Peter Stoicheff

Peter Stoicheff
10th President of the University of Saskatchewan
Incumbent
Assumed office
October 24, 2015
ChancellorGrit McCreath
Preceded byIlene Busch-Vishniac
Personal details
Born
Richard Peter Stoicheff

1956 (age 67–68)
Ottawa, Ontario
NationalityCanadian
RelationsBoris P. Stoicheff (father)
Alma mater
Academic background
ThesisEzra Pound's Drafts & 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]

  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 – via ProQuest.