Areas of interest
His publications explore the contestations of late-romanticist and modernist literary and cinematic cultures, with focus on East/West encounters. He was recently guest editor for the Fall 2021 Special Issue of The Conradian: Planetary Conrad. His most recent chapters appear in Politics of Fear, Politics of Hope: Postcritique (Palgrave) and Conrad & Nature (Routledge) and he has two essays in Wiley Blackwell’s Companion to World Literature. His chapter, “‘A Theatrical Imagination’ : The Aesthetics of Conrad’s Fiction & the Arts of the Modernist Stage,” is forthcoming in the volume, Conrad and the Arts of his Time (Edinburgh UP), and his essay, “The Environmental Dynamics of the Gothic : Spectral Atmospherics in Atlantique,” will appear in the Manchester UP collection, Troubling Gothic: Unstable Genre in Contentious Times.
Education
- BA in Classical Studies, University of British Columbia
- PhD in English, University of British Columbia
Biography
Mark Deggan’s teaching embraces interdisciplinary and ecocritical approaches to the themes and aesthetics of World Literature, with emphasis on the poetics of cross-cultural encounter. Like his research interests, his course materials continue to be inflected by previous careers in the visual and performing arts.
Courses
This instructor is currently not teaching any courses.