Dominique Bregent-Heald
Associate Professor
Department of History
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, NL A1C 5S7
Email:dbheald[at]mun.ca
Phone: (709) 864-8430
Fax: (709) 864-2164
Education
B.A. University of Toronto (1995)
M.A. George Washington University (1997)
Ph.D. Duke University (2004)
Research/Teaching Fields
U.S. Film History; North American Borders, Borderlands, and Frontiers; Comparative History of the North American West; U.S. Cultural History and Popular Culture; U.S.-Canadian Relations; Tourism.
Recent Publications
- "Vacationland: Film, Tourism, and Selling Canada, 1897-1948" (Forthcoming, Canadian Journal of Film Studies).
- "Women in Between: Representations of Gender, Race, and Nation in Ramona and The Barrier." Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 31, no. 2 (2010): 145-176.
- "The Redcoat and the Ranger: Screening Bilateral Friendship in Cecil B. DeMille's Northwest Mounted Police (1940)." American Review of Canadian Studies 38, no. 1 (Spring 2008): 43-60.
- "Primitive Encounters" Film and Tourism in the North American West," Western Historical Quarterly 38, no. 1 (Spring 2007): 47-68.
- "The Tourism of Titillation: Film and Cross-Border Tourism in Niagara Falls and Tijuana," Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, 17 (2006): 181-205.
- "Dark Limbo: Film Noir and the North American Borders," Journal of American Culture 29, vol. 2 (June 2006): 125-138.
Current Research Projects
- Reel Borderlands: The U.S. Film Industry, Canada, and Mexico, 1908-1919 (Under Contract, University of Toronto Press).
- "The Dionne Quintuplets: From Quintland to Hollywoodland (article).”
- “All Aboard!: Travelogues of the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Northern Pacific Railway (article)”
- The Northern Getaway: Film, Tourism, and Canadian National Identity (book-length manuscript).
