Peter Stoicheff

Peter Stoicheff
10th President of the University of Saskatchewan
Assumed office
October 24, 2015
ChancellorGrit McCreath
Preceded byGordon Barnhart (acting)
Personal details
BornRichard Peter Stoicheff
1956 (age 68–69)
RelativesBoris P. Stoicheff (father)
Education
Academic background
ThesisEzra Pound's Drafts and Fragments: A Study in Composition (1983)
Academic work
DisciplineEnglish literature
Sub-discipline20th-century American literature
InstitutionsUniversity of Saskatchewan

Richard Peter Stoicheff (born 1956) is a Canadian academic. He is the 10th and current president of the University of Saskatchewan, succeeding Ilene Busch-Vishniac, following an interim appointment of Gordon Barnhart.[1][2]

Born in Ottawa, Ontario,[3] the son of the physicist Boris P. Stoicheff, Stoicheff received an undergraduate degree in English and history from Queen's University in 1978 and a master's of arts in 1980 and PhD in 1983 in English literature from the University of Toronto.[4] He joined the University of Saskatchewan's English department in 1986. From 2005 to 2010, he was vice-dean humanities and fine arts in the College of Arts and Science. In 2011, he was appointed dean.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Peter Stoicheff". University of Saskatchewan College of Arts and Science.
  2. ^ "Rally kicks off Peter Stoicheff's tenure as U of S president". CBC News. 2015-10-26. Retrieved 2015-10-26.
  3. ^ "Eight things about U of S' next president Peter Stoicheff". Ottawa Citizen. 2015-07-09. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24.
  4. ^ Stoicheff, Richard Peter (1983). Ezra Pound's Drafts & Fragments: A study in composition (Ph.D. thesis). University of Toronto. OCLC 16034053. ProQuest 303230370.
Academic offices
Preceded by 10th President of the University of Saskatchewan
2015-present
Incumbent