Faculty Research

• Current Projects
• Books
• Selected Recent Publications

Current Projects

David Brundage is working on poetry and, as part of a Ph.D. program with the University of Wales, a novel.

Books

Brundage, David and Michael Lahey (with Joyce Miller and Adien Dubbelboer). Acting on Words: An Integrated Rhetoric, Research Guide, Reader, and Handbook. 3rd ed. Toronto: Pearson, 2011. Print.

Selected Recent Publications

Brundage, David. Three poems. The Lampeter Review. 3. (May 2011). Dept. of Creative Writing, U. of Wales, Lampeter. 3. (2011). Web.

___. "Going Deep" (short story). The Lampeter Review. 1. (July 2010). Dept. of Creative Writing, U. of Wales, Lampeter: 39-49. Web.

___. "Leonard Cohen and the Romantic: Is He or Isn't He?" café philosophy (April/May 2009): 4-5. Print.

Manijeh Mannani’s current research interests include contemporary Persian Literature and autobiography. Recent presentations and publications focus on the memoirs of Iranian female writers. Drawing largely upon the New Orientalist discourse and the central arguments in the genre of life-writing, her research has addressed the clash between the sincere attempts at representation of the self and the prevailing culture of censorship in Iranian diasporic writing particularly since the events of September 11^th, 2001. She is also working on two collections of essays that deal with the representations of the self and “the other” in contemporary fiction, art, and media.

Mark McCutcheon’s research encompasses literary, media, and performance studies, integrated by postcolonial theory and Cultural Studies methodology. These interests converge on the Romantic contexts of postcolonial popular culture; his current project investigates Canadian adaptations of Frankenstein.

Anne Nothof’s current research is on intercultural Canadian theatre, and she presented a paper entitled “Beyond Postcolonialism in Canadian Theatre: Performing an Intercultural Society” at a conference at the  University of Bergamo, Italy, October 13-15, 2009 entitled: “After Writing Back: Present and Future Perspectives in Postcolonial Studies. ” In May, she is presenting a paper on intercultural theatre in Alberta, entitled “Concretizing Asian Canadian Theatre” at the GENesis Asian Canadian Theatre Conference in Toronto. She also continues to add and update profiles for the Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia.

Joseph Pivato completed his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature which has been one of his research and publication areas. In 1981 he initiated the first research projects on Italian-Canadian authors writing in English, French and Italian. His publications in this area also promoted work on many other ethnic minority authors in Canada and in Australia. His research involves literary theory, feminist theory, translation and language theory as it applies to writing in Canada. He coninues to add profiles to the Canadian Writers site.

Veronica Thompson’s research interests include Canadian and Australian literatures, post-colonial literatures and theories, and women's literature and feminist theories. She is currently researching post-colonial historical fiction, and representations of terrorism in post-colonial writing. As part of a project on terror and the post-colonial, she is co-convening three seminars titled “The Enemy Within: Cultures of Terror in South Asian Literature and Film” at the 2010 ESSE Conference, where she will also be presenting a paper called “‘The Battle Came to the Delhi Junction’: Terror and Territory in Anita Rau Badami’s Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?”

Vina Tirven Gadum’s main area of research is in the field of authorship attribution to pseudonymous works and works of disputed authorship. Applying standard authorship attribution methods, she evaluates the reliability of the concept that style is dictated by the subconscious and forms the “genetic” fingerprint of the writer’s work. She has demonstrated that the well-known French writer, Romain Gary, assumed a different “persona” and used a different linguistic fingerprint when he wrote the novel La Vie devant soi under the pseudonym of Émile Ajar for which he received a second “Goncourt”. She is now doing preliminary research on the writings of Alexandre Dumas-père with a view to establishing whether the real author behind the novels for which he is best known (Les Trois Mousquetaires, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, La Reine Margot) could have been written (wholly or partly) by a ghost writer, namely, Auguste Jules Maquet. She is also exploring the writings of two modern women Francophone writers from L’Ile Maurice (Mauritius): namely Ananda Devi and Nathacha Appanah who have both received critical acclaim in France.

Books

Caterina Edwards: Essays on Her Works Edited by Joseph Pivato	Sharon Pollock: Essay on Her Works Edited by Anne F. Nothof	F.G. Paci: Essays on His Works Edited by Joseph Pivato
Pier Giorgio DiCicco: Essay on His Works Edited by Joseph Pivato	Divine Deviants by Manijeh Mannani	Mary di Michele: Essay on Her Works Edited by Joseph Pivato

Selected Recent Publications

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