Allan, Jonathan A.

Dr. Allan is a Canada Research Chair in Men and Masculinities and Professor in the Faculty of Arts at Brandon University. He is the author of Reading from Behind: A Cultural Analysis of the Anus (University of Regina Press, 2016; Zed Books, 2016; Japanese translation, Ohta-Shuppan, 2018), Men, Masculinities, and Popular Romance (Routledge 2019); and Men, Masculinities, and Infertilities (Routledge 2022). He is also one of the editors of Virgin Envy: The Cultural (In)Significance of the Hymen (University of Regina Press, 2016; Zed Books, 2016).

During his Canada Research Chair, Dr. Allan is working on the critical study of men and masculinities in a variety of spaces in the social sciences and the humanities. Dr. Allan is interested in the ways in which masculinity is lived, enacted, and embodied in everyday life.
His current research project is called, Men, Masculinity, and the Procreative Realm, for which he received a SSHRC Insight Grant. One of the research outcomes from this project, Men, Masculinities, and Infertility (Routledge 2022), is a book-length study of cultural representations of men’s infertility. Drawing on ideas of storytelling, this book explores how stories of infertility are told across popular fiction, canonical fiction, men’s memoirs of infertility, and film and television. A second project coming out of this research is a cultural study of vasectomy. Snip Snap will be an interdisciplinary study of the vasectomy, how it is represented in popular culture, and what the vasectomy means for sexuality and masculinity. This book will consider the history and the mainstreaming of vasectomy, as well as vasectomy reversal and post-vasectomy pain syndrome.

Dr. Allan is Series Editor of The Exquisite Corpse Series at University of Regina Press and he is one of the editors of Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities.