Peter Stoicheff

{{Short description|Canadian academic (born 1956)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Peter Stoicheff | office = 10th President of the University of Saskatchewan | chancellor = Grit McCreath | term_start = October 24, 2015 | term_end = | predecessor = Gordon Barnhart (acting) | successor = | birth_name = Richard Peter Stoicheff | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1956}} | birth_place = Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | death_date = | death_place = | relatives = Boris P. Stoicheff (father) | education = {{ubl |Queen's University (BA) |University of Toronto (MA, PhD)}} | module = {{Infobox academic | child = yes | thesis_title = Ezra Pound's Drafts and Fragments: A Study in Composition | thesis_url = https://www.proquest.com/docview/303230370/ | thesis_year = 1983 | discipline = English literature | sub_discipline = 20th-century American literature | workplaces = University of Saskatchewan}} }}

'''Richard Peter Stoicheff''' (born 1956) is a Canadian academic. He is the 10th and previous president of the University of Saskatchewan, succeeded by Vince Bruni-Bossio. Stoicheff succeeded Ilene Busch-Vishniac, following an interim appointment of Gordon Barnhart.<ref name="Bio">{{cite web|url=http://artsandscience.usask.ca/profile/PStoicheff|title=Peter Stoicheff|work=University of Saskatchewan College of Arts and Science}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/rally-kicks-off-peter-stoicheff-s-tenure-as-u-of-s-president-1.3289001 |title=Rally kicks off Peter Stoicheff's tenure as U of S president |publisher=CBC News |date=2015-10-26 |accessdate=2015-10-26}}</ref>

Born in Ottawa, Ontario,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://ottawacitizen.com/news/Eight+things+about+next+president+Peter+Stoicheff/11204566/story.html |title=Eight things about U of S' next president Peter Stoicheff |newspaper=Ottawa Citizen |date=2015-07-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924103436/http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Eight+things+about+next+president+Peter+Stoicheff/11204566/story.html |archive-date=2015-09-24}}</ref> 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.<ref name="thesis-stoicheff-1983">{{cite thesis |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/303230370/ |title=Ezra Pound's Drafts & Fragments: A study in composition |date=1983 |publisher=University of Toronto |degree=Ph.D. |last=Stoicheff |first=Richard Peter |id={{ProQuest|303230370}} |url-access=subscription |oclc=16034053}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Bio"/>

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