Dr. Tamas Dobozy

Associate Professor; Associate Dean, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

Contact Information

Email: tdobozy@wlu.ca
Phone: (519) 884-0710 ext.3777

Office Location: 3-118 Woods Bldg.
Office Hours: Tuesday 11:00 - 12:00 pm

Academic Background

• Associate Professor (2004)
• PhD (UBC)
• MA (Concordia)
• BA (Victoria)

Biography

• Jazz
• American literature
• religion and literature
• post-structuralism
• short story

Books:

• Last Notes: Stories (HarperCollins, 2005)
• When X Equals Marylou: Stories (Arsenal Pulp, 2002)

Selected Recent Articles:

• "How Not to Be a 'Dickhead': Partisan Politics in Richard Ford's Independence Day." Critical Survey (2006)
• “The Holocaust as Fiction: Derrida’s Demeure and the Demjanjuk Trial in Philip Roth’s Operation Shylock.”  Philip Roth Studies (2005)
• "Playing at the Nth Note: John Coltrane and Proliferation," Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture (2005)
• "Lhasa Unlimited: The Metaphysics of Death in Steven Heighton's The Admen Move on Lhasa and 'Translations of April'," Essays on Canadian Writing (2001)
• "In the Country of Contradition the Hypocrite is King: Defining Dirty Realism in Charles Bukowski's Factotum," Modern Fiction Studies (2001)
• "'Designed Anarchy' in Mavis Gallant's the Moslem Wife and Other Stories," Canadian Literature (1998)