Dr. Jason S Polley
Programme Director of Master of Arts in Literary and Comparative Studies (MALCS) and Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature
| Phone number | 3411-5801 |
|---|---|
| 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; Postmodernism; Media Studies; Canadian Fiction; Creative Nonfiction
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. Polley, Jason S. “Ngo Mai Lo Cryptogram.” World Literature Today. Spring 2019. 73.
2. Polley, Jason S. “Documenting the (Un)official Kevin Carter Narrative:
Encyclopedism, Irrealism, and Intimization in House of Leaves.” IAFOR
Journal of Media, Communication & Film. 5.1 (Summer 2018): 5-22.
3. Polley, Jason S. “Watching the Watchmen, Mediating the Mediators.” Literature
Compass 10.8 (2013): 593-604.
4. Polley, Jason S. “Race, Gender, Justice: Storytelling in The Greenlanders.”
Amerikastudien/ American Studies. 58.1 (Fall 2013): 27-50.
5. Polley, Jason S. “Ngo Mai Lo Cryptogram.” World Literature Today. Spring
2019. 73.
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.”