Tara Chambers
Sessional Instructor | Faculty of Arts
Email: tchambers@tru.ca
Phone: 250-828-5057
Research Interests
Politics and Tyranny, The Devil in Literature, Writing Revolutions, Early Modern Women and Dissent, John Milton, William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Epic Poetry, Literature and the Apocalypse.
Education
- 2010: Thompson Rivers University (B.A.)
- 2011: University of Saskatchewan (M.A.)
- 2023: University of Saskatchewan (PhD)
Doctoral Thesis: "John Milton's Republican Poetics and the Politics of Paradise Lost"
Publications
- (Dec. 2014)Dubbing Chaucer and Beenie Man: Jean Binta Breezes Re-Presentation of Afrosporic Women's Sexuality. English Studies in Canada 40.4. (79-106).(with Susan Gingell)
Book Reviews
- (2013)Review: Medievalisms: Making the Past the Present by Tison Pugh and Angela Jane Weisl. Medievalists.net. March 19, 2013.
- (Winter 2013).Review of Beautiful Mutants by Adam Pottle. The Bull Calf Review. 3.1.
Employment History
- Thompson Rivers University (Sessional Instructor)
- Thompson Rivers Open Learning Division (Open Learning Faculty Member and Course Developer)
- University of Saskatchewan (Sessional Instructor)
Courses Taught
- ENGL 3740 John Milton's Paradise Lost
- ENGL 3660 Studies in Shakespeare
- ENGL 1210 Introduction to Drama and Poetry
- ENGL 1110 Introduction to Critical Reading and Writing
- ENGL 1100 Introduction to University Writing
- ENGL 326 The Renaissance Epic
- ENGL 3841 The English Novel in the 18th Century (OLFM)
- ENGL 3651 Shakespeare and Contemporary Film (Dev. and OLFM)
- ENGL 2111 Literary Landmarks to 1700 (OLFM)
Professional Affiliations
- Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies
- Milton Society of America
