Dr. Anna Atkinson

PhD, English Literature, Queen's University
Professor
Faculty: 
Arts and Humanities
Department: 
English
Languages: 
English
Contact:
Contact through VIU Communications

Expertise

Biblical studies
Bible as literature
Apocalypse as a genre
Colonial literature and its influence on post-colonial works
Biblical influence on the Chronicles or Narnia
Scholarship of teaching and llearning

Fields

Literature
American literature of the antebellum period
Colonial literature
Biblical literature
Inklings
especially C.S. Lewis

Research goals

  • Promoting the expansion of post-secondary teaching and learning scholarship.
  • Tracking the influence of Biblical text on continued colonial influence; analyzing resistance to this from BIPOC authors, particularly those writing in the field of speculative fiction.