RANDY BOYAGODA
Books authored:
1. Race, Immigration and American Identity in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie, Ralph Ellison, and William Faulkner. New York: Routledge, 2008. 143 pp.
2. Governor of the Northern Province. Toronto: Penguin, 2006. 231 pp. Finalist for ScotiaBank Giller Prize for Fiction, 2006.
Chapters in books:
1. “Running in the Family/Running from the Family: Remembering versus Representing Sri Lanka in the Diaspora.” In Beyond Nations: Diasporas and Transnational Engagement, edited by R. Cheran and Sepali Gurunge. (Routledge, under consideration).
Papers in refereed Journals:
1. “A Deus Ex Machina in Flannery O‟Connor‟s „The Displaced Person.‟” The Southern Literary Journal (forthcoming, Fall 2010).
2. “Digital Conversion Experiences in Don DeLillo‟s Cosmopolis.” Studies in American Culture 30.1 (2007): 11-26. Winner, Jerome Stern Award for Best Essay, 2006.
3. “From St. Augustine to Salman Rushdie: Time and Narrative in Postcolonial and Pluralist Literatures.” Postcolonial Text 1.1 (2004): Online publication.
4. “Just where and what is „the (comparatively speaking) South? Caribbean writers on Melville and Faulkner.” Mississippi Quarterly 57.1 (2004): 65-74.
5. “Three Kings of Disorient: A Globalized Search for Home in Salman Rushdie‟s The Ground Beneath Her Feet.” South Asian Review 24.1 (2003): 130-143.
Papers Read at Conferences:
1. “Diasporic Designs on the Nation of Immigrants.” Relation and Interaction in American Identity Construction Conference. Toulouse, FR, June 2010.
2. “„Evoke the forms: the need for the sacred in Cormac McCarthy‟s The Road.” Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Boston, MA. Feb 2009.
3. “Running in the Family/Running for the Family: Remembering versus Representing Sri Lanka in the Diaspora.”Beyond Nation Conference, Penang, Malaysia. Feb 2009.
4. “Digital Conversion Experiences in Don DeLillo‟s Cosmopolis.” American Cultural Studies Assoc. in the South Conference. Jacksonville, FLA, September 2007.
5. “Fated Flight: Writing and Moving Against the Burdens of History in Edward. P. Jones‟ Short Fiction.” American Literature Assoc. Convention. Boston, MA, May 2007.
6. “From Revolutionary Through Cold War: The Russian Outlanders of Faulkner‟s South.” Modern Language Assoc. Convention. Washington, DC, 2005.
7. “The Southern Gentleman and the American Hero: Restoring Manhood in O‟Connor‟s „The Displaced Person.‟” American Literature Assoc. Convention. Boston, MA, 2007.
8. “Ralph Ellison and his Invisible Americans.” Ethics and Ethnicity in U.S. Literature Symposium. A Coruña, Spain, 2003.
9. “Just where and what is „the (comparatively speaking) South? Caribbean writers on Melville and Faulkner.” Society for the Study of Southern Literature Symposium. Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, 2002.
Invited Lectures:
1. “Living and writing along the hyphen: The cultural politics of immigrant fiction.” International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2007.
Book reviews:
1. Halldorson, Stephanie S. The Hero in Contemporary American Fiction: The Works of Saul Bellow and Don De Lillo, in University of Toronto Quarterly 78.1 (434-435).
2. Donoghue, Denis, Speaking of Beauty, in University of Toronto Quarterly 74.3 (2005): 877-880.
3. Kermode, Frank, Pieces of My Mind: Essays and Criticism 1958-2002, in Religion and Literature 36.2 (2004): 139-142.
4. Hitchens, Christopher, Why Orwell Matters, and Rodden, Michael, Scenes from an After- Life: The Legacy of George Orwell, in Dalhousie Review 83.2 (2003): 233-238.
Other Literary and Cultural Scholarship:
1. “The Vertiginous Artist as a Young Man” (on Aleksandar Hemon). Harper’s 319.1912 (2009): 90-94.
2. “Spiritual Citizenship” (on R.J. Neuhaus). The Walrus 6.6 (2009): 60-63.
3. “Fifty Years of Josef Skvorecky.” The Walrus 5.8 (2008): 89-93.
4. “One Hundred Years at Forty” (on G.G. Marquez). The Walrus 4.10 (2007): 99-101.
5. “In Paris with Mavis Gallant, Writer.” The Walrus 4.6 (2007): 88-95.
6. “The Business of Being Ralph Ellison.” Harper’s 313.1882 (2007): 93-98.
7. “Europe‟s Original Sin” (on Tony Judt et al). The Walrus 4.1 (2007): 76-80.
8. “A Writer Above Politics” (on Orhan Pamuk). The New York Times 156.53732 (2006): A13.
9. “Magic and Greed” (on Ngugi wa Thiong‟o). Harper’s 312.1873 (2006): 93-98.
10. “The Possibility of a Pornographic Moralist” (on Michel Houellebecq). The Walrus 3.5 (2006): 84-87.
11. “Bleakness” (on Jose Saramago). Harper’s 312.1871 (2006): 89-74.
12. “Rising China, Razing Mao.” The Walrus 3.1 (2006): 84-89.
13. “Identity Crisis” (on Orhan Pamuk). The Walrus 2.6 (2005): 84-89.
14. “Cities in a Raw Young Century” (on Suketu Mehta). The Walrus 2.3 (2005): 71- 75.
Other: Critical Responses:
1. Chair and Respondent. “Modernism of „The Mixed Crowd‟: (Im)migration and Innovation in U.S. Cities 1890-1924.” Modernist Studies Assoc. Conference. Chicago, IL., 2005.
2. Chair and Respondent. “Hemingway, Faulkner, and the Great American Writer: The Sound and Fury of Competition.” American Literature Assoc. Convention. Boston, MA, 2003.