CV

I am a Canadian independent scholar with over twenty years of university level teaching experience.

Degrees
  • History in Art (MA, PhD)
  • English (MA)

Publications: Books
  • Tech-Noir Film A Theory of the Development of Popular Genres. Bristol, UK: Intellect, 2011. 
  • Hardcover and ebook ISBN 9781841504247
  • In this study, I propose that tech-noir is the most recent of several popular genres that have dominated Western culture over the past two hundred and fifty years and as such indicates a fascination with the Prometheus myth as a narrative prototype. I show that an emphasis on different fields of discourse has led to the development of new popular genres, such that an emphasis on psychology is linked to the development of gothic fiction, sociology to detective fiction, science to science fiction, and aesthetics to tech-noir.
  • Publisher's Website

  • The Way of Inuit Art: Aesthetics and History In and Beyond the Arctic. Jefferson: McFarland, 2005.
  • Hardcover ISBN 0-7864-1888-5; soft cover (2011) ISBN 978-0-7864-6412-8
  • This book is about the cultural and multi-cultural influences that have affected the production of Inuit art. I lend particular attention to Western theoretical, methodological, and aesthetic contexts and concepts such as evolutionism, diffusionism, shamanism, modernism, post-modernism, and multi-culturalism as factors in the archaeology, revitalization, documentation, and representation of Inuit art. The first three chapters of this seven-chapter volume include research on prehistoric Inuit art that I started as an undergraduate and MA student, while the latter half of the book presents research I conducted as part of my PhD dissertation. The final two chapters present interview material I gathered during fieldwork in the Arctic in 1988 from Inuit artists about their own art and about that of non-Native Canadian artist Nicola Wojewoda.

  • Tarot and Other Meditation Decks: History, Theory, Aesthetics, Typology. Jefferson: McFarland, 2004.
  • ISBN 0-7864-1674-2;  ebook (2011) ISBN 978-0-7864-8304-4
  • This study evolved out of my earlier interests in shamanism as a factor in the development of visual motifs, and in multi-culturalism and the theoretical dynamics of modernism and post-modernism. It includes discussions of the theoretical, art historical, and literary aspects of contemporary Tarot decks and of the growth in importance of "self" expression in art and multi-culturalism as factors in the creative revision of Tarot over the past thirty years, as well as a section on the influence of Native American culture on revisions of Tarot.

Publications: Edited Books
  • Tarot in Culture. Victoria, Australia: Association for Tarot Studies, forthcoming 2012. [29 papers by 23 scholars and artists with a foreword by Rachel Pollack; supported by two external peer reviewers.]

  • The Triumph of Love: Interpretations of the Tarot in Charles Williams's The Greater Trumps By Nancy-Lou Patterson. First published in Mythcon III Proceedings, 1974. Revised Edition. Edited and Introduction by Emily E. Auger. Foreword by Janet Brennan Croft. Victoria, Australia: Association for Tarot Studies, ebook forthcoming 2012.
  • Nancy-Lou Patterson is a retired scholar, artist, and fiction author, and the founder of the art department at the University of Waterloo.
  • Artwork for this revised edition has been donated by Sarah Beach, Bonnie Callahan, Patrick H. Wynne, U.S. Games, and Lo Scarabeo.

Publications: Articles in Journals and Anthologies
  • The Tarot of Jane Austen: Re-Envisioning the World. Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 12.4 (2013) On-line.
  • "The Lord of the Rings' Interlace: The Adaptation to Film." Mythlore: a Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature 30.1/2 (Fall/Winter 2011): 143-62.
  • "Robots and Representation in Asimov's Detective-Science Fiction Novels." Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction (Published by the Science Fiction Foundation) 38.107 (2009): 21-38.
  • "Grand Manner Aesthetics in Landscape: From Canvas to Celluloid." Journal of Aesthetic Education 43.4 (Winter 2009): 96-107.
  • "The Lord of the Rings' Interlace: From Tolkien to Tarot." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 19.3 (2008): 317-30.
  • "The Lord of the Rings' Interlace: Tolkien's Narrative and Lee's Illustrations." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 19.1 (2008): 70-93.
  • "Male Gothic Detection and the Pre-Raphaelite Woman in Lady Audley's Secret." Clues: A Journal of Detection 26.3 (2008): 3-14.
  • "Arthurian Legend in Tarot." King Arthur in Popular Culture. Eds. Donald Hoffman and Elizabeth Sklar. Jefferson: McFarland, 2002. 233-48.
  • "The Cultural and Multi-Cultural Aesthetics of Baker Lake Inuit Artists." American Indian Art Magazine 26.3 (Autumn 2001): 48-59, 94-5.
  • "Looking at Native Art through Western Art Categories: From the 'Highest' to the 'Lowest' Point of View." Journal of Aesthetic Education 34.2 (Summer 2000): 89-98.
  • Rpt: "Inuit Women Artists and Western Aesthetics." Inuit Art Quarterly 14.4 (Winter 1999): 4-10.
  • "Inuit Women Artists and Western Aesthetics." Dialogue and Universalism VII.4-5 (1997): 179-86.
  • "William Noah Interviewed by Emily Auger." Artichoke: Writings About the Visual Arts 5.3 (Fall 1993): 28-35.

Publications and Projects: Other
  • "The Third Archetype." In Delta by Ruben van Klaveren. Enschede, Netherlands: Dutch Art Institute, 2010.
            "The Third Archetype" is a prose narrative explicating the installation "Delta."
            The publication is based on a work done  by Van Klaveren as part of a Master's
            course of study at the Dutch Art Institute. [ISBN 978-90-73025-12-7]
  • Researcher (1989) for New Zealand film director Vincent Ward's Map of the Human Heart.

Publications: Selected Reviews
See tab above for list
My reviews of books have appeared in
  • Canadian Journal of Native Studies
  • Inuit Studies
  • Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
  • Journal of Popular Culture
  • Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
  • Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
  • Mythprint: A Monthly Bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society
  • Southwest Journal of Cultures

The general subject areas of the books I review include
  • Inuit, Native, and Northern Art and Culture
  • Popular Literature, Film, and Visual Art
  • Tolkien and Arthuriana
  • Tarot, or including essays on Tarot
          ––Reviews for Tarot Community Publications


Conference Papers
Too numerous to mention (31 from 1988 to the present)
I am the area chair for Tarot at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) conference.
I have presented papers at the
  • Popular Culture / American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) conference
  • Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC) conference
  • Canadian Society for Aesthetics conference (Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities)
  • International Conference of the Fantastic in the Arts
  • Native American Art Studies Association conference
  • International Congress of Aesthetics
  • Inuit Studies Conference