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Position

Full Professor 

Education

• PhD (������Ƶ University of Newfoundland)
• MA (������Ƶ University of Newfoundland)
• BA (University of Alberta)

Contact Information

• Office: AA 3038
• Telephone: (709).864.2478
• Email: daninef@mun.ca
• Website: /faculty/daninef/

Research Interests

Irish literature, 20th and 21st Century British literature, energy humanities, literary theory, postcolonial studies

Selected Publications

Edited Books

• Cold Water Oil: Offshore Petroleum Cultures. Routledge, 2021. Co-editor, Fiona Polack.
• Shadows of the Gunmen: Violence and Culture in Modern Ireland. Cork UP. 2008. Co-editor, Sean Farrell.

Collaborative StoryMap

• . Rachel W. Jekanowski, Fiona Polack, Danine Farquharson & Dean Bavington. 2020

Articles and Book Chapters

• "Heading Offshore: Introducing Cold Water Oil." Cold Water Oil, edited by Fiona Polack and Danine Farquharson. Routledge, 2021, pp.1-20.
• "Dispatches from two cold water oil cultures: Norway and Newfoundland and Labrador." Cold Water Oil, edited by Fiona Polack and Danine Farquharson. Routledge, 2021, pp.137-56.
•  “Offshore Rig.” Fueling Culture: Politics, History, Energy, edited by Imre Szeman, Jennifer Wenzel and Patricia Yaeger, Fordham University Press, 2017, pp. 252-255. Co-author, Fiona Polack.
• “Love/Hate: A “Lethal Cocktail” for Post-Celtic Tiger Consumption.” Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, vol. 38, no.1/2, 2012/2013, pp. 138-156.
• “The Anxiety of Influence in Roddy Doyle’s Fiction.” A Companion to Irish Literature, edited by Julia Wright, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, pp. 410-425.
• “Violence and Ontological Doubt in ‘The Stoat.’” Journal of the Short Story in English, Special Issue on John McGahern. Guest Ed. Claude Maisonnat., vol. 53, Autumn 2009, pp. 145-163.

Conference Papers and Invited Talks

• “Energy Transition Sites and Subjectivities.” Petrocultures 2018: Transitions, 2018, Glasgow, Scotland.
• State of the Arts FaceBook Live Video. Interview with Lisa Moore, 2018 
• Petrocultures. Nexus Centre podcast with Fiona Polack, 2017 
• Keynote Lecture, “Energy Humanities and Irish Studies.” Canadian Association for Irish Studies Annual Conference, 2017, Derry, Northern Ireland.
• “The Lure of the Sublime.” SSHORE ������Ƶ-Dalhousie collaborative workshop, 2017, Halifax, Canada.
• “The Oceanic Sublime.” Sixth Annual “Cultures of Energy” Research Symposium, April 2016, Houston, USA.
• “Revaluing the Graduate Experience.” Canadian Association for Graduate Schools Co-presenter, Susan Drodge, 2016, Toronto, Canada.
• “We Need to Talk ������Ƶ Oil.” Co-author, Fiona Polack. ������Ƶ Gazette Op-Ed. 26 August 2016, ������Ƶ University of Newfoundland, Canada.
• “How to Put Oil Onstage: Donald O’Kelly’s Little Thing, Big Thing.” Canadian Association for Irish Studies, 2016, Banff, Canada.
• “The Offshore Sublime.” Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English Annual Conference, 2015, Ottawa, Canada.

Other Professional Activities

• Conference co-organizer (with Dr. Fiona Polack, ������Ƶ University of Newfoundland, Canada). Petrocultures 2016: The Offshore international conference.

Awards

• Dean’s Award for Service Excellence, 2022
• HSS Dean's Award for Graduate Supervision, 2022
• SGS "RockStar" Supervisor Award, 2021

Regularly Taught Courses

Undergraduate

• English 4101: Critical Theory II
• English 3175: Irish Literature
• English 2212: The Twentieth-Century British Novel

Graduate

• English 7003: Literary Theory and Practice
• Irish Literature

Honours And Graduate Supervision

Irish literature, 20th and 21st Century British literature, energy humanities, literary theory, postcolonial studies