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Stephen Clingman Stephen Clingman Department of English 15 Maplewood Dr., Bartlett Hall Amherst, MA 01002 University of Massachusetts Tel. (413)-549-7340 Amherst, MA 01003 Tel. (413)-545-3474 Fax (413)-545-3880 [email protected] Appointments 2012 - Director, Interdisciplinary Studies Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 2000 - 12 Director, Interdisciplinary Seminar in the Humanities and Fine Arts, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 1994-2000 Chair, Department of English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 1995 Professor of English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 1991 Associate Professor of English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 1989 Assistant Professor of English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Fellowships 2012 Fellow, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. June-July 2012. 2005-06 TEACHnology Fellowship, Center for Teaching, University of Massachusetts. 2004-05 Samuel F. Conti Faculty Fellowship, University of Massachusetts. 1993-94 Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C. 1990 Junior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, University of Massachusetts, Spring Semester. 1987-88 Junior Fellow, The Society for the Humanities, Cornell University. 1984-87 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, African Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. 1983-84 Visiting Fellow, Southern African Research Program, Yale University. Awards/Achievements 2012-13 Distinguished Faculty Lecturer and Chancellor’s Medal, University of Massachusetts. The highest honor bestowed on faculty by the campus. 2008 Catalogue of Papers of Stephen Clingman, [1908-98], relating to Bram Fischer (1908-75). Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/blcas/clingman.html 2003 Nomination, Pushcart Prize, for ‘Music of New Orleans’. Clingman 2 1999 Sunday Times Alan Paton Award for Bram Fischer: Afrikaner Revolutionary. South Africa’s premier non-fiction award. 1990 President’s Award, University of Massachusetts, for research on Bram Fischer. 1987 Runner-up, Sanlam Prize, South Africa, non-fiction, for The Novels of Nadine Gordimer. 1983-84 Ford Foundation Grant, Yale University. 1977-80 Annell Trust Bursary, University of Witwatersrand, for study at Oxford University. 1977 Raikes Scholarship (University of the Witwatersrand). Senior Bursary (University of the Witwatersrand). McPhail Bursary (University of the Witwatersrand). Human Sciences Research Council Bursary. 1976 Convocation Merit Scholarship (University of Witwatersrand). University Bursary (University of Witwatersrand). Education 1983 D. Phil., University of Oxford. Thesis: ‘The consciousness of history in the novels of Nadine Gordimer’. Supervisor: John Bayley. Examiners: Jacques Berthoud, Terry Eagleton. 1977- 79 University of Oxford, degree courses for the M. Phil. in English Literature (modern period). Transferred to D. Phil., March 1979. 1977 B.A. Honours in English, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Dissertation: ‘Structure and meaning in the novels of E. M. Forster’. First class. 1974- 76 B.A., University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Majors: English and History. Sub-major: Philosophy. First class in all three. Publications Books and Edited Books The Grammar of Identity: Transnational Fiction and the Nature of the Boundary. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. 266 pp. Paperback edn forthcoming November 2012. Bram Fischer: Afrikaner Revolutionary. Cape Town: David Philip; Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press; 1998. 500 pp. Winner of the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award, South Africa, 1999. Second edn, with new author’s note, ‘The Afterlife of Bram Fischer’. Cape Town: David Philip, 2005. New edition forthcoming: Johannesburg: Jacana Media, 2013. Regions and Repertoires: Topics in South African Politics and Culture, edited and introduced by Stephen Clingman. Vol. 6, Working Papers in Southern African Studies. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1991. 222 pp. Clingman 3 Nadine Gordimer, The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places. Edited and with an Introduction by Stephen Clingman. London: Jonathan Cape; New York: Knopf; Johannesburg/Cape Town: Taurus/David Philip; 1988. 356 pp. Paperback edn: Harmondsworth and New York: Penguin, 1989. Translations into French (Paris: Plon, 1989); Swedish (Stockholm: Bonniers, 1989); Italian: (Rome: Feltrinelli, 1990); Portuguese (Brazil: Rocco); Japanese (Misuzu Shobo, 2005); Chinese (Nanjing University Press, forthcoming). Nadine Gordimer, Leben im Interregnum: Essays zu Politik und Literatur. Herausgegeben von Stephen Clingman. Frankfurt: S. Fischer Verlag, 1987. 286 pp. The Novels of Nadine Gordimer: History from the Inside. London: George Allen & Unwin; Cambridge, Ma: Allen & Unwin, Inc.; Johannesburg: Ravan Press; 1986. 276 pp. Second edn, with a new Prologue. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992; London: Bloomsbury, 1993. i-xxxiii, 276 pp. Articles and Other Publications ‘Teaching Coetzee’s Subject’, in Approaches to Teaching Coetzee’s Disgrace and Other Works, eds Laura Wright, Jane Poyner, and Elleke Boehmer. Forthcoming, Modern Languages Association, 2013. ‘Writing Spaces: Fiction and Non-Fiction in South Africa’, Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies 13.1-2 (2012), 51-8. ‘Writing the Interregnum: Literature and the Demise of Apartheid’, in The Cambridge History of South African Literature, eds Derek Attridge and David Attwell. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 633-51. ‘Bram Fischer’, in Dictionary of African Biography, eds Henry Louis Gates, Jr and Emmanuel Akyeampong (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), vol. 2, 374-6. ‘Nadine Gordimer’, in Dictionary of African Biography, ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr, and Emmanuel Akyeampong (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), vol. 2, 488- 91. ‘July’s People’, reprint from The Novels of Nadine Gordimer: History from the Inside, in Nadine Gordimer’s July’s People, ed. Brendon Nicholls (London and New York: Routledge, 2011), 103-14. ‘Writing the South African Treason Trial’, Current Writing 22.2 (2010), 37-59. ‘“England Has Changed”: Questions of National Form in A Distant Shore’, Moving Worlds (special issue on Caryl Phillips) 7.1 (2007), 46-58. ‘Nadine Gordimer’, Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics, ed. M. Keith Booker (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2005), vol. 1, 309-11. ‘Burger's Daughter’, Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics, ed. M. Keith Booker (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2005), vol. 1, 116-17 ‘South African Literature: The National and Transnational’, in Alessandra Di Maio (ed.), An African Renaissance. Palermo: Kalos, 2005. ‘On Ethical Grounds’. Review essay on Complicities by Mark Sanders, Law and Literature 17.2 (2005), 279-90. ‘Bram Fischer and the Question of Identity’, Current Writing 16, 1 (2004), 61-79. ‘Other Voices: An Interview with Caryl Phillips’, special feature on Caryl Phillips, Salmagundi 143 (2004), 113-40. 113-40. Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, vol. 224, ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter (Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2006), 275-86, and online. Clingman 4 ‘Forms of History and Identity in The Nature of Blood’, special feature on Caryl Phillips, Salmagundi 143 (2004), 141-66. Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, vol. 224, ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter (Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2006), 307-18, and online. ‘The Subject of Revolution’, reprint from The Novels of Nadine Gordimer: History from the Inside, in Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter: A Casebook, ed. Judie Newman (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 55-79. ‘Music of New Orleans’, Massachusetts Review, Special issue: A Gathering in Honor of Jules Chametzky (Spring/Summer 2003), 92-6. Yehudit Ben-Zvi Heller, ‘The Woman in a Purple Coat’, translated from the Hebrew by Agha Shahid Ali with Stephen Clingman and the poet, The Massachusetts Review (Summer 2002), p. 260. With Yehudit Heller. Translation of four poems from the Hebrew (with reference to the Ladino) by Margalit Matitiahu: ‘Before the Journey’; ‘“Freedom” Square Saloniki’; ‘Saloniki’; ‘After My Mother’s Death’. Metamorphoses 9/2 (Fall 2001), 210-19. ‘Surviving Murder: Oscillation and Triangulation in Nadine Gordimer’s The House Gun’, Modern Fiction Studies 46.1 (2000), 139-58. (Special issue on South African fiction after apartheid.) ‘Nadine Gordimer: A Writing Life’, in A Writing Life: Celebrating Nadine Gordimer, ed. Andries Walter Oliphant (Parktown: South Africa: Viking/Penguin, 1998), pp. 3- 18. ‘How Bram Fischer “disappeared” under the noses of the police’: 2000 word excerpt from Bram Fischer: Afrikaner Revolutionary, in Sunday Independent (Johannesburg), 2/15/98, p.15. ‘South Africa: The Novel’, Encyclopaedia of Postcolonial Literatures in English (London and New York: Routledge, 1994), 2 vols., pp 1148-53. ‘A Sport of Nature and the Boundaries of Fiction’, in The Later Fiction of Nadine Gordimer, ed. Bruce King (London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin’s; 1992). ‘The Future is Another Country’. A conversation with Nadine Gordimer and Stephen Clingman, Transition 56 (1992), 132-50. ‘The 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature: Nadine Gordimer’, Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook 1991, ed. James W. Hipp (Detroit and London: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1992), 3-11. ‘Through the Looking Glass’. Review essay on Resistance in Postcolonial African Fiction by Neil Lazarus, Transition 52 (1991), 166-70. ‘Beyond the Limit: The Social Relations of Madness in Southern African Fiction’, in The
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