Faculty (Alphabetical) --- Faculty (by Research Interest)
Dr. Jamie Paris
Instructor 1
Office: 610 Fletcher Argue Building
Phone: N/A
Email: Jamie.Paris@umanitoba.ca
Education:
• BA (Hons) University of Winnipeg (2006)
• MA University of Regina (2010)
• PhD University of British Columbia (2015)
Previous Academic Position
Associate Professor of English and English Coordinator for Corpus Christi College at the University of British Columbia
Courses at the University of Manitoba
• English 1200
• English 1400
• English 1340
Courses Taught at Other Institutions
• First-year English composition
• Introduction to English Literature
• English Literature before 1750
• English Literature between 1750 and 1900
• Canadian Literature
• Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance
• Non-Shakespearian Early Modern Drama
• Tragedy and Film
• Shakespeare, Genre, and Religion
• First Nation’s Literature and Culture
• Children’s Literature
Areas of Specialization
Shakespeare and early modern drama with a focus on premodern critical race studies and tragedy; Canadian Literature with a focus on Black and First Nation’s Literature and Culture and masculinities; digital humanities
Theoretical Approaches: Critical Race Theory and Theories of Intersectionality; Histories of Whiteness and masculinities
Recent Publications
- “‘Mislike Me Not for My Complexion’: On Anti-Black Racism and Performative Whiteness in William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.” Journal of Early Modern Culture 20.4. (2020): 43-61,doi:10.1353/jem.2020.0029
- “Bad Blood, Black Desires: On the Fragility of Whiteness in Middleton’s and Rowley’s The Changeling.” Early Theatre 24.1 (2021), 113–37, https://doi.org/10.12745/et.24.1.3803
- “‘What Condition Will Not Miserable Men Accept?’: Hegemonic Masculinity in John Lyly’s Galatea.” Renaissance and Reformation 43.1 (2020): 81–103.
- “‘Men Break When Things Like That Happen’: Indigenous Masculinities in Katherena Vermette’s The Break.” Canadian Literature 239 (2019): 68–84.
- With Mike Borkent (UBC). “Asymmetric Digital Collaboration and Collective Authorship: On Digital Genres and Writing Processes for CanLit Guides.” Digital Studies/Le champ numérique [Online] (2016). Web 31 March 2016. http://www.digitalstudies.org/ojs/index.php/digital_studies/article/view/306/410.
- “Flipped Marking and Plagiarism Avoidance in a Digital Age: Rethinking marking as a scholarly community development tool.” Digital Studies/Le champ numérique [Online] (2014). Web 13 July 2014. http://www.digitalstudies.org/ojs/index.php/digital_studies/article/view/272/324.
Work in Progress
- (Book) Clothed Villainy: On whiteness and racial crossdressing in early modern drama. For the Strode Series at the University of Alabama Press.
- (Editor) Thomas Middleton’s The Triumphs of Integrity (1623), for the Map of Early Modern London Mayoral Shows anthology. University of Victoria.
- (Article under review) “The Fragility of White Masculinity in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.”
- (Article in progress) “‘You’ll Be a Man, My Son’: Custodial Masculinity in Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book and Kipling’s The Jungle Book.”
- (Chapter in Progress) “Early Modern English Black Christianity and Middleton’s ‘The Triumphs of Truth’” for None a Stranger There: England and/in Europe on the Early Modern Stage. Edited by Matteo Pangallo and Scott Oldenburge.
Recent Conference Papers
- “Black Devil, White Magician: On the Semiotics of Colour in Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus.” The Renaissance Society of America. Annual conference. Virtual. 13–15 and 20–22 April 2021.
- “Early Modern English Black Christianity and Middleton’s ‘The Triumphs of Truth.’ Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies/La Société Canadienne d’études de la Renaissance. Annual conference. Edmonton, Alberta. Virtual. 29–31 May 2021.
- “Seeming the Saint: On White Masculinity and Shakespeare’s Richard III and Othello.” The Shakespeare Association of America. Annual conference. Virtual. 30 March–4 April 2021.
- “White Until Proven Black: Claudius, White Masculinity, and the Problem of Evil in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.” The Rocky Mountain Medieval & Renaissance Association. 2020 Works-in-Progress Digital Conference. 8–10 October 2020.
- “Tragic Prayers: The Book of Common Prayer and the Tragedy of Praying Along in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Macbeth.” Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies/La Société Canadienne d’études de la Renaissance. Annual conference. Vancouver, BC. 1–3 June 2019.
- “Overcoming White Fragility while Teaching Whiteness in Early Modern Drama.” Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English. Annual conference. Vancouver, BC. 1–4 June 2019.
- “Fair Devils: Whiteness and Demonism in Early Modern Tragedy.” Book Publishing Workshop. The Shakespeare Association of America. Annual conference. Washington, DC. 17–20 April 2019.
- “The Black Mask: On Demonic Whiteness in Middleton’s and Rowley’s The Changeling.” The Shakespeare Association of America. Annual conference. Los Angeles, California. 28–31 March 2018. A version of this paper was also presented at Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies/La Société Canadienne d’études de la Renaissance. Annual conference. Regina, Saskatchewan. 26–28 May 2018.
- “‘You’ll Be a Man, My Son’: Custodial Masculinity in Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book and Kipling’s The Jungle Book.” Christianity and Literature Study Group. Annual conference. Regina, Saskatchewan. 26–28 May 2018.
- “Healing and Re-storying the North End in Katherena Vermette’s The Break and North End Love Songs.” Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English. Annual conference. Regina, Saskatchewan. 26–28 May 2018.