Dr. Tim Personn

I came to the University of Victoria in 2011 with a degree in bilingual education (Philosophy and English) from Universität Hamburg, Germany. In 2018, I completed an interdisciplinary PhD in English and CSPT (Cultural, Social and Political Thought) funded by a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. I have been teaching as a Sessional Instructor at the University of Victoria since 2015, including the following courses: ENGL 135 (“Introduction to Academic Reading and Writing”), ENGL 146 (“The Literature of Our Era”), ENGL 201 (“Introduction to Modernism”), ENGL 203 (“Introduction to American Literature”), ENGL 429B (Mid-20^th Century American Fiction”), and ENGL 429C (“Contemporary American Fiction”). For my teaching, I have been awarded the 2017/2018 Graduate Sessional Teaching Award by the Department of English and the 2021 Gilian Sherwin Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching by the University of Victoria. My monograph Fictions of Proximity: Skepticism, Romanticism, and the Wallace Nexus is forthcoming with Rowman & Littlefield.

You can find Tim’s website, with more information on his work, here.