In order to complete an Independent Study, Undergraduate Thesis, or Applied Studies course, you will need to find a faculty member willing to supervise, mentor, and challenge you throughout the course.
Below is a list of professors and their areas of research or interst. To find out more about each person, simply click on the link to be taken to their University of Lethbridge profile.
20th and 21st-century Literature (American and British)
Literature and Science
New Media and Storytelling.
Adam Carter (On Leave until July 2015)
Literary Theory and the History of Criticism
Theories of Irony
Theories of Ideology
Canadian Literature
Romanticism
Esther de Bruijn (On Leave until May 2015)
West African Popular Fiction and Popular Arts
African Literatures
Postcolonial and Transnational Literatures and Theory
Aesthetic Theory
Gothic Studies
Theories of Metaphor
Rhetorical Analysis
Critical Theory from 1848
Postcolonial Literature (incl. American Slave Narrative)
Modernist Literature and Art
Race and Gender Studies
Elizabeth Galway (On Leave)
Children's Literature
Canadian Literature
Victorian Literature
British Imperial Fiction
National Identities
Canadian Literature, esp. Literature of the Prairies
Literary Theory
Theories of the Negative
Modernist Poetry and Poetics
Avant-Garde and Experimental Poetry
Irish Literature, esp. 18th and 19th-century drama
Irish History and Culture
Drama, esp. 19th-century, modern, and contemporary
World Literature
Gender, Race, Ethnic, and Class Discourse
Postcolonial Studies, esp. Drama
Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature
Book history and print culture
Comedy and satire
Gender studies
Ian McAdam (Acting Department Chair)
Renaissance Drama and Shakespeare
Milton and Metaphysical Poets
Elizabethan and Middle English Literature
Psychoanalytic Theory
19th-century British and American Literature, esp. Dickens, Austen, Melville, and Dickinson
Jewish and Jewish- American Literature
Traditional Ballad and Folklore
Computer Applications in the Humanities
Old English and Related Germanic Languages and Literature
Middle English
Editorial and Textual Theory
the History of the Book