Meet our contract faculty, who bring their experience to York as professionals within their industries, visiting professors from other institutions or as top scholars in their fields. Find out more about their professional experience, research activities and areas of academic interest.
Elena Basile
Elena Basile is a teacher, translator and inter-media artist working along the fuzzy edges of multiple corporeal, linguistic and cultural trajectories of belonging. Her areas of scholarly and artistic research ...
Samantha Bernstein
M.A. York University (Interdisciplinary Studies); M.A. University of Toronto (English Literature); Ph.D. York University (English Literature) My research focuses on intersections of representation, ethics, affect, and politics. I specialize in ...
Jennifer Duncan
Jennifer Duncan is the author of Sanctuary & Other Stories and Frontier Spirit: Brave Women of the Klondike, and many short stories, poems, book reviews, etc. published in literary journals ...
Ila Goody
Ila Goody received the M.A and PhD degrees in 19th and 20th century British and American novel from University of Toronto and has held Woodrow Wilson and SSHRC awards. She ...
Jordana Greenblatt
Jordana Greenblatt (PhD, English, York) is the editor of Querying Consent: Beyond Permission and Refusal (Rutgers UP) and has published articles in a variety of literature and interdisciplinary journals and scholarly collections. ...
Anindo Hazra
Anindo Hazra (PhD, York [English]) teaches in York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (DLLL; English; Humanities) and Glendon Campus (English). With Theodore W. Goossen, he is editor ...
Aida Jordao
Aida Jordão, PhD, is a theatre scholar and practitioner whose research, teaching, and theatre-making build on her dissertation, “Inês de Castro in Theatre and Film: A Feminist Exhumation of the Dead ...
Regi Khokher
Regi Khokher’s current research examines the interplay between contemporary Science Fiction from the United States and American electoral politics, in particular the connections between SF and the conservative movement post-1980, ...
Natalia Khomenko
Natalia Khomenko (PhD, York University; MA, University of Toronto) wrote her doctoral dissertation on virgin martyr vitae as a popular genre in late medieval and early modern England. She specializes ...
Geoffrey MacDonald
Geoffrey MacDonald teaches postcolonial literary studies and academic writing. His current research theorizes the use of intersectionality to analyze cross-identity representations in Caribbean literature. Geoffrey's doctoral dissertation, Liberation Textualities, compared ...
Eshe Mercer-James
B.A. Columbia University (English Literature and Creative Writing); M.ISt. University of Toronto (Library Studies); M.A. York University (English Literature); A.B.D. York University (English Literature). Eshe's research explores Black diasporic literature, ...
Bernice Neal
My research focuses on early modern literature, especially Renaissance drama. My dissertation, "Properties of Desire: Performing Women on the Early Modern Transvestite Stage," explored how stage properties contribute to the ...
James Papoutsis
James D. Papoutsis (Ph.D., English, York) specializes in contemporary literature, American literature, and popular culture including film, comics, and graphic novels. He is currently researching the influence of Bollywood on the ...
Dana Patrascu-Kingsley
Dana Patrascu-Kingsley was born and grew up in Bucharest, Romania. After graduating with a B.A. in Romanian and English from Facultatea de Litere, University of Bucharest, she moved to Canada, ...
Anna F. Peppard
Anna F. Peppard earned her PhD from York University specializing in American literature. She’s published widely on representations of race, gender, and sexuality within a variety of popular media genres and ...
Concetta Principe
Concetta Principe is an award-winning writer of poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction and a professor whose scholarship takes a Lacanian approach to interpreting cultural and social phenomenon as products of ...
Nemanja Protic
Nemanja Protic holds a Ph.D. in English from York University. He specializes in contemporary literature and literary and cultural theory, with a focus on aesthetics and visual texts and culture. ...
Dani Spinosa
Dani Spinosa is a poet and a scholar in the fields of contemporary literature, poetry and poetics, electronic literature, and digital humanities. She's a co-founding editor of Gap Riot Press, ...
Dion Tubrett
Dion’s research interests lie in the socio-psychological study of the horror film: his PhD research is in the Classical Hollywood B horror film, and while this focus is primarily in ...