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College / Department

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of English

Teaching areas

Contemporary Literature, Modern British Literature, Postcolonial Literature, Ecocriticism, Academic Writing

Research areas

Modern and Contemporary Literature, Poetry Studies, Narrative Theory, Spatial Theory, Ecocriticism, Science Fiction

Education

PhD, English Literature, Ohio State University, United States
MA, English Literature, University of South Florida, United States
BA, English Writing / History, Knox College, United States

Professional experience

Assistant Professor at American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates(2018 - Present)
Visiting Assistant Professor at Ohio University, United States(2015 - 2018)
Senior Lecturer at Ohio State University, United States(2013 - 2015)

Memberships

Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, 2011 - present
Modernist Studies Association, 2010 - present
Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2009 - present
International Society for the Study of Narrative, 2008 - present
Samuel Beckett Society, 2008 - present
Modern Language Association, 2007 - present

Contact

[email protected]
+971 6 515 2515

Website

http://brianjmcallister.com

Dr. Brian McAllister

Assistant Professor
PhD in English Literature, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

Brian J. McAllister's research and teaching includes modern and contemporary literature, poetry studies, narratology, spatial theory, environmental literature and science fiction. Dr. McAllister guest edited a special issue of the journal Narrative on the intersections of poetry studies and narrative theory. He has published articles on topics such as visual poetry, science-fiction poetry, disorienting spaces and unnatural narrative. His current work includes mapping post-WWII networks between British and American poets, a study of art and literature that confront transformations of space and time in the Anthropocene, and a project on the politics of disorienting space in post-WWII Scottish and Irish literature.

Publications

Brian McAllister, Lithic Space-Time in Lyric: Narrating the Poetic Anthropocene, Accepted, 2020
Brian McAllister, The Rhetoric of Emergence in Narrative, Published, DIEGESIS. Interdisciplinary E-Journal for Narrative Research / Interdisziplinäres E-Journal für Erzählforschung, 9, 2, pp. 80-95, 2020
Brian McAllister, Narrative Disorientation and Beckett's Bureaucratic Space, Published, Journal of Beckett Studies, 29, 2, pp. 161-178, 2020
Brian McAllister, The Middle, the East, the West of Erin: Narrative Disorientation and the Production of Space, Published, Frontiers of Narrative Studies, 4, 2, pp. 312-326, 2018
Brian McAllister, Narrative in Concrete / Concrete in Narrative: Visual Poetry and Narrative Theory., Published, Narrative, 22, 2, pp. 234-251, 2014
Brian McAllister, Preface: Poetry Studies and Narrative Theory, Published, Narrative, 22, 2, pp. 151-153, 2014
Brian McAllister (guest editor), Poetry Studies and Narrative Theory, Published, Narrative, 22, 2, 2014
Brian McAllister, 'You'll remember Mercury': The Avant-Garde Worlds of Edwin Morgan's Science-Fiction Poetry, Published, Science Fiction Studies, 41, 1, pp. 1-25, 2014
Brian McAllister, 'I Am Becoming an Island Dweller': Postmodern Space-Time in J. M. Coetzee's Foe, On and Off the Page: Mapping Place in Text and Culture, Published, pp. 55-76, 2009

Conference Presentations

Brian McAllister, Landscape Narrativity: Ecology, Scale, and Topographic Form, International Society for the Study of Narrative Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, March, 2020
Brian McAllister, Towards a Nonscalable Narratology, International Conference on Narrative, Pamplona, Spain, May, 2019
Brian McAllister, Lithic Time, Lyric Space: Narrating the Anthropocene, Department of English Seminar Series, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, November, 2018
Brian McAllister, Of Ice and Octopi: Nature Poetry and Unnatural Narrative, International Conference on Narrative, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May, 2018
Brian McAllister, Lithic Time, Human Time, Lyric Space: Narrating the Anthropocene, Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces, Ghent, Belgium, December, 2017
Brian McAllister (keynote speaker), Geologic Time in Lyric Space: Interdisciplinary Anthropocenes, Confronting the Narratives of the Anthropocene Symposium, Tampere, Finland, November, 2017
Brian McAllister, The Fictionality of Lithic Temporality, Aarhus, Denmark, November, 2017
Brian McAllister, Visual Archives: Scottish Concrete Poetry and Midcentury Transatlantic Networks, World Congress of Scottish Literature, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June, 2017
Brian McAllister, Lithic Time, Human Time, Lyric Space: Narrating the Poetic Anthropocene, International Conference on Narrative, Lexington, Kentucky, United States, March, 2017
Brian McAllister, From Tannhäuser Gate to Sobieski’s Shield: The Words and Worlds of SF Poetry, DIY Sci-Fi: Speculative Fiction Across the Liberal Arts, Athens, Ohio, United States, 2016
Brian McAllister, From Objective to Concrete: Black Mountain, Wild Hawthorn, and Midcentury Avant-Garde Networks, Modernist Studies Association Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, November, 2015
Brian McAllister, 'The inexistent center of a formless place': Mindless Space in Beckett's Late Fiction, Modern Language Association Convention, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, January, 2015
Brian McAllister, Impossible Monuments: Imagined Space, Textual Space, and Political Power, ASAP/5, Detroit, Michigan, United States, 2013
Brian McAllister, Bureaucracy and the Aftermath of Beckett’s Closed Spaces, Beckett and the ‘State’ of Ireland Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 2012
Brian McAllister, Edwin Morgan and Russian Futurism on the Red Planet, ASAP/4 Symposium, London, United Kingdom, 2012
Brian McAllister, Narrative in Concrete / Concrete in Narrative: Visual Poetry and Narrative Theory, International Conference on Narrative, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 2012

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