Joshua Toth

Dr. Joshua Toth is a Professor in the Department of English at MacEwan University, specializing in contemporary American literature, metafiction, and narrative ethics. He holds a PhD from Western University, an MA from Simon Fraser University, and a BA from the University of Regina.

• Education:
  • PhD (Western University)
  • MA (Simon Fraser University)
  • BA (University of Regina)

His research investigates the ethics of representing otherness through self-reflexive narratives, focusing on postmodernism's decline and the potential for narratives to embrace difference while acknowledging incomprehensibility. Key themes include race, gender, and the intersections of autobiography with film and literature. Current projects include co-editing The Routledge Companion to Metafiction and authoring Screens of the Self: The Cinematic Fiction of Autobiography.

Dr. Toth has received notable awards, including the Board of Governor’s Research Chair (2024–26) and SSHRC grants (2019–24). His work explores 'plasticity'—the tension between mutability and fixed boundaries in narrative forms—through analyses of metafiction's role in ethical storytelling.

He supervises senior students’ independent studies and collaborates on an SSHRC-funded database cataloging self-reflexive narratives across media.