Tony Fabijančić
Professor
Program: English
Email: w5tf@mun.ca
Phone: (709) 639-2737
Office: AS 332M
Credentials
BA (St. Francis Xavier), MA (Victoria), PhD (New Brunswick)
Research interests
Tony Fabijan膷i膰 is an interdisciplinary thinker and writer who has produced works beyond the limitations imposed by traditional academic research.
He is a scholar, fiction writer, travel writer, essayist, and photographer whose interests include distortion in art, modernity, vision, Croatia and the former Yugoslavia.
He is the author of several books including Old Bridge Black House: A Novella, and .
Teaching
He teaches first-year English, Literary Theory, Creative Writing, Twentieth-Century British and Irish Literature, Contemporary Fiction in English, the Western, and World Literature in Translation. He has also taught Science Fiction and Canadian Short Stories. In 1996 Dr. Fabijancic became the first professor to teach film at Grenfell Campus (Wim Wenders Paris, Texas), the first to teach lyrics from music in English and other languages (from Lightnin Hopkins to Tom Waits to Bijelo Dugme), and the first to introduce travel writing and experiential writing into his classes.
Books
Old Bridge, Black House (Athabasca University Press, 2026).
Anamorphic Distortion in Literature, Visual Art and Film. (Routledge 2026).
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Other recent publications:
Review of Sky Gilbert檚 Shakespeare Lied in University of Toronto Quarterly's Letters in Canada Series 2024 (forthcoming 2026).
Review of Bradley W. Buchanan檚 Indict the Author of Affection: Affectation and Catachresis in Hamlet in University of Toronto Quarterly's Letters in Canada Series 2023. 94.3 (forthcoming 2025).
淜osov毛/Kosovo (ii, iii, iv, v) [remarks about unrest in Kosovo in essays by Ignacio Hoyos]. Diari de Barcelona (August 2024; online).
淭he Secret Perspective: Anamorphosis in Hamlet." University of Toronto Quarterly 93.2 (May 2024): 93-104.
From Anything's Better Than Dying. Horseshoe Literary Magazine 1.1 (Winter 2023): 71-74.
Review of George Elliott Clarke檚 The Quest for a 淣ational Nationalism: E.J. Pratt檚 Epic Poetic Ambition, 淩ace Consciousness, and the Contradictions of Canadian Identity. Journal of Newfoundland and Labrador Studies : 312-316.
淩eport from The Casket (1). The Scarlet Leaf Review (March 2021: online)
Black Woods Island: Kor膷ula.Riddle Fence 39 (Winter 2021): 17-22.
CBC a biased echo chamber of liberal American media. The Chronicle Herald and other Saltwire publications (January 5, 2021; online).
淎namorphosis in David Lynch檚 Mulholland Drive. University of Toronto Quarterly 89.2 (Spring 2020): 219-238.
The Old Man and the Storks.&苍产蝉辫;The Nashwaak Review 44/45.1 (Fall/Winter 2020-21): 23-29.
淛ump In! Explore the swimming holes of Antigonish County. The Chronicle Herald 27 July, 2019 Travel sec.: E6-7. (also online).
淧edalling through the past in Croatia; Samobor Hills outside capital of Zagreb a stunning and challenging place to ride. The Calgary Herald 22 Sept. 2018: E2 (also online).
淲here the Sea is Bluer: the Croatian island of Bra膷. Vancouver Sun 22 Apr. 2017, Travel sec.: B1-B3. (also online).
Island Memories: Newfoundland, Maui. The Antigonish Review 190 (Summer 2017): 90-98.
湞 Global Politics: An International Affairs Magazine 1 January 2018 (online).
湞 The Globe Post 16 Sept. 2019 (online; commissioned).
&苍产蝉辫;湞 The Globe Post 2 May 2019 (online; commissioned).
Waiting for the Strike." The Antigonish Review 36.1 (Spring 2003): 89-94.
Current research projects and grants
Anything's Better Than Dying (novel); Canada: Essays.