(Ph.D. Laurentian University)

Contact Information:
Phone: (709) 864-8170
Email: pgamsby@mun.ca 
Office: A-4065

Research Interests:

Social Theory, Boredom, Everyday Life, The Frankfurt School, Modernity, Space, Time, Culture, Environment, Interdisciplinarity, Scholarly Communication

Books:

The Academic Library and Critical Theory: Unpacking the Library with the Frankfurt School (Forthcoming with Routledge, 2026)

Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy, and Modernity, London, UK: Routledge, 2025. 

The Dialectic of Herbert Marcuse, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2024.

The Discourse of Scholarly Communication, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023

Henri Lefebvre, Boredom, and Everyday Life, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022

Book Chapters:

Henri Lefebvre's Sociology of Time, The Anthem Companion to Henri Lefebvre, London, UK, 2026, pp. 67-79.

Boredom, Screens and Homesickness Amidst the Crisis, The Emerald Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions for a Post-Pandemic World, Leeds, UK: Emerald Publishing, 2023, pp. 197-210.

Boredom – Emptiness in the Modern World, Emotions, Everyday Life and Sociology, London, UK: Routledge, 2018, pp. 209-224.

Articles:

On the Sociology of Boredom, Sociology on the Rock 24

The Common Ground of Open Access and Interdisciplinarity, Publications 8(1), 2020