The University of Western Ontario

Faculty Member, Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism

Other Affiliations: The University of Western Ontario, CCST: Centre for the Critical Study of Terrorism
The University of Western Ontario, FIMS: Faculty of Information and Media Studies
The University of Western Ontario, Modern Languages and Literatures

Part Time Faculty (CSTC, English, Modern Languages and Literatures)

Adjunct Professor looking forward to life beyond Adjunct Professorial Status (i.e. searching for the ephemeral ‘permanent position’) http://bit.ly/adjunct-professor <

About

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Dan Mellamphy (B.A.hon, M.A.¹, M.A.², Ph.D)
studied Comparative Culture with Santa Cruz's
Roger Keesing (http://tiny.cc/keesing) at McGill;
Comparative Literature with Ann Arbor's Ross Chambers
(http://tiny.cc/rosschambers) at the University of Toronto;
Comparative Literature and Interdisciplinary Theory
with the R.F. (Rotating Faculty) of Western's
Comparative Literature and Interdisciplinary
Theory programs, which included 
₁․ Michael Groden (http://tiny.cc/groden),
₂․ Mark Cheetham (http://tiny.cc/cheetham
D.M.'s Interdisciplinary thesis supervisor),
₃․ Angela Cozea (http://tiny.cc/cozea
D.M.'s Comp Lit thesis supervisor), 
₄․ Tilotamma Rajan (http://tiny.cc/rajan) and others ․₅․
(UWO); as well as Modernist Poetry, Prose and Plays
with Ian Balfour (http://tiny.cc/ianbalfour), Art Redding
(http://tiny.cc/aredding) and Christopher Innes
(http://tiny.cc/innes) at York (Ph.D).  His work has
appeared in journals such as Modern Drama;
Foucault Studies; Deleuze Studies; Dalhousie
French Studies; Contre-Attaques; The Canadian
Journal of Comparative Literature; Symposium:
International Journal of Continental Philosophy;
Paideusis: International Journal in the Philosophy of
Education; Collapse: Journal of Philosophical Research
and Development; Janus Head: Journal of Interdisciplinary
Studies in Literature, Continental Philosophy, Phenomeno-
logical Psychology and the Arts; and in anthologies
such as Ed Keller's / Nicola Masciandaro's /
Eugene Thacker's 2012 Leper Creativity and
Aaron's Cheak's forthcoming Alchemical Traditions. 
He is the co-founder of the annual Nietzsche Workshop @ Western
(NWW) and co-translator of Gilbert Simondon's treatise
On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects
(coming soon c/o Semiotexte/MIT Press).
His fields of expertise include
literary modernism, the literature of
the technological imagination (science fiction
and the fantastic), surrealist art, post-structuralist
philosophy, and he is currently at work on two book-manuscripts:
Ec(h)ology of the Désêtre: Essays on Transduction and Transmutation
(co-authored with N. Biswas Mellamphy) and Immedia Studies:
reatise on Technology and Time (on media & the immediate). 

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Dr. Mellamphy is a member of
The Samuel Beckett Society,
The Society for Phenomeno-
logy & Existential Philosophy,
Ars Industrialis, <Pharmakon.Fr>,
The Canadian Society for Continental
Philosophy and The Modern Language Association,
in addition to being one of the founding members 
on the Editorial Boards for both the journal Helvete ™
( http://tiny.cc/helvetejournal ) and the publisher Punctum Books ®
( http://punctumbooks.com/about ). He is also a contributing
Submissions Reviewer for the journal of Foucault Studies
( http://tiny.cc/foucault-studies ) as well as the
moderator, maintainer and mastermind behind the
http://www.facebook.com/theorycentre facebook forum
( with more than 2,200 members at present ) since its inception
( via D.M. ) on August 09 2009.  Over and above these more formal
memberships, he is also an active participant, promoter and generator
of reading groups, think-tanks and art collectives.  With his wife
N. Biswas Mellamphy, he has also choreographed several
dance dramas ( e.g.  http://tiny.cc/alcheminement
with music and sound c/o Debashis Sinha,
additional soundscapes c/o Dan Mellamphy,
plus photographs/photography c/o ReBecca Miller ). 

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Ph.D  English (Comparative Literature, Theory and Criticism)
M.A.  Interdisciplinary Theory and Criticism
M.A.  Comparative Literature
B.A.hon  Anthropology (Comparative Culture)

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Courses Offered --

See http://uwo.academia.edu/mellamphy/Teaching

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¡ Modernism ! 
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Contemporary American Literature. 
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Twentieth-Century British and Irish
Poetry, Prose and Plays. 
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Literary Theory and Criticism
from the Pre-Socratics to the Post-Moderns. 
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Comparative Literature and the Tower of Babel: 
Foundations of Comparative Literature. 
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Speculative Fiction:
Science Fiction and the ‘Modern Prometheus’. 
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‘Theatres of Operation’:
Conflagrations of Contemporary Theory and Criticism. 
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‘Compostmodernism’: An Anarchaeology of Critical Theory. 
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‘Immedia Studies’: A Course on Technology and Time. 
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‘In Media Res’: On the Monstrous Milieu of Media. 
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‘Herme(neu)tics’: The Terrors of Translation
From Genesis 11 to September 11. 
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