Education
- BA in Classical Studies, University of British Columbia
- PhD in English, University of British Columbia
Courses
This instructor is currently not teaching any courses.
BIOGRAPHY
Mark Deggan is the senior lecturer in World Literature for the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. His teaching embraces an interdisciplinary ecocritical approach to the themes and aesthetics of World Literature, with emphasis on the poetics of cross-cultural encounter. He 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 has published broadly on the contestations of late-romanticist and modernist literary and cinematic cultures, with focus on East/West encounters in fiction. He was guest editor for the Fall 2021 Special Issue of The Conradian: Planetary Conrad. He has chapters in Politics of Fear, Politics of Hope: Postcritique (Palgrave) and 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. His chapter, “‘A Theatrical Imagination’: The Aesthetics of Conrad’s Fiction & the Arts of the Modernist Stage,” is to appear in the volume, Conrad and the Arts of his Time (Edinburgh UP), and his essay, “The Atmospherics of Gothic Spectrality in Mati Diop’s Atlantique,” is forthcoming in Gothic in a Time of Crisis (Manchester UP).