Faculty and Staff

E‌lissa Asp, Professor                

B.A. (Glendon College), M.A. (York University), Ph.D. (York University) 
Linguistic theory and description and the linguistic description of discourse.

Office - MN308; Phone - 902-420-5717; elissa.asp@smu.ca 

M‌ark Barr, Associate Professor 

B.A., L.L.B. (J.D.) (Victoria), M.Phil. (Oxford), Ph.D. (Vanderbilt)
British Romanticism

Office - MN322; Phone - 902-420-5193; mark.barr@smu.ca 

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D‌aniel Currie Hall, Associate Professor; Linguistics Coordinator 

B.A. (University of Toronto), M.A. (University of Toronto), Ph.D. (University of  Toronto) Linguistics

Office - MN305; Phone - 902-420-5707; daniel.hall@smu.ca 

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Luke Hathaway, Assistant Professor 

B.A. (Hons.)(Mount Allison), M.A. (Memorial), Ph.D. (McMaster)

Creative Writing

Office - MN320; Phone - 902-420-5860; luke.hathaway@smu.ca

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David Heckerl, Associate Professor 

B.A. (Claremont), M.A. (New Brunswick), Ph.D. (McGill) 

Office - MN321; Phone - 902-420-5711; david.heckerl@smu.ca

T‌eresa Heffernan, Professor; On Leave October 2022 - April 2023 CAPAS Fellow

B.A. (Hons.), M.A. (Ottawa), Ph.D. (Toronto) 

Rise of the novel, modernism, and literary theory

Office - MN331; Phone - 902-496-8294; teresa.heffernan@smu.ca 

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G‌ugu Hlongwane, Associate Professor

B.A. (Sarah Lawrence), M.A. (Guelph), Ph.D. (York)

Office - MN302; Phone - 902-420-5595; gugu.hlongwane@smu.ca

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Renée Hulan, Professor 

B.A. (Acadia), M.A. (Guelph), Ph.D. (McGill) 

Canadian literary and cultural history 

Office - MN329; Phone - 902-420-5690; renee.hulan@smu.ca  

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Deborah Kennedy, Professor 

B.A. (Hons.), M.A. (Windsor), Ph.D. (Toronto) 

Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature 

Office - MN324; Phone - 902-420-5700; deborah.kennedy@smu.ca 

Seán Kennedy, Professor; Coordinator Irish Studies 

B.A. (Trinity College, Dublin), M.A., Ph.D. (National University of Ireland, Galway) 

Modern Irish Culture and Literature 

Office - MN325;Phone - 902-420-8269; sean.kennedy@smu.ca 

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Alexander MacLeod, Associate Professor 

B.A. (Hons.) (Windsor), M.A. (Notre Dame), Ph.D. (Hons.) (McGill) 

Creative writing and Atlantic Canada Studies 

Office - MN332; Phone - 902-491-6222; alexander.macleod@smu.ca 

Sara Malton, Professor

B.A. (Hons.) (Victoria), M.A. (Ottawa), Ph.D. (Toronto)

Nineteenth-Century Literature

Office - MN330; Phone - 902-496-8137; sara.malton@smu.ca 

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Stephanie Morley, Associate Professor 

B.A.(Hons.) (McGill), M.A. (McMaster), Ph.D. (McMaster) 

Office - MN323; Phone - 902-420-5719; stephanie.morley@smu.ca  

J. Russell Perkin, Professor   

B.A. (Hons.) (Acadia), B.A., M.A. (Oxford), Ph.D. (Toronto) 

British Literature of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 

Office - MN304; Phone 902-420-5714 russell.perkin@smu.ca 

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Henghameh Saroukhani, Associate Professor; On leave

On sabbatical (2021-2022); Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck, University of London (2021-2022)

B.A. (Alberta), M.A. (British Columbia), Ph.D. (Leeds) 

Literatures and Cultures of the Black Atlantic

Office - MN318; Phone - 902-491-6448; henghameh.saroukhani@smu.ca  

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Raymond Sewell, Assistant Professor

Indigenous Literature

Office - MN303; raymond.sewell@smu.ca 

Goran V. Stanivukovic, Professor

B.A. (NoviSad), M.A., Ph.D. (Belgrade)

English Renaissance literature and Cultural Studies

Office - MN328; Phone - 902-420-5708; goran.stanivukovic@smu.ca  

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Tatjana Takševa, Professor, Department Chair

B.A. (Hons.) (York) M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)

Office - MN319; Phone - 902-491-6274; tatjana.takseva@smu.ca 

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Jennifer VanderBurgh, Associate Professor

B.A. (Hons.) (Queen’s), M.A., Ph.D. (York)

Film Studies

Office - MN326; Phone - 902-420-5718; jennifer.vanderburgh@smu.ca  

Ariel Watson, Associate Professor

B.A. (North Carolina), M.Phil./M.A., Ph.D. (Yale)

Office - MN307; Phone - 902-420-5286; ariel.watson@smu.ca  

Adrian Knapp Mag.Phil. (Innsbruck), Ph.D. (Leeds)

adrian.knapp@smu.ca 

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Brian Bartlett

 B.A. (University of New Brunswick), M.A. (Concordia University), Ph.D. (Montreal) 

Janet Hill

B.A. (Hons.) (Sheffield), M.A., Ph.D. (Dalhousie)

Wendy R. Katz

B.A. (Skidmore), M.A., Ph.D. (Dalhousie) 

Michael J. Larsen, Dean Emeritus

B.A. (Saint Mary’s), M.A. (Dalhousie),  Ph.D. (Toronto)

Andy Seaman

 B.A., M.A., Ph.D.

Gillian M.V. Thomas

B.A., M.A. (Sussex), Ph.D. (London)

Kathleen R. Tudor

B.A. (Sir George Williams), M.A. (Montreal), Ph.D. (Toronto)

Mustafa Hussaini, Secretary

Office: MN314; 902-420-5701

mustafa.hussaini@smu.ca 

Office Hours: M-F 9-5