Faculty
Scroll down to meet our amazing faculty members! Please note that, apart from those in administrative roles, WGS Faculty do not have phones in their offices. Please use email to get in touch.

Dr. PS Berge (they/she)
Assistant Professor
Dr. PS Berge is an award-winning media scholar, game designer, and self-described ludoarsonist. Their research falls at the intersection of trans media studies, experimental game design, and feminist platform studies. She is the director of the Discord Academic Research Community and a co-founder of Tabletop Research in Practice. Their published research can be found in Game Studies, New Media & Society, Feminist Media Studies, Games & Culture, and elsewhere. Website:
ps.berge@ualberta.ca
406B Arts Building

Professor
Landrex Distinguished Professor
Dr. Gotell's is internationally recognized for her expertise in sexual assault law, and public policy on violence against women. Her research topics include women's equality and sexual assault law.
lise.gotell@ualberta.ca
3-28 Assiniboia Hall
780.492.7518

Associate Professor (she/they)
Honors Advisor
Dr. Iwaski is cross-appointed with East Asian Studies. Her research topics include Literary and textual circulation, translation, Chinese literature as world literature, Sinophone literature, Sino-American literary connections.
ciwasaki@ualberta.ca
3-24 Assiniboia Hall

Assistant Professor
Dr. Keys holds a PhD from UCLA in Social Science and Comparative Education with a graduate certificate in Women's and Gender Studies. She joins the WGS department from the University of Virginia. She is author of refereed journal articles in Frontiers and Feminist Review; her forthcoming monograph, titled For the Survival of Ogoni People: Women's Contribution to Movement-Building in Nigeria and the United States, was awarded the 2020 University of Illinois Press and NWSA Book Prize.
domale@ualberta.ca
3-67 Assiniboia Hall

Professor
Graduate Director
Dr. Lifshitz has previously published extensively on medieval cultural, religious and intellectual history, with a particular focus on saint veneration practices, monastic life and women's history. Her current research is in the area of historical film.
felice.lifshitz@ualberta.ca
3-23 Assiniboia Hall

Professor (she/her)
Dr. Meagher's research draws together the fields of feminist arthistory and periodical studies to examine the ways feminist art, theory, and politics were defined, practiced, and circulated by American periodical communities of the late 1970s and 1980s. With Jana Smith Elford (Medicine Hat College), Dr Meagher is co-lead on AdArchive, a digital humanities research project that is working toward building an innovative, open-access archive that describes feminist publishing networks in RDF (Resource Description Framework).
michelle.meagher@ualberta.ca
3-64 Assiniboia Hall