MICHAEL P. BIBLER CURRICULUM VITAE Department of English 408 Beverly Drive Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70806 212-O Allen Hall 225.678.9315 Baton Rouge, LA 70803 [email protected] 225.578.2987 [email protected] EDUCATION Ph.D. in English, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 2001 B.A. in English, with honors, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 1993 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Associate Professor, Department of English, Louisiana State University, 2013-present. Robert Penn Warren Distinguished Professor, LSU, 2018-present. Affiliate: Women’s and Gender Studies Program & African and African-American Studies Program, LSU 2013- present. Reader* in American Studies, Department of Humanities, Northumbria University, UK, 2012-2013. Lecturer* in American Literature and Culture, Department of English, American Studies, and Creative Writing, University of Manchester, UK, 2007-2012. Assistant Professor of 20th and 21st Century American Fiction, Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, University of Mary Washington, 2004-2007. * N.B.: In the UK, Lecturer roughly corresponds to Assistant Professor; Senior Lecturer roughly corresponds to Associate Professor; and Reader stands between Senior Lecturer and Full Professor. HONORS AND AWARDS Honors and Awards Robert Penn Warren Distinguished Professorship, 2018-2021 LSU Alumni Association Faculty Excellence Award, 2016 Tiger Athletic Fund Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2015 Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Prize for best essay published by a member of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature, 2013, for “How To Love Your Local Homophobe.” Member, Phi Beta Kappa Grants Funded LSU Manship Summer Research Fellowship, “Crashing the Normal: Reagan-Era Normalcy and the Queer Ethics of The B-52’s,” 2017 LSU English Department Regents Research Grant, “Acting Literal: Richard Linklater’s Bernie and Small- Town Southern Camp,” 2017 NEH Summer Stipend, “Property, Intimacy, and the Literature of U.S. Slavery,” 2015 LSU Manship Summer Research Fellowship, “Sexuality and the Antebellum South,” 2015 LSU Manship Summer Research Fellowship, “Property, Slavery, and Sexuality,” 2014 British Association for American Studies Founders’ Research Travel Award, 2011 British Academy Overseas Conference Travel Grant, 2008 UMW Faculty Development Grant, Summer 2005 and Summer 2006 Women’s Studies Teaching Fellowship, Tulane University, 2003-2004 Graduate Fellowship, Tulane University, 1993-1998 Michael P. Bibler 1 Curriculum Vitae Grants Not Funded Louisiana Board of Regents ATLAS Grant, “Silly Pleasures: Queer, Camp, Nonce, and the Art of Being Literal.” NEH Fellowship, “Intimacy and Property in Antebellum Southern Literature” Louisiana Board of Regents ATLAS Grant, “Possessive Intimacey: Slavery, Sexuality, and Property in Antebellum Southern Literature.” ORED Major Proposal Planning Grant, LSU, “Center for Sexuality Studies” 2013-14 and (revised) 2014-15 British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant, 2012, “An International Performance History of William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying” British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, 2011, “Truman Capote and the Perils of Conformity” British Academy Small Research Grant, 2009, “Slavery, Property, and Sexuality in Antebellum Southern Literature and Culture” PUBLICATIONS Monograph Cotton’s Queer Relations: Same-Sex Intimacy and the Literature of the Southern Plantation, 1936-1968. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-8139-2792-3 (pbk), 978-0-8139-2791-6 (cloth). * Reviewed in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Journal of American Studies, African American Review, Southern Literary Journal, American Literary History, American Literature, Journal of American History, Journal of Homosexuality, Journal of the History of Sexuality, Gender & History, Callaloo, Western Journal of Black Studies, Southern Historian, Gay and Lesbian Review, and Feminist Review. * Chapter 3, “Homoness and Fluidity in Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” has been reprinted in Harold Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations of Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (New York: Bloom’s Literary Criticism, 2011). Edited Collection Just Below South: Intercultural Performance in the Caribbean and the U.S. South, co-edited with Jessica Adams and Cécile Accilien. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-8139-2600-1 (pbk), 978- 0-8139-2599-8 (cloth). * Reviewed in Journal of American Ethnic History, Journal of American Studies, NWIG: New West Indian Guide, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of Southern History, Hispanic Research Journal, International Journal of Francophone Studies, American Book Review, Journal of Haitian Studies, Nineteenth Century Prose, African Diaspora Archeology Newsletter, H-Southern Lit (online). Scholarly Edition Drums at Dusk, by Arna Bontemps, originally published in 1939, with a critical introduction, co-edited and co- written with Jessica Adams. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-8071- 3439-9 (pbk). * Reviewed in Callaloo. Featured on the Washington Post blog “Short Stack”: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/shortstack/2009/08/forgotten_african-american_nov.html. Journal Articles “Capote’s Frozen Cats: Sexuality, Hospitality, Civil Rights.” Angelaki 23.1 (2018): 116-130. “Water Skis and Dirty Back Roads: Reorienting the Deep South.” south: a scholarly journal 48.1 (2016): 5-15. “Introduction: Smash the Mason-Dixon! or, Manifesting Southern United States.” PMLA 131.1 (2016): 153- 156. Introduction for a cluster of essays I edited for the section “The Changing Profession,” entitled “Adjust Your Maps: Manifestos from, for, and about United States Southern Studies.” “How to Love Your Local Homophobe: Southern Hospitality and the Unremarkable Queerness of Truman Capote’s ‘The Thanksgiving Visitor.’” MFS: Modern Fiction Studies 58.2 (2012): 284-307. * Awarded the inaugural Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Prize for best essay published by a member of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature, 2013. Michael P. Bibler 2 Curriculum Vitae “Queer Antiracism and the Forgotten Fiction of Murrell Edmunds, a Southern ‘Revolutionary.’” Philological Quarterly 90.2-3 (2011): 287-316. “The Flood Last Time: ‘Muck’ and the Uses of History in Kara Walker’s ‘Rumination’ on Katrina.” Journal of American Studies 44.3 (2010): 503-518. “Always the Tragic Jezebel: New Orleans, Katrina, and the Layered Discourses of a Doomed Southern City.” Southern Cultures 14.2 (2008): 6-27. “‘A Tenderness Which Was Uncommon’: Homosexuality, Narrative and the Southern Plantation in Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” Mississippi Quarterly 55.3 (2002): 381-400. Book Chapters “Photography and the Southern Gothic.” Introduction to Night of the Hunted, a book of photography by Matt Henry. Hatje Kantz, 2018. “Truman Capote’s Gothic Politics.” Palgrave Handbook of the Southern Gothic. Eds. Susan Castillo and Charles Crow. London: Palgrave, 2016. 391-402. “Queer/Quare.” Keywords for Southern Studies. Eds. Scott Romine and Jennifer Rae Greeson. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2016. 200-212. “Masculine Sentiment, Racial Fetishism, and Same-Sex Desire in Antebellum Southern Literature.” Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the U.S. South. Eds. Barbara Ladd and Fred Hobson. New York: Oxford UP, 2016. 139-158. “Addie Bundren Lives! Feminist Bodies in Valerie Bettis’s Modern Dance Adaptation of As I Lay Dying.” Fifty Years after Faulkner: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha. Eds. Jay Watson and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2016. 138-153. “The Cold War Closet.” The Cambridge Companion to American Gay and Lesbian Literature. Ed. Scott Herring. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 122-138. “Serpents in the Garden: Historic Preservation, Climate Change, and the Postsouthern Plantation.” Creating and Consuming the South. Eds. Martyn Bone, Brian Ward, and William A. Link. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2015. 117-138. “Queering the Region.” Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American South. Ed. Sharon Monteith. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 188-203. “Making a Real Phony: Truman Capote’s Queerly Southern Regionalism in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, a Short Novel and Three Stories.” Just Below South: Intercultural Performance in the Caribbean and the U.S. South. Eds. Jessica Adams, Michael P. Bibler and Cécile Accilien. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007. 211-238. “‘As If Set Free into Another Land’: Homosexuality, Rebellion and Community in William Styron’s The Confessions of Nat Turner.” Perversion and the Social Relation. Eds. Slavoj Žižek, Molly Anne Rothenberg, and Dennis Foster. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. 159-186. Encyclopedia Articles and Reviews Review of Calypso Magnolia: The Crosscurrents of Caribbean and Southern Literature, by John W. Lowe New West Indian Guide 92.1-2 (2018). Review of Wright State University’s Paul Laurence Dunbar Digital Text Collection. Journal of American History 102.3 (December 2015): 978-979. Review of The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within U.S. Slave Culture, by Vincent Woodard. American Historical Review 120.4 (October 2015): 1489-90. Review: “An Opera of Sex, Race, and Empire: William Gilmore Simms’s Vasconselos: A Romance of the New World.” The Simms Review 22.1-2 (2014): 89-94. Review of Gender Protest and Same-Sex Desire in Antebellum American Literature: Margaret Fuller, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville, by David Greven. Studies in the Novel 47.2 (Summer 2015): 272- 273.