Thomas Leitch Department of English University of Delaware 212 Memorial Hall Newark DE 19716-2537 (302) 831-2298
[email protected] ______________________________________________________________________________ ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT Professor, Department of English, University of Delaware (1991– ) Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Delaware (1986–91) Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Delaware (1983–86) Assistant Professor, Department of English, Yale University (1976–83) EDUCATION Ph.D., English, Yale University (1976) M.A., English, Yale University (1973) B.A., magna cum laude, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University (1972) SCHOLARSHIP Books: Published: Wikipedia U: Knowledge, Authority, and Liberal Education in the Digital Age. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2014. Film Adaptation and Its Discontents: From Gone with the Wind to The Passion of the Christ. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2007. Perry Mason. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2005. Crime Films. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002. The Encyclopedia of Alfred Hitchcock. New York: Facts on File, 2002. Lionel Trilling: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1992. Find the Director and Other Hitchcock Games. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1991. What Stories Are: Narrative Theory and Interpretation. University Park: Penn State UP, 1986. In progress: The History of American Literature on Film. Under contract to Bloomsbury P. The Lessons of Adaptation. Under contract to Johns Hopkins UP. Edited and Co–Edited Books: 2 Published: A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock, co–ed. with Leland Poague. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. In progress: The Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies. New York: Oxford UP. In press. Articles in Refereed Journals (print and online): Published: “Lights! Camera! Author! Authorship as Hollywood Performance,” Journal of Screenwriting 7.1 (2016): 113–27.