Caitlin Charman
Position
Associate Professor
Education
- PhD, English Literature (Queen檚 University)
- MA, English Literature (Queen檚 University)
- BA (St. Francis Xavier University)
Contact Information
- Office: AA 3040
- Telephone: (709) 864-8290
- Email: ccharman@mun.ca
Research Interests
Newfoundland and Labrador literature; Atlantic Canadian literature; Canadian literature; Ocean Studies; Energy Humanities and Petrocultures; Environmental Writing and Theory; Cultural Geography and Place Studies; Regionalism; Heritage and Tourism Studies; Public Policy; Food
Selected Publications
Articles and Book Chapters
- 湗An ugly, piled-up sea: Industrialization and Regional Identity in Hickman檚 Gulf of St. Lawrence Fiction. The Environmental History of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. McGill-Queen檚 UP. Forthcoming 2018.
- 湗There are things you don檛 get over: Resistant Mourning in Lisa Moore檚 February. Studies in Canadian Literature vol. 39, no.2, 2014, pp. 126-148.
- 淪ecretly Devoted to nature: Place Sense in Alice Munro. Critical Insights: Alice Munro, Salem Press, 2012, pp. 259-274.
- 湗There檚 got to be some wrenching and slashing: Horror and Retrospection in Alice Munro檚 湗Fits. Canadian Literature vol. 191, Winter 2006, pp. 13-30.
Refereed Reports
- Second author, with Stuckey, James and Jean-Charles Le Vall茅e. Reducing the Risk: Addressing the Environmental Impacts of the Food System. Ottawa: The Conference Board of Canada, 2013.
Conference Presentations and Lectures
- 溾赌楴别飞蹿辞耻苍诲濒补苍诲檚 Robinson Crusoe?: Michael Crummey檚 Sweetland and the Failure of Ocean Management. Plenary Address, Negotiating Waters: Seas, Oceans and Passageways in the Colonial and Postcolonial Anglophone World, France, 15-16 February 2018, Grenoble-Alps University, France.
- Coal Nostalgia and Energy History in Alistair MacLeod檚 Short Fiction. Petrocultures: The Offshore, 31 August 3 September 2016, 91亚色 of Newfoundland, Canada.
- 淚nfinitely treacherous and hateful?: The Atlantic Ocean in Canadian Sea Stories and Environmental Policy. Biennial Conference of the Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada (ALECC)擬aking Common Causes: Crises, Conflict, Creation, Conversation, 15-18 June 2016, Queen檚 University, Canada.
- 淚 turned my back to the sea: Smallwood and the Ocean in Wayne Johnston檚 Baltimore檚 Mansion and The Colony of Unrequited Dreams. ACCUTE 59th Annual Conference: Energizing Communities, 28-31 May 2016, University of Calgary, Canda.
Current Research Projects
Re-Imagining the Ocean: Atlantic-Canadian Sea Stories and Environmental Policy
Other Professional Activities
Member at Large, Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada Executive Committee.
Regularly Taught Courses
Undergraduate
- English 3155: Newfoundland Literature
- English 2151: New Canadian Fiction
- English 2150: Modern Canadian Fiction
- English 3158: Canadian Literature 1970 to the Present
- English 4822: Canadian Literature擬aking it New
Graduate
- English 7071: Atlantic-Canadian Sea Stories and the Oceanic Imagination
Honours and Graduate Supervision
Newfoundland and Labrador Literature and Culture; Atlantic Canadian Literature; Canadian Literature