
Dr. Jason S. POLLEY
Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature
Phone number | 3411-5801 |
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Email address | jspolley@hkbu.edu.hk |
ORCID number | 0000-0003-2382-9236 |
Degree(s):
BA English/ Religious Studies (Lethbridge); PhD English (McGill)
Research area(s):
Indian English fiction, Experimental criticism, Comics nonfiction, American Literature since WWII, Contemporary Literatures in Englishes
Teaching area(s):
Comics; Literary Journalism; 21st Century Fiction; Experimental Criticism
Taught previously at:
Universidad Espiritu Santo (Gayaquil, Ecuador), Universidad de los Andes (Bogota, Colombia), McGill (Montreal, Canada).
Selected output(s):
1. Delazari, Ivan, and Jason S Polley. 2022. “‘Popping into Your Mind’s Eye’: Multimodality and Comics in David Foster Wallace’s “The Soul Is Not A Smithy.” Style 56. 4. 413–432.
2. Polley, Jason S. 2022. “My India Problem.” ICTE Newsletter. 6 (Fall): 12-17.
3. Polley, Jason S. 2022. “Bombay Fever, the Toujours Vu, and our Plague Era: A Pheno-menology of Reflexivity.” MEJO: The MELOW Journal of World Literature. 6 (Feb): 34-45.
4. Polley, Jason S. 2021. “Toward a Reconciliation of Satire and Hostility in Crumb.” The Comics of R. Crumb: Underground in the Art Museum. Ed. By Daniel Worden. Jackson: Mississippi UP. 21-38.
5. Polley, Jason S. 2021. “Smuggling Creativity into the Classroom.” Poetry in Pedagogy: Intersections Across and Between the Disciplines. Ed by Dean AF Gui and Jason S Polley. Oxon: Routledge. 85-107.
6. Polley, Jason S. 2021. “Oh Canadiana? Atlantic Canada, Joel Thomas Hynes, and Heroin Realism.” Studia Anglica Posnaniensia. 55: 403-426.
7. Polley, Jason S. 2018. “Documenting the (Un)official Kevin Carter Narrative: Encyclopedism, Irrealism, and Intimization in House of Leaves.” IAFOR Journal of Media, Communication & Film. 5.1. pp. 5-22.
Current project(s):
1. Heroin, Masculinity, Community, Language: Underclass Narrative in Joel Thomas
Hynes.
2. “Popping into Your Mind’s Eye”: Multimodality and Comics in David Foster Wallace’s
“The Soul Is Not A Smithy.”
3. “The Burmese Way and the High Way.”