Meet our Faculty & Staff

Professor and Department Chair
Office: B810B (University Hall) 
(403) 329-2377
daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca

Associate Professor
Office: B810G (University Hall) 
(403) 329-2375
a.carter@uleth.ca

Professor
Office: B810J (University Hall) 
(403) 329-2374
elizabeth.galway@uleth.ca

Instructor
Office: A840E (University Hall) 
(403) 382-7178
jay.gamble@uleth.ca

Assistant Professor
Office: B810C (University Hall)
403-332-4516
david.hobbs@uleth.ca

Professor
Office: B810F (University Hall) 
(403) 329-2371
mcadam@uleth.ca

Assistant Professor
Office: B810A (University Hall)
Phone: (403) 380-1839
noa.reich@uleth.ca

Administrative Assistant
Office: A812K (University Hall) 
(403) 329-2378
rachelle.wiebe@uleth.ca

Adjunct member

Term Instructor

Continuing Instructor (Writing/English)

Assistant Professor (Writing/English)

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.

Professor Emerita Dr. Goldie Morgentaler 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 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. 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 and the 2024 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for In the Land of the Postscript: The Complete Short Stories of Chava Rosenfarb.