Position

Full Professor

Education

• PhD (McGill University)
• MA (University of Saskatchewan)
• BA Hon (University of Saskatchewan)

Contact Information

• Office: AA 3031
• Telephone: (709) 864-8983
• Email: jdeshaye@mun.ca
• Website: https://www.mun.ca/faculty/jdeshaye/
  

Research Interests

Canadian literature, especially fiction and poetry; metaphor; celebrity; film; genre

Selected Publications

Books

• The Metaphor of Celebrity: Canadian Poetry and the Public, 1955-1980. University of Toronto Press, 2013.

Articles and Book Chapters

• “Do I feel lucky?”: Moral Luck, Bluffing, and the Ethics of Eastwood’s Outlaw-Lawman in Coogan’s Bluff and the Dirty Harry Movies.” Film-Philosophy, vol. 21, no. 1, 2017, pp. 20–36.
• “Racialized Rooms and Technologies of Stardom in Ondaatje’s Coming through Slaughter.” The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 2016, pp. 1-15. DOI: 10.1177/0021989416673865
• “Tom King’s John Wayne: The Western in Green Grass, Running Water.” Canadian Literature vol. 225, 2016, pp. 66-80.
• “Anthology on the Radio: Robert Weaver and CBC Radio’s Anthology.” Anthologizing Canadian Literature: Theoretical and Cultural Perspectives, edited by Robert Lecker, Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2015.
• “The Metaphor of Celebrity, Three Superheroes, and One Persona or Another.” The Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 47, no. 3, 2014, pp. 571-590.

Regularly Taught Courses

Undergraduate

• English 2150: Modern Canadian Fiction
• English 2850: What Is Film?
• English 3158: Canadian Literature 1970 to the Present: City/Scape
• English 3848: The Western

Graduate

• English 7069: Public Intellectuals in Canada

Honours And Graduate Supervision

• BA Hon: any topic in Canadian fiction, poetry, and film
• MA and PhD: twentieth-century and contemporary Canadian fiction and poetry, genre (especially but not only the Western), celebrity (especially in literature, of public intellectuals, or in Canadian music), and theories of metaphor, transnationalism, and ecocriticism