Douglas Freake
Associate Professor
Office: Vanier College, 244
Phone: 416-736-2100 Ext: 66984
Email: dfreake@yorku.ca
Professor Douglas Freake is interested in semiotics as applied to popular culture, the history of the body, literary theory, and genre studies.
Professor Douglas Freake teaches in the Division of Humanities (Canadian Studies, the Renaissance, and the history of the body) and the Department of English (Shakespeare, Milton). His eclectic teaching career has led him into a number of diverse fields. He is interested in semiotics as applied to popular culture, the history of the body, literary theory, and genre studies.
He is at present beginning a book on narrative and desire in the fiction of Alice Munro.
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PhD,Professor Douglas Freake is interested in semiotics as applied to popular culture, the history of the body, literary theory, and genre studies.
Professor Douglas Freake teaches in the Division of Humanities (Canadian Studies, the Renaissance, and the history of the body) and the Department of English (Shakespeare, Milton). His eclectic teaching career has led him into a number of diverse fields. He is interested in semiotics as applied to popular culture, the history of the body, literary theory, and genre studies.
He is at present beginning a book on narrative and desire in the fiction of Alice Munro.
