Danine Farquharson

Position

Associate Professor 

Education

  • PhD (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
  • MA (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
  • BA (University of Alberta)

Contact Information

Research Interests

Irish literature, 20th and 21st Century British literature, energy humanities, literary theory, postcolonial studies

Selected Publications

Edited Books

  • Cold Water Oil: Offshore Petroleum Cultures. Routledge, 2021. Co-editor, Fiona Polack.
  • Shadows of the Gunmen: Violence and Culture in Modern Ireland. Cork UP. 2008. Co-editor, Sean Farrell.

Collaborative StoryMap

Articles and Book Chapters

  • "Heading Offshore: Introducing Cold Water Oil." Cold Water Oil, edited by Fiona Polack and Danine Farquharson. Routledge, 2021, pp.1-20.
  • "Dispatches from two cold water oil cultures: Norway and Newfoundland and Labrador." Cold Water Oil, edited by Fiona Polack and Danine Farquharson. Routledge, 2021, pp.137-56.
  •  “Offshore Rig.” Fueling Culture: Politics, History, Energy, edited by Imre Szeman, Jennifer Wenzel and Patricia Yaeger, Fordham University Press, 2017, pp. 252-255. Co-author, Fiona Polack.
  • “Love/Hate: A “Lethal Cocktail” for Post-Celtic Tiger Consumption.” Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, vol. 38, no.1/2, 2012/2013, pp. 138-156.
  • “The Anxiety of Influence in Roddy Doyle’s Fiction.” A Companion to Irish Literature, edited by Julia Wright, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, pp. 410-425.
  • “Violence and Ontological Doubt in ‘The Stoat.’” Journal of the Short Story in English, Special Issue on John McGahern. Guest Ed. Claude Maisonnat., vol. 53, Autumn 2009, pp. 145-163.

Conference Papers and Invited Talks

  • “Energy Transition Sites and Subjectivities.” Petrocultures 2018: Transitions, 2018, Glasgow, Scotland.
  • State of the Arts FaceBook Live Video. Interview with Lisa Moore, 2018 www.facebook.com/MemorialFacultyHumanitiesSocialSciences/videos/1650265088365464/
  • Petrocultures. Nexus Centre podcast with Fiona Polack, 2017 https://www.hss.mun.ca/nexus/podcasts
  • Keynote Lecture, “Energy Humanities and Irish Studies.” Canadian Association for Irish Studies Annual Conference, 2017, Derry, Northern Ireland.
  • “The Lure of the Sublime.” SSHORE Memorial-Dalhousie collaborative workshop, 2017, Halifax, Canada.
  • “The Oceanic Sublime.” Sixth Annual “Cultures of Energy” Research Symposium, April 2016, Houston, USA.
  • “Revaluing the Graduate Experience.” Canadian Association for Graduate Schools Co-presenter, Susan Drodge, 2016, Toronto, Canada.
  • “We Need to Talk About Oil.” Co-author, Fiona Polack. Memorial Gazette Op-Ed. 26 August 2016, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.
  • “How to Put Oil Onstage: Donald O’Kelly’s Little Thing, Big Thing.” Canadian Association for Irish Studies, 2016, Banff, Canada.
  • “The Offshore Sublime.” Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English Annual Conference, 2015, Ottawa, Canada.

Other Professional Activities

  • Conference co-organizer (with Dr. Fiona Polack, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada). Petrocultures 2016: The Offshore international conference.

Awards

  • Dean’s Award for Service Excellence, 2021.

Regularly Taught Courses

Undergraduate

  • English 4101: Critical Theory II
  • English 3175: Irish Literature
  • English 2212: The Twentieth-Century British Novel

Graduate

  • English 7003: Literary Theory and Practice
  • Irish Literature

Honours And Graduate Supervision

Irish literature, 20th and 21st Century British literature, energy humanities, literary theory, postcolonial studies