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Myra Jehlen English Department Rutgers University New Brunswick, N.J. 08901-1167 email: [email protected] VITA Degrees: B.A., City College of New York, 1961. Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1968. Dissertation: William Faulkner and the South, directed by Henry Nash Smith. Employment: New York University, Instructor, 1966-68. Columbia University, Assistant Professor, 1968-72. State University of New York, College at Purchase, Associate Professor and Professor, 1972-85. Rutgers University, Professor, 1985-1989. University of Pennsylvania, Chaired Professor, 1989-1992. Rutgers University, Board of Governors Professor, 1992-present. Grants and Fellowships: Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1961-1962, Dissertation Fellow 1964-1965; National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellow; 1974-1975; National Humanities Center Fellow, 1985-1986; Guggenheim,1990-1991 (declined ACLS Fellowship to accept Guggenheim). Professional Service and Affiliations: Editorial Board, PMLA,1985-87. Executive Council, MLA, 1988-1992. Executive Committee, MLA section on American literature to 1800, Chair 1989-1990. Selection Panels: Woodrow Wilson National Fellowships, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, National Humanities Center Fellowships, Charlotte Newcombe Fellowships, Burkhardt Fellowships. FIPSE Advisory Project, 1992-1994. Board of Trustees, Wenner-Gren Foundation, 1994-1999. Advisory Board, Woodrow Wilson National Foundation, 1993-1999. Selected Publications: Class and Character in Faulkner’s South,Columbia University Press, 1976; paperback 1980. "The Novel and the Middle Class in America," Salmagundi,Winter 1977. "J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur: A Monarcho-Anarchist in Revolutionary America," American Quartely, Summer 1979. "The American Landscape as Totem," Prospects 1981. "Archimedes and the Paradox of Feminist Criticism," Signs, Winter 1981; reprinted in Feminist Theory, A Critique of Ideology, edited by Nannerl O. Keohane, Michelle Z. Rosaldo and Barbara G. Gelpi, The University of Chicago Press, 1982; reprinted several times and in several languages. "The New Radical Criticism and the Limits of Transcendence," in Proceedings, of Conference on "Critical Theories of Society and Culture in the United States and West Germany since the 1960s," University of Frankfurt Press 1984. Ideology and the Classic American Literature, edited collection (with Sacvan Bercovitch), introductory essay, "Beyond Transcendence," Cambridge University Press, 1986. “Gender,” in Critical Terms: A Student’s Guide to Critical Theory, Frank Lentricchia and Tom McLaughlin, editors, The University of Chicago Press, 1989; second edition 1994. American Incarnation: The Individual, the Nation, and the Continent, Harvard University Press, 1986; paperback 1989. "How the Curriculum is the Least of Our Problems," ADE Bulletin, Fall 1989. “The Ties that Bind: Race and Sex in Mark Twain's Puddn’head Wilson” in Mark Twain’s Puddn’head Wilson: Race, Conflict,and Culture, Susan Gillman and Forrest G. Robinson editors, Duke University Press 1990. “The Story of History Told by the New Historicism,” in Reconstructing American Literary and Historical Studies, Gunter H. Lenz editor, Frankfurt 1990; St. Martin’s Press, New York 1990. "Literature and Authority," in Contemporary Critical Theory and the Teaching of Literature,Charles Moran, editor, NCTE Publications, 1990. "The Differential Calculus of Heroes and Heroines," Volume on Gender and Theory, University of Trento, Carla Locatelli editor, 1990. "Imitate Jesus and Socrates": The Making of a Good American," South Atlantic Quartely, Summer 1990. "The Family Militant: Domesticity versus Slavery in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Criticism, Fall 1990. ”The Civilizations of the New World and the State of Nature,” Revue Francaise d’Etudes Americaines, April-July 1991. ”Benjamin Franklin, or Machiavelli in Philadelphia,” in Benjamin Franklin: An American Genius, Gianfranca Balestra and Luigi Sampietro editors, Bulzoni, Rome 1993. The Papers of Empire, Part I, Volume I, Literary History of the United States, Sacvan Bercovitch, general editor, Cambridge University Press, 1992; paperback 1995. Melville, edited collection, in New Century Views, Richard Brodhead and Maynard Mack general editors,Prentice Hall,1992. "Why Did the European Cross the Ocean? A Seventeenth-Century Riddle," Cultures of United States Imperialism, Amy E. Kaplan and Donald E. Pease, editors, Duke University Press 1993. "History Before the Fact; or Captain John Smith's Unfinished Symphony," Critical Inquiry Summer 1993. "Banned in Concord: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Classic American Literature," The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain, Forrest Robinson, editor, 1995. "Flaubert's Nightmare," Profession 95, MLA. The English Literatures of Colonization (with Michael Warner), text, Routledge Press, 1996. "History Beside the Fact: What We Learn from A True and Exact History of Barbadoes” in The Politics of Research, E.Ann Kaplan and George Levine editors, Rutgers University Press 1997. “Multitudes and Multicultures,” in After Consensus: Critical Change and Social Change in America, Hans Lofgren editor, Acta Universalis Gothoburgensis, Goteborg 1998. "Faulkner and the Unnatural: The Hamlet,” in Faulkner and the Natural World: Faulkner and Yoknaptawpha, Donald Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie editors, University of Mississippi Press 1999. "An Empire of One's Own: Virginia Woolf'’s A Voyage Out" in La tipographia nel salotto: sagi su Virginia Woolf, Oriana Palusci editor, Tirrenia Stampatori 1999. “Guggenheim in Bilbao,” Raritan, Spring 1999 “Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans,” in Il romanzo, Franco Moretti editor,Einaudi 2002; Princeton University Press, 2004. Readings at the Edge of Literature, University of Chicago Press, 2002. “The Seditious Aesthetic of Hawthorne’s House of the Seven Gables” in Anglistica, University of Naples, Volume 6, n. 1, 2002 “F.P.” Raritan, Spring 2002; reprinted, Best Essays of 2002; Pushcart Essay, 2002. “Melville’s Concept of Class,” Oxford Companion to Melville, edited by Giles Gunn, New York 2005. “Felicite and the Holy Parrot,” Raritan, Spring 2007. Five Fictions in Search of Truth, Princeton University Press, 2008. .
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