Degrees

Ph.D. Yale (1986)
B.A. Stanford (1979)

Research Area

Modernism, Media Studies, British Film, Twentieth-Century Fiction

Current Courses

Graduate Seminar in Modernism
Introduction to Poetry

Current Positions

Modernist Literature & Culture, a new book series from Oxford University Press, edited by Kevin J. H. Dettmar and Mark Wollaeger.
Seeking out the best new work in the rejuvenated field of modernist studies, Modernist Literature & Culture (MLC) will explore the cultural bearings of literary modernism across multiple fields, geographies, symbolic forms, and media. The editors are currently looking for book manuscripts that synthesize close attention to literary texts with the kind of interdisciplinary cultural approaches that have come to be associated with “the new modernist studies.” Beginning in Fall 2008, MLC will annually publish three to four ground-breaking, innovative, and energetic books that explore the breadth and depth of modernist studies. For more information, click here.

Professional Societies

Modernist Studies Association
Modern Language Association
Narrative Society
Joseph Conrad Society of America (Trustee)

Professional Honors

Research Scholar Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, 2006
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2005-6
Ernest A. Jones Award for Undergraduate Advising, 2004
Helm Fellowship at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, 2002
National Endowment for Humanities Summer Stipend, 2001
Initiative on Technological Innovation Grant, ,
Morse Fellowship, Yale University,
Smart Family Foundation Research Grants, 1990, 1991
Enders Grant, Yale University, 1990
Hilles Publication Fund, Yale University, 1990
John R. Forrest Fellowship, Yale University,
Phi Beta Kappa, Highest Honors in English, Stanford University, 1979
Ian P. Watt Rust Award, Stanford University, 1978

Publications

Books
Modernism, Media, and Propaganda: British Narrative from 1900 to 1945 (Princeton UP 2006)
Joseph Conrad and the Fictions of Skepticism (Stanford UP 1990)
Edited Volumes
James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man": A Casebook (Oxford UP, 2003)

Joyce and the Subject of History (co-edited with Victor Luftig and Robert Spoo, Michigan UP, 1996)
Selected Articles
"His Master's Voice: A Portrait of the Artist as Propagandist," Hypermedia Joyce Studies, 7:1 (2006): online only:
"Conrad's Darkness Revisited: Mediated Warfare and Modern(ist) Propaganda," in Conrad in the Twenty-First Century, ed. Carola M. Kaplan, Peter Lancelot Mallios, and Andrea White. New York: Routledge, 2005: 62-87
"Woolf, Picture Postcards, and the Elison of Race: Colonizing Women in The Voyage Out," Modernism/Modernity 8:1 (January 2001)
"Virginia and Leonard in the Jungle: Intertextuality, Sexuality, and Authority in The Voyage Out, The Village in the Jungle, and Heart of Darkness," Modern Language Quarterly 64:1 (2003)
"Joyce in the Postcolonial Tropics," James Joyce Quarterly 39:1 (2003) [published spring 2003, despite official date]
"Between Stephen and Jim: Portraits of Joyce as a Young Man," in James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man": A Casebook (Oxford 2003)
"Killing Stevie: Modernity, Modernism, and Mastery in Conrad and Hitchcock," Modern Language Quarterly 85:3 (1997)
"Stephen/Joyce, Joyce/Haacke: Modernism and the Social Function of Art," English Literary History )

Biography

I received my B.A. from Stanford University and my Ph.D. from Yale University, where I taught before coming to Vanderbilt in 1994. Currently I am Associate Professor of English and teach graduate and undergraduate courses on Anglo-American modernism, modernist culture, twentieth-century British literature, and literary theory. I served as President of the Modernist Studies Association (MSA) in 2004-5 and in 2006 ran the MSA Book Prize.

My first book, Joseph Conrad and the Fictions of Skepticism, was published by Stanford University Press in 1990. I've also edited two books on Joyce: James Joyce’s “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”: A Casebook (Oxford 2003) and Joyce and the Subject of History (co-editor with Victor Luftig and Robert Spoo, Michigan 1996). My articles on Joyce, Woolf, Conrad and others have appeared in journals such as Modernism / Modernity, Modern Language Quarterly, English Literary History, and James Joyce Quarterly.

My new book, Modernism, Media, and Propaganda: British Narrative from 1900 to 1945, was published by Princeton University Press in December 2006. I'm working on two projects right now, an edited collection of essays on global modernisms, and a monograph on the roles particular literary modernists (Conrad, Joyce, and Lawrence, among others) have played in formation of modernism and postcolonial studies as fields. I am also founding co-editor, with Kevin Dettmar, of Modernist Literature and Culture, a new series from Oxford University Press.