Faculty and Staff
Humanities General Office: AQ 5117
Telephone: 778-782-3689 Fax: 778-782-4504
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David Mirhady AQ 5127
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Alice Muir-Hartley
Manager, Academic & Administrative Services
Student Advisor
AQ 5115 Drop-In Advising Hours: Students must bring an up-to-date printout of their Advising Transcript (available on the Student Information System) to all advising appointments. |
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Ian Angus
Professor BA, MA Waterloo, PhD York
Ian Angus teaches modern European thought and Canadian intellectual history. He teaches in both these areas in the Humanities Department. In 2007 and 2008 he was Director of the Prague Field School, which is based in the Humanities Department. His intellectual formation began with the 20th century European philosophies of phenomenology and the Frankfurt school of critical theory. His first book, Technique and Enlightenment (1984) probed the historical sources of the ‘instrumental reason’ that legitimates the modern advance of technology and argued for a form of technology assessment that is not only ethical but pertains also to the construction of human identity. A significant turn in Angus’ work occurred when he began a critical engagement with the history of English Canadian social and political thought, which resulted in A Border Within: National Identity, Cultural Plurality and Wilderness (1997), which was widely reviewed in both the academic and popular press. (Dis)figurations: Discourse/Critique/Ethics (2000), Primal Scenes of Communication: Communication, Consumerism, Social Movements (2000), and Emergent Publics: An Essay on Social Movements and Democracy (2001)—have presented his positions with regard to contemporary political philosophy and communication theory. His most recent book Identity and Justice was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2008. AQ5122 |
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Paul Crowe
Associate Professor (joint appointment with Asia-Canada Program) BA, MA (Calgary), MA, PhD (UBC)
I am very interested in how we can create space for intercultural conversation and mutual understanding through encounters with great texts of Asia. In the courses I teach, time is spent reflecting on the challenges associated with translating important terms and the value of this process for bringing to light our hidden cultural assumptions. The basic cultural categories of “religion” and “philosophy” as constructed in Asia, and Europe and North America are very different and this fact becomes obvious in seminar discussions. In the Humanities and Asia-Canada courses I teach, students are encouraged to engage in interdisciplinary discussion and to write papers that explore humanistic themes across cultures. My work is in the dual domains of classical Chinese Daoist, Buddhist and literati ("Confucian") texts, and the study of modern Chinese religious institutions in Canada and Hong Kong. Presently my research is divided between two major projects: The first is an English translation of a seminal thirteenth century Daoist inner alchemy (neidan) text based on the version included in the fifteenth-century Zhengtong Daoist Canon. This work will provide insight into the dynamic and complex religious and intellectual interplay of ideas among Yuan dynasty elites during a time when the Mongol minority had taken control of China. The second project, in its early stages, will lead to to a book on the history of a small network of Daoist organizations in Canada and Hong Kong. Preliminary work was begun in Hong Kong in the summers of 2008 and 2011, which included interviews, participant observation and the gathering of many "spirit writing" texts. These are new scriptures recorded by individuals, usually women, who are able to communicate with popular deities. While in a deep meditative state texts are "dictated" in a ritual context and written in sand before transcription to paper. Based on my translation work, interviews and participation in Daoist ritual the book will examine the literature, liturgy and institutional configuration of these groups in Hong Kong and Canada and examine both continuities and innovation in light of the history of migration. This work will provide a rich portrait of these groups which will shed light on how varying historical circumstances of successive waves of migration to Canada affect adaptation, broad social engagement and spiritual practice. Publications details at Academia.edu.
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Stephen Duguid
Professor BA (Illinois), MA, PhD (SFU)
Areas of Teaching: enlightenment studies, educational evaluation, culture and ecology
Research Interests: educational evaluation, Centre for Scottish Studies
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Paul Edward Dutton, FRSC
Jack and Nancy Farley University Professor in History B.A. (Hons.) UWO, MA
PhD Toronto, MSL MSD Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies.
Areas of Teaching: Western Civilization, Medieval Studies, Carolingian Civilization, Twelfth-Century-Renaissance, History of the Book. Research: seven books published, editor of three series. Currently preparing a textbook on western civilization, making a critical edition of William of Conches's twelfth-century Philosophia, and writing a book of micro-medieval studies. |
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Anne-Marie Feenberg-Dibon
Associate Professor PhD (University of California, San Diego). Undergraduate and Graduate Degrees (University of Paris)
Areas of Teaching: the Enlightenment, 19th & 20th c. European fiction, history
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Samir Gandesha
Associate Professor Director, Institute for the Humanities BA
(UBC), MA, PHD (York)
Samir Gandesha was a SSHRCC post-doctoral fellow at UC
(Berkeley) in 1995-6 and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the
University of Potsdam in 2001-2, before joining the faculty of the
Humanities department at SFU in 2003. He specializes in modern
European thought and culture, with a particular emphasis on the 19th
and 20th centuries. His work has appeared in Political Theory, New
German Critique, Kant Studien, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Topia,
the European Legacy, the European Journal of Social Theory, Art Papers,
the Cambridge Companion to Adorno and Herbert Marcuse: A Critical
Reader as well as in several other edited books. He sits on the
steering committee of the Institute for the Humanities and is director
of SFU’s Prague Field School.
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Christine Jones
Senior Lecturer MA, PhD (McGill)
Areas of teaching: religion and culture; philosophy of literature
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Tsuyoshi Kawasaki
Associate Professor (Asia Canada Program, joint appointment with Political Science) LLB (Doshisha), MA (Toronto), MA, PhD (Princeton)
Areas of teaching: Japanese
culture, politics and economy, Asia-Canada interaction
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AQ 6037 778-782-3086
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Shuyu Kong
Associate Professor (joint appointment with Asia-Canada Program) BA and MA, Peking University; Ph.D, University of British Columbia Shuyu Kong taught
at University of British Columbia, University of Alberta and University
of Sydney before joining Humanities, SFU in 2008. She teaches Chinese
literature, film and popular culture, as well as Asia-Canada Studies.
Shuyu’s research interests include both contemporary Chinese culture
and Chinese diaspora culture. She has published articles in Positions:
East Asia Cultures Critique; Asian Cinema and Modern Chinese Literature
and Culture, and a book Consuming Literature: Bestsellers and the
Commercialization of Literary Production in Contemporary China
(Stanford University Press, 2005). She is now working on projects on
Chinese TV drama and ethnic Chinese media in Canada.
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David Mirhady David Mirhady teaches courses on the ancient Greek and
Roman worlds, including Classical Mythology, an Introduction to the
Ancient World, and courses on key moments and texts from ancient Athens
and Rome. His research interests have mainly focused on ancient
Athenian law and rhetoric and on the “School of Aristotle”. He
published Influences on Peripatetic Rhetoric in 2007.
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Emily O'Brien
Assistant Professor (joint appointment with History) BA (UofT), MA, PhD (Brown)
Renaissance Italy is the focus of Emily’s
teaching in the Humanities Department and her central field of
research. She teaches both lecture and seminar courses on Italian
Renaissance art and literature (HUM 211, 311 and 312-W). Her research
centers primarily on fifteenth-century Italian humanism and on the
extensive writings of Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (later Pope Pius II,
1458-64). She has published articles on Pius’s literary and historical
works and is currently completing her book manuscript on his
autobiography and a Latin-English edition of his and other humanists’
novelle. Her new research project focuses on Renaissance Italian
historical epics.
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Eleanor (Ellie) Stebner Eleanor Stebner teaches
courses on religion, culture, and ideas; taught at the Chicago
Theological Seminary and the University of Winnipeg Faculty of Theology
before coming to SFU. Publications focus on women and religion, Jane
Addams, and movements for social change. She is currently pondering the
texts and lives of select Nobel Peace laureates.
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Professors Emeritae/i
Teresa Kirschner
Antonio Gomez-Moriana
Kathy Mezei: mezei@sfu.ca
Jan Walls
Jerald Zaslove
Adjunct Professor
Peter Kingsley
Associate Member
Yosef Wosk
Retired
Lynn Elen Burton
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Publications and Speeches
Dolores Clavero
Donald Grayston
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Laurence Kitching
Thalia-Germanica website
Mary-Ann Stouck