Lee Konstantinou Curriculum Vitae
Institutional Address Personal Address Program in Writing and Rhetoric 452 Bartlett Street, #303 590 Escondido Mall San Francisco, CA 94110-3859 Sweet Hall, Third Floor Phone: (650) 218-8299 Stanford, CA 94305-3069 Email: [email protected]
Education Ph.D., English, Stanford University, 2009. Dissertation: “Wipe That Smirk off Your Face: Postironic Literature and the Politics of Character” Committee: Ramón Saldívar (chair), Ursula Heise, Sianne Ngai M.A., English, Stanford University, 2008. B.A., English, Psychology, College Scholar Program, Cornell University, 2000. Thesis (summa cum laude): “Comics and the Holocaust: A(n) (Auto/bio)graphical Analysis of Art Spiegelman’s Maus”
Fellowships and Awards PWR Annual Research Award, Stanford University, 2010. Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship, Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stanford University, 2009–Present. Graduate Research Opportunities—Modern British History and Culture Award, Stanford University, Spring 2009. Killefer Fellowship, Stanford University, 2007–2008. Graduate Research Opportunities Award, Stanford University, Summer 2007. Fellowship, Department of English, Stanford University, 2002–2007.
Publications Countercultural Capital: The Politics of Irony and Postwar Fiction. Under contract with Harvard University Press. The Legacy of David Foster Wallace: Critical and Creative Assessments. Editor and Contributor. Under contract with the University of Iowa Press. “Introduction” and “No Bull: David Foster Wallace and the Avant-Garde.” In The Legacy of David Foster Wallace: Critical and Creative Assessments. Forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press. “Learning to Be Yourself.” A review of Abigail Cheever’s Real Phonies: Cultures of Authenticity in Post–World War II America. Forthcoming in Twentieth Century Literature. Konstantinou / Curriculum Vitae / 2
“The Brand as Cognitive Map in William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition,” boundary 2 36.2 (Summer 2009): 67–97. Pop Apocalypse: A Possible Satire. A novel. New York: Ecco/Harper Perennial, 2009. “Round or Flat?” Center: A Journal of the Literary Arts 8 (2009): 79–81. An Interview with Mark McGurl, The Believer May 2009: 31+
Positions Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stanford University, 2009–Present. Contributor, ARCADE: A Digital Salon, Jan. 2010–Present.
Conference Sessions Organized “The Legacy of David Foster Wallace” (roundtable discussion), Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, Dec. 2009. “Postirony in Theory and Fiction” (special session), Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, Dec. 2006.
Papers “Graphic Narratives: Exploring Intertextuality and Multi-modal Writing” (participant), 62nd CCCC Convention, Atlanta, GA, Apr. 2011. “Desymbolizing Kenneth Burke: Modernism, Invisible Man, and the Theory of Symbolic Action,” Modernist Studies Association 12, “Modernist Studies Without Modernism II: Historiographies of the Twentieth-Century Archive” panel, Victoria, B.C., Nov. 2011. “The Paraliterary Present: Everson, Neoliberalism, and William Gibson’s Spook Country,” American Comparative Literature Association, “Paraworlds and Paraliterature” seminar, New Orleans, Apr. 2010. “The Legacy of David Foster Wallace” (participant in roundtable discussion), Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, Dec. 2009. “The Cosmopolitanism of High Finance in Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis,” American Comparative Literature Association, “Master of the Universe: Literature, Culture, and Finance Culture” seminar, Cambridge, MA, Mar. 2009. “The Brand as Cognitive Map in William Gibson's Pattern Recognition,” American Literature Association Convention, San Francisco, May 2008. “The Cooptation Problem: Postirony in Alex Shakar’s The Savage Girl,” Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, Dec. 2006. Konstantinou / Curriculum Vitae / 3
“Anatomizing the Americas: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead as Postmodern Encyclopedic Narrative,” American Cultures Workshop, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, Spring 2004. “Reanimating Modernism: The 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition in Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth,” Stanford-Berkeley Graduate Conference, UC Berkeley, Apr. 2004.
Lectures and Invited Talks Invited Speaker, “Philosophy and Science Fiction,” Professor Jeffrey Paris, University of San Francisco, Oct. 2009. “William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition,” Lecture, “Contemporary American Fiction,” Professor Ursula Heise, Fall 2004. “Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49,” Lecture, “Contemporary American Fiction,” Professor Ursula Heise, Fall 2004. “Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors,” Lecture, “The Films of Woody Allen,” Professor Robert Polhemus, Spring 2003.
Teaching Teaching Fellow, Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stanford University “Rhetoric in Crisis!,” PWR 2 Course, Spring 2011. “Rhetoric, Social Media, and Virtual Worlds,” PWR 1 Course, Autumn 2010 and Winter 2011. “The Politics and Rhetoric of Satire,” PWR 1 Course, Autumn, Winter, and Spring 2009–10. Instructor, Stanford Continuing Studies, Stanford University “Novel Writing: Toward the First Draft,” Summer 2009. Instructor, Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stanford University “Wipe That Smirk off Your Face: The Politics and Rhetoric of Irony,” PWR 1 Course, 2008–9. “Childlikeness: The Rhetoric of Childhood,” PWR 1, Winter and Spring 2004. Instructor, Educational Program for Gifted Youth, Stanford University “Creative Writing,” Singapore, June 2008. “Creative Writing,” Indonesia, June 2007. “Creative Writing,” Singapore, June 2007. Teaching Assistant, Department of English, Stanford University “Contemporary American Fiction,” Professor Ursula Heise, Fall 2004. “The Films of Woody Allen,” Professor Robert Polhemus, Spring 2003. Konstantinou / Curriculum Vitae / 4
Service Graduate Representative, Faculty Search Committee, senior Americanist search, Department of English, Stanford University, 2006–2007. Graduate Representative, Faculty Search Committee, Assistant Professor of Anglophone literature, Department of English, Stanford University, 2006–2007. Graduate Representative, Graduate Admissions Committee, 2005–2006. Graduate Representative, Graduate Studies Committee, 2004–2007. Co-Coordinator, American Cultures Workshop, Stanford Humanities Center, 2004–2005.
Professional Organizations American Literature Association American Studies Association The Association of Writers and Writing Programs Modern Language Association Modernist Studies Association National Council of Teachers of English
References Professor Ursula Heise, Department of English, Stanford University Professor Gavin Jones, Department of English, Stanford University Professor Andrea A. Lunsford, Department of English, Stanford University Professor Sianne Ngai, Department of English, UCLA Professor Ramón Saldívar, Department of English, Stanford University