Danine Farquharson

Position

Full Professor

Irish literature, 20th and 21st Century British literature, energy humanities, literary theory, postcolonial studies

Edited Books

Cold Water Oil: Offshore Petroleum Cultures. Routledge, 2021. Co-editor, Fiona Polack.
Shadows of the Gunmen: Violence and Culture in Modern Ireland. Cork UP. 2008. Co-editor, Sean Farrell.

Collaborative StoryMap

Energy Amphitheatre: St. John's Harbour. Rachel W. Jekanowski, Fiona Polack, Danine Farquharson & Dean Bavington. 2020

Articles and Book Chapters

"Heading Offshore: Introducing Cold Water Oil." Cold Water Oil, edited by Fiona Polack and Danine Farquharson. Routledge, 2021, pp.1-20.
"Dispatches from two cold water oil cultures: Norway and Newfoundland and Labrador." Cold Water Oil, edited by Fiona Polack and Danine Farquharson. Routledge, 2021, pp.137-56.
“Offshore Rig.” Fueling Culture: Politics, History, Energy, edited by Imre Szeman, Jennifer Wenzel and Patricia Yaeger, Fordham University Press, 2017, pp. 252-255. Co-author, Fiona Polack.
“Love/Hate: A “Lethal Cocktail” for Post-Celtic Tiger Consumption.” Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, vol. 38, no.1/2, 2012/2013, pp. 138-156.
“The Anxiety of Influence in Roddy Doyle’s Fiction.” A Companion to Irish Literature, edited by Julia Wright, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, pp. 410-425.
“Violence and Ontological Doubt in ‘The Stoat.’” Journal of the Short Story in English, Special Issue on John McGahern. Guest Ed. Claude Maisonnat., vol. 53, Autumn 2009, pp. 145-163.

“Energy Transition Sites and Subjectivities.” Petrocultures 2018: Transitions, 2018, Glasgow, Scotland.
State of the Arts FaceBook Live Video. Interview with Lisa Moore, 2018 www.facebook.com/MemorialFacultyHumanitiesSocialSciences/videos/1650265088365464/
Petrocultures. Nexus Centre podcast with Fiona Polack, 2017 https://www.hss.mun.ca/nexus/podcasts
Keynote Lecture, “Energy Humanities and Irish Studies.” Canadian Association for Irish Studies Annual Conference, 2017, Derry, Northern Ireland.
“The Lure of the Sublime.” SSHORE Memorial-Dalhousie collaborative workshop, 2017, Halifax, Canada.
“The Oceanic Sublime.” Sixth Annual “Cultures of Energy” Research Symposium, April 2016, Houston, USA.
“Revaluing the Graduate Experience.” Canadian Association for Graduate Schools Co-presenter, Susan Drodge, 2016, Toronto, Canada.
“We Need to Talk About Oil.” Co-author, Fiona Polack. Memorial Gazette Op-Ed. 26 August 2016, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.
“How to Put Oil Onstage: Donald O’Kelly’s Little Thing, Big Thing.” Canadian Association for Irish Studies, 2016, Banff, Canada.
“The Offshore Sublime.” Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English Annual Conference, 2015, Ottawa, Canada.

Conference co-organizer (with Dr. Fiona Polack, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada). Petrocultures 2016: The Offshore international conference.

Undergraduate

Graduate

Irish literature, 20th and 21st Century British literature, energy humanities, literary theory, postcolonial studies