Dr. John LeBlanc
Dr. John LeBlanc
Associate Professor, English
Graduate Studies Coordinator
Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies
Arts Building, ARTS 140
University of British Columbia, Okanagan
Kelowna, BC
V1V 1V7
Phone: 250.807.9324
Fax: 250.807.9900
E-mail: john.leblanc@ubc.ca
Research and Profile
The current focus of my research and teaching is popular culture, especially film and music. I teach a second year introduction to film course as well as key contemporary filmmakers (such as David Lynch and Gus Van Sant) in my upper level popular culture course. In music, I focus on rock. I have recently given a directed studies course in the development of rock music and I teach rock in my upper level course on popular culture. In January, 2007 I will be teaching a course called Rap and DJ Music Culture. I am currently supervising an M.A. student working on music videos. My main research project is a book on reading rock music.
In literature, my focus is on international English literature, especially writing from the Caribbean. My Ph.D. dissertation is on the St. Lucian poet and dramatist Derek Walcott. I have recently taught upper level courses on Jamaican literature and New Zealand literature. I am also interested in the literature of Atlantic Canada, especially that of my native Cape Breton, and Scottish literature: I have published a paper on the contemporary Scottish writer Alan Warner.
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7/6/2009 10:24:38 AM
