Dr. David Buchanan
Assistant Professor of English
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E-mail: dbuchanan@athabascau.ca
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Dr. David Buchanan
Dr. David Buchanan
Assistant Professor of English
Contact information
Email: dbuchanan@athabascau.ca
Dr. David Buchanan (he/him) is an Assistant Professor of English in the Centre for Humanities and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies at Athabasca University. David’s research focuses on popular print culture from the eighteenth century to the present in Britain and Canada.
His first book, , compares transatlantic reinventions of the historical novel. In addition to related articles on chapbook reading and dramatic adaptation, collaborative digital humanities projects have resulted in several online resources, including , , and .
His latest research investigates downmarket representations of modernity in nineteenth-century Glasgow and popular reading in twentieth-century British Columbia. David recently co-edited the special issue in European Romantic Review, which includes his article on “.” Current work on the forthcoming special issue New Histories of the Small Press in Canada in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada includes his research on chapbook verses popular with west coast loggers in the 1940s.
David teaches undergraduate courses in English and Cultural Studies as well as graduate courses on world literature and the nineteenth-century novel in the Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies program.
Research interests
- Nineteenth century Scottish literature
- Twentieth century Canadian literature
- Transatlantic literary studies
- Interdisciplinary studies
- Popular print culture
- Modernity and self-identity
Educational credentials
- Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Alberta
- M.A., Interdisciplinary Studies, Athabasca University
- B.A., Human Kinetics, University of British Columbia
Professional affiliations
- Association for Canadian College and University Teachers of English
- Association for Interdisciplinary Studies
- Bibliographical Society of Canada / La Société bibliographique du Canada
- International Association for the Integrational Study of Language and Communication
- North American Society for the Study of Romanticism