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Education

  • 2025 Doctor of Philosophy, Canadian Studies, Trent University.
  • 2006 Master of Arts, Anthropology, Trent University.
  • 2003 Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Anthropology & Classical Studies, Trent University.

Academic Conference Presentations

  • Pendleton Jiménez, K. & Newman-Stille, D. (June 2024) “Queer Teaching on Fire.” Presented at Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Congress of the Humanities & Social Sciences. Montréal, Québec.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (June 2020) “Bad Kids: Bullying and Canadian Schools in Sam Beiko’s “Krampus is my Boyfriend”.” Presented at The Canadian Society for the Study of Comics, Congress of the Humanities & Social Sciences. Western University, London, Ontario. *Cancelled due to COVID-19
  • Newman-Stille, D. (October 2019) “Desiring Disability: Frankensteinian Bodily Potential in Cait Gordon’s “The Hilltop Gathering”.” Presented at The Gothic, the Abject and the Supernatural: 200 Years of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
  • Newman-Stille, D. & Hibbard, E. (May 2018) “Graphic Signs: Representations of Deaf Identity and Deaf Culture in Comics” Presented at The Canadian Society for the Study of Comics Conference. Toronto, Ontario
  • Newman-Stille, D. (March 2018) “Stitched: Frankensteinian Explorations of Medicine in Tanya Huff’s Blood Pact” Presented at The International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Orlando, Florida.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (October 2017) “Unseen Transitions: Queerness and Disability in Emma Donoghue’s “The Tale of the Hair”” Presented at American Folklore Society Annual Meeting. Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (June 2017) “Punished Bodies: China Mieville’s Perdido Street Station, Non-Normate Relationships, and the Body as Assemblage” Presented at Taking Flight: Assembling, Becoming, Queering: 10th International Deleuze Studies Conference. Toronto, Ontario
  • Newman-Stille, D. (May 2017) “Sick Kids Vs. Disabled Futurity” Presented at The Canadian Disability Studies Association Conference. Toronto, Ontario
  • Newman-Stille, D. (May 2017) “‘Delusions about Happily Ever Afters’: Emma Donoghue’s ‘The Tale of the Shoe’.” Presented at The Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy. Toronto, Ontario
  • Newman-Stille, D. (May 2017) “Echoes of Erasure: David Mack’s Engagement with Indigeneity and Deaf Culture in Echo: Vision Quest” Presented at The Canadian Society for the Study of Comics Conference. Toronto, Ontario
  • Newman-Stille, D. (March 2017) “Webs of Queer Fears: Homophobia, Sex, and Violence in Scott Treleavan’s Bugcrush” Presented at The International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Orlando, Florida.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (March 2017) Fantasizing Disability [panelist] Presented at The International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts. Orlando, Florida.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (March, 2017). “’Forget What You Know About Disability’: Viktoria Modesta’s Prototype and the Performance of Disability” Presented at Queer Coll(i/u)sions Peterborough, Ontario.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (March, 2017). “Just for Us Fairies: Queering Fairy Tales” [Panelist] Presented at Queer Coll(i/u)sions Peterborough, Ontario.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (March, 2017). “Deaf, Crip, and Queer Bodies” [Panelist] Presented at Queer Coll(i/u)sions Peterborough, Ontario.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (October 2016) “Breadcrumbs in the Woods: Depression in Sandra Kasturi’s The Gretel Papers” Presented at the American Folklore Society Conference. Miami, Florida
  • Newman-Stille, D. and Swenson, H. (April, 2016) “Desiring Animal-Mediated Environments: ‘Fake’ Guide Dogs and the Work of the Pet” Presented at Crip Ecologies: Composing Disability Conference. George Washington University, Washington, DC.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (March, 2016) Cosmic Panic The Continuing Influence of Lovecraft’s Supernatural Horror in Literature (1927) [panelist]. Presented at The International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts. Orlando, Florida.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (March, 2016) “The Body Estranged: Kate Story’s Blasted and Disability in Newfoundland Fairy Tales” Presented at The International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts. Orlando, Florida.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (March, 2016). “From Slash Fan Fiction to Crip Fan Fiction: What Role Does Disability Have in Fandom.” Presented at Queer Coll(i/u)sions Peterborough, Ontario.
  • Newman-Stille, D. and Cait P. Jones (March, 2016). Writing Queerly and Queer Writing. Presented at Queer Coll(i/u)sions. Peterborough, Ontario.
  • Newman-Stille, D. and Chivers, S. (November, 2015) “Elder Jails: Nursing Homes and Zombiism in Matthew Johnson’s The Afflicted.” Presented at The Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (October, 2015) “Cripping the End: Disability and Apocalyptic Manuscripts” Presented at Babel Working Group Biennial Conference. University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (June, 2015) “Dissociative (Canadian) Identities and Marvel Comics’ Alpha Flight” Presented at The Canadian Disability Studies Association. Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (June, 2015) “Myths of Belonging: Hiromi Goto’s The Kappa Child and the Queering and Birthing of Home in Diaspora.” Presented at The Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy. Toronto, Ontario.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (March, 2015) “Risky Bodies: The Partially Cured Body in Jenny Romanchuk’s “The Zombie Hunters”.” Presented at The International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts. Orlando, Florida.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (March, 2015) Roundtable on Teaching Horror at The International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts. Orlando, Florida.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (November, 2014) “Beauty and the Apocalyptic Future of Disability: Camile Alexa’s All Them Pretty Babies” Presented at Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association. Baltimore, Maryland.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (October, 2014) “Paratechnologies: Prosthetics and the Exercise of Medicalised Control in Julie Czerneda’s Left Foot On A Blind Man”. Presented at Technology/Politics. Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (May, 2014) “Zombie Culture and the Countercultural Power of Depression in James Marshall’s Novels.” Presented at The Canadian Disability Studies Association Conference. Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (March, 2014) “Contagious Thoughts and the Empire of Fear: Pontypool.” Presented at The International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts. Orlando, Florida.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (November, 2013). “Expendable Bodies: James Alan Gardner’s Engagement With The Speculative Fictional Body.“ Presented at Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association. Atlantic City, New Jersey.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (September, 2013). “Places of Suffering: Spacialising Disability and Trauma in Leah Bobet’s Above.” Presented at Science Fiction: The Interdisciplinary Genre. McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (June, 2013). “Speculating Diversity: Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl In The Ring and the Use of Speculative Fiction to Disrupt Singular Interpretations of Place.” Presented at Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy. Toronto, Ontario.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (March 2013). “(Un)seeing Magic: Stigma and (Magical) Dis/Abilities in Alison Sinclair’s Darkborn Trilogy.” Presented at the International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts. Orlando, Florida.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (May 2013). “Getting under Your Skin: The Monstrous Subdermal.” Presented at 48th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, Michigan.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (May 2012). “Medicalized Power and the Socially Constructed Body in Sparkle Hayter’s Naked Brunch.” Presented at the annual conference of the Popular Culture Association of Canada. Niagara Falls, Ontario.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (March 2012). “Blind as a Vampire Bat: Tanya Huff’s Blood Books as Discourse on Monstrosity as a Symbol of Disability.” Presented at the International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts. Orlando, Florida.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (March 2012). “The Fight with the Rejected Body: The Werewolf as Internal Bodily Struggle in Sparkle Hayter’s Naked Brunch.” Presented at the Eighth Annual Trent-Carleton Graduate Conference in Canadian Studies: Canada & The New World Order: The National Contexts of Global Change. Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (September 2011). “Biting by Braille: The Juxtaposition of Disability and Monstrosity in Tanya Huff’s Blood Books.” Presented at Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy. Toronto, Ontario.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (June 2010). “Academically At Risk Students: Opportunities for Transformations and Growth.” Presented at Ontario Academic Advising Conference. University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Durham College, and Trent in Oshawa, Oshawa, Ontario.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (July 2009). “Monstrosity and Disability in the Middle Ages.” Presented at International Medieval Congress. University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (June 2009). “A Sanguine Love: Monstrosity and Intercultural Romance in Kelley Armstrong’s Women of the Otherworld Series.” Presented at Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy. Toronto, Ontario.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (May 2009). “Norse Magic and the Power of Written and Spoken Words.” Presented at 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, Michigan.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (May 2009). “Cohen’s Monster Culture: Seven Theses A Reinterpretation in Light of the Anthropology of the Body.” Roundtable discussion presented at 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, Michigan.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (August 2008). “Coaching and the Strength-Based Approach to Academic Advising.” Presented at Ontario Academic Advising Conference. University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (July 2008). “Werewolves as Enduring Symbols of Liminality Between Nature and Culture: The Influence of Classical Beliefs About Animal Transformation on Medieval Conceptions.” Presented at International Medieval Congress. University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (May 2008). “Betwixt and Between: Werewolves as Sacred and Profane in the Classical and Medieval World.” Presented at 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, Michigan.
  • Newman-Stille, D. December 2008. “Betwixt and Between: Werewolves as Sacred and Profane in Classical Literature.” Presented at Trent University Annual Humanities Research Day: Werewolves, Troubadours, Texts, and Global Warming. Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario.
  • Newman-Stille, D. June 2007. “Marine Iconography and ‘Islandness’ in the Minoan World.” Presented at The Small Island Cultures Research Initiative 3rd International Conference on Small Island Cultures: Culture and the Construction of Islandness. Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
  • Newman-Stille, D. May 2007. “An Egyptian Origin for the Minoan and Helladic ‘Genius’?.” Presented at the Canadian Archaeological Association session on Global Perspectives in Archaeology. St. John’s, Newfoundland.
  • Newman-Stille, D. May 2006. “Acculturation in the Aegean Bronze Age: The Adoption and Adaptation of Minoan Religious Symbols by Helladic People.” Presented at the Canadian Archaeological Association session on Altered States: Canadian Contributions to an Archaeological Understanding of Complex Societies. Toronto, Ontario.
  • Newman-Stille, D. 2004. “Acculturation in the Aegean Bronze Age: A Study of the Adoption and Reinterpretation of Minoan Religious Iconography by the Helladic Culture.” Presented at a colloquium presentation of current graduate work, Trent University. Peterborough, Ontario.
  • Newman-Stille, D. 2003. “Acculturation in the Aegean Bronze Age.” Presented at a colloquium presentation of current graduate work, Trent University. Peterborough, Ontario.

Publications - Academic

  • Gosselin et al. (2023) “Improv Walk: Nature is a Part of Me.” Canadian Theatre Review 194. https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.194.003. [co-author].
  • Newman-Stille, D. (2021) “Vampire as Doll: Transformations of Meaning Through Play in the Vampirina and Draculaura (Monster High) Franchises” In S. Bacon (Ed.), The Transmedia Vampire: Essays on Technological Convergence and the Undead. Jefferson, NC: McFarland.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (2021) “Speculating the Classroom: The Pedagogy of Speculative Fiction and Fandom” In B. E. Pohl, C. White, & C. Beaudry (Eds.), Voices of Social Education: A Pedagogy of Change. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (2019) “From Slash Fan Fiction to Crip Fan Fiction: What Role Does Disability Have in Fandom?” Canadian Journal of Disability Studies Vol. 8, No. 2.
  • Chivers, S. & Newman-Stille, D. (2018) “Telling Stories: Literary Perspectives on Interdisciplinary Team Research.” In P. Armstrong & R. Lowndes (Eds.), Creative Teamwork: Developing Rapid, Site-Switching Ethnography. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (2017) “Our Bodily Diverse Children Are Our Future: Disability, Apocalypse, and Camille Alexa’s All Them Pretty Babies”. In M. Bohlmann (Ed.), Misfit Children: An Inquiry into Childhood Belongings. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (2015) “Navigating the Darkness: Blindness and Vampirism in Tanya Huff’s Blood Books”. In A. Weiss (Ed.), The Canadian Fantastic in Focus: New Perspectives. Jefferson, NC: McFarland.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (2015) “Speculating Diversity: Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl In The Ring and the Use of Speculative Fiction to Disrupt Singular Interpretations of Place”. In A. Weiss (Ed.), The Canadian Fantastic in Focus: New Perspectives. Jefferson, NC: McFarland.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (September, 2013). “Where Blindness is Not(?) a Disability: Alison Sinclair’s Darkborn.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature. 46.3 (Special Issue: Blindness)
  • Newman-Stille, D. (July 2012). “Recensione a Asa Simon Mittman, Peter J. Dendle (editors) The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous: Ashgate 2012.” Lo Sguardo: Rivista di Filosofia. Vol. 9, No. 2.
  • Newman-Stille, D. (2010). “Morality and Monstrous Disability in Topographia Hibernica.” In W. Turner & T. Vandeventer Pearman (Eds.), The Treatment of Disabled Persons in Medieval Europe: Examining Disability in the Historical, Legal, Literary, Medical, and Religious Discourses of the Middle Ages. New York: Edwin Mellen Press.

Assessment & Adjudication

  • 2024 Peer Assessment Committee Member, Explore and Create: Concept to Realization. Canada Council for the Arts. Ottawa, ON.
  • 2014 Juror, The Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. Toronto, ON.

Awards & Nominations

  • 2025 Prix Aurora Award: Best Fan Writing & Publications, Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA). Speculating Canada. Nominated.
  • 2021 Prix Aurora Award: Best Fan Related Work, Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA). Speculating Canada. Nominated.
  • 2020 Prix Aurora Award: Best Fan Related Work, Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA). Speculating Canada. Won.
  • 2019 Prix Aurora Award: Best Related Work (English), Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA). We Shall Be Monsters: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein 200 Years On, Renaissance Press. Nominated.
  • 2019 Prix Aurora Award: Best Fan Writing and Publications, Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA). “Constructing the Future” in Uncanny Magazine Issue #24. Nominated.
  • 2019 Prix Aurora Award: Best Fan Related Work, Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA). Speculating Canada. Nominated.
  • 2018 Prix Aurora Award: Best Fan Writing & Publications, Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA). Speculating Canada. Won.
  • 2017 Prix Aurora Award: Best Fan Publication, Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA). Speculating Canada. Won.
  • 2017 Prix Aurora Award: Best Fan Related Work, Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA). Speculating Canada on Trent Radio 92.7 FM. Won.
  • 2016 Prix Aurora Award: Best Fan Publication, Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA). Speculating Canada. Won.
  • 2016 Prix Aurora Award: Best Fan Related Work, Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA). Speculating Canada on Trent Radio 92.7 FM. Won.
  • 2015 Prix Aurora Award: Best Fan Publication, Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA). Speculating Canada. Won.
  • 2015 Prix Aurora Award: Best Fan Related Work, Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA). Speculating Canada on Trent Radio 92.7 FM. Won.
  • 2015 Prix Aurora Award: Best Artist, Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA). Elephants and Omnibuses interior art for Lackington’s Magazine #2. Nominated.
  • 2013 Prix Aurora Award: Best Fan Publication, Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA). Speculating Canada. Won.

Publications - Fiction, Poetry, and Non-Fiction

  • 2025 “Tapestry” Polar Starlight #20 [Poem]
  • 2024 “Voided” Eye to the Telescope #54. [Poem]
  • 2024 “Every Witch is a Question” Polar Starlight #15. [Poem]
  • 2024 “Pandora’s Box” Polar Starlight #14. [Poem]
  • 2024 “I Don’t Want Your Cure” Polar Starlight #13. [Poem]
  • 2023 “Diagnosis – Fat!” in Fat Studies in Canada: (Re)Mapping the Field, ed. A Taylor et al. Inanna Publications. [Poetry]
  • 2022 “Writing While Disabled” Strange Horizons. Interviewed by K. A. Cox. [Interview]
  • 2021 “Drowned” in Dark Waters, ed. Rhonda Parrish. Poise and Pen Publishing. [Short story]
  • 2020 Whispers Between Fairies. Co-authored with N. Fréchette. Renaissance Press. [Fiction book]
  • 2020 “Sturgeon Point” Electric City Culture Council: Art Loves Pride. [Short story]
  • 2020 “Nobody Listened to the Sick” Feminist Space Camp Magazine, Iss. 12. [Poem]
  • 2020 “It’s Not a Compliment” Feminist Space Camp Magazine, Iss. 12 [Poem]
  • 2019 “Charity TM” in Nothing Without Us, ed. C. Gordon & T. C. Johnson. Renaissance Press. [Short story]
  • 2019 “One of Us! One of Us!” in Nothing Without Us, ed. C. Gordon & T. C. Johnson. Renaissance Press. [Foreword]
  • 2019 “Patient Killers: Angel of Mercy Crimes and Disabled Subjectivities.” The Town Crier (Puritan Magazine). [Essay]
  • 2019 “Fairy Tale Transformation” Exile Quarterly Vol. 42, No. 2. [Essay]
  • 2019 “Faded” Fireside Quarterly / Fireside Magazine. [Essay]
  • 2018 “Constructing the Future” Uncanny Magazine Issue 24: Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction. [Essay]
  • 2018 We Shall Be Monsters: Frankenstein Two Centuries On. Editor. Renaissance Press. [Fiction Anthology]
  • 2018 Over the Rainbow: Folk and Fairy Tales from the Margins. Editor. Exile Editions. [Fiction Anthology]
  • 2015 “The Casual Magic of Play” in Playground of Lost Toys, ed. Colleen Anderson & Ursula Pflug. Exile Editions. [Afterword]
  • 2015 “Accessible Space… the Final Frontier?” in Accessing the Future, ed. Kathryn Allan & Djibril Al-Ayad. Future Fire Publishing. [Afterword]
  • 2015 “Northern Chills: Conversations on Canadian Horror Literature” Quill & Quire, Vol. 81, No. 2. [Essay]

Commissions & Published Artwork

  • 2025 Star Goddess. Cover Art for Polar Borealis #34. [Acrylic, Yarn, and Mixed Media on canvas]
  • 2025 Patchwork Man. Cover Art for Polar Starlight #18. [Acrylic, Mixed Media on canvas].
  • 2024 Untitled. Cover Art for Zombie Futures in Literature, Media and Culture, ed. S. Bacon. Bloomsbury. [Acrylic on canvas].
  • 2024 High Priest. Cover Art for Polar Borealis #30. [Acrylic on canvas].
  • 2023 Surreality. Cover Art for The Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction, ed. L. Yaszek et al. Routledge. [Acrylic, Mixed Media on canvas].
  • 2023 Myths of the Sea and the Sky. Interior Art for The Deep: A Companion, ed. M. Teodorski and S. Bacon. Peter Lang. [Acrylic on canvas].
  • 2022 Nosferatu. Interior Art for Nosferatu in the 21st Century: A Critical Study, ed. S. Bacon. Liverpool University Press. [Watercolour on paper].
  • 2016 Linked In. Interior art for Postscripts to Darkness. [Acrylic, Mixed Media on canvas].
  • 2016 Cybelline Encounters. Interior Art for Lackington’s Magazine #9. [Acrylic, Mixed Media on canvas].
  • 2015 Writing is the Page Edge Between Madness and Reason. Cover Art for Lackington’s Magazine #5. [Acrylic on canvas].
  • 2014 Haunted by Persistent Violence. Interior Art for Postscripts to Darkness. [Acrylic on canvas].
  • 2014 For Your Optimal Hookboarding Experience. Interior Art for Lackington’s Magazine #3. [Digital art].
  • 2014 Historical Undercurrents. Interior Art for Postscripts to Darkness #5. [Acrylic on canvas].
  • 2014 Elephants and Omnibuses. Interior Art for Lackington’s Magazine #2. [Acrylic on canvas].
  • 2013 Funeral Games. Interior Art for Postscripts to Darkness #4. [Acrylic on canvas].

Selected artistic & cultural work presented to the public

  • 2025 Resistance: DisArts by Derek Newman-Stille. Peterborough Public Library, Peterborough ON. [Solo Exhibition]
  • 2024 50/50/50. Artspace, Peterborough, ON. [Group exhibition/auction].
  • 2023 Home. Peterborough Shorts Showcase, Market Hall, Peterborough, ON. [Short film].
  • 2020 Post-Code Tour, curated by Hannah Keating, Artsweek SHIFT, Peterborough, ON. [Group exhibition: writing, poetry, images]
  • 2019 Body-ody-ody: The Queer Crip Figure Art of Derek Newman-Stille. You’re Welcome, Peterborough, ON. [Solo Exhibition]
  • 2019 Queer DisArts by Derek Newman-Stille. You’re Welcome, Peterborough, ON. [Solo Exhibition]
  • 2017 Enchantments: The Fairy Tale Art of Derek Newman-Stille. Sadleir House, Peterborough, ON. [Solo Exhibition]
  • 2016 Identity Masquerade: The Queer Crip Art of Derek Newman-Stille. Sadleir House, Peterborough, ON. [Solo Exhibition]
  • 2015 Speculative Planes. Sadleir House, Peterborough, ON. [Solo Exhibition]