UPCOMING COURSES
Fall 2015
English 475A American Novel: 19th Century
English 501 Theoretical Foundations of Literary Study
English Undergraduate Advisement
PUBLICATIONS
Book:
• Idle Threats: Men and the Limits of Productivity in Nineteenth-Century America, New York University Press, America and the Long Nineteenth Century series, 2012.
Other Publications:
• “Committed Art,” book chapter accepted for Keywords in German Aesthetics, ed. J.D. Mininger and Jason Peck (10 pages manuscript).
• “The Wreck of The Corsair: Nineteenth-Century Publishing and Piratical Enterprise,” in Pirates and Mutineers in Nineteenth-Century Literature, ed. Grace Moore (Ashgate, 2011), pp. 79-94.
• “Hollywood Panoramatics: Nathanael West’s Baroque Modernity,"Literature Interpretation Theory 21:3 (July- September 2010), pp. 145-162.
• “Money, Mobility, and the Idle Speculation of Nathaniel Parker Willis,"ATQ 22:4 (December 2008), pp. 559-575.
• “The Bartleby Industry and Bartleby’s Idleness," ESQ 53.2 (2007), pp. 184-21
• “Transmission, Temporality, Autonomy: What Praxis Means in the Novels of Kenneth Fearing,” (co-written with Dr. David Jenemann, Univ. of Vermont) in The Novel and the American Left, ed. Janet G. Casey (University Of Iowa Press, 2004), pp. 172-194.
Book Reviews, Exhibition Catalogs, and etc:
• Adam Cvijanovic: New Paintings, Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis (2008).
• McKnight Foundation-Minneapolis College of Arts and Design Fellows Exhibition, Minneapolis (2004).
• “Robert Seguin – Around Quitting Time: Work and Middle-Class Fantasy in American Fiction,"Cultural Critique 56 (Winter 2004), pp. 212-218.
• “Michel Foucault – Fearless Speech," Auslegung: A Journal of Philosophy 26.1 (Winter-Spring 2003), pp. 77-80.
• Twins, Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis (2002).
• “Theodor Adorno – Critical Models," Auslegung: A Journal of Philosophy 24.2 (Spring-Summer 2001), pp. 215-218.
COURSES
Courses taught at CSULA:
• ENGL 570, Seminar: Melville’s Selves
• ENGL 570, Seminar: The Literary Institution and Sites of Reading in American Culture
• ENGL 570, Seminar: Poe and Print Culture
• ENGL 541, Seminar: Money and Meaning: Studies in Economic Criticism
• ENGL 510, Historical Criticism: The American Renaissance and Beyond
• ENGL 501: Theoretical Foundations of Literary Studies
• ENGL 492, Senior Seminar: Bodies of Work – Dickinson and Whitman
• ENGL 492, Senior Seminar: Poe, Poetics, and Property
• ENGL 492, Senior Seminar: Fictions of Finance: American Literature and Culture of the Gilded Age
• ENGL 492, Senior Seminar: Problems and Problematics in Poe
• ENGL 475A: American Novel: Nineteenth-Century
• ENGL 472: American Literature, 1860-1914
• ENGL 471: American Literature, Beginnings to 1860
• ENGL 452: Reading Culture
• ENGL 260: Women and Literature
• ENGL 250: Understanding Literature
EDUCATION
Ph.D. 2004 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Program in Comparative Studies in Discourse in Society
(Minor field: Comparative Literature)
M.A. 1997 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Program in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society
B.A. 1991 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Majors in Middle Eastern Studies, Political Science