Faculty of Arts Spotlights

ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½'s Faculty of Arts provide the skills you need to succeed in your chosen career and become an engaged citizen. 

Read more about some of our talented students, graduates, and faculty members!

ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½ History student Riley Drake in the History student lounge
| Students

Meet Riley Drake, fourth-year History student (Honours).

Kate VanGerven holding a megaphone on a flatbed truck
| ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½ Viewbook 2026, Alumni, Students

Meet Kate VanGerven, Director of Tour and International Visits for the Prime Minister of Canada and Bachelor of Arts in English graduate (Class of 2013).

ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½ student Brennan McDuffee interviewing another student during a podcast
| ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½ Viewbook 2026, Students

Meet Brennan McDuffee, Bachelor of Arts in Applied Communication, Leadership, and Culture student (Class of 2025).

MAIS student Hexi Wang working in a student lounge
| ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½ Viewbook 2026, Graduate Students, Students

Meet Hexi Wang, second-year student in the Master of Arts in Island Studies program

ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½ student Annika Masters
| Students

Annika Masters is a fourth-year Sociology and Anthropology major and Indigenous Studies minor at ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½.

ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½ instructor Ryan Drew
| Faculty, Alumni

Ryan Drew is an artist, researcher, ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½ alumnus, and sessional instructor in the Faculty of Arts.

Dr. Max Schaefer outside the Charlottetown Library
| Faculty, Profile

Meet Dr. Max Schaefer, professor of philosophy in the ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½ Faculty of Arts.

Dr. Magdalena von Eccher outside Steel Recital Hall at ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½
| Faculty, Profile

Meet Dr. Magdalena von Eccher, performing artist and assistant professor in ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½'s Music department.

a ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½ student in the Performing Arts Centre and Residence foyer
| ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½ Viewbook 2025

Meet Keeda, ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½ Diversity and Social Justice Studies and Sociology student.

Diedre Kelly
| Success Story, Alumni

Deidre Kelly works as an interpreter on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, providing simultaneous interpretation from French into English at committee meetings, press conferences, caucus meetings and sittings of the Senate and the House of Commons.