DEPARTMENT OF
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
The Pennsylvania State University
311 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802 USA
The
Pennsylvania State University
112 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802 USA
E-mail: jpe11@psu.edu
Phone: 814.863.0589
Fax: 814.863.8882
Fall 2005- Josephine
Berry Weiss Early Career Professor in the Humanities and Assistant Professor of
Comparative Literature
and English, The Pennsylvania State University
2004-2005
Postdoctoral
Fellow, Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University
2003-2004 Lecturer,
Department of English, The Pennsylvania State University
2002-2003 Lecturer,
Department of English , University of Tennessee
1995-2002 University
of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory
1989-1993 Dartmouth
College, A.B. in High Honors English and French, Magna Cum Laude
Book
Surrealism and the Art of Crime (Forthcoming from Cornell University Press in Fall
2008).
Journal Issues
Contemporary Vanguard
Cultures (in preparation).
Special Issue Co-Editor, with
Jeremy Braddock, Paris, Modern Fiction, and the Black Atlantic Modern
Fiction Studies 51:4 (Winter
2005).
Adoptive Affinities: Josephine Bakers Humanist International S&F Online, ed. Kaiama Glover. Double Issue: 6.2-6.2: Fall 2007/Spring 2008.
Anti-Humanism and Terror: Surrealism, Theory, and
the Postwar Left Yale
French Studies 109 (2006), 39-51.
Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic, Introduction
to Paris, Modern Fiction, and the Black Atlantic, with Jeremy Braddock. Modern
Fiction Studies 51:4 (Winter
2005), 731-740.
The Transatlantic Mysteries of Paris: Chester
Himes, Surrealism, and the Srie Noire, PMLA (May 2005), 806-821..
Violette Nozires et la rcriture alchimique du viol, Pleine
Marge 40 (December 2004), 61-77.
Chandlers Waste Land, Studies in the Novel 35: 3 (Fall 2003), 366-382..
Special issue on Raymond Chandler.
That Obscure Object of Revolt: Heraclitus, Surrealisms Lightning-Conductor, Symploke 8: 1-2 (Spring 2000), 180-204. [appeared 2001].
Trafficking in the Void: The Consumption of Otherness in the Beat
Generation. Modern
Fiction Studies 43:1 (Spring 1997), 53-92.
Book Chapters and Other Contributions
Misre de la pornographie: Du surralisme lՎcriture
fminine. Plaisir,
souffrance et sublimation, ed.
Jean-Michel Devesa. Bordeaux: Pleine Page (2008).
Assistant Editor, with Mary Ann Caws, Surrealism,
Themes and Movements (London: Phaidon, 2004).
Locked Room, Bloody Chamber, Surrealism: Crossings/Frontiers, ed. Elza Adamowitz (Berlin: Peter Lang, 2006), 133-150.
On Murder, Considered As One of the Surrealist Arts: Robert Desnos
in the Shadow of Jack the Ripper, Surrealism in the New Century:
Celebrating Robert Desnos, eds. Marie-Claire
Barnet and Eric Robertson (Dublin: Philomel Press, 2006), 187-202.
Entries on Chester Himes, Marcel Duhamel, Philippe Soupault, and Benjamin Pret
in Enclyclopedia of the French Atlantic, ed. Bill Marshall (Oxford: ABC-Clio, 2005).
Surrealism Noir, Surrealism,
Politics, and Culture, eds.
Raymond Spiteri and Donald LaCoss (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Press, 2003),
91-110.
The
Cheerless Art of Industry: Marcel Duchamp and the Smithee Readymade, Directed
By Allen Smithee, eds. Jeremy
Braddock and Stephen Hock, (Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2001),
229-247.
Review of Michael Sheringham, Everyday Life:
Theories and Practices from Surrealism to the Present. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006. In CLS: Comparative Literature Studies (45:3) (forthcoming).
Review of Willard Bohn, Marvelous Encounters:
Surrealist Responses to Film, Art, Poetry, and Architecture.
Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2005. In The French Review (forthcoming).
Review of Caroline Rupprecht. Subject to Delusions:
Narcissism, Modernism, Gender. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 2006. In German
Quarterly 80:4 ((Fall 2007) 556-558.
Review of Dafydd Jones, ed. Dada Culture: Critical
Texts on the Avant-Garde. Avant-Garde Critical Studies, v. 18. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi,
2006. In Symploke 14:1-2 (2006, appeared 2007): 344-346.
Review of John Cullen Gruesser, Confluences:
Postcolonialism, African American Literature Studies, and the Black Atlantic (Georgia UP, 2005) in Modern Fiction Studies 52:3 (2006), 748-752.
Review of Susan Aberth, Leonora Carrington:
Surrealism, Alchemy, and Art (Lund
Humphries, 2004) in Papers of
Surrealism 5 (Spring 2005).
Object
Lessons: Surrealist Art, Surrealist Politics, Review Essay: Steven Harris, Surrealist
Art and Thought in the 1930s: Art, Politics, and the Psyche; Johanna Malt, Obscure Objects of Desire:
Surrealism, Fetishism, and Politics;
David Bate, Photography and Surrealism: Sexuality, Colonialism, and Social
Dissent; and Jean Clair, Du
surralisme considr dans ses rapports au totalitarianisme et aux tables
tournantes. Contribution une histoire de l'insens. in Modernism/modernity12.1
(2005) 175-181.-
The Edges of Surrealism, Review essay: Katharine
Conley, Robert Desnos, Surrealism, and the Marvelous in Everyday Life; Claudine Frank, ed., The Edge of Surrealism: A
Roger Caillois Reader; and Eric
Zafran, Surrealism and Modernism. Journal of Modern Literature 26: 3/4,
Spring 2004.
Review essay, Dalia Judovitz, Unpacking Duchamp:
Art in Transit; and David Joselit, Infinite
Regress: Marcel Duchamp 1910-1941. Other
Voices, v.1, n.2 (September
1998).
TRANSLATIONS
Robert
Desnos, The Third Manifesto of Surrealism, A Description of the Next
Revolt, and Modern Imagery, The Essential Writings of Robert Desnos, ed. Mary Ann Caws. Boston:
Black Widow Press (2008), 58-73.
Michel
Fabre, Ren, Louis, and Lopold: Senghorian Negritude as a Black Humanism,
with Randall Cherry. Modern
Fiction Studies 51:4 (Winter 2005).
Louis
Aragon, A Note on Freedom (1925); Ren Char, Untitled [Violette Nozires]
(1933); Ren Crevel, Response to
an Inquiry on Suicide (1925) and Notes toward a Psycho-Dialectic (1933);
Maurice Heine, An Open Letter to Luis Buuel" (1931); Andr Masson, The
Tyrrany of Time (1926); Pierre Naville, Fine Arts (1925); Benjamin Pret,
Untitled [Violette Nozires] (1933).
In Surrealism, ed. Mary Ann
Caws (London: Phaidon Press, 2004).
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Comparative Literature Faculty Teaching Award, 2008.
PSU Institute for Arts and Humanities,
Interdisciplinary Reading Group grant for The Future of Arts Journalism, with
Gabeba Baderoon and Dorn Hetzel.
NEH
Summer Seminar, Modernist Paris, July 2006
PSU Institute for Arts and Humanities, Teaching
Across the Disciplines grant for team-taught course, with Jennifer Boittin,
Tom Hale, and Pius Adesanmi, 2006.
Josephine
Berry Weiss Early Career Professorship in the Humanities, Penn State University
2005-
Short-term
Research Fellowship, Harry Ransom Center, 2005
Postdoctoral
Fellowship, Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University, 2004-5.
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Rice
University, 2004-6 (declined).
William Penn Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1995
(1996-97 declined) and 2001.
University Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania,
2000.
Bourse Chateaubriand for dissertation research in
France, 1999.
French Institute for Culture and Technology Travel
Fellowship, 1999 & 2001.
Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship for Graduate Study,
1996, 1997, 1998.
SESSIONS ORGANIZED AND
PANELS CHAIRED
Seminar co-organizer, Geographical Identities 20th/21st
C. French/Francophone Studies Conf., 2008.
Seminar co-organizer and co-chair, with Katherine
Conley, 2007 ACLA: Maps, Transnationalism, and the Material Text.
Panel co-organizer, with Lisi Schoenbach, 2006 MSA:
Progressivist Histories and the Ethics of Institutional Change.
Seminar co-organizer, with Janine Mileaf, 2005 MSA:
The Avant-Garde and its Object.
Seminar organizer and chair, 2005 ACLA: The Use-Value
of the Avant-Garde.
Special session organizer, 2004 MLA: Paranoia,
Theory, Paranoia.
Panel co-organizer, with Laurie Monahan, 2004 MSA:
Violence and the Event.
Chair and organizer, special session, 2003 MLA:
Surrealism and the Sadean Woman.
Chair and panel organizer, 2003 American Studies
Association: Strikers, Communists, and Detectives.
Panel co-organizer, with Jeremy Braddock, 2002 MSA:
Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic
Panel organizer, double session, 2000 MSA: The
Surrealist Intervention I and II.
Participated in
7-day colloquium, Robert Desnos pour lan 2000, Crisy-la-Salle,
France, July 2000.
Co-organized two interdisciplinary conferences at the
University of Pennsylvania:
Specters of Legitimacy: A Retrospective and Conference on the Films of
Allen Smithee (Fall 1998), and Body Parts/ Partial Bodies, An
Interdisciplinary Conference (Spring 1997).
TEACHING AND RESEARCH
INTERESTS
Modernism; Literary Theory; Surrealism and the
Avant-Garde; American Literature since 1865; Crime Fiction and Film; Transatlantic
Studies of Literary and Cultural Exchange.
ACADEMIC SERVICE AND ACTIVITIES
Planning committee, Association for the Study of the
Arts of the Present (A.S.A.P) (2007-).
Coordinator of weekly Comparative Literature luncheon
lecture series (2005- ); co-organizer-Fall 2005.
Graduate Committee, Dept. of Comparative Literature
(2006-)
Policy Committee, Dept. of Comparative Literature
(2007-)
Junior
job placement advisor (English and Comparative Literature) (2005-7).
Participant
in monthly theory reading group (2005- ).
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