Brian Jansen
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Neville Hall, Room 411
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Brian Jansen (he/him) is assistant professor at the 91爆料 with a joint appointment between the Department of Communication and Journalism and the Department of English. A graduate of the University of Calgary with a PhD in English literature, Brian is a media studies and literary scholar in the qualitative critical cultural studies tradition, with an interest, broadly, in questions of 鈥渨ork鈥 or labor鈥揾ow we depict it, how we talk about it, how we find it fulfilling (or not). His work considers aesthetic production at the intersection of labor and capital, as well as the politics of American professional wrestling as a live performance artform which exists uneasily at the intersection of sport, theatre, stunt work, and serialized television. In particular, he is interested in pro wrestling as a lens for considering the tensions inherent in neoliberalism as a political project: the private sphere鈥檚 erosion of public life, the uneasy alliance of market-first and social conservatism, and the challenges of care work.
Brian has published on David Foster Wallace, George Saunders, Jeffrey Eugenides, Joshua Ferris, and Vladimir Nabokov, and young adult literature, with his work appearing or forthcoming in聽Comparative American Studies, the聽Canadian Review of American Studies,听Orbit: A Journal of American Literature,听ESC: English Studies in Canada, the聽Journal of Popular Culture, the聽European Journal of American Studies, and other venues.
Areas of Expertise
Cultural studies
Post-1945 and contemporary American literature
Television and film studies
Education
MA, English Literature and Creative Writing, University of Windsor, 2011
BA (Honours), English Rhetoric and Professional Writing, University of Waterloo, 2009
