Richard Peter Stoicheff (born 1956) is a Canadian academic. He is the 10th and current president of the

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, succeeding Ilene Busch-Vishniac, following an interim appointment of Gordon Barnhart. Born in

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, 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

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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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