Peter Stoicheff

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]

Peter Stoicheff
10th President of the University of Saskatchewan
Incumbent
Assumed office October 24, 2015
Chancellor	Grit McCreath
Preceded by	Gordon Barnhart (acting)
Personal details
Born	Richard Peter Stoicheff 1956 (age 68–69) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Relatives	Boris P. Stoicheff (father)
Education	Queen's University (BA) University of Toronto (MA, PhD)
Academic background
Thesis	Ezra Pound's Drafts and Fragments: A Study in Composition (1983)
Academic work
Discipline	English literature
Sub-discipline	20th-century American literature
Institutions	University of Saskatchewan

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]