1988—Ph.D. English - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Major: 20th C. British and American Literature
Minor: 19th C. British Literature
1978—M.A. English - Duke University
1976—A.B. University of Michigan. Honors English and History, With Distinction
·
A Political Genealogy of Joseph
Conrad. Lanham, MD:
Lexington Press, 2015.
· Homosexuality in the Life and Work of Joseph Conrad: Love Between the Lines. New York, London: Routledge Press, 2008.
· Imperial Desire: Dissident Sexualities and Colonial Literature. ed. with Philip Holden. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
· Conradiana. "Conrad under California Skies: Selected Proceedings." With co-editors Paul Armstrong and Andrea White. Volume 43, Numbers 2-3, Fall/Winter 2011.
Conference
Director
·
“Conrad under California
Skies.” An international conference
devoted to the life and work of Joseph Conrad.
January 7-10, 2010. Chapman
University.
· “Introduction” to the first translation into Chinese of Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes, by Zhao Ting. Shanghai:
Shanghai Yiwen Press, 2014. 上海: 上海译文出版社
· “Colonial Literature.” Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Fiction Vol. 1. ed. Brian Shaffer. Blackwell, 2010.
· “Why Conrad (Still) Matters.” Wilkinson Review: The Chapman University, Wilkinson College Magazine. 1.2 (Fall/Winter, 2008): 7-11.
·
W.
M. Keck Foundation
·
Harvard
University Press
·
Nanyang Technological University in Singapore (Dissertation reader)
·
Bloomsbury Press
· Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Dissertation reader)
· The Ohio State University Press
· Broadview Press
· Routledge Press
· Longman Publishers
· English, a publication of Oxford University Press
· Conradiana
· Twentieth Century Literature
·
“Switching Gears:
The Challenges, Frustrations, Anxieties, and Rewards of Turning to
Cognition.” Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities. Kent University, UK. July 1-4, 2018.
·
“A Cognitive Approach to The Secret Agent.” Transnational Conrad: Between Texts &
Theory. Limoges, France. September
21-22, 2017
·
“A Key to Dracula:
Bram Stoker’s ‘respectable lunatic.’ Cognitive Futures in the Arts and
Humanities. 5th International
Conference. Stony Brook University. June 5-7, 2017.
·
“Nostromo
and the Hard Problem: Conrad’s Explorations of Autonomy and Consciousness.”
Cognitive Futures in the Humanities 2016. University of Helsinki, June 13-15,
2016.
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“Traumatic Memory in The Secret Agent.” Cognitive Futures 2015 — Forging Futures from the
Past: History and Cognition. Oxford University, April 13-15, 2015.
·
“Conrad, Memory, and Neuroscience.” Modern Language
Association Conference, January 9-12, 2014.
Chicago, Illinois.
·
“Karl Marx and Joseph Conrad: Uneasy
Affinities.” The Joseph Conrad Society
(UK) 39th Annual International Conference.
July 10-13, 2013. Università di Roma Tre, Rome.
·
“Conrad’s (mostly) Impersonal Art: Politics in Nostromo.” The Joseph Conrad
Society (UK) 38th Annual International Conference. July 4-7, 2012. Bath, UK.
·
“More on the Art of Lying: Politics in A Personal Record.” Modern Language
Association Conference. January 5-8, 2012. Seattle,
Washington.
·
“Conrad’s Radically Contingent Politics.” The
Joseph Conrad Society (UK) 36th Annual International Conference. Joint Conference with La Société Conradienne Française. Versailles (St-Quentin) and Paris. September 14-17, 2010.
·
“Hélène Cixous and
Conrad’s Imaginative Bisexuality.” Seminar paper. Modernist Studies
Association Conference. November 1-4, 2007. Long Beach, CA.
·
“Sympathy for the Devil: Conrad’s Anarchists and his
Critique of Class.” Modern Language Association Conference. December
27-30, 2006. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
·
“Good Fellowship or Homoeroticism? Joseph
Conrad’s
·
“More Love Between the
Lines: Intimacy in Conrad's Letters.” Joseph Conrad in
Amsterdam. Thirty-First Annual International Conference of the Joseph
Conrad Society (UK). July 7-9, 2005. Amsterdam, The
Netherlands.
·
“Homosexuality in Under Western Eyes: Reading through History and
Culture.” Joseph Conrad & Europe. September 22-25, 2004.
Opole and Krakow, Poland.
·
“Territories of the Heart: Mapping
Homoeroticism in Lord Jim.” Conrad
and Territoriality. August 16-18, 2002. The University of British
Columbia. Vancouver, Canada.
·
“The Economy of Desire in Heart of Darkness.” International Conference of Joseph Conrad
Scholars. August 9-12, 2000. Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas.
·
“‘An Outpost of Progress,’ Popular Colonialist
Fiction, and Conrad’s Magic Naturalism.” The 25th Anniversary Conference
of the Joseph Conrad Society (U.K.), with the Henry James Society (USA) and the
Ford Madox Ford Society. July 8-12, 1999.
Canterbury, England.
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“Historicizing the Homoeroticism in ‘The Secret
Sharer.’” Modern Language Association. December 27-30, 1997. Toronto, Canada.
·
“Joseph Conrad and the Homoerotic Milieu at the Turn
of the Century.” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Chapel Hill, North
Carolina, December 4-7, 1997.
·
“Designing Web Pages for Courses in the Humanities.”
Student-centered Teaching Meets Technology: Converging for a New Millennium.
Faculty Development Conference. Bloomington MN, Nov. 20-21, 1997.
·
“Beyond ‘The Secret Sharer’: Joseph Conrad and the
Ghost of Oscar Wilde.” 2nd International Joseph Conrad Conference. Lublin,
Poland. September 1-4, 1996.
·
“Secret Sharing: Historicizing Conrad’s
Homoeroticism.” “Conrad's Century: The Past and Future Splendour."”
Kent State University. Kent, Ohio. April 6-9, 1995.
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“‘They always leave us’: Lord Jim and Colonialist
Discourse.” 20th Annual International Conference on Conrad. London. July 7-9,
1994.
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“Prime Time’s Hidden Agenda: The Presentation of
Asians on American Network Television, 1994.” With David Piehl.
Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association Conference.
Chicago, April, 1994
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“British Colonialist Tropes in American Films.”
Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association Conference. New
Orleans, April, 1993.
·
“The Presentation of Asians on American Television,
1993.” Asian Americans Conference. With David Piehl.
University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. March, 1993.
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“‘The Lagoon’ and the Popular Exotic Tradition.” 1st
International Conrad Conference--Baranow Sandomierski, Poland. September 8-10, 1991.
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“Lord Jim’s
Marlow and the French Lieutenant: Mapping Conrad's Ethnocentrism.” Joseph
Conrad Society in Marseilles, France. September, 1990.
·
“Heart of
Darkness, C. J. Cutcliff Hyne,
and the Great Tradition.” The Carolinas Symposium on British Studies, North
Carolina State University, Raleigh. October, 1987.