JEFF SOLOMON 323.350.5035 [email protected] Updated 12.2016 Education University of Southern California, Ph.D. in English Literature, with Graduate Certificate in Gender Studies, 2008 University of Southern California, M.A. in English Literature, 2002 University of California–Irvine, M.F.A. in English (Fiction), 1993 University of Pennsylvania, B.A., cum laude in English, with distinction, 1989 Employment University of Southern California, Lecturer, Gender Studies and English Departments, 2012-16 University of Puget Sound, Visiting Assistant Professor, English Department, 2011-12 St. Olaf College, Visiting Assistant Professor, English Department, 2009-11 University of Redlands, Lecturer, Creative Writing Department, 2009, 2013 Fellowships and Awards Andrew J. Kappel Prize for Best Article of the Year, Twentieth-Century Literature, 2009 Pushcart Prize nomination, “The Third Breast of Hilda Von Why,” SPECS, 2009 “Final Summer” Fellowship, Department of English, University of Southern California, 2008 James Prize for best essay by a graduate student, ”Homosexuality Has No Humanist Value: Truman Capote and the Trillings,” Department of English, University of Southern California, 2006 Christopher Isherwood Foundation Fellow, Huntington Library, 2005 Edward W. Moses Award (best fiction by a USC graduate student), “Best Friend,” 2005 USC-Bogaziçi University Summer Institute Fellow (Fulbright), Istanbul, Turkey, 2005 English Department Dissertation Fellowship, USC, 2004–2005 USC Lambda Alumni Graduate Research Award, 2002 Edward W. Moses Award (best fiction by a USC graduate student), “Bohemian Acts: Overture,” 2001 Provost’s Fellowship, USC, 2000–2001, 2001–2002 Publications Book So Famous and So Gay: The Fabulous Potency of Truman Capote and Gertrude Stein. University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming May 2017. SOLOMON CV 2 Articles “Broadly Queer and Specifically Gay: The Celebrity and Career of Gertrude Stein.” In Literary Careers in the Modern Era, eds. Guy Davidson and Nicola Evans. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015: 77-95. “Gertrude Stein, Opium Queen: Notes on an Unlikely Embrace,” Journal of Lesbian Studies 17.1 (2013): 7-24. “Capote and the Trillings: Homophobia and Literary Culture at Mid-Century,” Twentieth–Century Literature 54.2 (2009): 129-165. [Winner of the Andrew J. Kappel Prize for Best Article of the Year.] “Young, Effeminate, and Strange: Early Photographic Portraits of Truman Capote," Studies in Gender and Sexuality 6.3 (2005): 293–326. “Monster and Critic, Teacher and Writer: A Roundtable Discussion on Difference, Fear, and Creation,” Santa Monica Review 17.2 (2005): 148–177. “Down South in Peckerwood: Auntie Mame and Anti-Mom,” The Queer South on Screen, edited by Tison Pugh [Solicited, anticipated 2017 publication]. Shorter pieces and reviews “The Truman Show.” Review of Truman Capote: A Literary Life at the Movies, by Tison Pugh. The Gay and Lesbian Review 23.3 (May-June 2015): 43-44. “Husbands and Other Lovers.” Review of Foolish Hearts: New Gay Fiction, eds. Lambert and Cochrane. The Gay and Lesbian Review 20.1 (September- October 2014): 44. “J’accuse: The Heath Anthology Erases Gay Writers,” essay, The Gay and Lesbian Review 19.1 (January-February 2012): 27-29. “How Whitman Seduced Us with a Photograph,” essay, The Gay and Lesbian Review 17.4 (July-August 2010): 43. “Review of Jaime Hovey’s A Thousand Words: Portraiture, Style, and Queer Modernism,” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 36.6 (2007): 455- 457. “Art Imitates Life: The Importance of Gay Characters in Teen Serial Dramas,” Frontiers [Los Angeles] 20.25 (2002): 50–52. Short Stories “Best Friend,” short story, Best Gay Stories 2009. Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2009. 15-23. Reprint, Harrington Gay Men’s Literary Quarterly 9.1 (2007): 57– 67. “The Third Breast of Hilda Von Why,” short story, SPECS 1 (2008): 27–34. Nominated for Pushcart Prize, 2009. “A Boy Abroad,” short story, The Loudest Voice. CA: Figueroa Press (2010): 111- 119. Reprint, Harrington Gay Men’s Literary Quarterly 8.3 (2007): 61–69. Conferences and Papers “Seedy Pleasures: Theodore Payne, Southern California Native Plants, and Modernity,” Modernist Studies Association, Pasadena, Nov. 2016. “Portraits: Gertrude Stein and Truman Capote.” Invited speaker, @sea reading series, Poetic Research Bureau, Los Angeles, 2015. “Young, Effeminate, and Strange: The Debut of Truman Capote.” Invited speaker, LGBTQ Research Consortium, San Diego State University, 2015. SOLOMON CV 3 “Truman Capote, Public Masturbation, and the Conflict between Queer and Gay." "The Coming of Age of LGBTQ Studies: Past, Present, and Future Directions" (conference), San Diego State University, 2015. “Allan Ginsberg’s Howl,” Invited Speaker, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, 2015. “Phantasmal Glamour and Erotic Nostalgia in Breakfast at Tiffany's: Fiction, Film, and the Dorm Room Wall." Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association, Honolulu, 2010. “Girls’ School: Effeminacy, Female Critics, and Gay Authors.” Invited Speaker, Feminist Studies Colloquium Series, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2009. “Hitler, Homosexuality, and Truman Capote: Diana Trilling’s Axis of Evil,” Northeastern Modern Languages Association, Philadelphia, 2006. Research and Teaching Interests Gender & Queer Studies, American Literature 1865–present, Creative Writing Teaching Experience I developed all courses, except where indicated. Lecturer in Gender Studies and English, University of Southern California, 2012-present Gender Studies and Literature “Gender Conflict in Cultural Contexts.” Examines social and cultural conflicts through the lens of gender via the transformation of U. S. society from the 1950s through the Sexual Revolution to the 1980s. Spring 2017 (scheduled). “Girls Gone Wild: A Century of Misbehavior.” Investigates women who rebel against expectations of proper conduct in twentieth-century U.S. fiction and film, and shifting hegemonic expectations and constraints. Seminar, Fall and Spring 2016, Fall and Spring 2015; lecture, Fall 2014. “Secrets of the American Short Story.” Investigates the aesthetic transformations of the American short story since 1900. Seminar, Spring 2016, Fall and Spring 2015, Fall 2014; lecture, Spring 2015. “Defining the Bohemian.” Investigates the cultural construction of the bohemian in the United States through figures such as Stein, Hemingway, Josephine Baker, the Beats, Kenneth Anger, and Jaime Hernandez. Lecture, Fall 2014. Creative Writing “Introduction to Fiction Writing.” Seminar, Spring 2014, Fall 2016. “Narrative Writing.” A workshop in fiction and creative non-fiction, Fall 2015. “Introduction to Creative Writing.” Fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction for non-majors. Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Spring 2013. Lecturer in English, Mt. St. Mary’s College, 2013 “The Study of the Novel.” Includes Charlotte Brontë, Beecher Stowe, Crane, Danielewski, Fitzgerald, Forster, Morrison, Woolf. Fall 2013. SOLOMON CV 4 Visiting Assistant Professor of English, University of Puget Sound, 2011-2012 “Studies in Twentieth-Century American Literature: Passing Fancy.” The varieties of passing: race, class, gender, and sexual orientation. Senior seminar, Spring 2012. “Studies in Lesbian and Gay Literature: Invert, Pervert, Bull Dagger, Queen.” Cross-listed in Gender Studies. Twentieth-century U.S. literature and visual narratives by and about lesbians, gay men, the transgendered, and other queers. Seminar, Fall 2011. “Survey of American Literature II, 1865 to the Present: Canon Fodder.” Both the standard narratives of the American literature and the battles fought over the canon. Lecture, Spring 2012. “Nuclear Family Meltdown!” (First-year seminar.) Students explore how the “traditional” image of family held by Americans is an uncommon reality. Spring 2012, Fall 2011. Visiting Assistant Professor of English, St. Olaf College, 2009-2011 “Topics in American Racial and Multicultural Literature: Cultures of Desire 1945- present.” Cross-listed in Women’s Studies. How class, ethnicity, race, and sexual orientation configure representations of desire in post-1945 U.S. literature. Seminar, Spring 2011, Fall 2009. “Topics in Multicultural Literature: Cultures of Modernity.” Cross-listed in Women’s Studies. The writing and relationships between four modernist communities: Lesbian Paris, the Harlem Renaissance, Bloomsbury, and Modernist Japan. Seminar, Fall 2010. “Topics in Literary History: Canon Fodder—American Literature, 1960-present.” Major authors and literary movements, and the values and definitions that deem these “major.” Lecture, Spring 2011. “Topics in Visual Culture: Image, Sequence, Story.” In literature, graphic novels, photographic books, serial television drama, and film. Lecture, Fall 2010, Spring 2010. Independent Studies —“Twentieth-Century Lesbian Literature.” Fall 2010. —“Tales of a City on a Hill: Armistead Maupin in Print and on Screen.” Spring 2010. Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of Redlands, 2009, 2013 “Non-Fiction Workshop I.” Fall 2013. “Fiction Workshop I.” Spring 2009 Lecturer and Teaching Assistant, University of Southern California, 2003–2008 Selected classes. “Gender Conflict in Cultural Contexts.” Teaching Assistant for Professor Sherry Velasco. 2 sections, Fall 2008. “Girls Gone Wild!” A first-year honors seminar on “inappropriate” women in twentieth-century literature and film. Spring 2007, Spring 2005. SOLOMON CV 5 “Defining the Bohemian.” A first-year honors seminar exploring the “bohemian” in twentieth-century literature and film. Spring 2004. “Culture and Values.”