Allan Curnew
Assistant Professor
Department of French
Redeemer University College
Canada
Biography
Dr. Curnew came to Redeemer in 2011 and became Department Chair the following year. He particularly enjoys the opportunity he has here to teach a wide variety of courses with topics closely associated with his many and varied interests in the areas of French language and literature. In his current research project he is exploring the notion of Reformed Christian aesthetics/poetics as it may pertain to the French Decadent Novel of the late nineteenth century.
Research Interest
The French Decadent Movement (esp. Huysmans and Rachilde); Theories of waste, materiality and exchange; Georges Bataille; Pedagogical applications of technology.
