Dr. Christian Riegel
Professor of Health and Medical Humanities and English and Creative Writing
BA Hons (Bishop’s), MA (Acadia), PhD (Alberta), FRSA
Research Interests
Health and medical humanities; ableism and disability; collaborative interdisciplinary research methodologies; eye tracking technology; point-of-care ultrasound education; Canadian literature; contemporary poetry; creative writing
Teaching Interests
Health and medical humanities; Canadian literature; mourning and memorial in literature; disability studies; poetry; Holocaust studies
Research Lab
Co-Director, IMPACT Lab (Interactive Media, Psychology, Art Creation, and Technology)
Scholarly Projects
- Co-Investigator, Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation Insight Grant, Improving
- Teaching methods for point of care ultrasound by utilization of gaze tracking technology.
- Principal Investigator: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant. Disrupt/ability: Disability, Ableism, Eye Tracking Technology and Art Creation.
- Team Member, International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation, SSHRC Partnership Grant. Improvising Futures.
Funding: SSHRC, CFI, SHRF
Representative Publications
- Riegel, C. “Health and Medical Humanities.” In Handbook of Concepts in Health, Health Behavior and Environmental Health, edited by Pranee Liamputtong. Springer Nature. 2025.
- Riegel, C. “Eye Tracking Digital Music Creation and Performance: Disability, Ableism, and Transdisciplinarity.” International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media. With Katherine M. Robinson, Tait Larsen and Patrick Larsen. 2024.
- Riegel, C. “Dirty Air: Literary Tropes of the Canadian Nation,” in Imagining Air: Cultural Axiology and the Politics of Invisibility, edited by Tatiana Conrad, Exter University Press, 2023, p. 54-72. Open Access Publication.
- Riegel, C., & Robinson, K.M. (2023) Health humanities in application. Palgrave MacMillan & Springer Nature.
- Riegel, C. Twenty-First Century Canadian Writers, a volume in the Dictionary of Literary Biography. Editor. New York: Thomson Gale. Edited volume. 2007.
- Riegel, C. Response to Death: The Literary Work of Mourning. Edited volume. Edmonton: U of Alberta Press, co-published with the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature as a special themed issue, 2005.
- Riegel, C. Writing Grief: Margaret Laurence and the Work of Mourning. Winnipeg: U of Manitoba Press, 2003.
- Riegel, C. A Sense of Place: Re-evaluating Regionalism in Canadian and American Writing. Edited volume. (With Herb Wyile, Karen Overbye, and Don Perkins). Edmonton: U of Alberta Press. Co-published with Textual Studies in Canada as a special issue. 1998.
- Riegel, C. Challenging Territory: The Writing of Margaret Laurence. Edited volume. Edmonton: U of Alberta Press, 1997.
