Contact Information

• Arts and Administration 3036
• Telephone: (709) 864-8293
• Email: aloman@mun.ca

Education

• PhD, Queen's University (2003)
• MA, Queen's University (1994)
• BA (with distinction), University of Victoria (1993)

Key Research Interests

• 19th-Century American Literature and Culture
• Comics Studies
• Popular Culture

Publications

Books

• 'Somewhat on the Community-System': Fourierism in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Routledge, 2005.

Articles and Book Chapters

• "Rubber." Fueling Culture: 101 Words for Energy and Environment. Ed. Imre Szeman, Jennifer Wenzel, and Patricia Yaeger. Fordham UP, 2017.
• "The Devil in the Slum: American Urban Gothic." American Gothic Culture: An Edinburgh Companion. Ed. Joel Faflak and Jason Haslam. Edinburgh UP, 2016.
• "'More than a Parchment Three-Pence': Crises of Value in Hawthorne's 'My Kinsman, Major Molineux." PMLA 126.2 (2011).
• “The Sea Cook’s Wife: Evocations of Slavery in Treasure Island.” Children’s Literature 38 (2010).
• "'That Mouse's Shadow': The Canonization of Spiegelman's Maus." The Rise of the American Comics Artist: Creators and Contexts. Ed. Paul Williams and James Lyons. UP of Mississippi, 2010.
• "Cosmopolitan Detachment in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘Prophetic Pictures.’” ESQ 53:1 (2007).
• “‘Well Intended Liberal Slop’: Allegories of Race in Art Spiegelman’s Maus.” Journal of American Studies 40:3 (2006).

Fiction

• "Mike Harris Saved From Drowning." Exile: The Literary Quarterly 22:3 (Fall 1998).

Current and Recent Courses

Undergraduate

• English 4251: American Literature to 1880
• English 4101: Critical Theory II
• English 3843: Introduction to Comics
• English 3260: American Drama
• English 2850: What is Film?
• English 2216: American Literature, 1776-1865
• English 2214: 19th-Century American Fiction
• Communication Studies 2000: Critical Approaches to Popular Culture
• English 1101: Critical Reading and Writing (Fiction)

Graduate

• English 7063: Chasing His Hat: The Films of the Coen Brothers
• English 7061: Art in the Whirlwind: Literary and Cultural Representations of Catastrophe
• English 7058: Representations of the American City, 1790-1915
• English 7062: Studies in Graphic Narrative
• English 7060: Nineteenth-Century American Literary “Classics” on Film