Peter Stoicheff | |
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10th President of the University of Saskatchewan | |
Assumed office October 24, 2015 | |
Chancellor | Grit McCreath |
Preceded by | Ilene Busch-Vishniac |
Personal details | |
Born | Richard Peter Stoicheff 1956 (age 67–68) Ottawa, Ontario |
Nationality | Canadian |
Relations | Boris P. Stoicheff (father) |
Alma mater | |
Academic background | |
Thesis | Ezra Pound's Drafts & fragments: A study in composition (1983) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | English literature |
Sub-discipline | 20th Century American literature |
Institutions | University 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]