Craig Melhoff

Biography

Craig Melhoff serves as Coordinator of Distance Education for the Department of English. His main teaching interest is in the design and development of online courses, and the use of emerging technologies in pursuit of excellence in online education in literature. He taught the first online courses for the Department of English at the University of Regina in 2011 and has since developed online versions of both English 100 and 110. Mr. Melhoff has taught face-to-face and online courses in the first-year English program on dystopian literature, urban fiction, and the role of the artist in literary explorations of identity.

Research Interest

Dystopian fiction: the study of literary conceptions of the dystopia or “bad place,” and representations of chaos, decay, and disorder in literature; exploring the ways in which such representations serve as criticisms of the contemporary world and its ideals, anxieties, and values. Urban fiction: examining the relationship between literature and the modern city, and in particular how urban settings, as sites of ambiguity, confusion, and the chaos of modernity (the frenzy of the marketplace, the ascendancy of industrial technology, and the anonymising effect of the individual’s absorption in the urban crowd), are central to our understanding and representation of the modern human experience.