Robert Brazeau, PhD, MA, BA
Contact
Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts - English & Film Studies Dept
- rbrazeau@ualberta.ca
- Address
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4-11 Humanities Centre
11121 Saskatchewan Drive NWEdmonton ABT6G 2H5
Overview
About
I hold a PhD from McMaster University, where I wrote a dissertation on Seamus Heaney and Thomas Kinsella. I was hired at the University of Alberta in 2001 as a specialist in the area of Irish Studies.
Research
My current research focuses on representations of space and environments in modernist literature. I also have an interest in the nineteenth-century Irish press and the formation of Irish nationalism during that period.
Teaching
I teach courses in Irish literature at the graduate and undergraduate level. I also teach a 200 level course on postcolonialism and another on textuality.
Courses
ENGL 103 - Case Studies in Research
This variable content course introduces methods of literary research as an in-depth process through one or more case studies. Refer to the Class Schedule and the Department of English and Film Studies website for specific topics. This course cannot be repeated for credit. Note: Not to be taken by students with 6 units in approved junior English.
ENGL 206 - How Poems Work: Introduction to Poetry
An introduction to a range of poetic forms, techniques and theories. Prerequisite: 6 units of junior ENGL, or 3 units of junior ENGL and 3 units of junior WRS.
ENGL 314 - Irish Writing in English
Selected works from the Irish context. Content and period focus may vary. Prerequisite: 6 units of junior ENGL, or 3 units of junior ENGL and 3 units of junior WRS.
ENGL 363 - Modernist Literature
Studies in high, low and late modernism, and the avant-garde from 1900 to 1950. Note: not to be taken by students with credit in former ENGL 370. Prerequisite: 6 units of junior ENGL, or 3 units of junior ENGL and 3 units of junior WRS.