Dr Stephen Cloutier (He/Him)

B.A. (Hons), St. Mary’s University
M.A., University of Windsor
Ph.D, University of Leicester (UK)
Email: Stephen.Cloutier@msvu.ca
Office : Seton 419

Teaching and Research Interests

Twentieth century literature; War literature; Victorian fiction; Atlantic Canada studies; Science fiction; Detective fiction; popular culture; Marxist theory; Postmodernist theory; Rhetorical theory; the development of the novel; drama theory; children’s literature; the history of the book

Publications and Presentations

Podcasts

“200 dollars a day plus expenses: A Rockford Files Podcast”. With Dr. David Brodbeck (2023-Present)

“Boyington’s Bastards: A Baa Baa Black Sheep Podcast.” With Dr. David Brodbeck (2023-Present)

Illuminati Social Club. With Jasen Buch

“Sterling Cooper David and Steve: A Mad Men Podcast.” With Dr. David Brodbeck (2019-2022)

“The TurtleStach Cast: An In Search Of Podcast.” With Jasen Buch and Oliver Rockside (2016-2019)

“Stories from Sackville.” With Peter Courtney (2018-2022)

Professional publications/productions

“A Likeable Man: Columbo as Cozy Detective.” Reading the Cozy Mystery: Critical Essays on an Underappreciated Subgenre, McFarland, 2021, 188-203.

“For King and/or Country: British Dominions and the literary interplay between imperial and national identities.” Approaches to Teaching Literature of the First World War. Modern Languages Association, 2017.

“Public Space, Democracy, and Silas Marner.” Each Book a Drum: Celebrating Ten Years of Halifax Humanities. Halifax: The Halifax Humanities Society, 2015.

Contributor.  Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. (2009-2012)

“Café DaPoPo.” Mollyz Diner. Co-Writer. (2007 – Present).

“The Modern World: A Political Love Story.” A play produced by DaPoPo Theatre, Halifax, NS, April 7-16, 2005, Sackville, NB, April 22, 2005.

“Day Lewis, C.”, “Traven, B.” and “Trotsky, Leon.”  Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics: Censorship, Revolution and Writing. Ed. M. Keith Booker. 2005.

“Not So Hidden Agendas: Wilfred Owen and His Early Editors.”  Focus on Robert Graves and His Contemporaries. 2.4 (1995-96): 45-47.

Presentations

“Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest.” Public Lecture.  Halifax Regional Library, Spring Garden Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia (16 January 2013)

“The Comedy of Errors.” Public Lecture.  Halifax Regional Library, Spring Garden Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia (15 December 2012)

“Hamlet.” Public Lecture.  Halifax Regional Library, Spring Garden Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia (8 October 2012)

“Charles Dickens.” Public Lecture.  Halifax Regional Library, Spring Garden Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia (7 February 2012)

“‘Very Good, Sir’: Wodehouse, Jeeves and the Comic Tradition.”  Public Lecture.  Halifax Regional Library, Spring Garden Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia (25 February 2010)

“Modernism and Anti-Semitism”. St. Mary’s University Lecture series. (2007)

“Two Views of the Desert War: Keith Douglas and Dan Billany.”  “Technology, Media, and Culture in the Space Between, 1914-1945.” The Seventh Annual Space Between Conference. McGill University, Montreal, P.Q. (May 27 – 29, 2005).

“The Blue Puttees: Newfoundland Literature of the Great War.” “Mars in Ascendant: The Great War & The Twentieth Century.” University College Northampton, Northampton, UK (July 31 – August 4, 2001).

“Boy Scouts and Soldiers: the Image of the Warrior in Dan Billany’s The Trap.” “Representing Regionalism, Nationalism and Internationalism in the Space Between, 1914-1945.” University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA (May 17 – 19 2001).

“Sassoon’s Second Protest: Siegfried Sassoon’s Poetry of the 1930s.” Border Crossings Conference. State University of New York at New Paltz. (October 29-31, 1998).

“Dan Billany, Antonio Gramsci, and Bourgeois Writers.” Bang, Boom, Bust andBang (Again): The Space Between: Precursors and Aftermaths, 1915-1945, University of Nevada at Reno, (October 2-4, 1997).

“The Question of Voice in Wilfred Owen’s ‘The Dead-Beat’” World War One: A Multi-disciplinary Conference, Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas, (April 12-13, 1996).

Editorships/conference organization

Editorial Board Member, Gravesiana, a bi-annual journal and literary organ of the Robert Graves Society dedicated to the work of Robert Graves (1997 – 2004)

Co-Director, “Mars in Ascendant: The Great War & The Twentieth Century.” Mars in Ascendant, an international conference on the literature, history, art, and cinema of World War One at University College Northampton (July–August 2001)