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Mark A. McCutcheon
Mark A. McCutcheon
Of STEAM, 'zines, and heavy metal Jupiters https:/
(November 11, 2020 - 9:27pm)
General info
Brief description: Professor of Literary Studies, Athabasca U
Interests:
Contact info
Email address: mccutcheon@athabascau.ca
Personal Website: http://academicalism.wordpress.com/
Phone number: Available on request by e-mail or by phone call to main AU # (1-800-788-9041)
Twitter ID: @sonicfiction
AU courses, roles, etc
Current AU Courses:
About me
Books
- McCutcheon, Mark A. Shape Your Eyes by Shutting Them: Poems. Athabasca UP, 2019.
- ---. The Medium Is the Monster: Canadian Adaptations of Frankenstein and the Discourse of Technology. Athabasca UP, 2018.
Recent Research Publications
- McCutcheon, Mark A. "Frankenstein meets the FAANG five: Figures of monstrous technology in digital media discourse." Frankenstein and STEAM: Essays for Charles Robinson. U of Delaware P, in press.
- ---. “Monster Mines and Pipelines: Frankenstein figures of tar sands technology in Canadian popular culture.” Popular Postcolonialisms: Discourses of Empire and Popular Culture, edited by Nadia Atia and Kate Houlden, Routledge, 2019, pp. 213-37. Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures.
Recent Poetry and Short Fiction
- McCutcheon, Mark A. "The Way the Bees Do" [poem]. Carousel, no. 43, Summer 2020, p. 41.
- ---. "Was I Asleep?"; "A Sound Outside the House"; "Enter and Break" [flash fiction stories]. Coffin Bell, vol. 2, no. 3, 2019.
Open Access Publications: Visit my AUSpace for open access, full-text versions of selected research publications.
Dissertation: Postcolonial Beats and Party Scenes: regulation and diversity in "underground" cultural economies. U of Guelph, 2006.
Curriculum Vitae: Full CV available here
With the exception of group content produced for courses (copyrighted by Athabasca University), all Landing content produced by Mark A. McCutcheon is licensable under a Creative Commons 2.5 Canada License.
Katja Thieme, "What Do You Teach When You Teach Writing?"
By Mark A. McCutcheon 24 November 2017 @ 11:58ammedium.com - "... the exact nature of the writing we want of students cannot remain an unspoken, un-analyzed part of a writing course. Students need to understand the genre, what it does, how it does it. They need to be enticed to use it, to do something with...Contronyms: words that mean the opposite of what they mean.
By Mark A. McCutcheon 5 January 2016 @ 10:04amwww.dailywritingtips.com - "The English language includes an interesting category of words and phrases called contronyms (also spelled contranyms, or referred to as autoantonyms) — terms that, depending on context, can have opposite or contradictory meanings. When you...
