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Dr. David Gregory
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Dr. Frits Pannekoek
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Dr. Greg Johnson
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Dr. Joseph Pivato
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Dr. Mark A. McCutcheon
Associate Professor, Literary Studies
Recent Submissions
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1978: Language escapes: Italian-Canadian authors write in an official language and not in Italiese
(2014)The important year for Italian-Canadian literature is 1978-1979, the year in which three writers separately and simultaneously made conscious decisions to write in a standard official language of Canada rather than in ... -
Untranslatable Texts and Literary Problems
(Canadian Comparative Literature Association, 2021-03-01)Over the past decade, debates about the role of translations in studies focused on Comparative Literature have grown. Questions of self-translation and untranslatable texts have also been added to this discourse. The aim ... -
Paratextual and "sampladelic" techniques for "committing centonism" in contemporary poetry published in Canada
(Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2022-04)This chapter attempts to model a twofold method for reading centos ‒- poems composed wholly of excerpts from other works -‒ in relation to intellectual property (IP) law, in the context of contemporary poetry published in ... -
Reading poetry and its paratexts for evidence of fair dealing: Mary Dalton’s Hooking, cento poetics, and copyright law
(2020-11-14)A close reading of Canadian poetry books’ citational paratexts — such as the copyright page, whose statements hold both intertextual information and legal consequence — argues that Canadian poetry publishers make extensive ... -
Frankenstein Meets the FAANG Five: Figures of Monstrous Technology in Digital Media Discourse
(University of Delaware Press, 2022)This chapter first reprises the twofold argument from my book The Medium Is the Monster: the argument that Mary Shelley's Frankenstein effectively reinvented the meaning of the word "technology" for modern English, and ... -
Walking the Walk: George Elliott Clarke's Creative Practice
(Guernica Editions, 2012) -
Atwood’s Survival: A Critique
(University of Ottawa, 2016) -
E.D. Blodgett and Comparative Canadian Literature
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Marginalized, Excluded, Denied: Italian-Canadian Writers and the Hyphen
(University of Winnipeg, 2018-09-28) -
Arguments for a Comparative Literature Book Project
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Fuga e Ritorno: Italian-Canadian Narratives
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Review of The Expanse (TV series)
(SFRA Review, 2021-05-04)A co-authored review of The Expanse (TV series) for the opne-access online journal SFRA Review -
A New Monster Manual, in Theory (Review of The Monster Theory Reader, ed. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock)
(Extrapolation, 2021)A review of The Monster Theory Reader, edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (U of Minnesota P, 2020), in the SF studies journal Extrapolation vol. 62 no. 3 (2021). This is a post-print copy; the published version of record ... -
Postmodern theory's retreat amidst postmodern art's return: neglect of IP law as a possible cause of postmodernism's "death"
(Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, Athabasca University, 2015-09-23)Despite the centrality of appropriation to postmodernist aesthetics, despite the embroilment of postmodernist artists in copyright actions, and despite the steady toughening of intellectual property (IP) law during the ... -
The Medium Is the Monster: Canadian Adaptations of Frankenstein and the Discourse of Technology
(Athabasca University Press, 2018)Technology, a word that emerged historically first to denote the study of any art or technique, has come, in modernity, to describe advanced machines, industrial systems, and media. McCutcheon argues that it is Mary Shelley’s ...