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James Mackay

James Mackay

Associate Professor, Literature and Digital Cultures

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School of Humanities, Social and Education Sciences

Department of Humanities

Academic Qualifications

Qualification Year Awarding Institution Department Thesis title (Optional Entry)
PhD 2008 Kings College London Imposture, Exaggeration, and Individualism in Native American Literature 1970-2008
MA 1999 University of Warwick
BA 1997 University of Warwick

Employment History

Period of employment Employer Location Position
From To
2009 Today European University Cyprus Cyprus Associate Professor
2007 2008 University of Nicosia Cyprus Visiting Lecturer
2008 2009 University of Cyprus Cyprus Special Scientist

Publications

Ref. Number Year Title Other authors Journal and Publisher / Conference Vol. Pages
1 2023 “Global Instapoetry” Anna Nacher, JuEunhae Knox European Journal of English Studies 27:1 3-13
2 2023 “Hypnosis and Pornography: A Cultural History” Polina Mackay Porn Studies 10:1 82-98
3 2021 “Nasdijj and Jordan Abel Remixing William S. Burroughs: Considering the Legacy of Beat Generation Writings in Twenty-First Century Indigenous Literature” Polina Mackay Studies in American Indian Literatures 33:3-4 1-29
4 2021 “#morelove. always: Reading Smokii Sumac’s Transmasculine First Nations Poetry on and beyond Social Media” Transmotion 7:1 40-81
5 2020 “NDNGirls and Pocahotties: Native American and First Nations representation in settler colonial pornography and erotica” Polina Mackay Porn Studies 7:2 168-186
6 2019 “Louis Owens’ Wolfsong and Ken Kesey’s Sometimes a Great Notion in the Anthropocene.” Louis Owens: Writing Land and Legacy. Ed. A. Robert Lee and Joe Lockard. Alburquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2019. 136-149
7 2015 “‘Wanton and Sensuous’ in the Musée du Quai Branly: Gerald Vizenor’s Cosmoprimitivist Visions of France” Journal of Postcolonial Writing Reprinted in Imaginary Europes: Literary and filmic representations of Europe from afar, ed. Elisabeth Bekers, Maggie Ann Bowers and Sissy Helff. London: Routledge, 2018. 51(3)
8 2013 Tribal Fantasies: Native Americans in the European Imaginary: 1900-2010 David Stirrup New York: Palgrave
9 2010 The Salt Companion to Diane Glancy, ed. Cambridge: Salt Publishing
10 2008 “Ghosts in the Gaps: Diane Glancy’s Paradoxes of Survivance.” Survivance: Narratives of Native Presence, ed. Gerald Vizenor. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. 247-269

Exhibitions

Date Topic International / Local Location* Role in Exhibition
2022 Filter Instazine: Instagram Storytelling and Zine Culture International The Next Museum Library and Preservation Space. Electronic Literature Organization. https://the-next.eliterature.org/exhibition/filter/ Artist
2023 Cyprus International Poetry Slam Local Artos House, Nicosia MC
2022 Larnaca: The Anthology Local House of Arts and Letters, Larnaca Writer
2022 Cyprus International Poetry Slam Local Artos House, Nicosia MC

Research Projects

Date Title Funded by Project Role*
2014-present Transmotion (journal of postmodern Indigenous Studies) University of Kent Open Access Journals initiative Founder, Co-Editor and Book Reviews Editor
2015 Indigenize Wikipedia! Native American Literature Symposium Co-ordinator and trainer.

Academic Consulting Services/Councils/Boards/Editorial Committees

Period Organization Title of Position or Service Key Activities
2023 Cyprus Association of Teachers of English (CyTEA) Trainer in artificial intelligence Online training workshop in AI in education
2020-2023 American Indian Workshop Online activities Conference organisation and teleconferencing advisory
2020 University of Glasgow Conference co-organizer (with JuEunhae Knox) Organizing and running Reading #Instapoetry (online conference)
2014-2018 “Native American Literary Studies” series (Rowman and Littlefield) Member of editorial advisory board Approving manuscripts.
2017-2019 Cyprus Society for the Study of English (affiliated to the European Society for the Study of English) President Organising regular meetings of the association, publicising funding opportunities, attending the biannual conference.

Awards/International Recognition

Title
Runner-up, Cyprus International Poetry Slam

Other Achievements

Date Title Key Activities:
2021 Larnaka: The Anthology (Armida Books: Nicosia, 2021) Co-organiser and co-editor of a multilingual anthology of poems by poets based in or connected to Larnaca city.
2019 Borderlines 2019 Conducted two workshops for poets aged 15-25. The best poems chosen by collaborators in the UK are to be broadcast as part of a 9-country event on the date of Brexit, and all young poets will have a chance to contribute to an online database.
2017 “Leventis: broken sestina” (poem) Published in the anthology Dialogues with the Leventis Museum, edited by Lily Michaelides and Nora Hadjisotiriou (2017)
2017 Invited poet to the festival …to the sea-girt shores of Cyprus…, organised by Ideogramma Cyprus. Speaker and also took part in workshop and panel discussions.