Professor of English
BA Hons (Bishops), MA (Acadia), PhD (Alberta)
Phone:
(306) 359-1219
E-mail: christian.riegel@uregina.ca
Christian
Riegel teaches Canadian literature, the elegy, nature poetry, the
long poem, and Holocaust writing. He has published five books:
Twenty-First
Century Canadian Writers, in the Dictionary of Literary Biography
(Gale Research, 2007), Response
to Death: The Literary Work of Mourning
(U of Alberta Press/Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, 2005),
Writing Grief:
Margaret Laurence and the Work of Mourning
(U of Manitoba Press, 2003), Challenging
Territory: The Writing of Margaret Laurence
(U of Alberta Press, 1997), A
Sense of Place: Re-evaluating Regionalism in Canadian and American
Writing (with
Herb Wyile; U of Alberta Press/Textual Studies in Canada 9,
1998).
He is currently writing a book on mourning and memorial
in Canadian literature, and he is collaborating on an
interdisciplinary project on cognition and literary language with
colleagues in the Department of Psychology at Campion College. He is
also a creative writer who works on fiction and poetry. His work has
appeared in Grain,
Flood Quarterly,
Gaspereau Review,
and New Delta
Review. He
recently attended the Silberman Seminar on Teaching the Holocaust at
the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. He
occasionally organizes literary readings at Campion in collaboration
with the Saskatchewan Writers Guild, and is a co-founder of the
Talking Fresh Writing Festival, held annually in March.
Outside
university life, he plays hockey in winter, sails in summer, and does
things with his dogs and his horse in all seasons, and enjoys the
occasional beer--especially if the latter can be had in a quiet
British pub.