Current date: December 1, 2013 John Carlos Rowe Wife: Kristin Hornor 700 Kings Road Children: Sean, Kevin, Mark Newport Beach, California 92663 Birth: 12/11/1945 Home: 949-760-9537 Office: 213-821-5594 FAX: 949-760-9537 EMAIL: [email protected]

Education

The Johns Hopkins University B.A. with honors (1967) State University of New York: Buffalo Ph.D. in English (1972)

Doctoral Dissertation

"Restless Analysts: Henry Adams and Henry James. A Study in the Function of Modern Symbolism," directed Joseph N. Riddel.

Academic Positions

University of Southern California USC Associates’ Professor

Professor of English and

Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity (2004 - )

University of California, Irvine Professor Emeritus (2004- )

Professor, Above Scale (1996-2004) Professor (1981-1996) Associate Professor (1977-1981) Assistant Professor (1975-1977)

Distinguished Visiting Professor American University of Cairo November 2011

Amerika-Institut

1 Ludwig Maximilians Universität Visiting Professor (Munich, Germany) Sommersemester 2001

Universität des Saarlandes (Saarbrücken, West Germany) Senior Fulbright Lecturer (1974-75)

Emory University Visiting Professor (Summer of l974)

University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) Assistant Professor (1971-1975)

Teaching Awards

Class of 2000 Outstanding Professor in the School of Humanities, University of California, Irvine 1999-2000

Distinguished Faculty Lectureship for Teaching Academic Senate, University of California, Irvine 1988-1989

Distinguished Teaching Award, Alumni Association, University of California, Irvine 1981

Awards and Fellowships

U.S. Director, International American Studies, TransCoop Program, Humboldt Foundation (Germany). Three-year research program with Free University, Potsdam University, Humboldt Univ., Dartmouth College, and USC 2006-2009

Senior Specialist, Fulbright Commission (Romania) 2005-2006

Director, Residential Research Group, “Post-National American Studies,” University of California Humanities Research Institute Fall/Winter 1996-97

Director, NEH Intersegmental Summer Institute, “Bridging the Gaps: Critical Theory, American Literature and American Cultures” Summer1995,1996 Director, "The Work of Intellectuals," a postdoctoral research seminar (involving 12 postdoctoral scholars) sponsored by the Humanities Research Institute of the University of California Fall 1989

2 Director, National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar for College Teachers, "American Literature and Modern Theory" Summer 1986

Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in the Humanities 1982-1983

Faculty Fellowship, University of California, Irvine 1982-1983

Summer Research Grant, University of California, Irvine 1976

Fellow, School of Criticism and Theory, University of California, Irvine 1976

Fulbright Lectureship, Fulbright-Hayes and the International Exchange of Scholars (Universität des Saarlandes, Anglistik, Saarbrücken, West Germany) 1974-1975

Best Book Review of the Year, Arizona Quarterly 1973

Summer Research Grant, University of Maryland 1973

University Fellowship, State University of New York 1970-1971

Professional Organizations and Research Affiliations

Editorial Board, Romanian Journal of American Studies (2011 - )

Faculty Advisory Board, International Museum Institute, Fisher Museum of the University of Southern California (2009 - )

Scientific Board (Editorial Board), Letterature America (Italy)

Professional Associate, Centre for Foreign Policy, Media, and Culture, University of Birmingham (UK)

Elected Member, National Council, American Studies Association 2004-2007

Board of Managing Editors, American Quarterly (2004-2010)

Editorial Board, The Henry James Review

3 Advisory Board, Arizona Quarterly

Editorial Collective, Cultural Critique

Editorial Board, Novel

Editorial Board, Comparative American Studies

American Studies Association

Ralph Gabriel Dissertation Prize Committee, American Studies Association, 2001

Modern Language Association of America

Regional Delegate, Modern Language Association, 1986-1989 Delegate Assembly Steering Committee, Modern Language Association, 1986-1989; Chair of the Steering Committee, 1988-1989

Advisory Council, American Literature Section, Modern Language Association, 1998- 2000

Executive Council, International American Studies Association

Organized Research Unit in Critical Theory, University of California, Irvine, 1987-2004

Henry James Society

Leon Edel Prize Committee, Henry James Society, 2005 Secretary-Treasurer, 2009-2010 Vice-President, 2010-2011 President, 2011-2012

Courses Taught

University of Maryland

Modern Novel American Literature (various surveys) Introduction to the Novel American Travel and Autobiography Contemporary American Fiction

4 Emory University

Modern American Poetry Modern Criticism: Phenomenology and Structuralism (graduate)

Universität des Saarlandes

Modern German and American Fiction (graduate) American Travel and Autobiography (graduate) Modern American Poetry Contemporary American Fiction Nineteenth-Century American Literature (lecture) Modern American Literature (lecture)

University of California, Irvine

Modern American Poetry Nineteenth-Century American Literature (regular graduate seminar) American Travel and Autobiography (graduate) American Literature: 1865-1914 (graduate) American Realism and Naturalism (regular graduate and undergrad) Contemporary American Literature (regular graduate and undergrad) Literature and Psychology Modern Theories of the Reader Fundamentals of Phenomenology Philosophic Backgrounds to Modern Literature: Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, and Husserl (with Alexander Gelley) (graduate seminar) Modernism: The Symbolist Tradition (Comparative Literature) Existentialism (Comparative Literature) Modern Critical Theory: From Kant to Structuralism (regular graduate survey) Hawthorne and Melville (graduate) From Realism to Existentialism (Comparative Literature) Ideologies of Structuralism and Post-Structuralism (advanced theory graduate seminar in the Critical Theory Program) Vietnam in American Literature Senior Comprehensive Course (third quarter: nineteenth-century American literature and Anglo-American modernism; course based on a standard reading list for English Majors) Nineteenth-Century American literature and philosophy (graduate) Modern Theories of Periodization (advanced theory graduate seminar in the Critical Theory Program) Humanities Core Course Lecturer (a large, interdisciplinary introduction to the Humanities for freshmen and sophomores The Politics of American Romanticism (graduate seminar)

5 Vietnam on Film (documentary and stylized films in America), Film Studies Program Theories of Postmodern Culture (advanced theory graduate seminar in the Critical Theory Program) Race and Gender in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (graduate seminar) Anglo-American Modernism (regular undergraduate survey) Domestic Sit-Coms on Television: 1953-1988 (Film Studies) What Is an Author? (undergraduate theory seminar) Theories of American Literature and Culture (grad. seminar) Comparative Studies of the Americas (comparative literature) "`Indians': The Literary Construction of the Native American Other" (graduate seminar) Postmodernism: Race, Class, and Gender (with Mark Poster advanced theory graduate seminar in the Critical Theory Program) History of Criticism (undergraduate introduction: Plato and Aristotle to Cixous and Althusser) Cyberculture: Fiction, Film, TV (Film Studies undergrad) Multicultural U.S. Fiction: 1970-1990 (undergrad) Postmodernism and Multiculturalism (Theory Seminar) U.S. Modernism and U.S. Imperialism U.S. Modernisms: High Modernism, the Harlem Renaissance, the Pan-Indian Movement, and the Thirties’ Left

University of Southern California:

The Transnational American Renaissance (graduate seminar) U.S. Modernisms (graduate seminar) Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Transnationality (graduate seminar) Multiculturalism and U.S. Literature American Literature, 1865-1920 Postmodernism and Multiculturalism Theories of the Americas Cosmopolitan Cultures Native American Literature (new undergraduate course) Introduction to American Studies (new undergraduate course) America, the Frontier, and the New West (American Studies)

Other Teaching

NEH “Digital Publishing in American Studies and Ethnicity,” Summer Institute, co- directed by Tara McPherson, Phillip Ethington, John Carlos Rowe, “Vectors” and the Institute for Multimedia Literacy, University of Southern California (July 18 – August 12, 2011)

NEH “Bridging the Gaps,” Intersegmental Summer Seminars (1995: Multicultural US

6 Literature; 1996: Race and Gender in 19C US Literature); seminars bringing together high school, community college, and four-year college teachers from Southern California.

Summer M.A. Program in English: "Theories of U.S. Literature and Culture" (1989), "U.S. Realism and Naturalism" (1991), “Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature” (1992), “Postmodernism and Multiculturalism” (1999), and “U.S. Modernisms” (2000)

NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers, "American Literature and Modern Theory," 1986, Irvine

UCI-Santa Ana Teachers Institute, Center for Educational Partnerships, UC, Irvine: Seminar on “U.S. Literary Culture and Globalization,” February 28 - August 1, 2000

Administrative Experience

University of Maryland

Secretary and member, Executive Committee, Department of English Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (drafted new English Major)

University of California, Irvine

Director, Comparative Literature (2003 - 2004) Director, African American Studies (2002 - 2004); Acting Director (1994-1995; 1999- 2000) Director, Critical Theory Emphasis, 2002-2003 Director, Critical Theory Institute (an Organized Research Unit), University of California, Irvine, 1993-1996 Chair, Humanities Executive Committee, 1988-1990 Chair, Department of English and Comparative Literature, 1979-1982 Chair, University Extension Committee, 1978-1980 Chair, English Council (council of UC English chairs), 1981-1982 Director of Writing, Humanities Core Course, 1976-1978 Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Policies regarding "No Action" personnel actions, School of Humanities, 1982 Chair, Ad Hoc Committee to review ESL Program in the School of Humanities, 1986-1987 Various departmental committees, including ad hoc committee that drafted a new curriculum for new undergraduate requirements in writing for the campus Executive Committee, Academic Senate, 1978-1980 Executive Committee, Department of English and Comparative Literature, 1975-1976,

7 1994-1995 Humanities Major Committee, 1980 Bookstore Committee, 1979-1982 (proposed and realized a new campus bookstore, administered exclusively by the University) Committee on English as a Second Language, School of Humanities, 1979-1982 Advisory Committee to ESL Programs in University Extension, 1979-1983 Systemwide UC Committee on Freshman Composition requirements, 1981-1982 Director, Lower-Division Writing Requirement (1979-1982) Chair, Lectures Committee, Department of English, 1983-1984 Member, Film Studies Committee and Executive Committee, 1982-1992 Elected Representative of the Humanities to Academic Senate, 1984-1986, 1994-1996 Critical Theory Curriculum Committee, English and Comparative Literature, 1983- 1987, 1989-1993, 1999- Critical Theory Program, School of Humanities, 1982- ; Steering Committee, 1995 - Planning and Budget Committee, 1984-1985 Privilege and Tenure Committee, 1985 Symposium Organizer and Director: Department of English and Comparative Literature's annual Spring Symposium ("The Self in Literature: Authority, Identity and Reputation"), May 14,1984. Lectures by David Minter, Stephen Greenblatt, and Leo S. Braudy. University Research Committee, 1985-1988 Subcommittee on Conflict of Interest, 1987-1988 Program Director, Inauguration of the Western Chapter of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fall of 1985. School of Humanities, Corps of Freshman Advisors, 1984-1987 Graduate Council, 1987-1990 Search Committee, East Asian Studies Director, UCI, 1988-1989 Symposium Organizer and Director: "The Function of Cultural Criticism at the Present Time," sponsored by the University of California's Humanities Research Institute (Speakers: David Lloyd, Paul Rabinow, Liz Lyon, Donna Przybylowicz, Martin Jay, Mark Poster, Jochen Schulte-Sasse, Richard Berg, John Carlos Rowe, Michael McKeon, Abdul JanMohamed), November 18-21, 1988. Conference Organizer: “Critical Cosmopolitanisms,” sponsored by the Women’s Studies, African American Studies, Asian American Studies at UC, Irvine (Speakers: Caren Kaplan, Lisa Lowe, Etienne Balibar, Bruce Robbins, Mary Louise Pratt, Akhil Gupta), March 7, 2003.

University of Southern California

Chair, Department of American Studies and Ethnicity (2008-2011) Acting Chair, Department of American Studies and Ethnitiy (Summers 2006 - 2008) Director, Graduate Admissions, Department of English (2005-2007) Graduate Committee, Department of English (2005-2007) Faculty Advisor, Undergraduate Students, Program in American Studies and Ethnicity

8 Conference Organizer: “American without Borders,” sponsored by the USC Associates and American Studies and Ethnicity, October 6-8, 2006 (Speakers: Ruthie Gilmore, Michelle Commander, William Arce, John Carlos Rowe, Marci McMahon, Donald Pease, Ulla Haselstein, Sieglinde Lemke, Günter Lenz, Rüdiger Kunow, Crina Bordelean, and others). Event Organizer: “El Mexorcist 4,” Guillermo Gómez-Peña performance at the Fisher Museum, sponsored by “Visions and Voices,” January 28, 2009, University of Southern California. Event Organizer: “An Evening with Sherman Alexie,” Newman Recital Hall, February 26, 2009, sponsored by Spectrum, University of Southern California.

Research Groups

Global Peace and Conflict Studies in the Humanities, Irvine, helped found this group in 1991-1992 Critical Theory Institute (ORU): one of the founding members of the original FRP; Executive Committee, 1981- ; Acting Director,1992-3; Director, 1993-1996

Consulting

Various consultations over the years, of which the following is a partial list:

The American Association for Higher Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching National Endowment for the Humanities Modern Language Association and PMLA College English Nineteenth-Century Literature Mid-Continent Journal in American Studies American Quarterly Cultural Critique Henry James Review Mosaic Arizona Quarterly Novel Modern Fiction Studies Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era American Council of Learned Societies Guggenheim Foundation Princeton, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, Penn State, University of North Carolina, University of Illinois, University of California, Indiana University, University of Chicago, University of Wisconsin, Oxford, Methuen, Rutgers, Cambridge, Yale, Mississippi, and other university presses

9 Community Service

Tutor and Librarian, Shalimar Learning Center (Costa Mesa, CA), a center that tutors Mexican-American and Chicano/a students, K-12, 1997- 2001 FIPSE, Disciplinary Dialogues, Intersegmental Education Initiative (collaborative work with high school, community college, CSU, and UC teachers and administrators), 1991- 1993 Lectures on Television Sit-Coms, Tustin High School, 1988 Lectures on Popular Film, Tustin High School, 1987 Lectures on Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer, Harbor Day School, Sixth_Grade Class, 1983- Present (an annual lecture) Lectures on various topics in modern literature, Newport Harbor High School, 1980-1983 Faculty Colloquium Lectures, 1979, 1981, 1984, 1986, 1993, UC, Irvine Talks to Honor Students, 1985, 1988 Host and Sponsor, area High School English Teachers, dinner and colloquium, English and Comparative Literature, UC, Irvine, Spring 1981 In-Service for High School Teachers of Literature, Montgomery County School District, Summer of 1973

10 PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH: JOHN CARLOS ROWE

BOOKS

The Cultural Politics of the New American Studies. London: Open Humanities Press/ University of Michigan Publishing, 2012. www.openhumanitiespress.org

Afterlives of Modernism: Liberalism, Transnationalism, and Political Critique. New Americanists. Hanover, N. H.: Dartmouth College Press of the University Press of New England, 2011.

The New American Studies. Critical American Studies series. University of Minnesota Press, 2002.

Rpt. A Future for American Studies. Chinese Translation, Foreign Languages Institute, Beijing University Press, 2008.

Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism: From the Revolution to World War II. Oxford University Press, 2000.

The Other Henry James. New Americanists series. Duke University Press, 1998.

At Emerson's Tomb: The Politics of Classic American Literature. Columbia University Press, 1997. Available online from the Online Books Evaluation Project, Columbia University Press.

The Theoretical Dimensions of Henry James. The Wisconsin Project on American Authors. University of Wisconsin Press, 1984; Methuen, 1985; paperback, 1985.

Through the Custom-House: Nineteenth-Century American Fiction and Modern Theory. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.

Henry Adams and Henry James: The Emergence of a Modern Consciousness. Cornell

11 University Press, 1976.

EDITIONS

Lindon Barrett, Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity. Eds. Justin A. Joyce, Dwight McBride, and John Carlos Rowe. New Black Studies series (Darlene Clark Hine and Dwight A. McBridge) (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, forthcoming 2013).

A Historical Guide to Henry James. Eds. John Carlos Rowe and Eric Haralson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Re-Framing the Transnational Turn in American Studies. Eds. Winfried Fluck, Donald Pease, and John Carlos Rowe. Hanover: Dartmouth College Press of the University Press of New England, 2011.

A Concise Companion to American Studies. Blackwell’s Companions to Cultural Studies. Boston: Wiley-Blackwell’s, 2010. Available online: www.blackwellreference.com

Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller. New Riverside Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.

Post-Nationalist American Studies. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

“Culture” and the Problem of the Disciplines. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.

New Essays on The Education of Henry Adams. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Available online from Literature Online (Chadwyck-Healey electronic publisher)

Rpt.: English-language reprint of the Cambridge University Press edition. Peking: Peking University Press, 2007.

The Vietnam War and American Culture, eds. John Carlos Rowe and Rick Berg. Columbia University Press, 1991. Paper, 1993.

American Representations of Vietnam, Special Issue, Cultural Critique, I (Spring 1986), co-edited with Rick Berg

12 ESSAYS

"The Symbolization of Milly Theale: Henry James's The Wings of the Dove," ELH, XL (Fall 1973), 131-164.

"The Authority of the Sign in Henry James's The Sacred Fount," Criticism, XIX (Summer 1977), 223-240.

"Writing and Truth in Poe's Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym," Glyph 2: Johns Hopkins Textual Studies (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977), pp. 102-121.

"The `Super-Historical' Sense of Hart Crane's The Bridge," Genre, special issue on the twentieth-century long poem, ed. Joseph N. Riddel, XI (Winter 1978), 597-625.

Rpt.: Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, ed. Jennifer Gariepy (Detroit, MI: Gale Research, Inc., 1998). Available electronically from: GaleNet.

"`The Being of Language: The Language of Being' in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers,” Boundary 2, special issue: Revisions of the Anglo-American Tradition, ed. Paul Bové, part 2, VII (Spring 1979), 91-115.

"Structuralism or Post-Structuralism? The Problem of `The Discourse of History,'" Humanities in Society, II (Winter 1979), 17-23 (on the work of Hayden White).

With Anton Kaes (Professor of German, UC, Berkeley). "Das Ende der Avantgarde? Tendenzen der gegenwärtigen amerikanischen Erzählprosa," Die Literatur der siebziger Jahre, ed. Helmut Kreuzer, special issue of Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik, XXXV (1979), 13-26.

"The Internal Conflict of Romantic Narrative: Hegel's Phenomenology and Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter," MLN, Comparative Literature issue, XCV (December 1980), 1203- 1231.

13 "Who'se Henry James? Further Lessons of the Master," The Henry James Review, II (Fall 1980), 2-11.

"James's Rhetoric of the Eye: Re-Marking the Impression," Criticism, XXIV (Summer 1982), 233-260.

"Screwball: The Use and Abuse of Uncertainty in Henry James's The Turn of the Screw," Delta, special issue on Henry James, ed. Nancy Blake, XV (November 1982), 1-31.

Rpt.: New Casebooks: “The Turn of the Screw” and “What Maisie Knew,” eds. Neil Cornwell and Maggie Malone (Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan, 1998), pp. 54-78.

"`What the Thunder Said': James's Hawthorne and the American Anxiety of Influence," A Centennial Essay, The Henry James Review, IV (Winter 1983), 81-119.

"Alien Encounter: Thomas Berger's Neighbors as a Critique of Existential Humanism," Studies in American Humor, special issue on Thomas Berger, ed. Brom Weber, II, new series (Spring 1983), 45-60.

Rpt.: Critical Essays on Thomas Berger, ed. David W. Madden (New York: G. K. Hall and Co., Inc., 1995), pp. 111-124.

"After Freud: Henry James and Psychoanalysis," The Henry James Review, V (Spring, 1984), 226-232.

"Vietnam and American Literary Historiography," American Studies in Transition, ed. David E. Nye and Christen Kold Thomsen, Odense University Studies in English, vol. IX (Odense, Denmark: Odense Universitet Press, 1985), pp. 267-286.

"Deconstructing America: Recent Approaches to Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture," ESQ, XXXI (First Quarter, 1985), 49-63.

"`To Live outside the Law, You Must Be Honest': The Authority of the Margin in Contemporary Theory," Cultural Critique, I (Winter 1985-86), 35-68, on the work of Luce Irigaray, Geoffrey Hartman, and Edward Said.

"Surplus Economies: Deconstruction, Ideology, and the Humanities," The Aims of Representation: Subject/Text/History, ed. Murray Krieger, essays from the Irvine FRP in Critical Theory (New York: Columbia University Press, 1987), pp. 131-158.

"Eye-Witness: Documentary Styles in the American Representations of Vietnam," special issue of Cultural Critique, "The American Representations of Vietnam," eds. John Carlos Rowe and Richard Berg, I (Spring 1986), 126-150.

14 "Henry Adams," in the Columbia Literary History of the United States, ed. Emory Elliott (New York: Columbia University Press, 1987), 645-667.

"The Politics of Innocence in Henry James's The American," New Essays on "The American", ed. Martha Banta (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).

"The Politics of the Uncanny: Newman's Fate in The American," The Henry James Review, VIII (Winter 1987), 79-90.

"Modern Art and the Invention of Postmodern Capital," American Quarterly, special issue on "Modernist Culture in America," ed. Daniel Joseph Singal, XXXIX (Spring 1987), 155-173.

Rpt.: in Modernist Culture in America, ed. Daniel J. Singal, American Society and Culture series. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Press, 1991, pp. 203-228.

"`Bringing It All Back Home': American Recyclings of the Vietnam War," Working Papers, Center for Twentieth-Century Studies (Fall 1988), 1-18. [A short version of the following essay]

"`Bringing It All Back Home': American Recyclings of the Vietnam War," The Violence of Representation: Literature and the History of Violence, eds. Leonard Tennenhouse and Nancy Armstrong (Routledge, 1989), pp. 197-218.

"Metavideo: Fictionality and Mass Media in Our Postmodern Economy," White on White: Essays on Intertextuality and Contemporary American Fiction, eds. Robert Con Davis and Patrick O'Donnell, pp. 214-235. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.

"Structure," essay in Critical Terms: A Student's Guide to Literary Theory, eds. Frank Lentricchia and Tom McLaughlin, pp. 23-38. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. Second Edition, 1995.

"Fatal Speculations: Murder, Money, and Manners in Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson," in Mark Twain's "Pudd'nhead Wilson:” Race, Conflict, and Culture, eds. Forrest Robinson and Susan Gillman (Durham, N. C.: Duke Univ. Press, 1990), pp. 137-154.

"From Documentary to Docudrama: Vietnam on Television in the 1980s," Genre, special issue on Vietnam, ed. Gordon Taylor, XXI (Winter 1988), 451-477.

Rpt.: The Vietnam War, ed. Walter L. Hixson (New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 2000), pp. 299-326.

15 "Between Politics and Poetics: Frederick Douglass and Postmodernity," in Reconstructing American Literary and Historical Studies, ed. Gnter Lenz (Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 1989), pp. 192-210.

"Preface," George T. Coleman, Into the Storm: A Vietnam Odyssey (verse). Irvine, Ca.: Pacific Writers Press, 1989.

"Crisis and Criticism in the Humanities," Distinguished Faculty Lecture, Academic Senate, University of California, 1990 [Pamphlet]

"The Economics of the Body in Kate Chopin's The Awakening," in Perspectives on Kate Chopin. Natchitoches, La.: Northwestern State University Press, 1990, pp. 1-24.

Revised version in Kate Chopin Reconsidered: Beyond the Bayou. Eds. Lynda S. Boren and Sara de Saussure Davis. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State U. P., 1992, 117-142.

"Swept Away: Henry James, Margaret Fuller, and `The Last of the Valerii,'" Readers in History: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Contexts of Response, ed. James L. Machor. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, pp. 32-53.

"Romancing the Stone: Melville's Critique of Ideology in Pierre," in Theorizing American Literature: Hegel, the Sign, and History, eds. Bainard Cowan and Joseph Kronick (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1991), pp. 195-232.

"Poe, Antebellum Slavery, and Modern Criticism," in Poe's "Pym": Critical Explorations, ed. Richard Kopley. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1992, pp. 117- 138.

Rpt.: Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. G. K. Thompson. Norton Critical Edition. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 2004, pp. 904-920.

"Postmodernist Studies," in Redrawing the Boundaries: The Transformation of English and American Literary Studies, eds. Stephen Greenblatt and Giles Gunn. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1992. Pp. 179-208.

"Henry James and Critical Theory," in A Companion to Henry James Studies, ed. Daniel Mark Fogel. Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Press, 1993, pp. 73-93.

"Spinoff: The Rhetoric of Television and Postmodern Memory," in Narrative and Culture, ed. Janice Carlisle and Daniel R. Schwarz. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1994. Pp. 97-120.

"The Writing Class," in Politics, Theory, and Contemporary Culture, ed. Mark Poster,

16 Critical Theory Institute series. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993, 41-82.

"The Ethics of Professional Letters: Eleven Theses," Profession 90, the Modern Language Association, 48-51.

"Whitman and Dickinson: 1989," American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 1989 (Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 1991), pp. 63-80.

"Whitman and Dickinson: 1990," American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 1990 (Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 1992), pp. 73-92.

"The `Vietnam-Effect' in the Persian Gulf War," Cultural Critique, special issue, "The Economies of War," 19 (Fall 1991), 121-39.

"The New Pedagogy," South Atlantic Quarterly, 91 (Summer 1992), 765-784.

"A Future for American Studies: The Comparative U.S. Cultures Model,"American Studies in Germany: European Contexts and Intercultural Relations, eds. Günter Lenz and Klaus J. Milich. New York: St. Martin’s Press/ Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 1995. Pp. 262-278.

"Die Zukunft der `Amerikastudien': Die Kulturen der USA im Vergleich," in Multikulturelle Gesellschaft: Modell Amerika, hrsg. Berndt Ostendorf. Muenchen: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1994. Pp. 189-201. [German Translation of essay above; transl. by Thomas Wagensonner]

"Imperialism at Home and Abroad in Melville's Typee," in National Identities and Post- Americanist Narratives, ed. Donald Pease. Durham, N. C.: Duke Univ. Press, 1994. Pp. 255-278.

"How the Boss Played the Game: Twain's Critique of Imperialism in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," The Cambridge Companion to Twain, ed. Forrest Robinson. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995. Pp. 175-192.

Rpt.: “Mark Twain’s Critique of Imperialism in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,” Critical Essays on Mark Twain (Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2006).

"Political Contexts Enhance Moby-Dick," Insight on the News, "Symposium" section (May 23, 1994), 20-22 [debate with Peter Shaw, Recovering American Literature] "Overview: The Vietnam War and American Memory" (with Rick Berg), New Asia Review, revised and expanded from "Introduction" to The Vietnam War and American Culture (1991), Fall 1994.

17 "The African-American Voice in Faulkner's Go Down, Moses," in Modern American Short Story Sequences, ed. J. Gerald Kennedy. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995. Pp. 76-97. Pb. Reissue: 2010.

“Whitman’s Body Poetic in Drum Taps,” in America’s Modernisms: Re-Valuing the Canon: Essays in Honor of Joseph N. Riddel, eds. Joseph Kronick and Katherine Lyndberg. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. Pp. 168-181.

“Foreword,” Henry James’s New York Edition: The Construction of Authorship, ed. David McWhirter. Stanford, Ca.: Stanford University Press, 1995. Pp. xxiii-xxvi.

“Henry Adams’s Education in the Age of Imperialism,” in New Essays on The Education of Henry Adams, ed. John Carlos Rowe (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996), pp. 87-114.

“Cybercowboys on the New Frontier: Freedom, Nationalism, and Imperialism in the Postmodern Era,” The Information Society 12:3 (July-September 1996), 309-314.

“Race and Imperialism in Stephen Crane: A Monstrous Case,” Red Badges of Courage: Wars and Conflicts in American Literature, Rivista di Studi Anglo-Americani, IX: 11 (1998), eds. Biancamaria Pisapia, Ugo Rubeo, Anna Scacchi (Roma: Bulzoni Editore, 1998), pp. 37-68.

“Race and Imperialism in Poe’s ‘The Journal of Julius Rodman,’ ‘A Tale of the Ragged Moutains,’ and ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue,’” in Exorcising the Shadow: Poe and Race, eds. J. Gerald Kennedy and Liliane Weissberg (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 75-105.

“Henry James and the Art of Teaching,” Henry James Review, special issue on Teaching Henry James,17.3 (Fall 1996), 213-224.

“Bridging the Gaps: The Summer Institute at the University of California, Irvine,” Expressions/ Impressions, I (Winter 1997), 42-44.

“Neo-Colonial and Post-Colonial Theories of Multiculturalism,” in Multiculturalism in the United States and Germany, eds. Günter Lenz and Klaus Milich, forthcoming.

“W. E. B. Du Bois’s Critique of United States Imperialism,” in SPELL (Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature), “Empire: American Studies,” vol. 10 (1997), 145-166.

“Research and Pedagogy in the New Partnerships,” On Common Ground, 8 (Winter 1998), 21-23.

“Towards Critical Internationalism,” electronic publication on Interroads, Crossroads

18 Discussion List, (1997)

“Post-Nationalism, Globalism, and the New American Studies,” Cultural Critique, special issue on “The Futures of American Studies,” 40 (Fall 1998), 11-28.

Rpt.: Post-Nationalist American Studies, ed. John Carlos Rowe (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), pp. 23-39.

Rpt.: The Futures of American Studies, eds. Donald Pease and Robyn Wiegman (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2002), pp. 167-182.

“Highway Robbery: ‘Indian Removal,’ the Mexican-American War, and American Identity in John Rollin Ridge’s (Yellow Bird’s) The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta,” Novel, vol. 31 (Spring 1998), 149-173.

“Cultural Studies Today,” an interview for Dialogues on Cultural Studies, eds. Shaobo Xie and Wang Fengzhen (Calgary, Alberta: University of Calgary Press, 2002), pp.193- 219.

Chinese translation of the previous title in a Chinese-language edition (Beijing: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Press, 2000).

“Literary Culture and the Emergence of the United States as a Global Power,” Heterotopien der Identität: Literatur in interamerikanischen Kontaktzonen, eds. Hermann Herlinghaus and Utz Riese (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 1999), pp. 59-82.

“Working at Gender: In the Cage,” Questioning the Master: Gender and Sexuality in Henry James’s Writings, ed. Peggy McCormack. Wilmington, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2000) pp. 86-103.

Rpt.: Tales of Henry James, eds. Christof Wegelin and Henry B. Wonham, Norton Critical Edition (New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 2003), pp. 483-502.

“Hawthorne’s Ghost in Henry James's Italy: Sculptural Form, Romantic Narrative, and the Function of Sexuality,” The Henry James Review, 20:2 (Spring 1999), 107-134.

Rpt.: Roman Holidays: Hawthorne, James, and Others in Italy, eds. Robert K. Martin and Leland S. Person (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2002), pp. 73-106.

“The Resistance to Cultural Studies,” in Aesthetics in a Multicultural Age, eds. Emory Elliott, Louis Freitas Caton, and Jeffrey Rhyne (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 105-120.

19 Italian translation, “La resistenza agli studi culturali,” Estetica e Differenza, ed. Paola Zaccaria (Bari: Edizioni Palomar, 2002), pp. 101-123.

“For Mature Audiences: Sex, Gender and Recent Film Adaptations of Henry James’s Fiction,” in Henry James on Stage and Screen, ed. John R. Bradley (Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave/ Macmillan, 2000), pp. 190-211.

“Opening the Gate to the Other America: The Afro-Caribbean Politics of Zora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men and Tell My Horse,” in Kontaktzone Amerika: Literarische Verkehrsformen kultureller Übersetzung, ed. Utz Riese (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2000), pp. 109-156.

(With Günter Lenz) “Teaching Cultural Difference: Multiculturalism and the Internationalization of American Studies,”The German-American Encounter: Conflict and Cooperation between Two Cultures, 1800-2000, eds. Elliott Shore and Frank Trommler (New York: Berghahn Books, 2001), pp. 305-324.

German translation: “Die Vermittlung kultureller Differenz: Multikulturalismus und die Internationalisierung der Amerikastudien,” Deutsch-amerikanische Begegnungen: Konflikt und Kooperation im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, hrsg. Frank Trommler und Elliott Shore (Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2001), pp. 379-401.

“Ideology,” Grolier Encyclopedia of American Studies, vol. 2, 4 vols., eds. George Kurian, Miles Orvell, Jay Mechling, and Johnella Butler (New York: Grolier Press, 2001), pp. 331-333. Available on-line: www.eas-ref.press.jhu.edu

“Goodbye, Mr. Chips: Teaching and Social Responsibility,” Reader 45 (Fall 2001), 20- 34.

“Stowe’s Rainbow Sign: Violence and Community in Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (1856),” Arizona Quarterly 58:1 (Spring 2002), 37-55.

Rpt.: “Stowe’s Rainbow Sign: Violence and Community in Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp,” in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, vol. 133, ed. Russel Whitaker (Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Publishers, 2004).

“Elián González, Cuban-American Detente, and the Rhetoric of Family Values,”Transnational America: The Fading of Borders in the Western Hemisphere, ed. Berndt Ostendorf, Publications of the Bavarian American Academy, vol. 2 (Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag, 2002), pp. 139-148.

“Nationalism, Post-Nationalism, and Terrorism,” Menschheit und Menschenrechte: Probleme der Universalisierung und Institutionalisierung, ed. Eckart Klein and

20 Christoph Menke (Berlin: Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2002), pp. 273-289.

Rpt.: War Narratives and American Culture, eds. Giles Gunn and Carl Gutiérrez- Jones (Santa Barbara, CA: American Cultures and Global Contexts Center, 2005), pp. 193-207.

“Nineteenth-Century United States Literary Culture and Transnationality,”special issue “America: The Idea, the Literature,” edited by Djelal Kadir, PMLA 118:1 (January 2003), 78-89.

Rpt.: “Nineteenth-Century United States Literary Culture and Transnationality,” Teaching American Literature, companion to American Literature: A Sourcebook for Teachers, eds. Linck Johnson and Susan Belasco Smith (NY: Bedford Books, 2005).

“The Dramatization of Mao II and the War on Terrorism,” South Atlantic Quarterly 103:1 (Fall 2003), pp. 21-43.

“Naming What Is Inside: Gertrude Stein’s Use of Names in Three Lives,” Novel 36:2 (Spring 2003), 219-243.

“Culture, U.S. Imperialism, and Globalization,” American Literary History 16:4 (Winter 2004), 575-595.

Rpt.: Culture, Democracy, and Globalization, eds. Rüdiger Kunow and Christoph Menke, Human Rights Centre, Potsdam University (forthcoming).

Rpt.: Exceptional State: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism, eds. Ashley Dawson and Malini Schueller (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007), pp. 37-59.

Rpt.: Globalisation and Violence, ed. Paul James (New Delhi: Sage Publications India, 2007).

Rpt.: America and the Misshaping of a New World Order, Global, Area, and International Archive, eds. Giles Gunn and Carl Gutiérrez-Jones (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010), 169-190.

Rpt.: A Concise Companion to American Studies, ed. John Carlos Rowe (Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell’s, 2010).

“Henry James and Globalization,” The Henry James Review, 24:3 (Fall 2003), 205-214.

“Henry James and Globalization,” Palgrave Advances in Henry James Studies, ed. Peter

21 Rawlings (Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave/ Macmillan, 2007), pp. 283- 300. An expanded version of the previous title.

“Henry James in a New Century,” A Companion to American Fiction, 1865-1914, eds. Robert Paul Lamb and G. R. Thompson (Oxford: Blackwell’s Publishing, 2005). Pp. 518- 525.

Rpt.: “Henry James in a New Century,” in A Historical Guide to Henry James, eds. John Carlos Rowe and Eric Haralson (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 197-217.

“Nathaniel Hawthorne and Transnationality,” Hawthorne and the Real: Bicentennial Essays, ed. Millicent Bell (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2005), pp. 88-106.

“Lettre de John Rowe (15 décembre 2002)” and “Réponse d’Étienne Balibar,” in Balibar, Etienne, L’Europe, L’Amérique, La Guerre: Réflexions sur la médiation européenne (Paris: Éditions La Découverte, 2003), pp. 173-189.

“Edward Said and American Studies,” American Quarterly 56:1 (March 2004), 33-47.

“Images from Fallujah Will Stir Debate, But . . . Won’t Alter Policy,” Op-Ed, Newsday (April 2, 2004). On the media’s choices to cover or not cover the photographs of 4 civilians from Blackwater Security, who were killed and displayed by a mob in Fallouja, Iraq on March 31, 2004.

“Buried Alive: The Native American Political Unconscious in Louise Erdrich’s Fiction,” Postcolonial Studies 7:2 (July 2004), 197-210.

“Mark Twain’s Critique of Globalization (Old and New) in Following the Equator,” special issue on Mark Twain, ed. Forrest Robinson, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, and Susan Gillman, Arizona Quarterly, 61:1 (Spring 2005), 109-135.

Rpt.: “Mark Twain’s Critique of Globalization (Old and New) in Following the Equator, A Journey Around the World (1897),” Transcultural Visions of Identities in Images and Texts, eds. Wilfried Raussert and Reinhard Isensee (Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2008), pp. 41-64.

“Religious Transnationalism in the American Renaissance: Susan Warner's Wide, Wide World,” ESQ, special issue on Reexamining the American Renaissance, 49:1-3 (Spring 2003), 45-57.

“Interpellation, Urbanization, and Globalization in John Dos Passos’ Manhattan Transfer,” Toward a New Metropolitanism: Reconstituting Public Culture, Urban Citizenship, and the Multicultural Imaginary in New York and Berlin, eds. Günter H.

22 Lenz, Friedrich Ulfers, Antje Dallmann (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2006), pp. 349-358.

“Faulkner and the Southern Arts of Mystification in Absalom, Absalom!” in Blackwell’s Companion to William Faulkner, ed. Richard C. Moreland (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2007), pp. 445-458.

“European Lessons in Imperialism: A Letter to America,” Transatlantic Studies, special issue ed. Charles Gannon, 6:2 (August 2008), 183-198.

Rpt.: Transnational American Studies, eds. Winfried Fluck, Stefan Brandt, and Ingrid Thaler, Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature (Germany), 23 (2007), 37-58.

Trans.: “Lezioni europee d’imperialismo: una lettera all’America,” Acoma (the Italian Journal of American Studies) 33 (Spring 2007), 36-52.

“Henry James and the United States,” The Henry James Review, 27:3 (Fall 2006), 228- 236.

Rpt.: A Companion to Henry James, ed. Greg W. Zacharias (Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008), pp. 390-399.

Rpt.: Tracing Henry James, eds. Melanie H. Ross and Greg W. Zacharias (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008), pp. 14-27.

“Racism, Fetishism, and the Gift Economy in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (1960),” On Harper Lee: Essays and Reflections, ed. Alice Hall Petry (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007), pp. 1-17.

“Politics, Sentiment, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century America,” in A Companion to American Literature and Culture, ed. Paul Lauter (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), pp. 26-39.

“Space, the Final Frontier: Poe’s Eureka as Imperial Fantasy,” Poe Studies/ Dark Romanticism, special issue in honor of G. R. Thompson, edited Steven Frye and Eric Link, vols. 39-40 (2006-2007), 19-27.

Rpt.: Critical Insights on Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Steven Frye. EBSCO and Salem Publishing, forthcoming.

“Reading Reading Lolita in Tehran in Idaho,” American Quarterly 59:2 (June 2007), 253-275.

23 “Other Modernisms,” Blackwell’s Concise Companion to American Literature, 1900- 1950, eds. Peter Stoneley and Cindy Weinstein (Oxford: Blackwell’s, 2007), pp. 275- 294.

“Henry James on Nationalism and Imperialism,” in Henry James in Context, ed. David McWhirter (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 246-257.

“U.S. Literary Canons after Nationalism,” Letteratura America (Italy), special issue on U.S. literary canons, ed. Cristina Giorcelli, XXVII: 121-122 (2007-2008), 31-56.

“Interview with John Carlos Rowe,” Foreign Literature (Fall 2009) (Beijing: Beijing Univ. Press, 2009).

“The Death of Francis Scott Key and Other Elegies: Music and the New American Studies,” Forum on Inter-American Research 2:2 (September 2009), streaming video (www.interamerica.de).

Rpt.: Cornbread and Cuchifritos: Ethnic Identity Politics, Transnationalization, and Transculturation in American Urban Popular Music, eds. Wilfried Raussert and Michelle Habell-Pallán (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2011), Pp. 27-39.

“Visualizing Barack Obama,” Journal of Visual Culture 8:2 (August 2009), 207-210.

“Caged Heat: Feminist Rebellion in Henry James’s In the Cage and Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window,” in The Men Who Knew Too Much: Henry James and Alfred Hithcock, eds. Susan M. Griffin and Alan Nadel (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 174-188.

“Areas of Concern: Area Studies and the New American Studies,” Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics (Egypt) 31 (2011), special issue on “The Other Americas,” 11-34.

Trans.: Chinese Translation, 2010.

Rpt.: Winfried Fluck, Donald Pease, and John Carlos Rowe, eds. Re-Framing the Transnational Turn in American Studies (Hanover: Dartmouth College Press of the University Press of New England, 2011), pp. 321-336.

Rpt.: Bevan Sewell and Scott Lucas, eds. Challenging U.S. Foreign Policy: America and the World in the Long Twentieth Century (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 162-182.

“Global Horizons in Don DeLillo’s Falling Man (2007),” Don DeLillo: Mao II,

24 Underworld and Falling Man. Ed. Stacey Olster. London: Continuum, 2011. Pp. 121- 134.

“U.S. Novels and U.S. Wars,” in The Cambridge History of the American Novel, eds. Leonard Cassuto, Clare Virginia Eby, and Benjamin Reiss (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011). Pp. 813-831.

“Disease, Culture, and Transnationalism in the Americas,” in Kulturelle Mobilitätsforschung: Themen – Theorien – Tendenzen, eds. Norbert Franz and Rüdiger Kunow, Mobilisierte Kulturen, I (Potsdam: University of Potsdam Press, 2011), pp. 71- 87.

“Transnationalism and American Studies,” Encyclopedia of American Studies Online (http://easref.press.jhu.edu/), 2010.

“Our Invisible Man: The Aesthetic Genealogy of U.S. Diversity,” Blackwell’s Companion to the American Novel, ed. Alfred Bendixen (Malden, MA.: Wiley- Blackwell, 2012), pp. 537-553.

“Arabia Fantasia: U.S. Literary Culture and the Middle East,” Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics (Egypt) 32 (2012), 1-23.

“American Orientalism after Said,” in Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa: A Postcolonial Outlook, eds. Walid El Hamamsy and Mounira Soliman (London: Routledge, 2013), pp. 183-196.

“Next Times: The Futures of American Studies Today,” American Literary History 25:1 (Spring 2013), 257-270.

25 REVIEWS

Milne Holton's Cylinder of Vision: The Fiction and Journalistic Writings of Stephen Crane; Marston LaFrance, A Reading of Stephen Crane, Arizona Quarterly, XXIX (Autumn 1973), 278-281.

William Veeder's Lessons of the Master, Nineteenth-Century Fiction, XXXV (June 1977), 121-124.

Manfred Mackenzie's Communities of Honor and Love in Henry James, Modern Philology, LXXVI (May 1979), 430-433.

Martha Banta's Failure and Success in America: A Literary Debate, Nineteenth_Century Fiction, XXXV (Summer 1980), 81-84.

Sharon Cameron's Lyric Time: Dickinson and the Limits of Genre, Structuralist Review, II (Winter 1980), 142-146.

John Irwin's American Hieroglyphics: The Symbol of the Egyptian Hieroglyphics in the American Renaissance, Nineteenth-Century Fiction, XXXVI (September 1981), 206-211.

Susanne Kappeler's Writing and Reading in Henry James, The Henry James Review, III (Fall 1981), 67-69.

Philip Sicker's Love and the Quest for Identity in the Fiction of Henry James; Nicola Bradbury's Henry James: The Later Novels, Ninteenth-Century Fiction, XXXVII (June 1982), 113-119.

Philip Gura's The Wisdom of Words: Language, Theology, and Literature in the New England Renaissance, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, LXXXII (October 1983), 575-579.

James Kirschke's Henry James and Impressionsim; Daniel Mark Fogel's Henry James and the Structure of the Romantic Imagination, Modern Philology, LXXXI (November 1983), 207-212.

26 William Stowe's Balzac, James, and the Realistic Novel, Nineteenth-Century Fiction, XXXIX (September 1984), 223-228.

John Aldridge's The American Novel and the Way We Live Now; Larry McCaffery's The Metafictional Muse: Coover, Barthelme, and Gass, Contemporary Literature, XXVI (Summer 1985), 212-220.

Leon Edel and Lyall Powers, eds., The Complete Notebooks of Henry James, Los Angeles Times Book Review (January 18, 1987), 9.

Joan Dayan, Fables of Mind: An Inquiry into Poe's Fiction, Poe Studies Association Newsletter, XVI (Spring 1988), 4-5.

H. Bruce Franklin, M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America, Journal of American History (June 1993), 349.

Paula Rabinowitz, Labor and Desire: Women's Revolutionary Fiction in Depression America, Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, X, 2 (1994), 144-145.

Eric J. Sundquist, The Hammers of Creation: Folk Culture in Modern African-American Fiction, Modern Fiction Studies, XLI:2 (Summer 1995), 340-342.

Michael Lopez, Emerson and Power: Creative Antagonism in the Nineteenth Century and Christopher Newfield, The Emerson Effect: Individualism and Submission in America, Nineteenth-Century Prose 25:2 (Fall 1998), 151-155.

Cary Nelson, Manifesto of a Tenured Radical and John M. Ellis, Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities, Academe: Bulletin of the A.A.U.P., (May- June 1998), 76-77.

Shawn James Rosenheim, The Cryptographic Imagination: Secret Writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet, Modern Philology 97:1 (August 1999), 152-154.

Albert J. Von Frank, The Trials of Anthony Burns: Freedom and Slavery in Emerson’s Boston, African American Review, 34:1 (Spring 2000), 164-165.

Andrew Herman and Thomas Swiss, eds., The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory, The Information Society 18:1 (January-February 2002), 71-72.

Tony Tanner. The American Mystery: American Literature from Emerson to DeLillo, Studies in the Novel 35:1 (Spring 2003), 131-133.

Review-Essay. Scott Pratt’s Native Pragmatism. Transactions of the C. S. Peirce Society 38:4 (Fall 2003), 579-583.

27 Review-Essay: “What’s the Matter?” Castronovo, Russell and Nelson, Dana, eds. Materializing American Democracy. American Quarterly 55:3 (September 2003), 479- 487.

Eric Haralson. Henry James and Queer Modernity. Nineteenth-Century Literature 60:4 (March 2006), 536-539.

Sandra Harbert Petrulionis. To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau’s Concord. Emerson Society Papers 18:1 (Spring 2007), 7.

Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson, eds. Emerson Bicentennial Essays. Religion and Literature 39:1 (Spring 2007), 116-119.

Anna Brickhouse. Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere. American Historical Review (June 2007), 817-818.

Thomas Augst, The Clerk’s Tale: Young Men and Moral Life in Nineteenth-Century America. American Studies Journal 48:1 (Spring 2007), 137-138.

Claudia Stokes. Writers in Retrospect: The Rise of American Literary History, 1875- 1910. Modern Philology 106:2 (November 2008), 321-324.

Robert Levine, Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism. American Historical Review (June 2010), 842-43.

John Michael, Identity and the Failure of America: From Thomas Jefferson to the War on Terror. Journal of American Studies (UK) 44:3 (Summer 2010), 629-30.

Richard Grusin, Culture, Technology, and the Creation of America’s National Parks and Robert E. Abrams, Landscape and Ideology in American Renaissance Literature: Topographies of Skepticism. American Studies Journal 50:1/2 (2011), 140-142.

Susan K. Harris, God’s Aribiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902. American Literary Realism 45:2 (Winter 2013), 182-183.

28 SCHOLARLY PAPERS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

"Three Views of Contemporary American Fiction: Barth, Bellow, and Roth," USIA Conference on American Studies, Schwerte, West Germany (March 1975)

"Contemporary American Political Satire: Mailer and Roth," Schwerte, West Germany (March 1975)

"The German in Post-War American Fiction," Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut, Saarbrücken, West Germany (May 1975)

"Aesthetic and Ontological Closure in Conrad's Victory and James's The Sacred Fount," Modern Language Association Convention, San Francisco (December 1975). Abstract: Joseph Conrad Today, I (July 1976), 8.

Chair, "Conrad's Grammar: The Broken Metaphor," special session, Modern Language Association Convention, New York (December 1976)

Panelist, "The Discourse of History," NEH seminar on the Humanities, California State University at Northridge (October 1978)

"Toward an Applied Intertextual Hermeneutic: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Twentieth-Century Critical Theory," Critical Theory Lectures, University of California, Irvine (Spring 1979)

"Who'se Henry James: Lessons in the Literary Appropriation of the Master," inaugural address, Henry James Society of America, San Francisco (December 1979)

"Vietnam and its American Representations," Vietnam Now Conference, University of California, Irvine (May 1980). Chair of the session

"James's Rhetoric of the Eye: Re-Marking the Impression," Modern Language Association Convention, Houston (December 1980)

"`To Live outside the Law You Must Be Honest': The Authority of the Margin in Contemporary Critical Theory," Modern Language Association Convention, Los Angeles (December 1982)

"Critical Surpluses: Intransitivity, Marginality, and Supplementarity in terms of the Marxist Critique of Value," Phenomenological and Marxist Approaches to Literature and

29 Culture, Inter-University Center, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia (June 3-7, 1983); in a slightly different version, delivered as part of the Focused Research Program in Critical Theory's three-year study, "The Aims of Representation: Subject/Text/History," Spring of 1985.

"Vietnam and American Literary Historiography," American Literature Section, Modern Language Association Convention, New York (December 1983); revised version delivered at "American Studies in Transition," Faaborg, Denmark, sponsored by Odense Universitet (June 1984). Abstract: American Literature (1984)

Respondent, "Henry James and Contemporary Critical Theory: The Psychoanalytic," Modern Language Association Convention, New York (December 1983)

"Eye-Witness: Documentary Styles in the American Representations of Vietnam," Spring Symposium, Department of History, University of California, Irvine (March 24, 1984); "The Mediation of Received Values," conference sponsored by University of Minnesota (October 1984)

"The Social Psychology of Melville's Pierre," Melville Society of America, Modern Language Association Convention, delivered at the Library of Congress (December 28, 1984). Abstract: Melville Society's Extracts, LXI (February, 1985), 8.

"Fredric Jameson's Modernisms: The Examples of Henry James, Wyndham Lewis, and Ezra Pound," Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, D. C. (December 29, 1984)

Lecturer and panelist, "Notions of Discourse" conference, sponsored by California State University at Northridge, at the Huntington Library, April 26, 1985.

"Morphology of Oral and Epistolary Histories of the Vietnam War," University of Tulsa Comparative Literature Symposium, March 14, 1986

"The Politics of the Uncanny in Henry James's The American," Seventh Annual International Conference on the Fantastic, Houston, March 15, 1986

"The Politics of Innocence in Henry James's The American," International Philosophy and Literature Association Conference, University of Washington, May 1_4, 1986

"Romancing the Stone: Melville's Critique of Ideology in Pierre," Conference on "Revising American Literary History," sponsored by Konstanz University and the Free University of Berlin, at Konstanz University, June 1-4, 1986

"The Hegelian Rhetoric of Melville's Poetry," special session on Hegel and American literature, MLA Convention, New York (December 1986)

30 "Anti-Terra: The Geography of the Modern in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!," special session on William Faulkner, MLA Convention, New York (December 1986)

"Fatal Speculations: Murder, Money, and Manners in Pudd'nhead Wilson," "Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry into Race, Conflict and Culture in 19th-Century America," University of California, Santa Cruz (March 7-8, 1987)

"`Bringing It All Back Home': American Recyclings of the Vietnam War," Berry College (April 20, 1987), Rome, Georgia. (Reviewed in the Rome newspaper); Center for Twentieth-Century Studies, conference on "Vietnam and Television," University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee (September 18, 1987)

Symposium on my work held at Berry College, April 20, 1987.

Chair, "Literature and the New Historicism," panel (Patrick O'Donnell and Carolyn Porter) at "The States of `Theory'" conference, April 24-25, 1987, sponsored by the Organized Research Unit in Critical Theory, University of California, Irvine

Chair, "The Writing of American Imperialism," panel at the American Studies Association Convention, New York, November, 1987

Respondent, "Old Frontiers/New Frontiers: Creating and Recreating the Western," panel at the American Studies Association Convention, New York, November 1987

"Metavideo: Fictionality and Mass Media in Our Postmodern Economy," University of Washington, Seattle, December 8, 1987

"Platoon, Tour of Duty, and the North Hearings, Or: Everyone Loves a Uniform," MLA Convention, San Francisco, December 1987

Respondent, "Writing the Reader: Interpretive Conventions and Early Nineteenth- Century American Literature," special session, MLA Convention, San Francisco, December 1987.

"Theses on the Study of the University as a Social Institution," Humanities Research Institute Conference, University of California, Riverside (February 1988)

"Poe's Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym and Modern Theories of Psychoanalysis," Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym Conference, sponsored by Poe Studies and Pennsylvania State University, Nantucket, Massachusetts, May 19-22, 1988.

"Between Politics and Poetics: Frederick Douglass, Edgar Poe, and Postmodernity," Revising American (Literary) History, a conference sponsored by the North-American Research Institute, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, West Germany, June

31 16-18, 1988.

"Between Politics and Poetics: Frederick Douglass and Postmodernity," Duke University, September 9, 1988.

"From Documentary to Docudrama: Vietnam on Television in the 1980s," Western Humanities Center, annual meeting, UCLA, October 8, 1988; Rice University, October 21, 1988.

"Crisis and Criticism in the Humanities," Distinguished Faculty Lecture, Academic Senate, University of California, Irvine, November 9, 1988.

"The Politics of Recent Academic Reforms in the Humanities," at "The Function of Cultural Criticism at the Present Time," sponosored by the Humanities Research Insitute of the University of California, November 20, 1988

"Henry Adams and U.S. Imperialism," Modern Language Association Convention, New Orleans (December 1988)

"Swept Away: Henry James, Margaret Fuller, and `The Last of the Valerii,'" Henry James Society, Modern Language Association Convention, New Orleans (December 1988)

"The Economics of the Body in Kate Chopin's The Awakening," International Conference on Kate Chopin, Northwestern Louisiana State University, Natchitoches, La. (April 1989)

"Whitman's Body Poetic: Drum-Taps," American Literature Association, San Diego, Ca. (June 1, 1989)

"Authority, Heroism, and Repression: The Coherence of Faulkner's Go Down, Moses," California American Literature Association, San Diego, Ca. (June 3, 1989)

"Morbid Pleasures of the Text: James's `The Middle Years,'" (Response to Julie Rivkin's paper on "The Middle Years"), Midwest Modern Language Association meeting, Minneapolis (November 3, 1989).

Chair, "The Ethnic 1890s: Cultural Confrontations in the American Fin de Siècle," American Studies Association Convention, Toronto (November 5, 1989). "Edgar Allan Poe and Antebellum Slavery," Poe Studies Association meeting, Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, D. C. (December 29, 1989) and Southern Methodist University, May 1, 1990.

"Spinoff: Television and the Rhetoric of Postmodern Memory," Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, New Orleans (April 6, 1990).

32 "Cultural Criticism and Teaching," Crossing the Boundaries: A Conference in Interdisciplinary Study in the Humanities, University of Oklahoma, Norman, October 20, 1990.

"The Vietnam War and Postmodern Literature, Politics, and Theory," special session on "The Vietnam War and Postmodernity," Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago (December 29, 1990)

"The `Vietnam-Effect' in the Persian Gulf War," American Studies Focused Research group, UCLA, November 1991.

"Melville's Typee and U.S. Imperialism," The Cultures of U.S. Imperialism, Dartmouth College, November 21-23, 1991.

"`I Have Fallen, and I Can't Get Up': Liberalism, Political Correctness, and the Study of Literature," University of California Humanities Research Institute, February 1992.

"A Future for `American Studies': The Comparative U.S. Cultures Model," U.S. Multiculturalism, conference sponsored by Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität (Frankfurt), Ebenburg, Germany, June 3-5, 1992 and at the German American Studies Annual Convention, June 10, 1992, John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University of Berlin.

“Postmodern American Studies,” special session on “America and the New Global Order,” American Studies Association Convention, November 7, 1992, Costa Mesa, Ca.

"Spectral Mechanics: Gender, Technology, and Work in James's In the Cage," a talk delivered in two parts (I: "Work and Technology" and II: "Gender") at the Henry James Sesquicentennial, New York University, June 1993.

Chair, “Race and Nationalism,” James Joyce Society, July 2, 1993, Irvine.

"At Emerson's Tomb," Princeton University, December 13, 1993.

“The Resistance of English Departments to the New Media,” UCHRI Disciplinary Forum (“The Role and Mission of English Departments”), March 9, 1994

"Learning Communities: Collaborative Learning and Multiculturalism," Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, September 23, 1994. "Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly and U.S. Neo-Imperialism," "An American History of the English Novel," Division of Comparative Studies of Eighteenth-Century Literature, Modern Language Association Convention, San Diego (12-29-1994).

Chair, Panel, "Security, Secrecy, and Silencing: A Transnational Perspective," January 28, 1995, GPACS conference at UC, Irvine

33 “Comparative Ethnic Studies,” UCHRI Disciplinary Forum (“Rethinking Comparative Ethnic Studies), April 15, 1995

"A Future for the Humanities in the University of California," University of California, Santa Cruz, April 17, 1995

"Repetition, Complementarity, and Exclusion in The Cambridge History of American Literature, 1820-1865, Colloquium on the CHAL, UCLA, April 21, 1995

Electronic conference participant, “King Ludd and the Resistance to Technology,” University of Virginia, September 23, 1995. Cited in Chronicle of Higher Education (9/27/95). Conference proceedings electronically published on WWW site: http\\:www.jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/MOO.conference.9-23

Moderator, “Constructing a National Identity: The Case of Peru,” Western Humanities Conference, UCSB, October 6, 1995.

“Race and Imperialism in Stephen Crane: A Monstrous Case,” October 26, 1995, Associazione Italiana di Studi Nord-Americani (A.I.S.N.A.) XIII Biennial International Conference, Rome, October 25-27, 1995; the Claremont Seminar at the Huntington Library, March 1, 1997.

“Textual Preference: James’s Literary Defenses in ‘The Middle Years’ and ‘The Death of the Lion,’” Henry James Society session, Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, December 28, 1995. Abstracted: Gay and Lesbian Studies Newsletter, 23:1 (Spring 1996), 27.

“Culture and U.S. Imperialism,” California Americanists, American Literature Association, February 1-4, 1996, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

“Race and Imperialism in Poe’s ‘The Journal of Julius Rodman,’ ‘A Tale of the Ragged Mountains,’ and ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue,’” American Literature Association, June 1, 1996, San Diego, CA.

“Neo-Colonial and Post-Colonial Theories of Multiculturalism,”Multiculturalism in the United States and Germany, Humboldt University (Berlin), June 27, 1996.

“Anglo-American Modernism,” USIS seminar, August 8, 1996, UCSB “Comparative American Cultural Studies: Remapping the Curriculum,” Georgetown University, October 18, 1996

Chair, “Post-Nationalist American Studies: A Forum,” American Studies Association Convention, Kansas City, November 2, 1996

34 “W. E. B. Du Bois’s Critique of U.S. Imperialism,” Swiss-Austrian North American Studies Association Convention, Salzburg, November 22, 1996; Emory University, December 10, 1996.

Commentator, “The Intersection of Area and Cultural Studies,” Reinventing Latin America in the Post-Cold War Era, Center for Ideas and Society, University of California, Riverside, February 15, 1997

Commentator, Jim Zwick’s “Towards Critical Internationalism within U.S.-Based American Studies,” electronic conference, The American Crossroads Project (February 19, 1997). (Transcript available from: [email protected]).

Co-Chair (with Jay Mechling, UC Davis), “Post-Nationalist American Studies: A Forum,” California American Studies Association Convention, Berkeley, California, May 2, 1997

“Postmodernism and Contemporary American Literature,” USIS Summer Institute, UCSB, July 15, 1997

“Post-Nationalism, Globalism, and the New American Studies,” The Futures of American Studies Conference, August 10-17, 1997, Dartmouth College; April 1998, European Association for American Studies, Lisbon; April 17, 1998, Pomona College; June 17, 1998, John F. Kennedy Institut, Free University, Berlin.

“Gender Trouble in What Maisie Knew,” New York University, February 18, 1998.

“Beyond Conflict: Teaching in the Contact Zone of Literature,” UCLA, April 18, 1998.

“Post-Nationalist Studies and Global Technologies,” American Crossroads, position paper, mounted April 1998 for discussion, contact: [email protected]

“Hawthorne’s Ghost in Henry James’s Italy: Sculptural Form, Romantic Narrative, and the Function of Sexuality in The Marble Faun, ‘Adina,’ and William Wetmore Story and His Friends,” keynote address, Hawthorne Society Convention, John Cabot University, Rome (June 4, 1998)

“Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism,” the Amerikanistik-Kolloquium and Zentrum für Literaturforschung Berlin, Humboldt University, Berlin (June 16, 1998)

“The Resistance to Cultural Studies,” Aesthetics and Difference: Cultural Diversity, Literature, and the Arts, conference at the Center for Ideas and Society, University of California, Riverside (October 22, 1998); The Changing Role of the Intellectual: Criticism as Oppositional Practice, Humboldt University, Berlin (February 3, 2000); 30th

35 Annual Philosophy Symposium, California State University, Fullerton (March 22, 2000).

The Conarroe Lectures (“The Resistance to Cultural Studies” and “Henry James Today”), Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania (November 9-10, 1998)

Respondent “Geographies and Anti-Imperial Subjects,” American Studies Association Convention, Seattle (November 21, 1998).

“Opening the Gate to the Other America: The Afro-Caribbean Politics of Zora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men and Tell My Horse,” Northwestern University, January 18, 1999; Michigan State University, November 5, 1999; UC, San Diego, May 19, 2000.

“Comparative Multiculturalism and Pedagogy in Germany and the United States,” “The Future of German-American History,” University of Pennsylvania, April 17, 1999.

Panelist, “Sexing the Nation: Creating the Body Politic,” History and Theory Conference on “Sex, Gender, Culture,” University of California, Irvine, November 13, 1999.

“For Mature Audiences: Recent Film Adaptations of Henry James’s Fiction,” Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, February 2, 2000; Department of Literature, UCSC, June 5, 2000.

“A Future for the Humanities,” UCSC, June 6, 2000.

“Imaginary Borders (with Real People Crossing Them),” “Transnational America: The Fading of Borders in the Western Hemisphere,” Bavarian-American Academy, Munich, June 23, 2000.

“Stowe’s Rainbow Sign: Violence and Community in Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp,” W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture at Humboldt University, Berlin, June 27, 2000.

“Poetic Justice: Muriel Rukeyser’s Book of the Dead,” John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University, Berlin, June 29, 2000.

“Interpellation, Urbanization, and Globalization in John Dos Pasos’ Manhattan Transfer,” “Towards a New Urbanism,” Humboldt University and the American Academy of Berlin, Berlin, June 30, 2000.

Respondent, “Politics of National and Indigenous Representations within Discourses of Exile,” History and Theory Conference, November 11, 2000, University of California, Irvine. “Goodbye, Mr. Chips: Teaching and Social Responsibility,” MLA Committee on Teaching, special session, Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, D. C., December 27, 2000.

36 “Anthony Trollope and British Imperialism,” special session on Anthony Trollope, Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, D. C., December 29, 2000; Anglistik Institut, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, June 1, 2001.

“Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literary Culture and Transnationality,” keynote lecture, Lucy Freibert Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century American Letters, University of Louisville, March 30, 2001; University of Basel, May 11; University of Regensburg, May 17; Amerika Institut, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, May 23; Potsdam University, June 19; W. E. B. Du Bois Week, Humboldt University of Berlin, June 21, 2001.

“Poe and U.S. Imperialism,” Swiss Association of North American Studies, Bern, Switzerland May 12, 2001.

“Recent Film Adaptations of Henry James’s Fiction,” University of Lausanne, Switzerland, June 7, 2001.

“The New American Studies,” John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University of Berlin, July 9, 2001.

“Post-Nationalism, Nationalism, and Terrorism,” Pennsylvania State University, October 15, 2001.

“Post-Nationalism, Nationalism, and Terrorism,” Center for Human Rights, Potsdam University, Potsdam, Germany, December 8, 2001; Conference on “American Studies and War Narratives,” Center for American Cultures, UCSB, May 11, 2002.

“After America: Postnationalism, Transnationalism, and Postcolonial Studies,” America: The Idea, the Literature, PMLA Editorial Board, MLA Convention, New Orleans, December 28, 2001.

Invited reviewer, world premiere of the dramatization of Mao II, Duke University, April 18-21, 2002.

Roundtable Discussion member, Conference on “American Studies and War Narratives,” Center for American Cultures, UCSB, May 11, 2002.

“Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literary Culture and Transnationality,” University of Southern California, October 16, 2002.

“Terrorism and Human Rights,” Panel sponsored by Associated Graduate Students and the Department of Political Science, October 23, 2002, UCI “Miracles of Communication from the Local to the Global in Louise Erdrich’s Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse,” Houston ASA, November 15, 2002.

37 “Culture, U.S. Imperialism, and Globalization,” Culture, Democracy, and Globalization Conference, Human Rights Centre, University of Potsdam, December 6, 2002.

Mini-Seminar, University of Potsdam , December 6-10, 2002. (3 graduate seminars focusing on my recent work, followed by tutorials with graduate students). Reviewed in PNN , Potsdam newspaper (December 13, 2002): “Zeit der nationalen Antworten vorbei” (“The Time of national answers has passed”)

Conference organizer (with Inderpal Grewal, Ketu Katrak, Jim Ferguson, Glen Mimura), “Critical Cosmopolitanisms,” IDP conference, March 7, 2003.

Respondent to Etienne Balibar, “Europe: Vanishing Mediator?” at the IDP conference, UCI, March 7, 2003.

“The American Research University,” Cornell University, March 25, 2003.

"Our Invisible Man: The Aesthetic Genealogy of U.S. Diversity," Arizona Quarterly Symposium on American Literature, University of Arizona, Tucson, April 5, 2003.

"Our Invisible Man: The Aesthetic Genealogy of U.S. Diversity," (t)Races: Race, Deconstruction, and Critical Theory conference, UCHRI, April 10, 2003.

“Culture, U.S. Imperialism, and Globalization,” Keynote address, “Nation Matters: America’s Shifting Terrains,” University of Washington, April 30, 2003.

Panelist, “Addressing Issues of Nation and American Studies: A Roundtable on Pedagogy and Course Design,” University of Washington, May 1, 2003.

Chair, “Modernity and Shifting Positionalities,” panel at University of Washington conference, April 30 - May 2, 2003.

“Culture, U.S. Imperialism, and Globalization,” University of Melbourne, September 4, 2003.

“Buried Alive: The Native American Political Unconscious in Louise Erdrich’s Fiction,” Institute for Postcolonial Studies, conference on “The Cultural Unconscious and the Postcolonizing Process,” Melbourne, September 7, 2003.

“U.S. Imperialism and Neo-Imperialism,” Public Forum, sponsored by the Institute for Postcolonial Studies, United Church, Melbourne, September 8, 2003.

“The Legacy of the Imperial Dialectic: ‘Embedding’ the Foreign in Domestic U.S. Culture,” Center for American Cultures, UCSB, April 23, 2004.

38 “Between the (Gulf) Wars: Culture, U.S. Imperialism, and Globalization,” CUNY, Graduate Center, April 30, 2004.

“Our Invisible Man: The Aesthetic Genealogy of U.S. Diversity,” Spring Colloquium, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine, May 13, 2004.

“Mark Twain’s Critique of Globalization (Old and New) in Following the Equator,” Mark Twain Conference at Stanford University and UCSC, May 14-15, 2004.

“The Legacy of the Imperial Dialectic: ‘Embedding’ the Foreign in Domestic U.S. Culture,” Emergencies Conference, University of California, Irvine, May 28, 2004.

“Religious Transnationalism in the American Renaissance: Susan Warner’s The Wide, Wide World,” Transculturations: Crossroads of Cultures, (Inter-)Cultural Translation, and The Dialogics of American Studies in a Globalizing World, American Studies Association Convention, Atlanta, November 12, 2004.

“European Lessons in Imperialism: A Letter to America,” European Perspectives on American Studies conference, Free University of Berlin, February 12, 2005.

“The Futures of American Studies,” Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut, Heidelberg (February 15, 2005).

“The New American Studies,” Hanover University, February 16, 2005.

“Mark Twain’s Critique of Globalization (Old and New) in Following the Equator,” Transatlantic Perspectives, Humboldt University (Berlin), February 19, 2005.

“Reading Reading Lolita in Tehran in Idaho,” Potsdam University, July 9, 2005.

“European Lessons in Imperialism: A Letter to America,” Transatlantic Studies Association, University of Nottingham, July 12, 2005.

“Henry James and America,” Henry James Society Conference, Venice, July 15, 2005.

“Anti-Americanism and American Studies,” IASA Convention, Ottawa, August 2005.

“Terrorism and Governmental Responses,” Chair, IASA Convention, Ottawa, August 2005.

“Security, Anti-Terrorism, and the Defense of Western Culture: Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran,” IASA Convention, Ottawa, August 2005.

39 “Religion and Secularization,” ASA Convention, Washington, D. C. (November 4, 2005).

“Reading Reading Lolita in Tehran in Idaho,” Dartmouth College (November 14, 2005).

“Henry James and Globalization,” Babes-Bolyi University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania (January 27, 2006)

“The New American Studies,” Alexander Cuoza University, Iasi, Romania (January 30, 2006)

“William Faulkner and the Southern Arts of Mystification in Absalom, Absalom!,” Alexander Cuoza University, Iasi, Romania (January 30, 2006)

“Reading Reading Lolita in Tehran in Idaho,” keynote address, Romanian American Studies Association Convention, Bucharest (February 2, 2006)

Moderator, “(Dis)Locating Communities: Identity, Race, and Gender in Group Formation,” Crossing Borders Ethnic Studies Conference, March 3, 2006

“Interchangeable Parts: Americanizing the Islamic Body,” Conference on “The Body and the Media,” University of California, Irvine, March 28, 2006

Moderator, “Transnational and Hybrid Negotiations,” AEGS conference on “Trans-: Negotiations and Resistance,” USC, April 7-8, 2006

“Reading Reading Lolita in Tehran in Idaho,” Keynote Address, Northwest Undergraduate Conference on Literature, University of Portland, April 22, 2006

“Teaching Henry Adams’s Education of Henry Adams,” American Literature Association Convention, San Francisco, May 26, 2006

“The Death of Francis Scott Key and Other Dirges: Music and the New American Studies,” The Futures of American Studies, Dartmouth College, June 22, 2006; America without Borders, USC, October 6, 2006

“Reading Reading Lolita in Tehran in Idaho,” Carver Lecture in the Humanities, University of Iowa, October 20, 2006; Soka University (Aliso Viejo, California), February 28, 2007.

“The Mind and Art of Henry Adams after 50 Years,” American Literature Association Convention, Boston, Mass., May 26, 2007.

40 “Henry James and Globalization,” Reading Henry James Conference, Salem State University, Salem, Mass., May 29, 2007.

“Disease, Culture, and Transnationalism in the Americas,” Conference on Migration, Potsdam University (Germany), July 2007; Clinton Institute for American Studies, University College, Dublin, July 2007.

Chair and Commentator, “Theorizing the United States,” Transnational American Studies Symposium, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin, July 21, 2007.

Commentator, Roundtable Symposium, Clinton Institute for American Studies, University College Dublin, July 21, 2007.

“How to Fight Terrorism,” Conference on “What’s Left of Democracy?”, Dartmouth College, August 31-September 2, 2007.

“Disease, Identity, and Transnationalism in the Americas,” Conference on Identity in the Americas and Beyond, University of Bielefeld (Germany), November 17, 2007; Texas A and M University, November 13, 2008.

“The Death of Francis Scott Key and Other Elegies: Music and the New American Studies,” Arizona Quarterly Symposium, University of Arizona, March 27-30, 2008; Comparative Literature conference on “Culture and War,” Texas Tech University, 2008; Humanities Center Conference on “The Legacy of the 1960s,” University of California, Irvine, March 2008.

“Areas of Concern: Area Studies and the New American Studies,” Futures of American Studies, Dartmouth College, June 16, 2008; Department of American Studies and Ethnicity Colloquium, University of Southern California, September 25, 2008; Transatlantic Cooperative Research Group Conference, Humboldt University (Berlin), October 11, 2008; American Studies Association Convention, Washington, D. C., November 2009.

“Henry James and U.S. Imperialism,” Jamesian Strands, Henry James Society Convention, Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island, July 12, 2008.

Chair, “The Cambridge Scholarly Edition of the Works of Henry James,” Jamesian Strands, Henry James Convention, Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island, July 11, 2008.

“American Orientalism after Said,” American Studies Association Convention, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 18, 2008.

Chair, “Indigenous Spatial Theory,” Crossing Borders Ethnic Studies Conference, March

41 7, 2009.

“American Studies and Ethnicity at USC and Beyond,” a faculty panel, American Studies and Ethnicity, March 9, 2009, USC (with Janelle Wong, Francille Wilson, and George Sanchez)

“The Death of Francis Scott Key and Other Dirges: Music and the New American Studies,” May 18-20, 2009, Bielefeld University (Germany)

“Cultures of Mobility and Transnationalism,” Potsdam University (Germany), May 25, 2009.

“The Cultural Politics of the New American Studies,” Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College, June 22, 2009.

“The New American Studies,” Transnational American Studies, conference in honor of Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside, February 20, 2010.

“Transpacific Studies and the Cultures of U.S. Imperialism,” Transpacific Studies Conference, Transpacific Studies Group, University of Southern California, April 2, 2010.

“Richard Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung and Anglo-American Modernism,” The Los Angeles Ring Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art, April 15, 2010.

“Lindon Barrett’s Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity,” First Annual Lindon Barrett Agora,” University of California, Riverside, June 2, 2010.

“The State of Advertising,” Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College, June 21, 2010.

“The Inevitable Intimate Connection: Liberalism, Transnationalism, and Political Critique,” University of Basel, May 24, 2011.

Graduate Colloquium, University of Basel, May 25, 2011.

“Afterlives of Modernism,” Swiss Association of North American Studies, Paul Klee Museum, Berne (Switzerland), May 28, 2011.

“Transpacific Studies and the Cultures of U.S. Imperialism,” Futures of American Studies, Dartmouth College, June 20, 2011.

Chair, “Teaching Henry James,” Henry James Society Convention, Rome (Italy), July 7, 2011.

42 Chair, “Henry James and Postcolonial Studies,” Henry James Society Convention, Rome (Italy), July 8, 2011.

“Digital Publishing and the New American Studies,” Institute for Multimedia Literacy, University of Southern California, July 18, 2011.

“Report on the NEH Summer Institute, Digital Publishing in American Studies,” Digital Caucus, American Studies Association, October 22, 2011.

“Transnational American Studies,” American Studies Association, October 23, 2011.

“Transpacific Studies and the Cultures of U.S. Imperialism,” Crossroads: A Conference in Honor of Ruediger Kunow, University of Potsdam (Germany), October 28, 2011.

“American Orientalism after Said,” Edward Said Memorial Lecture, American University of Cairo (Egypt), November 1, 2011.

“Arabia Fantasia: U.S. Literary Culture and the Middle East,” American University of Cairo (Egypt), November 2, 2011.

“What Would James Do? Recent Literary Adaptations of Henry James,” Modern Language Association, Seattle, January 8, 2012.

“Arabia Fantasia: U.S. Literary Culture and the Middle East,” Rice University, January 26, 2012.

“Occupational Hazards at Home and Abroad,” Keynote Address, Occupation Conference, California State University, Long Beach, April 5, 2012.

Co-organizer (with Jim Leonard, President of Mark Twain Society): “Mark Twain, Henry James, and Modernization,” co-sponsored by Henry James Society and Mark Twain Society, American Literature Association, San Francisco, May 2012.

“Arabia Fantasia: U.S. Literary Culture and the Middle East,” OASIS Summer Institute, University of Naples, Orientale, Procida (Italy), May 23, 2012.

“Don DeLillo and the War on Terrorism,” Universita di Roma (Italy), May 30, 2012.

“Moby-Dick and Transnationalism,” Universita di Roma (Italy), May 30, 2012.

“Transpacific Studies and the Cultures of U.S. Imperialism,”Oceanic Archives and Transnational American Studies, University of Hong Kong, June 4, 2012.

43 “Arabia Fantasia: U.S. Literary Culture and the Middle East,” 2012 China-US. Symposium on American Studies: Transnational American Studies. Tsinghua University (Beijing, China), June 8, 2012.

“Arabia Fantasia: U.S. Literary Culture and the Middle East,” Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College, June 22, 2012.

“Arabia Fantasia: U.S. Literary Culture and the Middle East,” Department of English, UCLA, October 19, 2012.

“Digital Humanities: Promises and Problems,” ASA International Committee, “The Politics of Transnational Publishing,” American Studies Association Convention, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 15, 2012.

“Digital Humanities and Graduate Education,” Committee on Graduate Education, American Studies Association Convention, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 16, 2012.

Chair, “Henry James and New Media,” Modern Language Association Convention, January 6, 2013 (Boston)

Co-Chair, “Henry James, Mark Twain, and Modernity,” MLA Convention, January 4, 2013 (Boston)

“The Transnational Turn in American Studies,” MLA Convention, January 6, 2013. Special Session chaired Yuan Shu.

“Disease, Culture, and Transnationalism in the Americas,” Museum of Victoria, Humanities Series (Melbourne, Australia) April 17, 2013.

“Moby-Dick and Globalization,” Cultures of Mobility Conference, Bielefeld University (Germany), May 6-8, 2013.

Colloquium, Potsdam University, May 13, 2013

“Moby-Dick and Globalization,” W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture, Humboldt University (Berlin), May 14, 2013.

“Moby-Dick and Globalization,” Regensburg University (Germany), May 16, 2013.

“Moby-Dick and Globalization,” Futures of American Studies Summer Institute, Dartmouth College, June 17-23, 2013.

“The Reader Writes Back: The New Interactivity and Reception Studies,” keynote address, Reception Studies Society Convention, Marquette University, September 28, 2013.

44 “Cultural Attachés and the Cold War,” The CIA and the Cold War, American Studies Association Convention (Washington, D. C.), November 24, 2013.

Other one-time lectures delivered at University of Maryland (College Park), University of Wisconsin (Madison), Rutgers University (New Brunswick), Louisiana State University, University of California, Irvine, The College of William and Mary, Boston University, The Johns Hopkins University (Tudor and Stuart Club), Ohio State University, Rice University, Southern Methodist University, Free University of Berlin, and others.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS

Director, National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar for College Teachers, "American Literature and Modern Theory," Summer of 1986, at University of California, Irvine.

Director, "The Work of Intellectuals," a quarter-long research seminar involving twelve postdoctoral scholars, sponsored by the Humanities Research Institute of the University of California, Fall Quarter 1989.

U.S. Director, "Multiculturalism and Transdisciplinarity in American Studies," DAAD- ACLS collaborative research project, German and American American Studies scholars, 1993-1996 (with Günter Lenz, Direktor, Amerikastudien, Humboldt Universität, Berlin)

Director, “Bridging the Gaps: Critical Theory, American Literature, and American Cultures,” Summer Intersegmental Institute, sponsored by the NEH, Summer of 1995 and Summer of 1996.

Director, “Post-Nationalist American Studies,” a residential research group, University of California’s Humanities Research Institute, Fall/ Winter 1996-1997

Consultant, “Visions and Dreams: Native American Cultures and Histories,” NEH Summer Institute, Saddleback Community College, June 2 to June 27, 1997

Outside Reviewer, Department of English, SUNY, Oswego, April 6-9, 2003

Fulbright Senior Specialist, Romania, January 24-February 5, 2006

Teaching Fellow, “Futures of American Studies” Summer Institute, Dartmouth College, June 19-25, 2006

U.S. Director, International American Studies, Transatlantic Cooperative Program, Humboldt Foundation (Germany), 2006-2009

45 Organizer, “America without Borders,” International conference sponsored by the USC Associates, College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, and Department of American Studies and Ethnicity (October 6-7, 2006)

Fellow, Summer Institute, Clinton Institute in American Studies, University College (Dublin), July 16-22, 2007.

Visions and Voices Grant: Guillermo Gómez-Peña and La Pocha Nostra (January 2009) Spectrum Grant: Sherman Alexie (February 2009), University of Southern California

Visions and Voices Grant: Native Americans Next: Film Festival, USC, 2009-2010, University of Southern California

Outside Reviewer, Comparative Literature, University of California, Riverside, January 2009

Outside Reviewer, English, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, March 2011

NEH Summer Institute, “Digital Publishing in American Studies and Ethnicity,” co- sponsored by Tara McPherson, Phillip Ethington, and John Carlos Rowe, the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, the Institute of Multimedia Literacy, and “Vectors,” University of Southern California (July 18 – August 12, 2011)

OASIS (Orientale American Studies Institute, Summer), Seminar Leader, Isola di Procida, Universita di Napoli, May 21-May 27, 2012.

WORK-IN-PROGRESS

Books

Culture and US Imperialism Since World War II. The second volume of Literary Culture and US Imperialism.

Our Henry James. A study of Henry James’s influence from modernism to postmodernity.

A Rediscovery of America: Multicultural Literature and the New Democracy.

Anthony Trollope and the Passing of the English World

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