Email

dandufournaud@um.edu.mo

Tel

(853) 8822 9381

Office

E21-4105

Consultation Hours

TBC

Daniel DUFOURNAUD

Introduction

Daniel Dufournaud joined the University of Macau in 2024 as an Assistant Professor of English. Prior to this appointment, he held a teaching appointment at Trent University (Canada). Daniel is currently wrapping up his first monograph, tentatively titled Interruptions: Failure and Ethics in Contemporary American Literature. He is the editor of a volume under contract with Edinburgh UP, a collection of essays on filmmaker John Singleton. His other work appears in such journals as Poetics Today, Journal of Modern Literature, College Literature, and Studies in the Novel; and in such edited collections as ReFocus: The Films of Claire Denis, The Nonhuman in American Literary Naturalism, and The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth.

Education

PhD, York University; MA, Carleton University; BA, Wilfrid Laurier University

Research Interests

Daniel’s research interests lie in post-45 American literature and film, as well as global art cinema. At UM, he has begun research on his second monograph project, which will look at the figure of the amateur in post-45 American literature and film as a response to the rise of posindustrial capitalism and the proletarianization of creativity.

Daniel welcomes inquiries from prospective graduate students whose research interests align with his.

Courses Regularly Taught

At the postgraduate level: Asian Diaspora Literature in English

At the undergraduate level: Survey of English Literature II; Twentieth-Century American Literature

MLA; NeMLA; ACCUTE

  • “From The Crying of Lot 49 to Lodge 49: New Sincerity’s Transmedial Emergence.” When American Television Became American Literature, edited by Ben Alexander and Reto Winckler, Brill, 2024. (forthcoming)
  • “‘Reduced to Near Nothingness’: Don DeLillo’s Ethico-Political Project in Cosmopolis.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 47, no. 2, 2024, pp. 115-132.
  • “‘Our fathers’ sons and our neighborhoods’ creatures’: Upward Mobility and the Welfare State in Roth’s Fiction.” Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth, edited by Aimee Pozorski and Maren Scheuer, Bloomsbury, 2024, pp. 169-179.
  • “Claire Denis’s Beaux Familles.” Refocus: The Films of Claire Denis, edited by Peter Sloane,       Edinburgh UP, 2023, pp. 231-251.
  • “Edith Wharton’s Architectural Imagination in The House of Mirth.” The Nonhuman in American Literary Naturalism, edited by Karin Molander Danielsson and Kenneth Brandt, Lexington, 2023, pp. 133-147.
  • “Cinema of Senescence: Old Age, Slow Cinema, and Form.” Poetics Today, special issue edited by Jacob Jewusiak, vol. 44, no. 1-2, 2023, pp. 205-230.
  • “‘Queer as Fiction’: Seeing and Being Seen in Henry James’s The Ambassadors.” Studies in the Novel, vol. 54, no. 1, 2022, pp. 80-99.
  • “Dwelling with(out) Others: Family Dysfunction in Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland.” Journal of American Studies, vol. 56, no. 3, 2022, pp. 349-371.
  • “Upward Mobility and Zuckerman’s (Negative) Dialectics in I Married a Communist.” Philip Roth Studies, vol. 16, no. 2, 2020, pp. 16-38.
  • “‘When things are bad’: Entrepreneurial Failure and Levinasian Ethics in Quiara Alegría Hudes’s Water by the Spoonful.” College Literature, vol. 47, no. 3, 2020, pp. 441-467.