Jason
Haslam
Welcome
to Jason's website
Please Note: I am on sabbatical from 1 July 2011 to 30 June 2012.
My areas of research and teaching are varied.
My teaching covers American literature, popular culture, science
fiction, and theory. My research pivots around
nineteenth-century
American
literature, but my work on popular culture and specific genres has
taken me into the
eighteenth and twentieth centuries, and into other national literatures
in English. Theoretically, my scholarship has generally focused on theories of identity (especially critical theories of gender, race,
and sexuality). My
past and present projects have included extensive work on prison
writing (both works by prisoners and more generally about prisons) and
speculative fiction and film (including science fiction, the gothic,
and non-realist modes more generally). My most recent book publication is
an Oxford World's Classics edition of Tarzan of the Apes (click here to read my brief discussion of the book on the Oxford UP Blog). I am currently the President of the Canadian
Association for American Studies.Since coming to Dal, I've developed undergraduate courses in popular culture, the Beat Generation, early and contemporary science fiction, and seminars on "convict literature," race and gender in American SF, utopian literature and theory, cyborg theory, and American gothic. At the graduate level, I've most recently led the seminars "American Prison Literature" and "Sexuality and the Literature of the Fantastic." In 2012-13, I will be teaching a new graduate seminar, "American Utopias."
My Research
Click on "My books" to the left for more information on books I have written or edited, or click on the individual titles, below, to go to the press websites (note: Tarzan of the Apes is available in both paperback and hardcover. Click on "my books" for links to both).For my online CV, click--obviously--"My CV."
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