Visiting Assistant Professor

Program: English

Phone: (709) 639-4805

Email: z53tafh@mun.ca

Office: AS332H

 

Credentials

B.A., B.Ed. (UNB), M.A., Ph.D. (Memorial)

 

Research interests

Contemporary Canadian literature (poetry, drama, and prose), Atlantic Canadian literature, surveillance, sousveillance, creative writing, book making, community publishing, the long 18th century (British), Samuel Pepys.

Teaching 

First year courses, Canadian literature, creative writing and publishing, the long 18th century (British)

Selected Publications  

Books

Halford, Tom. Nightmares of the National Imaginary: Surveillance and Sousveillance in Canadian Literature. U of T Press, 2025.

 

Peer Reviewed Articles (selected)

Halford, Tom. “Sunset Tourism in Kevin Major’s One for the Rock, Two for the Tablelands, and Three for Trinity: Travel and Identity in Three Newfoundland and Labrador Crime Novels.” Clues (Fall 2023).

Halford, Tom. “Principles to Sort By: Surveillance and the Police in David Adams Richards’s Principles to Live By.” Studies in Canadian Literature (Winter 2019).

Halford, Tom. “A Reconsideration of Surveillance in Michael Winter’s This All Happened: What Actually Happened?” Newfoundland and Labrador Studies. (Spring 2016).

 

Magazine and Newspaper Articles (selected)

Halford, Tom. “Literary Ferment in Western Newfoundland: A West Coast Renaissance … Sort Of.” Newfoundland Quarterly (Winter 2024).

Halford, Tom. "New Islands: An Alistair MacLeod story set in Cape Breton is brought to life in Scotland.” Canadian Notes and Queries (Spring 2022).

Halford, Tom. “Namwali Serpell’s Bungee Chord, or Humour in Souvankham Thammavongsa’s How to Pronounce Knife.” The Miramichi Reader (Fall 2021).

Halford, Tom. “A Foggy Sense of Place.” Telegraph Journal. Saint John, NB. 14 April, 2017.

  

Literary and Artistic Work (selected)

Halford, Tom. The Herbert Breath Preservation Society. Paper View Independent Publishing, 2024.

Halford, Tom. The Abstracts. Paper View Independent Publishing, 2022.

Halford, Tom. Mill Rat. Frog Hollow Press, 2021.

Halford, Tom. Deli Meat: A Novel. Crooked Cat Books, 2018.

Halford, Tom. “The Art of Shooting.” CBC Literary Awards, Longlisted. 2010.

Halford, Tom. “Trends of Buffoonery.” CBC Literary Awards, Shortlisted. 2006.

 

Editing and Publishing Work

Buoys and Markers. Ed. Robert Hengeveld and Tom Halford. Horseshoe Community Press, [Forthcoming 2025].

Preserving Petries by Doris Butt. Ed. Tom Halford, Andrew Testa, and Renee Snook. Horseshoe Community Press, 2024.

Antlerman by Jeremy Wills. Ed. Tom Halford, Andrew Testa, and Renee Snook. Horseshoe Community Press, 2024.

The Photographer: Three Haunting Tales by Mervyn Dean. Ed. Tom Halford, Andrew Testa, and Renee Snook. Horseshoe Community Press, 2023.