Joint PhD in Literary Studies / Theatre Studies in English

Graduate Faculty

 University of Guelph
Wilfrid Laurier University

Stephen Henighan, BA (Swarthmore), MA (Concordia), D.Phil (Oxford).

Associate Professor (2002).

E-mail: shenigha@uoguelph.ca

Research Interests

Latin American literature and culture; creative writing; Canadian literary debates and institutions; Romanian and Moldovan studies.

Books

  • The Streets of Winter. Saskatoon: Thistledown Press, forthcoming April 2004.

  • Lost Province: Adventures in a Moldovan Family. Vancouver: Beach Holme Publishing/Prospect Books, 2002.

  • When Words Deny the World: The Reshaping of Canadian Writing. Erin, Ont.: The Porcupine's Quill, 2002.

  • Assuming the Light: The Parisian Literary Apprenticeship of Miguel Angel Asturias. Oxford, U.K.: Legenda/ European Humanities Research Centre, 1999.

  • North of Tourism. Dunvegan, Ont.: Cormorant Books, 1999.

  • The Places Where Names Vanish. Saskatoon: Thistledown Press, 1998.

  • Nights in the Yungas. Saskatoon: Thistledown Press, 1992.

  • Other Americas. Toronto: Simon & Pierre, 1990.

       

Selected recent articles

  • "El hundimiento de la Casa Europa: Una re-escritura carpenteriana de Edgar Allan Poe." Foro hispánico. Revista hispánica de Flandes y Holanda (forthcoming).

  • "No History to Absolve Them: Spanish-American Revolutionary Discourse After 1990." Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Liverpool) (forthcoming).

  • "The Reconstruction of Femininity in Gallegos's Doña Bárbara." Latin American Literary Review (forthcoming).

  • "History After History's End: Cultural Reconstruction in Margarita, está linda la mar." Latin American Narratives and Cultural Identity: Selected Readings. Eds. Irene Maria F. Blayer and Mark Anderson. New York/ Berne: Peter Lang Inc., (forthcoming).

  • "Mad Land, My Land: The Problem of National Identity in Vargas Llosa's La casa verde," Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 27.2 (2003): 253-270.

  • "The Breath of the Turtle." Matrix 64 (2003): 47-50. [Fiction]

  • "Femeia din Baku." Lettre Internationale 43, (Fall 2002): 82-86. [Fiction]

  • "An Interview With Luisa Valenzuela." Matrix 62 (Fall 2002): 9-13.

  • "The Origins of Exile." The May Anthologies: Tenth Anniversary Edition. Eds. Andrew Motion and Nick Cave. Cambridge, U.K.: Varsity/ Cherwell, 2002.: 137-152. [Fiction]

  • "The Reverse Wedding March." Carousel 13 (2001): 108-115. [Fiction]

  • "Multiple Edges: Latino Fiction, Spanish American Novel, Canadian Writing in the Americas." The New Quarterly 20.3 (2001): 4-13.

  • "Miss Why." Queen Street Quarterly 4.3 (2000): 55-60. [Fiction]

  • "Caribbean Masks: Frantz Fanon and Alejo Carpentier." Postcolonial Perspectives on the Cultures of Latin America and Lusophone Africa. Ed. Robin Fiddian. Liverpool, U.K.: Liverpool UP, 2000: 169-190.

  • "The Pope's Errant Son: Breton and Alejo Carpentier." André Breton: The Power of Language. Ed. Ramona Fotiade. Exeter, U.K.: Elm Bank Press, 2000: 139-148.

  • "North of Tourism." International Quarterly 3.4 (2000): 94-100. [Fiction]

  • "Two Paths to the Boom: Carpentier, Asturias and the Performative Split." The Modern Language Review 94.4 (1999): 1009-1024.

  • "The Tongue Below." Matrix 53 (1999): 18-25. [Fiction]

  • "The Metaphor War and the Proverb Artillery: Language and Power in Skármeta's Ardiente paciencia." Romance Notes 39. 2 (1999): 177-183.

  • "The Farm." A Room at the Heart of Things: The Work That Came to Me. Ed. Elisabeth Harvor. Montréal: Véhicule Press, 1998: 78-83. [Fiction]

  • "El indígena y el alma nacional en El problema social de Asturias: fuentes de una investigación." Hispamérica, Año XXVII Números 80/81 (1998): 207-215.

  • "The Canadian Writer Between Post-Colonialism and Globalization." The New Quarterly 18.2 (Summer 1998): 33-50.

  • "Two Pleas." Queen's Quarterly 105.3 (1998): 458-464. [Fiction]

  • "Coming to Benengeli: The Genesis of Salman Rushdie's Rewriting of Juan Rulfo in The Moor's Last Sigh," Journal of Commonwealth Literature 33.2 (1998): 55-74.

  • "The Trapped Bachelor: Doubles and Escape, from Paris to the Post-Boom." Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Glasgow) 75.2 (1998): 221-235.

  • "Lands of Corn: Guatemalan-Romanian Analogies in the Work of Miguel Angel Asturias." Romance Studies 27 (1997): 85-96.

  • "Bearded Self/Heroic Love: M.A. Asturias' 'La barba provisional' and Robert Desnos' La liberté ou l'amour!" Comparative Literature Studies 33.3 (1996): 280-296.

Awards

Finalist, Governor General's Literary Awards, English Non-Fiction category, 2002.