Assistant Professor, English
B.A. (Laurier), M.A. (Carleton), Ph.D. (York)
Wallis Hall 105, 705-748-1011 ext. 6252, danieldufournaud@trentu.ca
Daniel Dufournaud is an instructor in Trent University's Department of English. His research interests lie in twentieth- and twenty-first century American Literature. Currently, he is working on his first monograph, tentatively entitled Otherwise than Neoliberalism: Failure and Ethics in Contemporary American Literature. In it, he draws on the work of Emmanuel Levinas to argue that literary representations of failure are sites of ethical imagining where writers propose alternatives to the social conditions of neoliberalism. He has begun work on a second project that examines how American writers and filmmakers respond to postindustrial capitalism. His work is published or forthcoming in such journals as Studies in the Novel, College Literature, Journal of American Studies, JML: Journal of Modern Literature, Philip Roth Studies, and several edited collections.
In the Department of English, Daniel primarily teaches courses in American Literature. He aims to place literary works in their historical and cultural contexts while at the same time encouraging students to consider how these texts resonate in the intimate space between the page and the reader. What is it about the relationship between form and content, and about you as a reader, that gives a literary text its power?"