Dr. Philip Mingay
Assistant Professor of English
Office: A206Phone: 780-465-3500 ext. 8077
Email: philip.mingay@kingsu.ca
Education
Ph.D University of Alberta, 2001M.A. University of Guelph, 1989
B.A. Trent University, 1987
Research Interests
● Postcolonial and Global Literature
● Canadian Literature
● Pedagogy
● Painting and Literature
Current Research Projects
● Chapter on Canadian Art and Education in forthcoming book of essays Empire, Borders, And Borderlands (Cambridge Scholars Press)● Advisory Board, The Brock Review
● Executive Board Member of The Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (CACLALS)
● “Bugs and Biology: The North Infests the Suburbs in Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye”
Selected Publications and Presentations
“Mapping our Mental Geography: Regionalism as Pedagogical Strategy.” West of Eden: Essays on Canadian Prairie Literature. Ed. Sue Sorensen. CMU Press: Winnipeg, 2008. 272-293.“Old Yet New Again: Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart in the Christian University.” Things Fall Apart at Fifty Conference at the University of Toronto, September 2008.
“Painting the Mute Landscape in Guy Vanderhaeghe’s The Last Crossing.” The Last Best West Conference at the Centre for the Study of Canada, Thompson Rivers University, September 2007. Encouraging a Respectful Environment for Class Discussion.
University of Alberta Teaching and Learning Services, University of Alberta, January 2007.
Review of Caribbean-English Passages by Tobias Döring.
CHIMO: The Newsjournal of the Canadian Assoc. for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. No. 50. Summer 2005. 26-29.
Greg Hollingshead. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. 2nd ed. Eds. Eugene Benson and L.W. Conolly. New York: Routledge, 2004.
Faith and Difference: Teaching Timothy Findley’s Not Wanted on the Voyage.
Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies at Congress 2004, University of Winnipeg, May 2004.
The Fat Shining Leg: The Tenancy Agreement in VS Naipaul’s The Enigma of Arrival.
Romantic Orientalism Conference at the University of Wales, UK, July 2002.
The Tasteful Citizen: Public School Art Instruction in Post-WWII Canada.
Canadian Society for Aesthetics at Congress 2000, University of Alberta, May 2000.
Yes, We Always Have Bananas: Teaching the Consumer-Oriented Student in a Neo-Colonialist Society. A special session on pedagogy for the Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies at Congress 98, University of Ottawa, May 1998.
Journeys to Mythical Centres: The de Chirico Connection in V.S. Naipaul's The Enigma of Arrival.
Commonwealth Novel in English. vol. 7 and 8 (1997-1998): 71-80.
Teaching Responsibilities
ENGL 204 - Reading to Know, Writing to be Known: An Introduction to Literature IENGL 205 - Reading to Know, Writing to be Known: An Introduction to Literature II
ENGL 329 - Stranger Than Fiction: Literature and Film
ENGL 358 - The Sun Never Sets: Introduction to Postcolonial Literature
ENGL 370 - Carving out a Nation: Canadian Literature Pre-1970
ENGL 399 - Special Topics in English: Theory in the Classroom
ENGL 405 - Unpacking the Text: 20th Century Literary Theory
Awards
2006 William Hardy Alexander Award for Excellence in Teaching
Related Links
The C.S. Lewis site | Wheaton College Study Bible | Online Bibles | English Major Program | English Minor Program | The Writers Guild of Alberta