Mark Deggan

Areas of interest

Mark Deggan has published broadly on the contestations of late-romanticist and modernist literary and cinematic cultures, with focus on East/West encounters in fiction, and his research interests continue to be inflected by previous careers in the visual and performing arts. His current project is entitled, Modernism’s Impresarios: The Theatricalization of Nature in Early Modernist World Fiction. He was guest editor for the Fall 2021 Special Issue of The Conradian: Planetary Conrad. He has chapters in volumes including Conrad and the Arts of his Time (Edinburgh UP), The Gothic in Times of Crisis (Manchester UP), Politics of Fear, Politics of Hope: Postcritique (Palgrave), Conrad & Nature (Routledge) and he has four essays in The Wiley Blackwell Companion to World Literature and its forthcoming sister volume, A Concise Companion to World Literature.

Education

• BA in Classical Studies, University of British Columbia
• PhD in English, University of British Columbia

Biography

Mark Deggan is an Assistant Professor in World Literature for the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. His teaching and research embrace interdisciplinary and ecocritical approaches to the themes and aesthetics of World Literature, with emphasis on the poetics of cross-cultural encounter in the era of colonial modernism, specializing in Southern Africa and South East Asia.