Professor - English

Email: w5tf@mun.ca

Phone: (709) 639-2737

 

Research interests/expertise

Tony Fabijančić is an interdisciplinary thinker and writer who has produced works beyond the limitations imposed by traditional academic research. He is a scholar, travel writer, essayist, fiction writer and photographer whose interests include modernity, space, vision, distortion in art, Croatia and the former Yugoslavia.

For summaries of his overall research project, scholarship, travel writing, essays, fiction and photography, click here.

 

Teaching

He teaches first-year English, Literary Theory, Creative Writing, Twentieth-Century British and Irish Literature, Contemporary Fiction in English, the Western, and World Literature in Translation. He has also taught Science Fiction and Canadian Short Stories. In 1996 Dr. Fabijancic became the first professor to teach film at Grenfell Campus (Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas), the first to teach lyrics from music in English and other languages (from Lightnin’ Hopkins to Tom Waits to Bijelo Dugme), and the first to introduce travel writing and experiential writing into his classes.

 

Books

 

Anamorphic Distortion in Literature, Visual Art and Film (Routledge 2026).

 

Drink in the Summer: A Memoir of Croatia (Athabasca University Press 2023)

 

Bosnia: In the Footsteps of Gavrilo Princip (University of Alberta Press 2010)

 

Croatia: Travels in Undiscovered Country (University of Alberta Press) 2003)

 

Recent publications:

Review of Sky Gilbert’s Shakespeare Lied in University of Toronto Quarterly's Letters in Canada Series 2024 (forthcoming 2026). 

Review of Bradley W. Buchanan’s Indict the Author of Affection: Affectation and Catachresis in Hamlet in University of Toronto Quarterly's Letters in Canada Series 2023. 94.3 (forthcoming 2025).  

“Kosovë/Kosovo (ii, iii, iv, v)” [remarks about unrest in Kosovo in essays by Ignacio Hoyos]. Diari de Barcelona (August 2024; online).

“The Secret Perspective: Anamorphosis in Hamlet." University of Toronto Quarterly 93.2 (May 2024): 93-104.

From Anything's Better Than Dying. Horseshoe Literary Magazine 1.1 (Winter 2023): 71-74.

Review of George Elliott Clarke’s The Quest for a “National” Nationalism: E.J. Pratt’s Epic Poetic Ambition, “Race” Consciousness, and the Contradictions of Canadian Identity. Journal of Newfoundland and Labrador Studies 36.2 (Winter 2021): 312-316.

“Report from The Casket (1).” The Scarlet Leaf Review (March 2021: online)

“Black Woods Island: Korčula.” Riddle Fence 39 (Winter 2021): 17-22.

“CBC a biased echo chamber of liberal American media.” Chronicle Herald and other Saltwire publications (January 5, 2021; online).

“Anamorphosis in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive.” University of Toronto Quarterly 89.2 (Spring 2020): 219-238.  

“The Old Man and the Storks.” The Nashwaak Review 44/45.1 (Fall/Winter 2020-21): 23-29.

“Jump In! Explore the swimming holes of Antigonish County.” The Chronicle Herald 27 July, 2019  Travel sec.: E6-7. (also online).

“Pedalling through the past in Croatia; Samobor Hills outside capital of Zagreb a stunning and challenging place to ride.” The Calgary Herald 22 Sept. 2018: E2 (also online).

“Where the Sea is Bluer: the Croatian island of Brač.” Vancouver Sun 22 Apr. 2017, Travel sec.: B1-B3. (also online).

“Island Memories: Newfoundland, Maui.” The Antigonish Review 190 (Summer 2017): 90-98.

“Tito and Yugonostalgia: Name Change Reveals Political Fault Lines in Croatia.” Global Politics: An International Affairs Magazine 1 January 2018 (online).

“Will the Western Balkans Ever Join the European Union?” The Globe Post 16 Sept. 2019 (online; commissioned).

 “Protesters in Serbia Lack Coherent and Political Answer to Spark Change.” The Globe Post 2 May 2019 (online; commissioned).

“Waiting for the Strike." The Windsor Review 36.1 (Spring 2003): 89-94.

 

Current research projects and grants

Old Bridge, Black House: A Diptych (novella); Anything’s Better Than Dying (novel)