Peter Melville

Title: Professor
Phone: 204.786.9261
Office: 2A32
Email: p.melville@uwinnipeg.ca

Biography:

Peter Melville is Professor of English at the University of Winnipeg, where he teaches courses on fantasy fiction, poetry, Romanticism, and critical theory. His current research focuses on eco-fantasy criticism and the role of belief in contemporary fantasy fiction.

Teaching Areas:
Fantasy Fiction, Poetry, Critical Theory, Romanticism

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Publications:

Books

Writing about Literature: An Introductory Guide. Nelson, 2011.

Romantic Hospitality and the Resistance to Accommodation. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007.

Special Issue

Co-editor, with Michelle Faubert. Special Issue "Romanticism and Rights." European Romantic Review 27.3 (2016).

Essays & Book Chapters

“The Critique of Colonial Cartography in N.K. Jemisin’s The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms.” Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research 10.1 (2023): 12-24.

"Unconscious Gods and the Return of Belief in Max Gladstone’s Craft Sequence.” Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 33.1 (2021): 16-28.

"Demonizing Nature: Ecocriticism and Popular Fantasy." Avenging Nature: The Role of Nature in Contemporary Art and Literature. Eds. Eduardo Valls Oyarzun et al. Roman & Littlefield, 2020, pp. 149-164.

"Urban Fantasy, Interconnectedness, and Ecological Disaster: Reading Anne Bishop's The Others Series." Studies in the Fantastic 8 (2020): 86-107

“Queerness and Homophobia in Robin Hobb’s Farseer Trilogies.” Extrapolation 59.3 (2018): 281-303.

"Revolutionary Subjectivity in Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn Trilogy." Studies in the Fantastic 3 (2015/ 2016): 23-44.

“Witnessing the ‘Unwitnessed’ in Stephen Erikson’s The Malazan Book of the Fallen.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 26.2 (2015): 276-91.

“The ‘sick imagination’ of Godwin’s Fleetwood.” RaVoN: Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net 65 (2014-2015): 25 pars.

“Lying with Godwin and Kant: Truth and Duty in St. Leon.” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 55.1 (2014): 19-37.

“Another Way: Smallville’s Tess Mercer as Ethical Hero.” Mapping Smallville: Critical Essays on the Series and Its Characters. McFarland, 2014, pp. 83-99.

“Strangers Among Us: Figures of Refuge in Caleb Williams and St. Leon.” European Romantic Review 24.3 (2013): 335-342.

“Monstrous Ingratitude: Hospitality in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.” European Romantic Review 19.2 (2008): 179-185.

“The Problem of Immunity in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man.” SEL: Studies in English Literature (2007): 825-846.

“Staging the Nation: Hospitable Performances in Kant’s Anthropology.” European Romantic Review 17.1 (2006): 39-53.

“‘A friendship of taste’: The Aesthetics of Eating Well in Kant’s Anthropology.” Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite: Eating Romanticism. Ed. Timothy Morton. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, pp. 203-216.

“The Sleepy Carib: Rousing the ‘Native Informant’ in Rousseau.” European Romantic Review 13.2 (2002): 183-191.

“Kant’s Dinner Party: Anthropology from a Foucauldian Point of View.” Mosaic 35.2 (2002): 92-109.

“‘Illuminism and Terrorism’: Melancholia and Hypochondria in Immanuel Kant’s Anthropology.” The Dalhousie Review 79.3 (1999): 335-354.