Mark Deggan

Mark Deggan is Lecturer in World Literature at Simon Fraser University's Department of World Languages and Literatures. His interdisciplinary research examines cross-cultural encounters in world literature through ecocritical and theoretical frameworks.

Academic focus areas:

• Poetics of cross-cultural encounters
• Late-romanticist and modernist literary cultures
• East/West fictional encounters
• Theatricalization of nature in modernist fiction
• Comparative cinematic traditions

Current project 'Modernism’s Impresarios: The Theatricalization of Nature in Early Modernist World Fiction' explores representations of nature. Teaches courses on transnational literary traditions and world literature foundations. No research grants or student supervision documented.