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Books
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 Richard
Wright: New Readings in the 21st
Century, co-edited and co-written introduction,
chapter prefaces, and afterword with Alice Craven
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Narrating Class in American Fiction. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2009.
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Class
Matters: Representing Class in American Culture,
Literature, and Film, co-edited with J. Chandler and Y.
Roblou, and with an introduction by William Dow. University
of Valenciennes Press. 2009.
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American Nostalgias, co-edited and co-written
introduction with J. Chandler and Y. Roblou. Paris: Mallard,
2002.
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Editorships
Managing Editor, Literary Journalism Studies
(Northwestern University Press).
Dec.
2006-present.
Publications
“Richard Wright.” The Cambridge
Companion to American Novelists. Ed., Timothy Parrish.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (forthcoming, 2012).
“Jack London’s Interrogations of
Experience : ‘The Dignity of Dollars’ (1900) and ‘Mexico’s
Army and Ours’ (1914).” Paris: Houdiard. (forthcoming 2012).
“Dorothy
Day and Joseph Kessel: ‘A Literature of Urgency’.” Prose
Studies (Routledge). Vol. 3, Issue 2, 2011: 132-153.
“New
Alignments, New Discourses: A Reflection on teaching Blaise
Cendrars and John Dos Passos.” The Newsletter of the
International Association of Literary Journalism Studies.
eds., David Abrahamson and Bill Reynolds. Northwestern
University. Fall 2011. Web. 13-15.
“Rethinking the Geographies of American Studies.”
Géographie dans le monde anglophone. Paris: Houdiard, 2010:
103-119.
“James Agee’s ‘Continual Awareness,’
Untold Stories: ‘Saratoga Springs’ and ‘Havana Cruise’
(1937).” Literary Journalism across the Globe:
Journalistic Traditions and Transnational
Influences. Eds., John Bak and Bill Reynolds. Amherst:
University of Massachusetts Press, 2011: 225-237.
“Class ‘Truths’ in James Agee’s Let Us Now Praise Famous
Men.” Intellectuals and Commitment in the United
States (Ecriture et engagement aux Etats-Unis, 1918-1939).
Paris: Ophyrs and Université Paris 13,
2010: 157-175.
“Class,
Work, and New Races: Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were
Watching God and Agnes Smedley’s Daughter of Earth.”
Class Matters: Representing Class in American
Culture, Literature, and Film.” Co-editor, William Dow.
University of Valenciennes Press. 2010: 111-127.
Introduction: “The Continuum of Class.” Class Matters:
Representing Class in American Culture, Literature,
and Film.” Co-editor, William Dow. University of Valenciennes
Press. 2010: 8-16.
“Meridel Le Sueur’s Working-Class Fiction: Moving to a
Cultured Sense of Language.” A Class of Our Own:
Re-Envisioning American Labor Fiction. Eds. Laura Hapke
and Lisa A. Kirby. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008: 96-112.
“Approaches to Teaching Meridel Le
Sueur’s Salute to Spring.” A Class of Our Own:
Re-Envisioning American Labor Fiction. Eds. Laura Hapke
and Lisa A. Kirby. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008: 260-261.
“‘Hard Work and Blood’ in Whitman’s 1855
Song of Myself.” Spell (Swiss Papers in Language
and Literature), Vol. 18. American Poetry: Whitman to
the Present. Eds. Robert Rehder and Patrick Vincent.
Zurich: Gunter Narr Verlag Tübingen, 2006: 35-52.
“A Modernist Vernacular: Violent
Figurations in Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts.”
Polysèmes Arts et littératures:
les figures de la violence.
Paris: Publibook, Vol. 7, 2005 : 185-201.
“The Perils of Irony in Hemingway’s
The Sun Also Rises.” Etudes
Anglaises (Paris IV, Sorbonne).
Vol. 52, No. 8, 2005: 178-192.
“Meridel Le Sueur’s Salute to Spring:
‘A Movement Up Which All Are Moving’.” Core: A Journal of
the Humanities. Paris: The American University of Paris.
Vol. 3, No. 1, 2004: 79-96.
“‘Agents of Change’: Challenges in the
Flesh and the Teaching of American Literature.” The
Periphery: Viewing the World. Athens: The National and
Kapodistrain University of Athens, 2004: 150-157.
“La matière désert: Death Comes for the
Archbishop de Willa Cather et Blood Meridian de
Cormac McCarthy.” Confluences. Déserts: entre
désir et délire. University
of Nanterre X: Publidix, Vol. 22, 2003: 155-173.
“Writing Nostalgia, Writing a Nation.”
Introduction. American Nostalgias. Angloscopies.
General Editor, William Dow. Paris: Editions Mallard, 2003:
16-23.
“Performative Passages: Davis’s Life
in the Iron Mills, Crane’s Maggie,
Norris’s McTeague.” Twisted From the Ordinary:
Essays on American Literary Naturalism. Tennessee Studies in
Literature. Ed. Mary E. Papke. Knoxville: University of
Tennessee Press, 2003: 23-44.
“‘Always Your Heart’: The ‘Great Design’
of Toomer’s Cane.” Melus. Vol. 27, No. 4,
Winter 2002: 59-88.
“Down and Out in London and Orwell.”
Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary
Relations. Vol. 6, No. 1, April 2002: 69-94.
“Lives on the Boundary: Portraiture and
Modernism in Jean Toomer’s Cane and Sherwood
Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio.” Literature on the
Move: Comparing Diasporic Ethnicities in Europe and
the Americas. Heidleburg:
Universitaetsuerlag C. Winter, 2002: 248-258.
“Thème Oral.” Rapports de Jurys de
Concours. Agrégation Anglais: concours interne, 2001.
Ministère de l’Education Nationale. Tours: Centre
National de documentation Pédagogique, 2001: 104-117.
“Nostalgia and the Insurrectionary in Dos
Passos’s U.S.A.” “Variations
sur le thème de l’Etrangeté.” Annales du
Monde. No. 11, 2000. Paris: L’Harmattan.
Sorbonne nouvelle (Université Paris III):
171-188.
“Topographical Strides of Thoreau: The
Poet and Pioneer in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.”
Revue Française D’Etudes
Américaines. No. 84, March, 2000:
89-105.
“Performative Realism in Crane’s Maggie
and Norris’s McTeague.” Les Avatars du
Réalisme. Nantes and Paris:
Ouest Editions, 2000: 243-258.
“Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the
Archbishop: ‘To Become a Story’.” Editions du Temps.
September, 1999: 41-55.
“Storytelling and Unforeseen Becomings in
Raymond Carver’s Shortcuts.” Ellipses.
September, 1999: 78-87.
“PMLA Abroad: Brief Ponderings on
(Mistaken) Identities.” Publication of the Modern
Language Association. Vol. 113, No. 5, October, 1998:
1136-1137.
“French Responses to Dickinson.” An
Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia, Ed. Jane Donahue Eberwein.
Greenwood Press, 1998: 118-119.
“Paul Auster’s The Invention of
Solitude: Glimmers in a Reach to Authenticity.”
Critique. Vol. 39, No. 3, Spring, 1998: 272-281.
“Jean Toomer’s Cane and
Winesburg, Ohio: Literary Portraits from the ‘Grotesque
Storm Center’.” Qwerty. December, 1997: 129-136.
“‘Always Your Heart’: Direct Address,
Narrative Authority, and the ‘Great Design’ of Cane.”
Ellipses. October, 1997: 43-52.
“Imagination and the Disruptive
Complicities of Emily Dickinson and William Carlos
Williams.” Profils américains. No. 8, 1997: 81-99.
“Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms.”
Explicator. Vol. 55, No. 4, Summer, 1997: 224-225.
“The Nature of Huckleberry Finn:
Huck as ‘Autobiographer.’” Americana, University of
the Sorbonne Press. Vol. 14, January, 1997: 30-43.
“John Dos Passos, Blaise Cendrars, and
the ‘Other’ Modernism.” Twentieth Century Literature.
Vol. 42, No. 3, Fall, 1996: 396-415.
“Fiction is Not Real: the Performative
and Norris’s McTeague.” ESQ: A Journal of the
American Renaissance. Vol. 42, No. 2, 1996: 77-92.
“Elle signe souvent ‘Emilie’: Emily
Dickinson and the French Critical Reception.” The Emily
Dickinson Journal. Vol. 5, No. 2, 1996: 226-231.
“Never Being ‘This Far From Home’: Paul
Auster and Picturing Moonlight Spaces.” Qwerty.
Vol. 6, December, 1996: 193-198.
“Paul Auster’s Moon Palace: Story
as Ontology, the Moon as the Future.” Ellipses.
October, 1996: 55-62.
“Frank Norris and the ‘Realism that
Stultifies’.” Excavatio. Vol. VIII, Spring, 1996:
86-99.
“‘The Mirror You Break Your Nose
Against’: Lolita and the Conquest of Crime.”
Americana,
University of the Sorbonne Press. Vol. 13, February, 1996:
55-62.
“L’invention de la solitude de Paul
Auster: Lueurs dans l’appréhension de l’authenticité.”
Actes Sud, Revue Littéraire. L’oeuvre de Paul Auster:
Approches et lectures plurielles.
December, 1995: 38-50.
“A Farewell to Arms and
Hemingway’s Protest Stance: To Tell the Truth Without
Screaming.” The Hemingway Review. Vol. 16, No. 3,
Fall, 1995: 38-50.
“Report from the Other Academy:
Non-American Voices and American Literature.” Revue
Française D’Etudes Américaines. No. 65, July, 1995:
484-495.
“John Dos Passos, Blaise Cendrars, and ‘a
Squirrel Cage of the Meridians’.” Notes on
Contemporary Literature. Vol. 25, No. 2, March, 1995:
4-5.
“The Influence of Madame Bovary in
Kate Chopin’s The Awakening: Corresponding Struggles,
Dreams, and Regressions.” Americana, University of
the Sorbonne Press, Vol. 11, January, 1994: 11-22.
“Blaise Cendrars and John Dos Passos.”
Feuilles de routes: Blaise
Cendrars International Society.
Paris: Vol. 28, May, 1993: 9-16.
“John Dos Passos: Teaching the Language
to Non-Americans.” London: Rodopi, November 17, 1992: 3-14.
Recent Conferences
“Jack London et le journalisme littéraire.”
Invited speaker. De Londres à London: Les reportages
d’Albert et de Jack. Roman et reportage (XXe-XXIe
siècles) Rencontres croisées.” Université Paris Ouest
Nanterre. December 9, 2011.
“Introduction: ‘New Journalism as
a Counter-Cultural Force’.” New Journalism of the
American 1960s as a Counter-Cultural Narrative. Seminar
organizer. Université Paris-Est (MLV). November 18,
2011.
“Between
Crisis and Innovation: Representations of Work in U.S.
Literature.” Keynote speaker. Re-Presentations of
Working Life. Graduate Conference 2011.
Friedrich-Alexander Universität
Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. 12-13 November 2011.
“Jack London’s Interrogations of
Experience : ‘The Dignity of Dollars’ (1900) and ‘Mexico’s
Army and Ours’ (1914).” Experience. IMAGER/TIES.
Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC), 17-18 June, 2011.
“Richard
Wright’s ‘Centrally Historical’
12 Million Black Voices.”
The French Association of American Studies
Conference: La Vérité. University of Brest, 25-28 May,
2011.
Literary Journalism: Theoria, Poiesis and Praxis.
International Literary Journalism Studies 6. “Literary
Journalism: Comparative Considerations.” Panel Chair.
Université Libre de Bruxelles. 12-14 May, 2011.
“Dorothy
Day and Joseph Kessel: ‘A Literature of Urgency’.”
Literary Journalism in a Global Context. American
Comparative Literature Association : World Literature,
Comparative Literature. Simon
Fraser Univeristy. Vancouver. March 31-April 3, 2011.
“Introduction.” ”The Relevance of
Literary Journalism in a Global Context” (talk by John
Hartsock). Lecture organizer. The American University of
Paris. October 19, 2010.
“Literary Journalism: ‘A Literature of Urgency’.”
TIES. Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC).
October 16, 2010.
Introduction: “Without Borders: the Voices of Literary
Journalism.” Sites of the Aesthetic: International
Versions of Literary Journalism. Seminar
organizer. Université Paris-Est (MLV). October 7,
2010.
“American Modernist Literary Landscapes 1900 to 1950: From
‘Nature’ to ‘Environment.’” Panel Co-chair. The French
Association of American Studies Conference: From Nature to
Environment. Grenoble, May 27-29, 2010.
“Richard
Wright’s Literary Journalism and Transgressive Sociology in
12 Million Black Voices.”
International Association for
Literary Journalism Studies. Roehampton University,
London. May 20-22, 2010.
Introduction: “American Literary
Journalism as an Emerging Historical Form.” “Begging
Description: Literary Journalism, Othering and the Order of
Things.” Seminar organizer. Université Paris-Est (MLV). May
7, 2010.
“Sensational Gothicism in Richard Wright’s The Outsider”
Forever Young. European Association for American
Studies. Trinity and University Colleges, Dublin. March
26-29, 2010.
“Literary Journalism, Radicalism, and the Estranged
Modernism of John Dos Passos’s Facing the Chair and
Blaise Cendrars’s Rhum” Modernism and Radicalism
in the U.S.: An Unbridgeable Gap? Invited Speaker.
Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3. March 20, 2010.
“‘Expediting Great Claims’: James Agee’s Narrations of
Experience.” Invited speaker. “L’expérience,” TIES. Paris
12. Jan. 9, 2010.
“Rethinking the Geographies of American Studies.” Plenary
speaker. Géographie dans le monde anglophone. Paris-Est
(Marne-la-Vallée), June 18-20, 2009.
“Jack London’s Literary Journalism: If ‘Fancy Could Father
the Act’.” International Association for Literary
Journalism Studies. Medill School of Journalism,
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. May 14-16, 2009.
“John Dos Passos and Blaise Cendrars: Reinventing
Persuasion.” Global Languages, Local Cultures.
American Comparative Literature Association. Invited
speaker. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. March 26-29,
2009.
“On Richard Wright: Introduction of Plenary Speakers, Joyce
Ann Joyce and Houston Baker.” Richard Wright: The
Centenary Celebration. Co-Directors: Alice Craven and
William Dow. The U.S. Ambassador’s Residence. Paris, June
20, 2008.
“Celebrating Richard Wright.” Richard Wright: The
Centenary Celebration. The American University of Paris.
Co-Directors: Alice Craven and William Dow. June 19-21,
2008.
“James Agee’s ‘Continual Awareness,’ Untold Stories:
‘Saratoga Springs’ and ‘Havana Cruise’ (1937).”
International Association for Literary Journalism Studies.
Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Politicas
Universidad Técnia de Lisboa. Lisbon, Portugal. May 15-17,
2008.
“This Certain Conjunction: Gender and Class in American
Culture.” Crossing Borders: Gender and Class in American
Culture. University of Valenciennes. Co-Director William
Dow. April 25, 2008.
“Confounding the Spirits: Aesthetics and Cultural Studies.”
Seminar on American Cultural Studies. Invited
speaker. University of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. February
18, 2008.
“Willa Cather’s ‘Guided Friends’:
Death Comes for the Archbishop.” 11th
International Willa Cather Seminar. University of Paris
3-Sorbonne/Tarascon. June 24-July 1, 2007.
“Can Film be Literary Journalism?” Panel
Moderator. Literary Journalism in an International
Context. The 2nd International Conference
for Literary Journalism Studies. Institut d’Etudes
Politiques de Paris (Science Po), Paris. May 18-19, 2007.
“Writing Dark Times: Settings, Immersions
in Agnes Smedley and Meridel Le Sueur.” Literary
Journalism in an International Context. The 2nd
International Conference for Literary Journalism Studies.
Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Science Po), Paris.
May 18-19, 2007.
“The Continuum of Class.” Form and
Discontentment: Representing Class in American Culture,
Literature, and Film. Co-director: William Dow. The
University of Valenciennes. April 6, 2007.
“James Agee’s Engagement Beyond Borders.”
Intellectuals and Commitment in the United States (Ecriture
et engagement aux Etats-Unis, 1918-1939). University of
Paris 13. November 30-December 1, 2006.
“Documentary Forms and Testimonies of
Poverty.” First International Conference on
Literary Journalism. Celebrating The Jungle: A
Century of Literary Journalism throughout the World. The
University of Nancy. May 19-20, 2006.
“By Word of Body: The Social Life of
Aesthetic Forms.” Faire Corps. University of Lille.
January 20, 2006.
“Nostalgia and Estrangement in American
Depression-era Fiction.” Challenges of
Estrangement in a United Europe Confronting the World.
29th IMISE Conference.
The American University of Paris, July
4-9, 2005.
“‘Hard Work and Blood’ in Whitman’s 1855
Song of Myself.” American Poetry: Whitman
to the Present. The Swiss Association of North American
Studies. Fribourg, Switzerland, November 12-13, 2004.
“American Fiction Today: Realism, Comedy
and Beyond.” Panel Discussion. Invited participant. UNESCO
in cooperation with the National Endowment of the Arts.
Hotel Tallyrand, the American Embassy in France. Oct. 15,
2004.
“Introduction, James T. Farrell: ‘Looking
from the Altar Light’.” James T. Farrell Centennial
Conference. Co-organizers: Marshall Brooks and
William Dow. The American University of Paris. June 17-19,
2004.
“Jack London’s Problem Bodies.” Jack
London Society Seventh Biennial Symposium. Santa
Rosa, California. May 23-26, 2004. |
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