James Gifford

James Gifford

Professor, School of Humanities, Director of University Core, Vancouver Campus, Director of FDU Press,
School of Humanities | Fairleigh Dickinson University (fdu.edu)

Contact Information

Courses

• Modernism
• Popular Literature
• Postcolonial Literature
• Radical Political Thought
• Dissent in Popular Culture
• Philosophy of Middle-earth
• Political and Social History of Music

Research

• American, British, Canadian, and Irish literature of the 19th and 20th centuries
• Postcolonial literature
• Travel literature
• Creative non-fiction
• Critical theory
• Cultural studies
• Digital humanities
• Music and popular culture

Education

• Dipl Music, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
• BA, Simon Fraser University
• Post-Baccalaureate, Simon Fraser University
• MA, California State University
• PhD, University of Alberta

Academic Profile

I joined FDU’s Vancouver Campus in 2008 and have taught online courses for students on all FDU campuses in Literature, Humanities, Philosophy, and Writing. I have also pursued significant studies in Music, Opera Performance, and Digital Humanities. I’m always happy to discuss academic and creative work with students in any of these fields.

I’ve also been a Visiting Professor in the graduate programs in English and Liberal Studies at Simon Fraser University and at Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès. My books include Personal Modernisms: Anarchist Networks and the Later Avant-Gardes and A Modernist Fantasy: Anarchism, Modernism, & the Radical Fantastic, the latter of which won the 2020 Mythopoeic Award. I have also edited several collections of essays, scholarly editions, and open education resources. These include three critical editions of Lawrence Durrell’s works (praised in the Times Literary Supplement), the first textual states of Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time, the 1890 textual state of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the works of the 19th-century poet and travel writer Edward Taylor Fletcher. I am the primary or sole author of more than fifty articles and book chapters, published poems and works of creative non-fiction, several dozen reviews, and the editor or author of over twenty books.

For detailed information on teaching, scholarship, and service, please see my profile:
James Gifford – Knowledge Commons