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 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.