Richard Peter Stoicheff (born 1956) is a Canadian academic. He is the 11th and current president of the

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, succeeding the interim president,

Gordon Barnhart Gordon Leslie Barnhart (born January 22, 1945) is a former Clerk of the Senate of Canada and the Saskatchewan Legislature, as well as former Secretary of the University of Saskatchewan. He was the 20th Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan fr ...

. Born in

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, the son of the physicist Boris P. Stoicheff, Stoicheff received an undergraduate degree in English and history from

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in 1978 and a master's of arts in 1980 and PhD in 1983 in English literature from the

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. 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.

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