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Research Summary

Whiteness, Anglo-Settler Identity, Okanagan, Digital Ephemerality.

Courses & Teaching

Cultural Studies, Digital Humanities, and English with a focus on digital screen studies.

Biography

Dr. Keyes served as the founding chair of UBC Okanagan’s Cultural Studies program from 2007-2010 and again from 2015-2018. Additionally, he served as the interim Director of Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus on the Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies program (2009-2011). From 2020 to 2022, he served as the secretary for the Film and Media Studies Association of Canada. In 2023 he began and continues to serve as the coordinator for the Digital Humanities course code.

His doctoral research focused on how testimonial performance inflected itself in 1990s daytime talkshows on American and Canadian television. His current research focus on 1. place studies with a focus on the Okanagan as occupied settler space, 2. archival media studies relating to digital ephemerality in English speaking Canada.

Much of Dr. Keyes teaching focuses on the analysis of visual culture. In most

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Daniel Keyes

Born

in Brooklyn, New York, The United States

August 09, 1927

Died

June 15, 2014

Website

http://www.danielkeyesauthor.com

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Daniel Keyes was an American author best known for his Hugo award-winning short story and Nebula award-winning novel Flowers for Algernon. Keyes was given the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2000.

Keyes was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York. At age 17, he joined the U.S. Maritime Service as ship's purser. He obtained a B.A. in psychology from Brooklyn College, and after a stint in fashion photography (partner in a photography studio), earned a Master's Degree in English and American Literature at night while teaching English in New York City public schools during the day and writing weekends.

In the early 1950s, he was editor of the pulp magazine Marvel Science Fiction for publisher MartiDaniel Keyes was an American author best known for his Hugo award-winning short story and Nebula award

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Meet American writer Daniel Keyes

Daniel Keyes was an American writer and professor best known for "Flowers for Algernon," a science fiction novel that’s sold more than five million copies since its publication in 1966. The novel, originally a novella, is the tragic tale of a science experiment that turns a mentally challenged man named Charlie Gordon into a genius. Keyes’ beloved novel has been translated into 27 different languages, taught to a countless number of students in English classes and was actually written during Keyes’ time at our very own Wayne State. In honor of that important time, Daniel Keyes spent here, his daughters Hillary and Leslie Keyes have generously set up several scholarships for Wayne State English students. The scholarships, which were awarded for the first time this year, include The Daniel Keyes Family Endowed Scholarship and the Daniel Keyes Family Graduate Scholarships in Creative Writing.

Flowers for Algernon has a long history, stretching back to Keyes’ days as a premed major at New York University. Although he dreamed of being a writer, Key