PhD (Cornell U)
Associate Professor
Department Chair
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. Reprint forthcoming in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism 170 (2005).
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. 2001. Co-edited with Dennis Dworkin. Boston: Pearson Education. Third, revised and retitled edition of Trials of Modernity: Europe since 1500. Needham Heights, MA: Simon and Schuster Educational Group, 1996; Second edition, 1998.