Timothy Penner

Title: Instructor
Email: ti.penner@uwinnipeg.ca

Biography:
Dr. Timothy Penner has taught courses in film, literature, and academic writing at the University of Manitoba and University College of the North. His research interests include Modernism and Post-Modernism, celebrity and star studies, film theory, and trauma literature. He holds a PhD in film and literature from the University of Manitoba, and his dissertation was on the role cinema plays in the development of celebrity personae.

Teaching Areas:

Film history, film theory, academic writing, trauma literature, Catholicism and film

Publications:

Forthcoming:

“Catholic Cowboys: Reading Lilies of the Field (1963) and Corpus Christi (2019) Through the Tropes of the Western.” Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought & Culture.

“‘The All-American Smile’: The Deconstruction of Robert Redford’s Star Persona in David Lowery’s The Old Man & the Gun.” New Review of Film and Television Studies

“From the Harbor to the Hotel: Visual Equivalents in Howard Hawks’ To Have and Have Not.” Teaching Hemingway and Film, Kent State University Press, 2023. 

Published:

“The Old Man and the Minotaur: Ernest Hemingway as Fictionalized Celebrity.” Celebrity Studies, December 2020