Dr. Megan Perram
Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing
BA, MA, PhD (University of Alberta)
megan.perram@uregina.ca
Phone: 306.586.4242 ext. 230 | Office: CM 405
Research Interests
- Digital & Electronic Literature
- Literary Hypertext
- Biological Sex Embodiment
- Illness Narratives
- Game Studies
- Gender Studies
- Virtual Reality
Representative Publications
- Perram, Megan. Hyperandrogenism and the Marginalization of Pathologized Bodies: Exploring Therapeutic Storytelling in Hypertext Illness Narratives. Routledge. Forthcoming.
- Perram, Megan. “Pedagogical Approaches to Twine Illness Narratives through a Politicized Narrative Therapy Framework.” EnTwine: A Critical and Creative Companion to Teaching with Twine, edited by Anastasia Salter and Stuart Moulthrop, Amherst College Press, forthcoming, 2024.
- Perram, Megan. “Building Hypertext Literature Reviews for Qualitative Research.” Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities, 4(2), 2024.
- Perram, Megan, and Astrid Ensslin. “The Possibilities of Illness Narratives in Virtual Reality for Bodies at the Margins.” Digital Creativity, vol. 33, no. 2, 2022, pp. 128-156. https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2022.2074047.
- Ensslin, Astrid, Carla Rice, Sarah Riley, Christine Wilks, Megan Perram, Hannah Fowlie, Lauren Munro, and Aly Bailey. “Bodies in E-lit.” Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities, edited by James O’Sullivan & Dene Grigar, New York: Bloomsbury, 2021.
Representative Awards
- Ian Lancashire Student Promise Award, Canadian Society for Digital Humanities (2023)
- President’s Doctoral Prize of Distinction, University of Alberta (2021 & 2023)
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship (2021-23)
- Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship, University of Alberta (2019 & 2020)
- Joan Shore Memorial Scholarship in Graduate Studies, University of Alberta (2020)
- Governments of Alberta’s Persons Case Scholarship (2017 & 2020)
