Faculty Biography

Stacy Burton

Stacy Burton

Associate Professor

Degrees:

BA (Humanities/English emphasis -- Brigham Young University); MA (Humanities -- Brigham Young University); MA (Comparative Literature -- Cornell University); PhD (Comparative Literature -- Cornell University)

Contact Information:

Office: Frandsen 016

Telephone: (775) 682-6378

Email: sburton@unr.edu

Academic Specializations:

Twentieth- and twenty-first century fiction, Travel narrative, Literary and cultural theory

Recent Publications:

Travel Narrative and the Ends of Modernity, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press, 2013.

“Rereading Faulkner: Authority, Criticism, and The Sound and the Fury.”  Modern Philology 98 (2001): 604-628.  Reprinted in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism 170 (2006): 147-160.  Adapted for inclusion in the forthcoming new Norton Critical Edition of The Sound and the Fury, ed. Michael Gorra.

“Paradoxical Relations: Bakhtin and Modernism.”  Modern Language Quarterly 61 (2000): 519-543.