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Biography of Stacy Burton
Stacy Burton
Associate Professor
PhD (Cornell U)

Specialization

20th century comparative literature, literary and cultural theory, modernism and postmodernism, narrative, the novel, travel literature, gender studies.

Select Publications

Rereading Faulkner: Authority, Criticism, and The Sound of the Fury. 2001. In: Modern Philology 98:604-628. Reprinted in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism 170 (2006).

Difference and Convention: Bakhtin and the Practice of Travel Literature. 2001. In: Peter I. Barta, Paul Allen Miller, Charles Platter and David Shepherd (eds) Carnivalizing Difference: Bakhtin and the Other. London: Routledge Harwood. pp 225-245.

Paradoxical Relations: Bakhtin and Modernism. 2000. In: Modern Language Quarterly 61: 519-543.

Bakhtin, Temporality, and Modern Narrative: Writing 'the Whole Triumphant Murderous Unstoppable Chute'. 1996. In: Comparative Literature 48.1: 39-64.

Trials of Modernity: Europe in the World. 2007. Co-edited with Dennis Dworkin. Boston: Pearson Education. Fourth edition.

Contact

Email sburton@unr.edu