Dr. Brian Diemert
Department of English
Office: 301C
Email: bdiemert@uwo.ca
Telephone: 519 432 8353 ext 28387
Academic Background
Brian Diemert received his B.A. in English and History from St. Jerome's College at the University of Waterloo, his M.A. in English from Queen's University, and his Ph.D., also in English, from the University of Western Ontario. A member of Brescia's English department since 1988, he has been a full Professor since July 2006. His main areas of academic interest are British and American literature from the first half of the twentieth century. He is also interested in detective fiction and cultural studies.
Teaching
In his years at Brescia, Diemert has taught a host of courses including both the first-year courses, courses in literary theory, and honours courses in Twentieth-Century British and Irish Literature and in American Literature. He has also offered several fourth-year senior seminars in the work of Graham Greene, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, Ian McEwan, Detective Fiction, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, and more. In 2009-2010, Dr. Diemert will be teaching English 1024E, Forms of Fiction, and English 3554E (Twentieth Century British and Irish Literature)
Representitive Publications
Diemert is the author of Graham Greene's Thrillers and the 1930s (McGill-Queen's 1996), which was shortlisted by the Crime Writers of Canada for the 1997 Arthur Ellis Award in the category of "Best Non-Fiction Book." He has published many essays on various authors, such as Graham Greene, F. Scott Fitzgerald, T. S. Eliot, and E. L. Doctorow, and topics, such as rock music and Cold War discourse. Recent publications include “Ian Rankin and the God of the Scots,” in Race and Religion in the Postcolonial British Detective Story, in ed. Julie H. Kim (Jefferson, NC, and London: McFarland, 2005,.164-188), and “The Anti-American: Graham Greene’s Cold War and the 1950s,” in Cold War Literature: Writing the Global Conflict, ed. Andrew Hammond (London and New York: Routledge, 2006, 212-225.