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School of Humanities

Dr. Dennis Hudecki

Dr. Dennis Hudecki

Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies and Philosophy
Tel: 519.432.8353 x28245
Email: dhudecki@uwo.ca

Research Areas: Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, philosophy of religion, ethics, existentialism, ancient philosophy, history of philosophy, liberal political philosophy, evolution, philosophy of art, philosophy of sport

Area of Expertise: Informal logic, Catholicism, feminism, philosophy of rock music, euthanasia, sexual ethics, freedom of speech, political issues involving liberal human rights

Nadine de Moras

Nadine de Moras

Associate Professor and Academic Coordinator, French
Tel: 519.432.8353 x28277
E-mail: ndemora@uwo.ca 
(bilingual faculty)

Research Areas: French linking (“liaisons” and “enchaînements”), pronunciation in second language learning and teaching, applied linguistics: first and second language acquisition, teachers’ education, designing teaching material, writing in a second language

Area of Expertise: French pronunciation, teaching French grammar, vocabulary, writing, pronunciation, first and second language acquisition and teaching, designing teaching material, teachers’ education, colloquial language, oral language and language variation, examiner for the DELF and DALF exams

Dr. Heather KirkDr. Heather Kirk

Assistant Professor, French
Tel: 519.432.8353 x28260
Email: hkirk4@uwo.ca 

Research Areas: Seventeenth Century French Literature: renaissance and pre-academic theatre (1570-1640), tragedy and tragicomedy, authorship, authors, copyright, publication, polemics, quarrels, rumour and gossip

Scholarship of teaching and learning: publication, communities of practice, teaching during COVID-19, writing self-efficacy and anxiety

Area of Expertise: Women in literature, gossip, rumour, and slander in literature, authorship and early French copyright, university faculty experiences during COVID-19 pandemic

Dr. Sara Morrison

Dr. Sara Morrison

Associate Professor, History
Telephone: 519-432-8353 x28271
Email: smorri5@uwo.ca 

Research Interests: English royal forests (seventeenth century), Sherwood Forest, Royal Forest Law, deer parks, pre-modern woodland conservation, early modern farming, landscape history, historical maps, European environmental history, historical geography

Area of Expertise: Historical resource management, forests, wood economy, historical game management 

Dr. Brian Diemert

Professor, English
Tel: 519.432.8353 x28387
Email: bdiemert@uwo.ca

Research Areas: British and Irish and/or American literature (especially twentieth century), Graham Greene, Kate Atkinson, Ian McEwan, F. Scott Fitzgerald, crime/detective fiction, popular culture, cold war literature

Dr. James DoelmanDr. James Doelman

Associate Professor, English
Tel: 519.432.8353 x28248
Email: jdoelman@uwo.ca

Research Areas: Renaissance funeral elegies, renaissance epigrams, seventeenth century manuscripts, history of the English language

Area of Expertise: King James I; English church history, 1558-1660, religious poetry

Dr. Monika LeeDr. Monika Lee

Professor, English
Tel: 519.432.8353 x28032
Email: mlee5@uwo.ca 

Research Areas: Romanticism, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, William Blake, Alice Munro, creative writing

Area of Expertise: Nineteenth-century British literature, British literature of the 1790s, European romanticism

Dr. Paul Barker

Dr. Paul Barker

Associate Professor, Political Science
Tel: 519.432.8353 x28278
E-mail: pfbarker@uwo.ca

Research Areas: Canadian politics, health care policy, federal-provincial relations in Canada, government issues in Canada

Area of Expertise: Health care policy and politics