Meet our Faculty & Staff
Dan O'Donnell
Faculty (Department Co-chair)
Office: B810B (University Hall)
(403) 329-2377
daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca
Adam Carter
Faculty (Study Leave)
Office: B810G (University Hall)
(403) 329-2375
a.carter@uleth.ca
Elizabeth Galway
Faculty
Office: B810J (University Hall)
(403) 329-2374
elizabeth.galway@uleth.ca
Jay Gamble
Instructor
Office: A840E (University Hall)
(403) 382-7178
jay.gamble@uleth.ca
David Hobbs
Assistant Professor
Office: B810C (University Hall)
403-332-4516
david.hobbs@uleth.ca
Ian McAdam
Faculty (Acting Chair until August 31, 2023)
Office: B810F (University Hall)
(403) 329-2371
mcadam@uleth.ca
Noa Reich
Faculty
Office: B810A (University Hall)
Phone: (403) 380-1839
noa.reich@uleth.ca
Instructors/Sessionals/Adjuncts
Dr. Barbara Bordalejo
barbara.bordalejo@uleth.ca
Dr. David Kootnikoff
david.kootnikoff@uleth.ca
Bev Garnett
Administrative Assistant
Office: A812K (University Hall)
(403) 380-1894
bev.garnett@uleth.ca
Retired Department Members
Dr. Maureen Hawkins retired in 2022. Her research interests are 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.
Dr. Goldie Morgentaler (Professor Emerita) retired in 2022. Her research interests are 19th-century British and American Literature, esp. Dickens, Austen, Melville, and Dickinson, Jewish and Jewish-American Literature, Traditional Ballad and Folklore. She is the author of a book on Dickens called Dickens and Heredity, and of numerous articles on Dickens and Victorian literature. She is a past president of the Dickens Society. She is also the translator from Yiddish to English of much of Chava Rosenfarb’s work, including Rosenfarb’s epic Holocaust novel, The Tree of Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto. Her translations have won several awards including a Canadian Jewish Book Award and the Modern Language Association’s Prize for Yiddish Studies for the translation of Rosenfarb’s short story collection, Survivors. She is also the editor of Rosenfarb’s poetry collection, Exile at Last. In 2019, she was awarded a Canadian Jewish Literary Prize for a collection of essays by Chava Rosenfarb entitled Confessions of a Yiddish Writer. On October 27, 2024, The Canadian Jewish Literary Awards announced their 2024 Recipients - congratulations to Dr. Goldie Morgentaler for her In the Land of the Postscript: The Complete Short Stories of Chava Rosenfarb. Dr. Morgentaler translated her mother's story from Yiddish.