Dr. Mark WallinAssociate Dean | Faculty of Arts
Email: mwallin@tru.ca
Phone:
377-6072
Research Interests
Adaptation Theory, Critical Theory, New Media Studies, Rhetoric, Film Studies, Popular Culture, Graphic Novels, Video Games, Cultural Studies, Event Studies, Critical Management Studies
Education
B.A. Major in English: Trinity Western University
M.A. in English: Rhetoric and Professional Writing: University of Waterloo
PhD in English Language and Literature: University of Waterloo
Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
Wallin, M. R. (2013). Reservoirs of Ethos: Symbolic Authorship and the New Media Adaptation. Rhetor:
Journal of the CSSR. pp. 44-57. //www.cssr-scer.ca/journal/volumes/rhetor-vol-5/
Wallin, M. R. (2013) Eurhythmatic Analysis: A Rhetoric of Adaptation. Adaptation in Film and Performance
6.2. pp.123-137.
Caton. K.; Pastoor, C.; Belhassen, Y; Collins, B.; and Wallin, M. R. (2013). Christian Music Festival
Tourism and Positive Peace. Journal of Peace Through Tourism. 3.1.
//www.icptr.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Christian-Music-Festival-Tourism-and-Positive-Peace.pdf
Wallin, M. R. (2007). Myths, Monsters and Markets: Ethos, Identification, and the Video Game Adaptations
of Lord of the Rings. Game Studies. 7. 1.
Edited Books
Grimwood, B., Wallin, M., Shippit, J., and Caton, K. (Eds.). (2016). Celebrating the Disruptive Power of
Caring in Tourism Education. Proceedings of the 9th Tourism Education Futures Initiative conference.
Kamloops, BC: Department of Tourism Management, Thompson Rivers University.
Refereed Book Chapters
Wallin, M. R. (2015) The New Dedalus:, Avatars, and Identities In Online Social Networks in P. Murphy
and N. Pawliuk (eds.) Becket in Popular Culture: Essays on a Postmodern Icon. McFarland and Co.
Caton. K.; Pastoor, C.; Belhassen, Y; Collins, B.; and Wallin, M. R. (2014). Let There Be Rock! A Tale
of Two Christian Music Festivals. In O. Moufakkir and T. Pernecky (eds.), Social and Cultural Aspects of
Events. Oxfordshire, UK: CABI.
Wallin, M. R.; Collins, B.; and Hull, J. (2012) Its Not Just About the Film: Festivals, Sustainability
& Small Cities. in Events, Society and Sustainability: Critical and Contemporary Perspectives. T.
Perneky (ed), Routledge. Pp. 230-243.
Refereed Conference Proceedings
Culture of Events: Is There a Place for Critical Theory in Event Pedagogy? Critical Tourism Studies,
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
http://cts.som.surrey.ac.uk/publication/culture-of-events-is-there-a-place-for-critical-theory-in-event-pedagogy/wppa_open/
ISSN 2053-7468.
We Can Remember it for You Wholesale: Nostalgic Hyperreality and the Extended Self in Marketing
Strategy. 7th Annual Critical Management Studies Conference Proceedings.
http://www.organizzazione.unina.it/cms7/proceedings/proceedings_stream_36/
Recent Conference Presentations
???Spike Jonze and the Adaptation of Genre??? For the Film Studies Association of Canada conference,
Toronto ON. May 2017
???Slaloming to Freedom: Using the Apparatus of Disciplinarity to Achieve Interdisciplinary
Goals.?????For the Tourism Education Futures Conference in Kamloops BC. July. 2016
???Subversion and Disnification: Miyazaki???s Adaptation of Howl???s Moving Castle??? for the Film
Studies Association of Canada conference, Calgary AB. May 2016
Employment History
Thompson Rivers University (2005-present)
St. Jeromes University (2003-2005)
Six Nations Polytechnic (2004)
University of Waterloo (1998-2005)
Courses Taught
Thompson Rivers University
CMNS 2180, Social Networks, Online Identities, and Internet Memes
CMNS 3050, Communication, Marketing, and Design
CMNS 3600, The Films of Hayao Miyazaki in Context
FILM 2200, Introduction to Film Studies
FILM 3050, Film Noir
FILM 4100, The American Frontier in Film and Television
MBA (GBUS) 502, Management Communications
IDIS 3000, Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies
ENGL 110-08, Composition
ENGL 116, Introduction to Communication
ENGL 149, Technical Communication for Applied Industrial Technology
ENGL 181, Business, Professional and Academic Composition.
ENGL 192-01, Professional Presentation and Communication.
ENGL 229, Technical Writing
ENGL 3160, Angst, Sex, and Violence: The Graphic Novel in Modern Cinema
ENGL 307, Adaptation: Novels into Film and Beyond
ENGL 307, Rhetoric of Design
ENGL 307, Information Design
ENGL 499, Rhetoric and Professional Writing Capstone
TMGT 4060, The Culture of Events
St. Jeromes University
English 208B, Science Fiction Literature
Six Nations Polytechnic
English 109, Introduction to Academic Writing
University of Waterloo
English 102A, Major Forms of Literature: Drama and Short Story
English 102B Major Forms of Literature: Novel and Poetry
English 108E, Women in Literature
English 108H, Alienation and Isolation
English 109, Introduction to Academic Writing
English 210E, Genres of Technical Writing
