Welcome to my world! -- David S. Miall

Brothers Water, Lake District, U.K.

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Courses Autumn 2009 209: Making Readers
2009 409: The Gothic Subject
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Empirical Study of Literature IGEL Association
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David.Miall (at) UAlberta.ca

Tintern Abbey

I can sometimes be found in person in the Humanities Centre, room 4.27. If you need to get in touch but don't find me in, please email me, or leave a note on my door (including a telephone number or email address where I can reach you), or call me on (780) 492-0538.

David Miall, Feb 2001 (photo: S. Chard)

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  • I will be presenting a paper on "The neuropsychology of literariness" at the conference on Neuroaesthetics, Copenhagen, September 24-26, 2009.
  • I was a keynote speaker at a conference in Toronto, Cognitive Poetics: A Multimodal Approach, June 9-14, 2009; my presentation was entitled "Thinking with the body: Feeling in literary reading." Several of the doctoral students from our research group also presented their research: Paul Campbell, Olivia Fialho, and Paul Sopcak.
  • I helped organize and participate in a Symposium on literary reading and emotion at the Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts, 13-15 July, 2008. The Manifesto we produced is now available online.
  • Recent courses included:
  • Forthcoming publications include:
    • "Neuroaesthetics of Literary Reading." In Martin Skov & Oshin Vartanian, Eds. Neuroaesthetics. Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing, ms pp. 29.
  • Recent publications include:
    • "Foregrounding and the Sublime: Shelley in Chamonix." Language and Literature 16 (2007): 155-168.
    • "'Too soon transplanted': Coleridge and the Forms of Dislocation." In Willie van Peer (Ed.), The Quality of Literature: Linguistic Studies in Literary Evaluation (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2008), pp. 95-116.

Last updated: August 6th 2009

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