Faculty
Allan Pero
Doctoral Membership
Department of English
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Education: BA, MA Ottawa; PhD, Toronto
Research Interests
Modernism, critical theory, psychoanalysis, aesthetics, spatial theory, film, drama, visual art, Wyndham Lewis.
Recent Publications: Introduction: Wyndham Lewis’ Self Condemned Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2010; ““Look for one thing and you find another”: The Voice and Deduction in Muriel Spark’s Memento Mori,” in Muriel Spark: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives, Ed. David Herman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010; Guest Editor: “Listening Rooms: A Special Issue of Modern Drama on Voice and Performance” Modern Drama, 52.4 (Winter 2009); “The Barest Fraction of Real Life”: Henry Arthur Jones, Anti-Realism, and the Scene of Truth, in Origins of English Dramatic Modernism: 1870-1914 Eds. Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe and Gregory F. Tague. London, Dublin: Academica Press, 2010; “The Chiasm of Revolution: Badiou, Lacan, and Lefebvre,” The Symptom 10 (2009).
Theses Supervised:
- Aarnoud Rommens: Antropofagia and Constructive Universalism: A Diptych, PhD thesis, 2012
- Brendan Bruce: The Subject and the Ghost of Immanence, MA thesis, 2011
- Ian McCausland: Thinking Where I am (k)not, MA thesis, 2011
- Jessica Sherman: Israel and Its Discontents, MA thesis, 2009
- Kieran Aarons: Transcendental Genesis and the Material Event, MA thesis, 2007
- Matthew Austin: Critical Studies on the Subject, the Genius Figure and Faust, MA thesis, 2006
- Averil Farrar: Toward a Critical 'Ontology of the Present', MA thesis, 2006
- Martin McCallum: Trauma and Metaphor: Lacan, Lacapra, and the 'Poetic Spark', MA thesis, 2006
- Christopher Bundock: Ethics and Writing, MA thesis, 2005
- Tara Kachroo: Under the Sign of Transparency, MA thesis, 2005
- Timothy De Vries: Passage Atlas: Benjamin and the Arcades, MA thesis, 2004
