mcauchi@yorku.ca	19th- and 20th-century continental philosophy and social theory; intersections of religious and secular thought and culture; theories of the secular and postsecular; intersections of philosophy and the arts (literature, visual art, and film).
Carl S. Ehrlich BA (Mass.), MA, PhD (Harv.), Professor Website \| ehrlich@yorku.ca	Hebrew Bible; 'biblical' archaeology; ancient Near Eastern studies and Jewish studies.
Goldberg, Aviva MA, PHD (York) Assistant Professor agoldber@yorku.ca	Feminist theology and women's ritual, gender issues re Jewish women and GBLT, focus on all contemporary denominations re ritual, liturgy and leadership
Philip A. Harland BA (Waterloo), MA, PhD (Toronto) Associate Professor Website \| pharland@yorku.ca	Social history of religious life in the Roman empire, especially Asia Minor; early Christianity; ancient Judaism; Greco-Roman religions.
Sara Horowitz BA (CCNY), MA (Col.), PhD (Brandeis) Professor Website \| srh@yorku.ca	Gender and the Holocaust; memory, narrative and Jewish culture.
Avron Kulak BA, MA, PhD (York) Assistant Professor Website \| akulak@yorku.ca	Philosophical and religious values in modern European thought: Descartes to Derrida.
Eric Lawee BA (Tor.), PhD (Harv.) Associate Professor Website \| lawee@yorku.ca	Medieval and early modern Judaism in southern Europe.
Becky Lee BA (Wat.), MA (W. Laur.), PhD (Tor.) Associate Professor Website \| blee@yorku.ca	Gender and religion; medieval English rituals and customs related to childbirth; lay spirituality in late medieval England; the methods and theories of women's history and gender history.
Martin Lockshin BA (Touro), MA, PhD (Brandeis) Professor Website \| lockshin@yorku.ca	Classical Jewish Studies; history of the interpretation of the Bible
Steven Mason BA, MA (McM.), PhD (St. M. Coll., Tor.) Professor, Canada Research Chair Website \| smason@yorku.ca	Judean history and literature in the Roman period; Roman-provincial relations in the Eastern Mediterranean; Christian origins; ancient historiography and rhetoric.
Scott McLaren BA (Tor.), MLS (Tor.), PhD (Tor.) Adjunct Professor/ Associate Professor Website \| scottm@yorku.ca	Print culture, popular religion in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, pre-Confederation Canada
David T. McNab BA (Wat. Luth.), MA (McM.), PhD (Lancaster) Professor Website \| dtmcnab@yorku.ca	Indigenous thought; Canadian indigenous history; land rights and treaty issues.
Deborah Orr PhD (York) Associate Professor Website \| dorr@yorku.ca	Wittgenstein; the philosophy of classical Yoga, middle-way Buddhism, mindfulness (Patanjali, Nagarjuna); contemplative/mindful pedagogy and anti-oppressive pedagogy; embodiment and the construction of subjectivity.
Brayton Polka AB, PhD (Harv.) Professor Emeritus Website \| bpolka@rogers.com	Hermeneutics and metaphysics in European philosophical and religious thought; Descartes, Spinoza, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche.
Jamie Scott BA (Camb.), MA (Qu.), MA (Car.), PhD (Chic.) Professor Website \| jscott@yorku.ca	World religions and postcolonial cultures; world religions in Canada; literature, religion and geography; and cinema and world religions.
Joan Steigerwald BA, MA (Man.), PhD (Lond.) Associate Professor Website \| steiger@yorku.ca	Cultural contexts of science; the history of the life sciences and of environmental thought; German idealism, Romanticism and natural philosophy; figural representations of nature; the epistemology of experiment and technology.
Patrick Taylor BA, MA, PhD (York) Associate Professor Website \| taylorp@yorku.ca	Post-colonial thought and culture; religion, popular culture and literature of the Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora.
Alicia Turner BA (Kalamazoo), MA, PhD (Chicago) Assistant Professor Website \|turnera@yorku.ca	Religion, Colonialism and Nationalism; Buddhism in Southeast Asia; Burmese History; Critical Approaches to the Study of Religion
Stan Tweyman BA. MA, PhD (Tor.) Professor Website \| stweyman@yorku.ca	Methodological and cultural foundations of religion and morality; Enlightenment thought; methodological nature of scholarly exegesis.
Keith Weiser BA (Yale), MA, PhD (Col.) Associate Professor Website \| kweiser@yorku.ca	Modern and Eastern European Jewish history; Israel studies, Yiddish language and culture; sociology of language.
Alan Weiss BA, MA (Concord.), PhD (Tor.) Website \| aweiss@yorku.ca	Apocalyptic science fiction and its roots.
William Westfall BA (Trin. Coll, Tor.), MA, PhD (Tor.) Professor Website \| westfall@yorku.ca	Nineteenth century Canadian religious, social, and cultural history; systems of religion; patterns of culture; art and architecture; clerical formation.
Barrie Wilson BA (Bishop's), MA (Col.), STB, PhD (Tor.) Professor Emeritus Website \| barrie@yorku.ca	Christianity of the 1st and 2nd centuries CE; Gnosticism; Second Temple Judaism 1st century BCE

Field III - The Cultures, technologies and sciences of the modern
Katherine Anderson BA (McG.), MA (Mass.), PhD (Nor. West.) Associate Professor Website \| kateya@yorku.ca	History of modern science; science writing; technology change and cultural history.
Gisela Argyle MA (Munich), PhD (York) Professor Emeritus Website \| gargyle@yorku.ca	Comparative literature: English/German, eighteenth to twentieth century; transnational genre formation; transformation of female life writings into male fiction.
Steven Bailey AB (Bard), MA (Iowa), MA (Bowling Green) PhD (Ill.) Associate Professor Website \| bailey@yorku.ca	Social and cultural impacts of information and communication technology; identity and technology; contemporary philosophy and information technology.
Ian Balfour BA (York), MA (Tor.), PhD (Yale) Professor Website \| ibalfour@yorku.ca	Romantic poetry and prose (mainly British and German); contemporary theory and criticism; 18th-century literature and philosophy (especially aesthetic theory and philosophy of language).
Jody Berland BA, MA (S. Fraser), PhD (York) Associate Professor Website \| jberland@yorku.ca	Techno-cultural studies; narratives of nature and the environment; Canadian cultural studies.
Mark Cauchi MA, PhD (York) Assistant Professor mcauchi@yorku.ca	19th- and 20th-century continental philosophy and social theory; intersections of religious and secular thought and culture; theories of the secular and postsecular; intersections of philosophy and the arts (literature, visual art, and film).
Tom Cohen AB (Mich. St.), PhD (Harv.) Professor Website \| tcohen@yorku.ca	Social, cultural and political anthropology of Renaissance Italy; microhistory.
Peter E. Cumming BA (Wil. Laur.), Diploma in Education (McG.), MA (Guelph), PhD (UWO) Associate Professor Website \| cummingp@yorku.ca	Children’s literature; contemporary Canadian fiction; First Nations literatures; gender studies (masculinities); digital humanities.
John Dwyer BA, MA, PhD (UBC) Professor Website \| jdwyer@yorku.ca	The Enlightenment of the eighteenth century; Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment; sentimental philosophy and the literature of the eighteenth century.
Seth Feldman BA (Johns Hopkins), PhD (SUNY Buffalo) Professor Website \| sfeldman@yorku.ca	National and international cinema; Canadian cinema
Martin Fichman BS (Brooklyn Poly.), MA, PhD (Harv.) Professor Emeritus Website \| mfichman@yorku.ca	Cultural/intellectual history of the Enlightenment; modern European and North American cultural and intellectual history; science, technology, and culture (1700-present); evolutionary theory and Victorian culture.
Margo Gewurtz BA (Tor.), MA, PhD (Cornell) Professor Emertius Website \| mgewurtz@yorku.ca	Modern Sino-Western cultural relations; Canadian missionaries in China and their Chinese converts/partners.
Ted Goossen BA (Oberlin), MA, PhD (Tor.) Professor Website \| tgoossen@yorku.ca	Traditional or contemporary Japan; western culture and the Oriental other; Asian culture and the Occidental other; comparative examinations of cultural constructs of selfhood, society, nature and the sacred in western and non-western societies.
Ernst Hamm BA (UBC.), MA, PhD (Tor.) Associate Professor Website \| ehamm@yorku.ca	Enlightenment and Romantic science; the history of the earth sciences and natural history; the interactions of science and technology; the relationship between the natural and the human sciences.
Susan Ingram BA (Bishop's); MA (McM.), PhD (Alta.) Associate Professor Website \| singram@yorku.ca	Translation and fashion theory; intersections of film and Europe.
Edward Jones-Imhotep BA (York), PhD (Harv.) Associate Professor Website \| imhotep@yorku.ca	History of modern physics; history and philosophy of technology; cultural history of reliability; science, technology and national identity.
Joan Judge BA Honors (Alta.) MA (Institute d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, Col.) PhD (Col.) Professor Website \| judge@yorku.ca	Modern Chinese cultural and women's history; Chinese print culture; the desacrilization of knowledge and the rise of the common reader in China; gender and modernity in the non-Western world.
Kenton Kroker PhD (Tor.) Associate Professor Website \| kkroker@yorku.ca	History of biomedical instrumentation and experimentation; the history of immunology, neurology, and psychological medicine.
Avron Kulak BA, MA, PhD (York) Assistant Professor Website \| akulak@yorku.ca	Philosophical and religious values in modern European thought: Descartes to Derrida.
Bernard Lightman BA, MA (York), PhD (Brandeis) Professor Website\| lightman@yorku.ca	Popular science; science and religion; science and visual culture.
Scott McLaren BA (Tor.), MLS (Tor.), PhD (Tor.) Adjunct Professor/ Associate Professor Website \| scottm@yorku.ca	Print culture, popular religion in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, pre-Confederation Canada
Janine Marchessault BA (Concord.), MA (Wat.), PhD (York) Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair Website \| jmarches@yorku.ca	Cities and architecture; film and media studies; science and technology; aesthetics; feminist cultures; translocalism; global flows; the Toronto School of Communication.
Peter M McIsaac BS (Mich.), PhD (Harv.) Associate Professor Website \| pmcisaac@yorku.ca	Post-1750 Germanophone literature, film and culture; museum studies and theories of collecting; history of science (especially Germany/Austria); German and European cultural policy; theories of sex and gender.
Catriona (Cate) Mortimer-Sandilands BA (UVIC), MA, PhD (York) Professor, Canada Research Chair Website \| essandi@yorku.ca	Environment, culture and literature; political theory and public culture; gender, sexuality and environments; queer theory.
Shobna Nijhawan MA (Heidelberg), PhD (Berk.) Assistant Professor Website \| shobna@yorku.ca	Early twentieth-century North India; Hindi public sphere; nationalist discourse; women's writings; colonial medicine in Hindi and Urdu periodicals and fiction.
Douglas Peers BA, MA (Cal.) PhD (Lond.) Professor, Dean of Graduate Studies \| fgsdean@yorku.ca	British Imperialism, particularly colonial rule in India; colonial knowledge and colonial historiography; print culture and imperialism; masculinity and empire; militarization of colonial rule.
Nalini Persram BA (Regina), BA (Victoria), MA (East Anglia), PhD (Aberystwyth) Associate Professor Website \| persramn@yorku.ca	Subjectivity and survival; postcoloniality; feminism; Caribbean culture and thought; social and political theory and empire.
Brayton Polka AB, PhD (Harv.) Professor Emeritus Website \| bpolka@rogers.com	Hermeneutics and metaphysics in European philosophical and religious thought; Descartes, Spinoza, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche.
Markus Reisenleitner MA, PhD (Vienna) Associate Professor Website \| mrln@yorku.ca	Humanities; visual and textual representations of global cities; European urban culture; theories of space and the environment.
Jason Robinson BA, BRE, MA, MTS, MA, PHD Assistant Professor jasonro@yorku.ca	Hermeneutics (theories of interpretation); 20th-century continental philosophy; philosophy of science; interdisciplinary studies; philosophy of religion.
Victor Shea BA (PEI), MA (Tor.), PhD (York) Associate Professor Website \| vshea@yorku.ca	Victorian culture; North American studies; critical theory; childhood culture.
Ann Shteir BA (Douglass), PhD (Rutg.) Professor Emeritus Website \| rshteir@yorku.ca	Women, gender, science; ideas of nature and the "natural"; 18th-century studies.
Joan Steigerwald BA, MA (Man.), PhD (Lond.) Associate Professor Website \| steiger@yorku.ca	Cultural contexts of science; the history of the life sciences and of environmental thought; German idealism, Romanticism and natural philosophy; figural representations of nature; the epistemology of experiment and technology.
Richard Teleky BA (Case West.), MA, PhD (Tor.) Professor Website \| rtelekey@yorku.ca	Early twentieth-century modernism; Central European literature; Hollywood films before 1950; the creative process.
Temenuga Trifonova BA (AM. U., Bulgaria), MFA (UCSD), PhD (SUNY) Assistant Professor Website \| temenuga@yorku.ca	European cinema; screenwriting; film theory; philosophy of film; film remakesand adaptations; film criticism; psychopathology and film.
Stan Tweyman BA. MA, PhD (Tor.) Professor Website \| stweyman@yorku.ca	Methodological and cultural foundations of religion and morality; Enlightenment thought; methodological nature of scholarly exegesis.
Jim Vernon BA, (McM.), MA, PhD (Guelph) Associate Professor jvernon@yorku.ca	19th and 20th century continental philosophy, focusing on German Idealism (esp. Kant and Hegel) and post-structuralism (esp. Derrida and Deleuze); political philosophy; philosophy of language.
Alan Weiss BA, MA (Concord.), PhD (Tor.) Associate Professor Website \| aweiss@yorku.ca	Science fiction and fantasy; utopian/dystopian thought and literature.
Alejandro Zamora BA (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), PhD (Université de Montréal) Associate Professor Website \| azamora@glendon.yorku.ca	Comparative literature; youth and childhood in contemporary novel; literary epistemology and figures of thought; Hispanic literature (20th Century).