Meet our faculty & sessional instructors

Alex has ten years of experience teaching students the fundamentals of English language, literature, and academic composition. Alex was a Communications and Marketing Assistant and Healthy Living Coordinator for 2010 Legacies Now, a not-for-profit organization that leveraged the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games to create tangible community legacies throughout British Columbia.

Alex has been with the UFV Communications Department since 2018.

• BA, English (Simon Fraser University, 2008)
• MA, English (The University of York, U.K., 2010)
• PhD, English (Carleton University, 2017)

As an instructor, Alex presents lecture that convey his enthusiasm for course subject matter and, which he hopes, inspire students to become similarly passionate about the texts and materials we cover as a group. He is a firm believer in the idea of partnership between lecturers and students and finds that students thrive in nurturing settings wherein they are encouraged to pursue their personal interests.

Alex promotes a learning environment in which students are constantly critically engaged with the course material and has found that his excitement about teaching has encouraged students to feel comfortable approaching him to discuss course materials, to acquire additional assistance, and to ask questions about their future educational and career plans. In his experience, great teachers act not only as lecturers, but as facilitators of learning. For Alex, a successful classroom environment is one in which he has helped to generate discussion.