Part-Time Faculty

English Studies

Nigel Joseph
njoseph3@uwo.ca
UC 1423
John Kelly
jkelly1@uwo.ca

Writing Studies

Marielle Aylen
maylen@uwo.ca
Melanie Chambers
mchambe4@uwo.ca
UC 1425
Melanie’s writing career began as a travel journalist covering cycling adventures on monstruous mountains throughout the globe. Writing for the likes of CBC, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star and Canadian Cycling Magazine, Melanie’s stories delve into the culinary, cultural and personal connections one makes on a bike. After graduating recently with an MFA in creative non-fiction from King’s College in Halifax, Melanie is turning her pen to memoir writing with tales of sexuality, mothers and burlesque dance.
Tom Cull
tcull3@uwo.ca
Tom Cull was born and raised in Huron County in Treaty 29 territory and now resides in London, Ontario near the banks of Deshkan Ziibi/Thames River. He works at the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority, teaches creative writing at Western University, and was the City of London’s Poet Laureate from 2016-2018. Tom is the recipient of Western's Arts and Humanities Award for Excellence, and he is the author of two poetry collections: Bad Animals, (Insomniac Press, 2018) and Kill Your Starlings (Gaspereau Press, 2023). His writing has appeared in various literary magazines and anthologies, and his “video poems” have been included in exhibitions at Museum London, Western’s ArtLab, and the Thames Gallery in Chatham.  From 2012-2025 Tom was the director of Antler River Rally, a grass roots environmental group he co-founded with his partner Miriam Love. Antler River Rally organizes monthly cleanups of local waterways and advocates for ecological justice and education.
Timothy Freeborn
tfreebor@uwo.ca
Christopher Lee
clee222@uwo.ca
UC 1426
Claudia Manley
cmanley2@uwo.ca
Bryce Sage
bsage3@uwo.ca
Bryce Sage is an award-winning writer, director, and educator based in Ottawa. He teaches screenwriting virtually at Western University and filmmaking and digital media production at Carleton University. He holds a BFA in Film and an MFA in Documentary Media from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson) and is also a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre’s Primetime Television Program, with several television pilots and feature scripts in development. Bryce has written and directed two documentaries for CBC’s The Nature of Things, including Survival of the Fabulous, about the biology of homosexuality, and an episode of Marketplace on personalized genetic testing. He has also worked in the writing room of Rookie Blue and other series, and created the award-winning animated short Cindy, which has garnered over a million views on YouTube. His writing and films have been broadcast and recognized internationally in festivals, and he is currently adapting one of his science-fiction short films about genetically engineered teenagers into a YA book series.
Andrew Wenaus
awenaus@uwo.ca
Andrew C. Wenaus’ writing has been described as "beautiful" (Blonk), "quantum modernism" (Barwin), "visionary" (Bett), "an ex-static onslaught" (Karasick), "dazzlement for… the mind" (Joron), "dreamwork beyond… psychoanalysis" (Roden), "sublimely ambivalent" (Armand), and a machine that sings (Negarestani). He is also an associate faculty member at Western’s Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism and a prolific publisher of academic theory.

Film Studies

Greg De Souza
gdesouz@uwo.ca

Theatre Studies