Welcome

Contact Information

  • Arts and Administration 3036
  • Telephone: (709) 864-8293
  • Email: aloman@mun.ca

Education

  • PhD, Queen's University (2003)
  • MA, Queen's University (1994)
  • BA (with distinction), University of Victoria (1993)

Key Research Interests

  • 19th-Century American Literature and Culture
  • Comics Studies
  • Popular Culture

Publications

Books

  • 'Somewhat on the Community-System': Fourierism in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Routledge, 2005.

Articles and Book Chapters

  • "Rubber." Fueling Culture: 101 Words for Energy and Environment. Ed. Imre Szeman, Jennifer Wenzel, and Patricia Yaeger. Fordham UP, 2017.
  • "The Devil in the Slum: American Urban Gothic." American Gothic Culture: An Edinburgh Companion. Ed. Joel Faflak and Jason Haslam. Edinburgh UP, 2016.
  • "'More than a Parchment Three-Pence': Crises of Value in Hawthorne's 'My Kinsman, Major Molineux." PMLA 126.2 (2011).
  • “The Sea Cook’s Wife: Evocations of Slavery in Treasure Island.” Children’s Literature 38 (2010).
  • "'That Mouse's Shadow': The Canonization of Spiegelman's Maus." The Rise of the American Comics Artist: Creators and Contexts. Ed. Paul Williams and James Lyons. UP of Mississippi, 2010.
  • "Cosmopolitan Detachment in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘Prophetic Pictures.’” ESQ 53:1 (2007).
  • “‘Well Intended Liberal Slop’: Allegories of Race in Art Spiegelman’s Maus.” Journal of American Studies 40:3 (2006).

Fiction

  • "Mike Harris Saved From Drowning." Exile: The Literary Quarterly 22:3 (Fall 1998).

Current and Recent Courses

Undergraduate

  • English 4251: American Literature to 1880
  • English 4101: Critical Theory II
  • English 3843: Introduction to Comics
  • English 3260: American Drama
  • English 2850: What is Film?
  • English 2216: American Literature, 1776-1865
  • English 2214: 19th-Century American Fiction
  • Communication Studies 2000: Critical Approaches to Popular Culture
  • English 1101: Critical Reading and Writing (Fiction)

Graduate

  • English 7063: Chasing His Hat: The Films of the Coen Brothers
  • English 7061: Art in the Whirlwind: Literary and Cultural Representations of Catastrophe
  • English 7058: Representations of the American City, 1790-1915
  • English 7062: Studies in Graphic Narrative
  • English 7060: Nineteenth-Century American Literary “Classics” on Film

Contact

Andrew Loman

230 Elizabeth Ave, St. John's, NL, CANADA, A1B 3X9

Postal Address: P.O. Box 4200, St. John's, NL, CANADA, A1C 5S7

Tel: (709) 864-8000