Deborah Wills, Professor

Deborah Wills, Professor
M.A. (Carleton), Ph.D. (Alberta)

Hart Hall Rm. 311
Tel. 364-2549
Email - dwills@mta.ca

Research Interests

Contemporary Literature and Theory, Cultural Studies, Contemporary Horror, and Gothic Fiction.

Selected Publications

Wills, Deborah and Andrew Wilson. "Mortality Plays: Penance, Admonition, and the Sacrament of Pain in Se7en and Saw." Forthcoming, Journal of Religion and Popular Culture Summer 2011.

Wills, Deborah and Amy Bright. "On the Cusp: Liminality and Adolescence in Arthur Slade's Dust, Bill Richardson's After Hamelin, and Kit Pearson' s Awake and Dreaming." Forthcoming, Studies in Canadian Literature Spring 2011.

Steuter, Erin and Deborah Wills. "Making the Muslim Enemy: The Social Construction on the Enemy in the War on Terror." The Routledge Handbook of War and Society. Ed. Stephen Carlton-Ford and Morton G. Ender. New York: Routledge, 2010.

Steuter, Erin and Deborah Wills. "Laughing Matters: Racist Representation of Muslims in Editorial Cartoons." Images That Injure: Pictorial Stereotypes in the Media, Third Edition. Ed. Susan Ross and Paul Lester. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2010.

Steuter, Erin and Deborah Wills. "The Dangers of Dehumanization: Diminishing Humanity in Image and Deed." Images That Injure: Pictorial Stereotypes in the Media, Third Edition. Ed. Susan Ross and Paul Lester. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2010.

Wills, Deborah and Erin Steuter. "Gaming at The End of the World: Coercion, Conversion and the Apocalyptic Self in Left Behind: Eternal Forces Digital Play." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, Special Issue on Religion and Popular Culture, 10.1, 2010.

Steuter, Erin and Deborah Wills. "'The Vermin Have Struck Again': Dehumanizing the Enemy in post 9/11 Media Representations." Media War Conflict, 3.2, 2010.

Steuter, Erin and Deborah Wills. "Discourses of Dehumanization: Enemy Construction and Canadian Media Complicity in the Framing of the War on Terror." Global Media Journal --Canadian Edition 2.2, 2010: 7-24.

Wills, Deborah and Erin Steuter. "The Soldier as Hunter: Pursuit, Prey and Display in the War on Terror." Journal of War and Culture Studies. 2.2, 2009: 195-210.

Steuter, Erin and Deborah Wills. "Infestation and Eradication: Exterminationist Rhetoric in Political Cartoons." Global Media Journal: Mediterranean Edition (3) Spring 2008: 11-23.

Steuter, Erin and Deborah Wills. At War with Metaphor: Media, Propaganda and Racism in the War on Terror. Lexington Books, 2008.

Wills, Deborah. "Naked Eye: Observation, Transparency, and the Visible Body." The New Quarterly Vol 97, 2006.

Wills, Deborah. "The Flesh Continuing: Pain, Poetry, and the Therapeutic Landscape." Arc Vol 54, Summer 2006. 47-55.

Wills, Deborah. "Connections, Tangled Permutations: Michael Dennis' This Day Full of Promise; Rob McLennan's Paper Hotel; Shane Rhodes' Holding Pattern; Glen Kletke's Four Corners Looking for a Room." Review-Article. Arc Vol 51, Winter 2003. 106-111.

Wills, Deborah. "The Rapture: A Memoir." Fiction. Matrix Magazine. March 1997.

Wills, Deborah. "Devotion, and Other Disciplines." Fiction. Room of One's Own 18.3. Fall 1996.

Wills, Deborah. "The Madwoman in the Matrix: Joanna Russ's The Two of Them and the Psychiatric Postmodern." Ed. Robert A. and Robert A. Collins. Modes of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Twelfth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995: 93-99.

Wills, Deborah. "Sarah Trimmer." British Reform Writers, 1789-1832. Ed. Gary Kelly and Edd Applegate. Detroit, MI: Thomson Gale, 1995: 340-48.

Wills, Deborah. " Sarah Trimmer's Economy of Charity: Politics and Morality in the Sunday School State." Lumen, XII, 1993: 157-66.

Wills, Deborah. "Problems of Ontology and Omnipotence in Mr. Weston's Good Wine." The Powys Review 6.2, 1988: 41-45.