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Dr. Joel Deshaye

Position: 
Faculty Lecturer
Joel Deshaye
Office: 
Arts 105
Phone: 
514-398-4400 ext. 00274
Email Address: 
joel [dot] deshaye [at] mcgill [dot] ca
Degrees and Academic Title(s): 

B.A. (Hon.) and M.A. (University of Saskatchewan), Ph.D. (McGill University)

General Research Areas: 
Twentieth Century
Canadian
Cinema
Theory
Teaching and Research Areas: 

Canadian literature, Canadian poetry after the Second World War, American literature, celebrity, theories of metaphor, cultural studies, and film

Taught previously at: 

Bishop's University, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan Institute for Applied Science and Technology, Saskatchewan Indian Federated College

Selected Publications : 

“The Metaphor of Celebrity, Three Superheroes, and One Persona or Another.” The Journal of Popular Culture. Forthcoming.

“Celebrity and Passing in Gwendolyn MacEwen’s The T.E. Lawrence Poems.” The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 46:3 (2011): 531-50.

“Celebrity and the Poetic Dialogue of Irving Layton and Leonard Cohen.” Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne 34:2 (2009): 77-105.

“Parading the Underworld of New Orleans in Ondaatje’s Coming Through Slaughter.American Review of Canadian Studies 38:4 (2008): 473-94.

Selected Book Reviews:

Rev. of On the Material by Stephen Collis, Time’s Fools by Tom Henighan, The Essential Kenneth Leslie by Kenneth Leslie, and What We Miss by Glen Sorestad. Canadian Literature. Forthcoming.

Rev. of From Room to Room by Eli Mandel. The Bull Calf Review. Forthcoming.

Rev. of This Cake Is for the Party by Sarah Selecky and The Young in Their Country by Richard Cumyn. Literary Review of Canada 19:3 (2011): 20.

Rev. of Other People’s Lives by Chris Hutchinson. The Bull Calf Review 1:1 (2011).

Rev. of Wolf Tree by Alison Calder, Last Scattering Surfaces by Gil McElroy, Combustion by Lorri Neilsen Glenn, Radius of Light by Joshua Auerbach, and Contrary Infatuations by Dymphny Dronyk. Canadian Literature 205 (2010): 140-1.

Teaching at McGill: 

ENGL 311 Poetics - Fall Term, 2011

ENGL 409 Studies in a Canadian Author: Margaret Atwood - Fall Term, 2011

ENGL 226 American Literature 2 - Winter Term, 2012

ENGL 441 Special Topics in Canadian Cultural Studies: Westerns and the West - Winter Term, 2012