Colin Russell

Title:Instructor and University Registrar
Phone:204.786.9337
Office:2A29
Building:Ashdown
Email:c.russell@uwinnipeg.ca

Biography:

Colin Russell has been teaching for the UW English Department since 1999, and has also taught for the UW Collegiate and the Winnipeg Education Centre (WEC) Access Bachelor of Education program. He holds BA (Honours) and BEd degrees from UW, and an MA from the University of Manitoba, with a thesis on the fiction of Louise Erdrich considered as a “minor literature” in the terms advanced by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in their bookKafka: Toward a Minor Literature. He has also worked in Student Services for the University for a number of years and has been University Registrar since 2006. Colin is also a classically-trained singer who enjoys opportunities to perform as a soloist and chorister; he has sung with CBC Hymn Sing, the Winnipeg Singers, Winnipeg Philharmonic Choir, Winnipeg Baroque Ensemble, Renaissance Voices, and the University of London Union Chorus in the U.K.

Teaching Areas:

Literature of Manitoba, Short Fiction, British Literature and Culture 1660-1901, First Year.

Courses:

(F) ENGL-2603-001 Short Fiction

Publications:

Russell, Colin. Rev. ofLiterature and Dissent in Milton’s England, by Sharon Achinstein.The Dalhousie Review84.2 (Summer 2004): 323-4.

---. Rev. ofWatermelon Syrupby Annie Jacobsen with Jane Finlay-Young and Di Brandt, andHard Passage: A Mennonite Family’s Long Journey from Russia to Canada, by Arthur Kroeger.The Dalhousie Review89.1 (Spring 2009): 140-2.