Curriculum Vitae

Mark W. Osteen
6700 Tweedbrook Rd.
Baltimore, MD 21239
mosteen@loyola.edu
410-339-7721 (home); 410-617-2363 (office)

Education

• PhD, Emory University, 1987. Dissertation: "Making Both Ends Meet: The Economy of Ulysses." Director: Richard Ellmann.
• MA, English, University of Montana, 1982.
• BA, with High Honors, University of Montana. Majors: English and Philosophy, 1977.

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Teaching Experience

• 2000-present. Professor of English and Director of Film Studies, Loyola College in Maryland.
• 1993-99. Associate Professor of English, Loyola College in Maryland.
• 1988-93. Assistant Professor of English, Loyola College in Maryland.
• 1987-88. Visiting Assistant Professor, Emory University.
• 1984-86. Teaching Assistant, Emory University.
• 1980-82. Teaching Assistant, University of Montana.

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Publications

BOOKS (Author):

American Magic and Dread: Don DeLillo's Dialogue with Culture. Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2000. 301 pages.

Favorable reviews:

• Kirk Nesset, American Literature 73:3 (September, 2001): 652-3.
• Theron Britt, Modern Fiction Studies 48:3 (Fall 2002): 763-65.
• Philip Nel, Studies in the Novel 35.1 (Spring 2003): 128-31.
• Thomas Carmichael, "Evanescence, Language and Dread: Reading Don DeLillo." Contemporary Literature 44.1 (2003): 176-80.

The Economy of Ulysses: Making Both Ends Meet. Irish Studies. Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 1995. 472 pages.

** Awarded Donald Murphy Prize for Best First Book in Irish Studies by the American Conference for Irish Studies. **

Favorable reviews:

• Robert D. Newman. Choice (33:4). December 1995. 2008.
• Steven Connor. "Balancing the Book." James Joyce Broadsheet 44 (June 1996): 1.
• Gregory Castle. "The Economies of Ulysses." English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 39. 4 (1996): 510-14.
• Garry M. Leonard. "Small Change Adds Up." James Joyce Literary Supplement 10:2 (Fall 1996): 10.
• Unsigned Review. The Year's Work in English Studies 1995. London: Blackwell, 1996. 541.
• Michael Patrick Gillespie. James Joyce Quarterly 35 (1998): 479-83.

BOOKS (editor):

• Autism and Representation. Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies. New York and London: Routledge, 2008. A collection of 16 essays on autism and the humanities; includes introduction and nonfiction piece listed below. 313 pages. Positive reviews: 

1. Felice Aull. Literature, Arts, Medicine database. http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=12873
2. Michael Fitzpatrick. "The Ghost of the Refrigerator Mother. Spiked Online. http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/5961/

• The Question of the Gift: Essays Across Disciplines. Routledge Studies in Anthropology. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. A collection of 14 essays; includes introduction and essay listed below. 310 pages. Favorable Review: Hirozaku Miyaki, American Anthropologist 107.1 (March 2005):137-8.
• White Noise: Text and Criticism by Don DeLillo. Viking Critical Library. New York: Viking/Penguin, 1998. 538 pp. Wrote introduction, study questions; compiled bibliography; selected secondary materials.
• The New Economic Criticism: Studies at the Intersection of Literature and Economics. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. A collection of 23 essays. 437pp. (Co-edited with Martha Woodmansee). Includes introduction listed below.

JOURNAL ISSUE

• Guest Editor: "Blue Notes: Toward a New Jazz Discourse." Special double issue of Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 37.1-2 (Spring & Summer, 2004). Wrote introduction, edited 13 essays and four reviews. 352pp.

SCHOLARLY JOURNAL ARTICLES

• "Jazzing the Gift: Improvisation, Reciprocity, Excess." Forthcoming in Rethinking Marxism.
• "Framed: Forging Identities in Film Noir." Forthcoming in Journal of Film and Video.
• "Noir's Cars: Automobility and Amoral Space in American Film Noir." Journal of Popular Film and Television 35.4 (Winter 2008): 183.92.
• "Face Plates: T-Men, Counterfeiting and the Problem of Noir Representation." Quarterly Review of Film and Video 24.2 (Spring 2007): 125-42.
• "Echo Chamber: Undertaking The Body Artist." Studies in the Novel 37.1 (2005): 64-80.
• "Introduction: Blue Notes Toward a New Jazz Discourse." Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 37.1 (Spring 2004): 1-46.
• "The Great Expectations of Stephen Dedalus." James Joyce Quarterly 41.1-2 (Fall 2003 /Winter 2004): 169-83.
• "Ritual and Reenactment in Andre Dubus's Short Fiction." Special Issue: The Work of Andre Dubus. Religion and the Arts 6.1/2 (Spring, 2002): 73-89.
• " 'It Doesn't Pay to Antagonize the Public': Sabotage and Hitchcock's Audience." Literature/Film Quarterly 28 (2000): 259-68.
• "Becoming Incorporated: Spectacular Authorship and DeLillo's Mao II." Modern Fiction Studies 45 (1999): 643-74.
• "Children of Godard and Coca-Cola: Cinema and Consumerism in Don DeLillo's Early Fiction." Contemporary Literature 37 (1996): 439-70.
• " 'A Splendid Bazaar': The Shopper's Guide to the New Dubliners." Studies in Short Fiction 32 (1995): 483-96 [Review-Essay].
• "The Treasure-House of Language: Managing Symbolic Economies in Joyce's Portrait." Studies in the Novel 27 (1995): 154-68.
• "The Big Secret: Film Noir and Nuclear Fear." Journal of Popular Film and Television 22:2 (Summer 1994): 79-90.
• " 'A Moral Form to Master Commerce': The Economies of DeLillo's Great Jones Street." Critique 34 (1994): 157-72.
• "Phantoms of Liberty: The Secret Lives of Leviathan." Review of Contemporary Fiction. 14:1 (Spring, 1994): 87-91.
• "Seeking Renewal: Bloom, Advertising, and the Domestic Economy." James Joyce Quarterly 30:4/ 31:1 (1993): 717-38.
• "The Money Question at the Back of Everything: Clichés, Counterfeits and Forgeries in Joyce's 'Eumaeus.'" Modern Fiction Studies 38 (1992): 821-43.
• "Serving Two Masters: Economics and Figures of Power in Joyce's 'Grace.'" Twentieth Century Literature 37 (1991): 76-92.
• "The Intertextual Economy in 'Scylla and Charybdis.'" James Joyce Quarterly 28 (1990): 197-208.
• "Narrative Gifts: 'Cyclops' and the Economy of Excess.'" Joyce Studies Annual 1990. Ed. Thomas F. Staley. Austin: U of Texas P, 1990. 162-96.
• "Against the End: Asceticism and Apocalypse in Don DeLillo's End Zone." Papers on Language and Literature 26 (1990): 143-63. Reprinted in A Library of Literary Criticism, Modern American Literature, vol. 6. Third Supplement (Continuum, 1996).

BOOK CHAPTERS

• "Rhythm Changes: Contrafacts, Copyright and Jazz Modernism." Forthcoming in Modernisma and Copyright,ed. Paul K. Saint-Amour, from Oxford UP.
• "Don DeLillo." Blackwells Companion to US Fiction. Ed. David Seed. Forthcoming, 2009.
• "DeLillo's Dedalian Artists." The Cambridge Companion to Don DeLillo. Ed. John N. Duvall. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2008. 137-50.
• "Autism and Representation: A Comprehensive Introduction." Autism and Representation. Ed. Mark Osteen. New York and London: Routledge, 2008. 1-47.
• " 'The Natural Language of the Culture': Exploring Commodities through White Noise."Approaches to Teaching DeLillo's White Noise. Ed. Tim Engles and John N. Duvall. New York: MLA, 2006. 192-203.
• " 'A Regular Swindle': The Failure of Gifts in Dubliners." Twenty-First Joyce. Eds. Ellen Carol Jones and Morris Beja. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2004. 13-35.
• "Luminous Spaces: Teaching Heart of Darkness through Film." Approaches to Teaching Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" and "The Secret Sharer." Ed. Hunt Hawkins and Brian W. Shaffer. New York: MLA, 2002. 158-66.
• "Introduction: Questions of the Gift." The Question of the Gift: Essays Across Disciplines. Ed. Mark Osteen. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. 1-41.
• "Gift or Commodity?" The Question of the Gift: Essays Across Disciplines. Ed. Mark Osteen. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. 229-47.
• "Marketing Obsession: The Fascinations of Running Dog." Critical Essays on Don DeLillo. Eds. Hugh Ruppersburg and Tim Engles. New York: G. K. Hall, 2000. 135-56.
• "Taking Account of the New Economic Criticism: An Historical Introduction" (w/ Martha Woodmansee). Woodmansee and Osteen, eds. The New Economic Criticism. 3-50.
• "A High Grade Ha: The 'Politicoecomedy' of Headwear in Ulysses." Joycean Cultures/ Culturing Joyces. Ed. Vincent J. Cheng, Kimberly J. Devlin, and Margot Norris. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998. 253-83.
• "Female Property: Women and Gift Exchange in Ulysses." Gender in Joyce. Ed. Jolanta W. Wawrzycka and Marlena G. Corcoran. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1997. 29-46.
• "Cribs in the Countinghouse: Plagiarism, Proliferation, and Labor in 'Oxen of the Sun.'" Joyce in the Hibernian Metropolis: Essays. Ed. Morris Beja and David Norris. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1996. 237-49. Reprinted in Ulysses: New Casebooks. Ed. Rainer Emig. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 125-40.

CREATIVE NONFICTION

• "In the Echo Chamber." Weber: The Contemporary West. Forthcoming, 2010.
• "The Play of Shadows." Weber: The Contemporary West. Forthcoming in 2009.
• "Urinetown: A Chronicle of the Potty Wars." Autism and Representation. Ed. Mark Osteen.    New York and London: Routledge, 2008. 212-25.

SHORTER PIECES

• "Meredith/Joyce: Bella Mount and Bella's Mount." James Joyce Quarterly 35:4/36:1 (Summer/Fall, 1998): 873-78.
• "The Music of Chance," "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," "Ulysses." The Encyclopedia of Novels Into Film. Ed. John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh. New York: Facts-on-File, 1998. 287-88; 327; 443-44.
• "Ellmann's Yeats: A Bibliography." Yeats Annual No. 7. Ed. Warwick Gould. London: Macmillan, 1990. 137-44.
• "Gabriel's Sarcasm: A Lost Line in 'The Dead.'" James Joyce Quarterly 25 (1988): 259-62.

PAMPHLET

• "Accepting the Gift: The Life of the Mind or Minding the Life?" 2000 Nachbahr Lecture. Baltimore: Loyola College in Maryland, 2001.

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Current Research and Writing

• Book: One of Us: A Family's Life with Autism. Completed in manuscript.
• Book: The Big Night: Film Noir and American Dreams. In progress.
• Edited volume: Baltimore Jazz History, as part of Aperio seminar with selected Loyola students. In progress.
• Essay: "Lighted Squares: Framing 'Araby'" (with Kathryn Conrad). Accepted for collection entitled Collaborative Dubliners: Critical Dialogues on Joyce's Dubliners. Ed. Vicki Mahaffey. 21pp in manuscript. Volume under consideration.
• Essay: "Shared Attention: Hearing Cameron's Voice." Accepted for anthology entitled Papa PhD: Essays on Fatherhood by Men in the Academy. Eds. Mary Ruth Marotte, Paige Reynolds, and Ralph James Savarese. 11pp. Volume under consideration.

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Invited Speeches and Public Addresses

• "Narrating Autism." Lecture, Saturday Seminar (Loyola College), April, 2009.
• "Ulysses and Bloomsday." Talk on WYPR Public Radio, June, 2008.
• "So What is Modern Jazz? A History of Segments and Fusions." Public lecture for Jammin' at the Mansion concert series, Baltimore, May, 2005.
• "The Currency of Economic Criticism." Lecture given at the Georg Brandes School, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. September, 2004.
• "The Currency of Economic Criticism." Keynote Address. Critical Exchanges: Economy and Culture in the Literature of Russia. Northwestern University, May 8, 2004.
  Response to Juniper Ellis, "Justice Matters in a University." Loyola College, March 2002.
• "Accepting the Gift: The Life of the Mind or Minding the Life?" Nachbahr Award Lecture. Loyola College in Maryland, October, 2000.
• "Four Types of Economic Criticism." Plenary Address. Conference on Culture and Economics, Exeter, England, July, 1998.
• "The Political and the Anti-Political in Twentieth-Century Irish Literature." Public Lecture, Baltimore Irish Festival, September, 1997.

NONFICTION READINGS

• "In the Echo Chamber." SAMLA Convention, Atlanta, November, 2007.
• "Ecce Homo." Autism and Advocacy Conference, Fordham University, October, 2006.
• "Urinetown: A Chronicle of the Potty Wars." At Representing Autism: Writing, Cognition, Disability Conference, Case Western Reserve U, Cleveland, OH, October, 2005.

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Conference Papers and Panels

• "Jazzing the Gift: Improvisation, Reciprocity, Excess." Surplus/Excess Conference, UC Riverside, April, 2008.
• Respondent, "Sovereign Exchanges: Ruling Bodies and Theories of the Gift." MLA Convention, Chicago, December, 2007.
• Organizer and Respondent for three panels on "Autistic Texts." SAMLA Convention, Atlanta, November, 2007.
• "Currents of Economic Criticism." Presentation, MLA Convention, Philadelphia, December, 2006.
• "Noir’s Cars: Automobility and Amoral Space in American Film Noir." SAMLA Convention, Charlotte, NC, November, 2006.
• Chair, "Performance and Performativity in DeLillo." American Literature Association Convention, San Francisco, May, 2006.
• Chair and respondent, "Film Noir's Unfatal Femmes." Panel at SAMLA Convention, Atlanta, November, 2005.
• Chair and organizer, "Mapping DeLillo's Cosmopolis." American Literature Association Convention, Boston, May, 2005.
• "Face Plates: T-Men, Counterfeiting and Noir Representation." MLA Convention, Philadelphia, December, 2004.
• Panel chair and organizer, "Cognitive Disability and Textuality: Autism and Fiction." MLA Convention, Philadelphia, December, 2004.
• "Jazz Modernism: Romantic or Neoclassical?" ALSC Conference, New Orleans, November, 2004.
• "Exploring Commodities through White Noise." American Literature Association Convention, San Francisco, May, 2004.
• Chair and Respondent: "Improvisation in Jazz Writing." SAMLA Convention, Atlanta, November, 2003.
• "The Great Expectations of Stephen Dedalus." North American James Joyce Conference, Tulsa, OK, June, 2003.
• Chair and organizer, " 'Raids on Human Consciousness': Don DeLillo and the Narratives of Terror." SAMLA Convention, Baltimore, November, 2002.
• Chair, organizer and respondent, "Blue Notes: Jazz History, Poetics and Fiction." SAMLA Convention, Baltimore, November, 2002.
• "Gift or Commodity?" MMLA Convention, Minneapolis, November, 2002.
• Chair and Respondent, "Writing Jazz." MLA Convention, New Orleans, December, 2001
• " 'The stun of intrusion': Possession and Performance in The Body Artist." American Literature Association Convention, Cambridge, MA, May, 2001
• "Ritual and Reenactment in Dubus's Short Fiction." Conference on the Work of Andre Dubus, Baltimore, March 2001.
• " 'A Regular Swindle': The Failure of Gifts in Dubliners." Miami Joyce Conference, February 2001.
• "Raising the Wind in Ulysses." University of Maryland Joyce Colloquium, November 2000.
• " 'It Doesn't Pay to Antagonize the Public': Sabotage and Hitchcock's Audience." Narrative: An International Conference, Atlanta, April, 2000.
• "Charms Against Death: Underground Art in DeLillo's Underworld." MLA Convention, Chicago, December, 1999.
• "Silence, Exile, Cunning and So On: Joyce, DeLillo and Postmodern Authorship." North American James Joyce Conference, Charleston, SC, June, 1999.
• "Gift or Commodity?" MLA Convention, San Francisco, December, 1998.
  Presider and Respondent: "Rethinking Consumption." MLA Convention, Toronto, December, 1997.
• "Becoming Incorporated: Spectacular Authorship and DeLillo's Mao II," Literary Criticism Division, MLA Convention, Toronto, December, 1997; and Don DeLill "At the Edges of Perception," Conference held at Rutgers University, March, 1998.
• " ' A World Inside the World': The Theology of Secrets in Don DeLillo's Libra." Narrative Literature Conference, Gainesville, FL, April, 1997.
• "Meredith/Joyce: Bella Mount and Bella's Mount." James Joyce Conference, Miami, FL, February, 1997.
• "The Economies of Texts: An Introduction to the Economics of Literature." Southern Economics Association, Washington DC, November, 1996.
• Chair: New Economic Criticism I: Testing Markets; New Economic Criticism II: Marketing Texts. M/MLA Convention, Minneapolis, November, 1996.
• Discussant, "(Un)Settling Accounts: Languages of the New Economic Criticism." MLA Convention, Chicago, December, 1995 (by invitation)
• "Coming Attractions: Previews and Godardian Pretexts in DeLillo's Early Short Fiction." Literature/Film Association Conference, Ocean City, MD, December, 1995.
• Discussant, "New Economic Criticism," MMLA Convention, St. Louis, November, 1995 (by invitation)
• "Transients: The Economy of Secrets in DeLillo's Players." International Conference on Narrative Literature, April, 1995, Park City, UT.
• Moderator: Plenary Session, Conference on New Economic Criticism, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, October, 1994.
• "Circulatory Systems in 'Wandering Rocks.'" James Joyce Conference, U of Miami, Feb. 1994.
• "A High Grade Ha: The 'Politicoecomedy' of Headwear in Ulysses." International James Joyce Conference, Irvine, CA, June, 1993.
• "Stephen's Treasure-House of Language in Portrait." International Joyce Conference, Irvine, CA, June, 1993.
• "Making Both Ends Meet: Narrative Accounting in Joyce's 'Ithaca.'" Narrative: International Conference, Albany, NY, April, 1993.
• "Cribs in the Countinghouse: Plagiarism, Proliferation and Labor in 'Oxen of the Sun.'" International James Joyce Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, June, 1992, and Conference on New Economic Criticism, Cleveland, OH, October, 1994.
• "Coining Words: Clichés, Counterfeits and Forgeries in 'Eumaeus.'" James Joyce Conference, Miami, FL, February, 1992.
• "The New Economic Criticism." Presentation at MMLA, Chicago, November, 1991.
• "Seeking Renewal: Bloom, Advertising and the Domestic Economy." International James Joyce Conference, Vancouver, BC, June, 1991.
• "The End of Bloom." James Joyce Conference, Miami, FL, Feb, 1991, and Central New York, MLA Conference, Cortland, NY, October, 1991.
• "Female Property: Women and/as Gifts in Ulysses." James Joyce Conference, Miami, FL, February, 1990.
• "Joyce's Revolutionary Economy in 'Cyclops.'" Representing Revolution, Atlanta, October, 1989.
• "The Intertextual Economy in 'Scylla and Charybdis.'" International James Joyce Conference, Philadelphia, June, 1989.
• "End Zone: Don DeLillo's Ascetic Apocalypse." Contemporary Literature Conference, Marietta, GA, April, 1989.
• "Advertising Massproducts in Ulysses." James Joyce Conference, Milwaukee, June, 1987.
• "Leopold Bloom and the Discourse of Advertising in Ulysses." American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Atlanta, March, 1987.
• "Vico and Joyce: Poetic Logic and Heroic Self-Creation." Joyce-Vico Conference, Venice, Italy, June, 1985.

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Books Reviewed

• Joseph Dewey, Beyond Grief and Nothing: A Reading of Don DeLillo. Twentieth Century Literature 53.4 (Winter 2007): 535-39.
• Alfred Appel, Jr. Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002). Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture (Summer, 2004): 341-3.
• Patricia Stacey, The Boy Who Loved Windows: Opening the Mind and Heart of a Child Threatened with Autism (Cambridge: Da Capo Press, 2003). Disability Studies Quarterly Summer, 2004.
• Tony Thwaites, Joycean Temporalities: Debts, Promises, and Countersignatures (Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2001). James Joyce Quarterly 39.4 (Summer, 2002): 867-70.
• M. Keith Booker, Ulysses, Capitalism,and Colonialism (Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 2000). James Joyce Quarterly 39.3 (Spring 2002): 598-602.
• Robert Seguin, Around Quitting Time: Work and Middle-Class Fantasy in American Fiction (Durham: Duke UP, 2001). American Literature 74 (2002): 680-82.
• Peter Francis Mackey, Chaos Theory and James Joyce's Everyman (Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1999). English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 44:4 (2001): 526-29.
• Garry Leonard, Advertising and Commodity Culture in Joyce (Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1998). Modern Fiction Studies 45 (1999): 1058-60.
• Trevor L. Williams, Reading Joyce Politically (Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1997). James Joyce Quarterly 35:4/36:1 (Summer/Fall 1998): 883-86.
• Calvin Thomas, Male Matters: Masculinity, Anxiety, and the Male Body on the Line (Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1996). Prolepsis: the Tuebingen Review of English Studies, 1998. Online.
• Kevin J.H. Dettmar & Stephen Watt, eds., Marketing Modernisms: Self-Promotion, Canonization, and Rereading (Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1996). James Joyce Literary Supplement 11.2 (Fall, 1997): 19.
• Ruth Bauerle & Matthew J. C. Hodgart, Joyce's Grand Operoar: Opera in Finnegans Wake (Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1997). English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 41 (1998): 237-40.
• Joyce Piell Wexler, Who Paid for Modernism? Art, Money, and the Fiction of Conrad, Joyce and Lawrence (Fayetteville: U of Arkansas P, 1997). Modern Fiction Studies 43 (1997): 1033- 35.
• M. Keith Booker, Joyce, Bakhtin, and the Literary Tradition: Toward a Comparative Cultural Poetics (Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1996). Modern Fiction Studies 43 (1997): 515-17.
• Scott W. Klein, The Fictions of James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis: Monsters of Nature and Design (New York: Cambridge UP, 1994). Studies in the Novel 29 (1997): 126-28.
• Joanna Scott, Various Antidotes (New York: Henry Holt, 1994). Studies in Short Fiction 33 (1996): 127-29.
• Vincent J. Cheng, Joyce, Race, and Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995). Studies in Short Fiction 32 (1995): 515-18.
• Barbara Foley, Radical Representations: Politics and Form in U.S. Proletarian Fiction, 1929-1941, (Durham: Duke UP, 1993). NOVEL 28 (1995): 348-51.
• James Fairhall, James Joyce and the Question of History (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993). Modern Fiction Studies 40 (1994): 404-06.
• Will Self, Cock & Bull (New York: Atlantic Monthly P, 1993). Studies in Short Fiction 31 (1994): 505-7.
• Bernard Benstock, Narrative Con/Texts in Dubliners (Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1994). James Joyce Literary Supplement 8:1 (Spring, 1994): 11.
• Alan Roughley, James Joyce and Critical Theory: An Introduction (Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1991). James Joyce Quarterly 30:4/31:1 (1993): 909-12.
• Robert Scholes, In Search of James Joyce (Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1992). English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 37 (1994): 274-77.
• Udaya Kumar, The Joycean Labyrinth: Repetition, Time, and Tradition in Ulysses (Oxford: Clarendon P, 1991.) James Joyce Literary Supplement 6:2 (Fall, 1992): 9-10.
• John W. Aldridge, Talents and Technicians: Literary Chic and the New Assembly-Line Fiction (New York: Scribners, 1992). Studies in Short Fiction 29 (1992): 402-3.
• Marguerite Alexander, Flights From Realism: Themes and Strategies in Postmodernist British and American Fiction (London: Edward Arnold, 1990) and
• Jerry A. Varsava, Contingent Meanings: Postmodern Fiction, Mimesis and the Reader (Tallahassee: Florida St. UP, 1990). Modern Fiction Studies 37 (1991): 822-3.
• Nancy Anisfield, ed., The Nightmare Considered: Critical Essays on Nuclear War Literature (Bowling Green: Bowling Green St. U Popular P, 1991). Nuclear Texts and Contexts 7 (Fall, 1991): 2-4.
• Andrew Gibson, Reading Narrative Discourse: Studies in the Novel from Cervantes to Beckett (New York: St. Martin's, 1990). Modern Fiction Studies 37 (1991): 351-2.
• William Zinsser, ed., Paths of Resistance: The Art and Craft of the Political Novel (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989). Modern Fiction Studies 37 (1991): 357-8.
• Christopher Rolfe and Patrick Parrinder, eds., H.G. Wells Under Revision (Selinsgrove: Susquehanna UP, 1989). Modern Fiction Studies 36 (1990): 600-01.
• Gayle R. Ormiston and Raphael Sassower, eds., Narrative Experiments: The Discursive Authority of Science and Technology (Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1989). Modern Fiction Studies 36 (1990): 674-5.

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Awards and Grants

• Nachbahr Award for Research in the Humanities, Loyola College, 2000.
• Donald Murphy Prize for Best First Book in Irish Studies (awarded by ACIS), 1995.
• Center for the Humanities Grant: Baltimore Jazz History, 2009.
• Loyola College Senior Sabbaticals: Spring, 2004; Spring, 1996.
• Loyola College Summer Research Grants: 2009, 2007, 2006, 2004, 2003, 2001, 2000, 1998, 1996, 1995, 1993, 1992, 1990, 1989.
• Loyola College Junior Faculty Sabbatical, Fall, 1991.
• Emory Doctoral Fellowship, 1986-7.
• George W. Woodruff Graduate Fellowship, Emory University, 1982-4, 1985-6.
• PhD orals passed with distinction, 1985.
• Winner, Emory University English Graduate Essay Contest, 1984.

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Professional Memberships and Offices

• President, Don DeLillo Society, 2001-present.
• Board of Directors, Society for Critical Exchange, 1999-2005.
• Memberships: MLA, SAMLA, Literature/Film Association.

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Other Professional Experience

• Advisor for Cherry Arnold's in-progress film on autism.
• Organizer and/Program Director: "Autism and Representation: Cognition, Disability, Textuality." Society for Critical Exchange conference held at Case Western Reserve U, Cleveland, October, 2005.
• Book Review Editor, Studies in Short Fiction, 1992-2002.
• Co-Organizer, International Conference on Culture and Economics, Exeter, England, July, 1998.
• Co-organizer, Conference on New Economic Criticism, sponsored by the Society for Critical Exchange, Case Western Reserve University, October, 1994.
• Program Committee, "Don DeLillo 'At The Edges of Perception,'" International Conference, March, 1998.
• Manuscript reader: Cornell UP; Stanford UP; U of Georgia P; U of Delaware P; U of Nevada P; Liverpool UP; PMLA; MFS; James Joyce Quarterly, Contemporary Literature; Mosaic; LIT; Papers on Language and Literature; Studies in Short Fiction, Studies in the Novel, Criticism.
• Program Committee, Joyce Conference, Philadelphia, 1989.

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Courses Taught

LOYOLA COLLEGE (Undergraduate):

• HN 280: Honors: The Modern World
• EN 130 (now EN 101): Understanding Literature
• EN 180: Introduction to Film and Literature: Reel Life Cycles: Identity and the Family in Film and Literature
• EN 201 and 202: Major English Writers II
• EN 370: Modern British and American Fiction
• EN 371: Postmodern Fiction
• EN 372: Modern British and American Poetry
• EN 375: Twentieth-Century Irish Literature
• EN 377: Topics in Twentieth-Century Literature: Modern Classic Revisions
• EN 381: Fiction and Film
• EN 382: Shades of Black: Film Noir and Post-war America (also taught as a seminar)
• EN 386: Seminar: The Cinema of Alfred Hitchcock: Rear Windows and Wrong Men
• EN 386: Seminar: From Berlin to Hollywood: German Directors and Classic American Cinema
• EN 387: Seminar: Fictions of Money: Unsettling Accounts
• EN 399: Seminar: James Joyce
• EN 399: Seminar: England Swings: the Literature, Film and Culture of England in the 1960s
• EN 399: Seminar: Blue Notes: The Literatures of Jazz
• EN 400: Aperio Seminar: Baltimore Jazz History
• EN 409: Senior Honors Seminar: Modern Classic Revisions: Twentieth-Century Rewritings of Classic Texts
• EN 410: Honors Thesis
• ID 111: The Films of Ingmar Bergman

LOYOLA COLLEGE (Graduate):

• MM 680: Shades of Black: Film Noir and Post-war America
• MM 721: Fiction and Film

EMORY UNIVERSITY:

Freshman Composition; Advanced Composition; Introduction to Literature; Twentieth-Century British Novel; Perspectives on Nuclear War.

UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA:

Freshman composition.

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Academic Service

English Department:

• Co-ordinator, Jerome S. Cardin Memorial Lecture by Marc Shell, 1997.
• Chair, Teaching Evaluation Committee, 1999-2000.
• Directed Honors Theses for Dana Schwartz, 2009; Emily Oswald, 2006; Michael Winder, 2003; Timothy Jecmen, 2001; Amanda Ross, 1999; Heather McCarron, Laurie Robertson, 1997; Patrick Kennedy, 1994.
• Curriculum Review Committee, 1994-95.
• Director, English Dept. Honors, 1991-present.
• Co-Sponsor, Sigma Tau Delta (English Honors Society), 1991-5.
• Co-Chair, English Dept. Speakers Committee, 1990-91.
• English Dept. Hiring Committees, 1989, 1992, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2007.
• English Dept. library liaison, 1988-91.
• Majors Adviser, 1992-present.

College:

• Director of Film Studies, 1998-present.
• Humanities Representative to Loyola Conference, 2003-present.
• Budget Committee, 2003-present.
• Chair: Curriculum Committee, 1997-98; Vice-Chair, 1995-96.
• Chair: Film Studies Committee, 1998-present.
• Writing and Media Self-Study Task Force, 2000.
• Nachbahr Award Committee, 2000-03.
• Faculty Compensation Committee, 2000-03.
• Subcommittee on Assessment, Middle States Accreditation Task Force, 1998.
• Participant in Multiculturalism Curriculum Infusion Institute, May-June, 1999.
• Chair: Curriculum Subcommittee, Multicultural Affairs Committee, 1993-95. Coordinated and planned two curriculum infusion workshops, Spring, 1995.
• Honors Council, 1992-4, 1998-2001.
• Committee on Gender Studies, 1993-5.
• Faculty Seminar on Multicultural Literature and Theory, 1993.
• Multicultural Affairs Committee, 1991-98.
• Diversity Plan Revision Subcommittee, 1992-3.
• Personnel Subcommittee, Multicultural Affairs, 1991-3.
• Loyola/Notre Dame Library Committee, 1991-2.
• Student Speakers Series Committee, 1991-2.
• Core Adviser, 1989-90; 1993-4; 1996-7, 2001-present.
• Loyola College Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Combo, 1991-present.
• Associate Editor, Presence (Jesuit-Lay Collaboration Magazine), 1988-90.

Public:

• Member: Autism Society of America
• President: Baltimore Jazz Alliance (see links to view the BJA website).

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Personal

Married to Leslie Gilden; one son.
Professional saxophonist and vocalist with Cold Spring Jazz Quartet (see musical resume for full list of recordings and performances). http://www.coldspringjazz.com.

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