FULL-TIME FACULTY PROFILE: DR. LUKE BRESKY

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Dr. Luke Bresky Assistant Professor, English Phone: (403) 254-3712 Luke.Bresky (at) stmu.ca Office: A211 Ph.D. English, University of California, Los Angeles M.A. English, University of California, Davis B.A. English, University of Calgary Specialization/research interests: American literature, critical theory and African-American literature

Recent and Current Scholarly Activity

The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Michael Colacurcio and M. Luke Bresky, eds. New York, Toronto: Broadview Press (forthcoming).

 “The Recuperative Trend in Hawthorne Studies: New or Improved?” Canadian Review of American Studies (forthcoming Fall 2009).

Conference Presentations

“Octavia Butler’s Kindred: Synchronic Crisis and Diachronic Calm.” Canadian Association of American Studies Annual Conference, U of Western Ontario, November 2009.

“Reading Wilderness in the Landscape of South Alberta.” The Association of Bibliotherapy and Applied Literature, Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ottawa, May 2009.

 “On the ‘Edge’ of American Irony: Hawthorne/James, Provincial/Cosmopolitan.” Canadian Association of American Studies Annual Conference, Montreal, November 2007.