Kevin Spencer
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Position:Assistant Professor in English
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College:College of Liberal Arts
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Office:GEH B315
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Educational Background
PhD in English (Duke University, 2022); MA in Theory and Criticism (Western University, 2009); MA in English (University of Alberta, 2004); BA [honors] (University of Alberta, 2002).
Biography
I work in the emerging field of fiction and philosophy. I am particularly interested in the origins and legacy of existentialism (a literary-philosophical movement that flourished in the 1940s), the realist novel, and the ethics of fiction. I have lived and taught in Canada (my home country), South Korea, and the USA.
Research interests
- existentialist literature and philosophy
- the realism/modernism debate
- the 1940s and ‘50s
- the ethics of fiction, particularly the ethics of agency
- literary theory
Publications/scholarly and creative work
Existential Realism: Reading American Novels the French Way.” Contemporary Literature Vol. 62, no. 4, Winter 2021
Courses
- World Literature
- Literary Criticism
- Contemporary Literature
- 20th Century fiction
- Aspects of the Novel
