Mr. Timothy Lem-Smith joins the English Department as a Visiting Assistant Professor. He is currently working towards a Ph.D. in English Literature at the University of Toronto. His areas of interest include 20th- and 21st-century American literature, theories of reading, critical theory, race, genre, ecocriticism and (post-)postmodernism. His dissertation, "Collusive Critique: Paranoid Reading and Contemporary American Literature," argues that recent works of American literature offer new and generative ways of reading and thinking in a paranoid mode.