About the Director

Dr. Christian Riegel is Director of the HRI, an Associate Professor at Campion College, University of Regina, and Head of the English Department at the college. He teaches contemporary poetry, Holocaust studies, genre studies, literature of the environment, and Canadian writing. His research is predominantly interdisciplinary in nature. He has published five books: Challenging Territory: The Writing of Margaret Laurence, A Sense of Place: Re-evaluating Regionalism in Canadian and American Writing, Writing Grief: Margaret Laurence and the Work of Mourning, Response to Death: The Literary Work of Mourning, and Twenty-First Century Canadian Writing, a volume in the Dictionary of Literary Biography. He has published numerous essays and chapters on a variety of topics in literary scholarship. He is a founder of Interdisciplinary Themes, an organization dedicated to the promotion of interdisciplinary research and scholarly exchange, and he is a founder of the Interactive Media, Poetics, Aesthetics, Cognition, and Technology (IMPACT) research group, which draws from the fields of literature, aesthetics, media studies, engineering, and cognitive science; his research partners are at Campion College, the University of Regina, and Carleton University. His research is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI).