Full-Time Faculty
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Professor 337 Calumet College ext. 30163 Rishma Dunlop is a playwright, essayist, fiction writer, editor and translator. She is the author of five books of poetry: Lover Through Departure: New and Selected Poems (2011), White Album (2008), Metropolis (2005), Reading Like a Girl (2004), and The Body of My Garden (2002). She won the Emily Dickinson Poetry Award (2003) and has been a finalist for the CBC Prizes in Poetry and Creative Non-Fiction, and the Exile-Vanderbilt Prize for Fiction. Her work has been translated into Korean, Spanish and French. Dr. Dunlop’s honours include the Canada-U.S. Fulbright Research Chair in Creative Writing (2009). She was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Academy of Arts and Humanities (FRSC, 2011)). She has given keynote and plenary speeches, as well as literary readings, at interdisciplinary venues around the world. She teaches courses on poetry, non-fiction, Research and Artistic Creation, and Creative Writing Pedagogy. |
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Associate Professor Program Co-ordinator 301E Stong College ext. 30355 David B. Goldstein is a widely published poet, scholar, and food writer. His first book of poems, Laws of Rest, and his first critical study, Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare’s England, will be published in the fall, while his second poetry chapbook, Object Permanence, will appear in 2014. He teaches and writes about poetry, avant-garde poetics, literary translation, Shakespeare, Renaissance literature, and food studies. |
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Assistant Professor 320 Calumet College ext. 20347 Michael Helm's novel Cities of Refuge was a Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalist, a Giller Prize nominee, and a Globe and Mail and Now magazine Best Book of the Year. His earlier novels are The Projectionist, a finalist for The Giller Prize and the Trillium Award; and In the Place of Last Things, a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the regional Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book. His writings on fiction, poetry, and the visual arts have appeared in North American newspapers and magazines, including Tin House and Brick, where he's an editor. |
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Sessional Assistant Professor 143 Founders College ext. 20839 Patricia Keeney is an award-winning author of nine books of poetry and a picaresque novel. Translated and published internationally, she is also widely known as a theatre and literary critic. |
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Associate Professor 352 Stong College ext. 33775 B. W. Powe is a poet, novelist, essayist, and philosopher. His influential writings on Marshall McLuhan, Northrop Frye, and Pierre Trudeau have been widely-praised, as have his poetry and novels, including Outage and These Shadows Remain, longlisted for the ReLit Prize. He writes regularly for the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star, and been featured in the New York Times and on CBC and Bravo. |
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Professor 324 Founders College ext. 22866 Priscila Uppal is an internationally-published poet, fiction and non-fiction writer. Among her publications are eight collections of poetry, including Ontological Necessities (2006; shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize), and Successful Tragedies: Poems 1998-2010 (Bloodaxe Books, U.K.); and the critically-acclaimed novels The Divine Economy of Salvation (2002) and To Whom It May Concern (2009). Upcoming publications include Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother and Summer Sport: Poems. Time Out London dubbed Uppal “Canada’s coolest poet.” |
