Professor of English Director of Self-Directed Inquiry Class of 1932 Research Professorship Shire Prize for Excellence in Teaching, 2001-02
B.A., Bennington College;
M.A., University of California at Santa Cruz;
M.Phil., Ph.D., Rutgers University. (1982)
Books:
- Hollywood Intellect
(forthcoming 2009 from Rowman Littlefield/Lexington
Books) Link to
Preview of Hollywood Intellect:
- Gravity Fails: The Comic Jewish Shaping of Modern America (Praeger, 2003)
- The Literary Bent: The Search for High Art in Contemporary American Writing (Pennsylvania, 1997)
- Left Letters: The Culture Wars of Mike Gold and Joseph Freeman
(Columbia, 1992)
- The Stock of Available Reality: R.P. Blackmur and John Berryman (Bucknell, 1984)
Recent Articles:
"Obama's Candidacy Reopens Debate on Race," Morning Call 20 February 2007
"Is a Star Born: American Novelists as Stargazers," Columbia Journal of American Studies vol. 8 (spring 2007)
"Lincoln Stands in Contrast." (Allentown PA) Morning Call 12 February 2006
"Hollywood Intellect," Canadian Review of American Studies 34:3 (2004)-Available online@Academic Search Premier
"Fewer Appreciate the Hard Work Labor Day Honors," (Allentown PA) Morning Call 1 September 2003
"Look at Wider context of Horrible Family Slaying" Morning Call 10 June 2003
"Lehigh Valley Needs Real New Deal Congressman," (Allentown PA) Morning Call 20 September 2002
"Independence Day Apart from the Fireworks: Read, White, and Blue," Chronicle of Higher Education 5 July 2002. Reprinted on U.S. Department of State website: http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/holidays/july4/bloom.htm
"The Occidental Tourist: The Counter-Orientalist Gaze in Fitzgerald's Last Novels," Style 35:1 (Spring 2001)
Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing
Phone: 484-664-3316
Fax: 484-664-3633
Office: Center for the Arts 271
E-mail: abrooks@muhlenberg.edu
Bennington College;
B.A., Liberal Arts, Sarah Lawrence College, concentration on Creative Writing, Literature, and Art History;
M.FA, Writing, Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts (2005)
Selected Publications:
- California, novella, Teenage Teardrops Press, November 2008.
- Selected poems from The Pinking Sky, Not Enough Night, Naropa University, Fall 2008.
- “Interstate 5,” “Karen Kilimnik,” and “Felix Gonzalez-Torres,” Encyclopedia Project Vol. 2 F-K, edited by Tisa Bryant, Miranda Mellis, and Kate Schatz, Fall 2008.
- “Nicola Tyson,” review, Artforum, Summer 2007.
- “Identity Theft: Eleanor Antin, Lynne Hershman, and Suzy Lake, 1972-78,” museum preview, Artforum May 2007.
- “Michele O’Marah,” review Artforum, January 2007.
- California, excerpt and cover story, LA Weekly, August 31 , 2006.
- “Must See Art,” weekly column, LA Weekly, 2006-2008.
- “Dan Colen,” review, Artforum, Summer 2006.
Teaching: Amra Brooks is a visiting lecturer in Creative Writing and is the acting advisor for the Creative Writing Minor. Her courses include Introduction to Poetry and Fiction, Nonfiction Writing, Advanced Fiction Workshop, Magazine Writing and Editing, and special topics courses in Experimental Writing, Art Criticism, and The Graphic Novel. She started the Writers at Work reading series which bring two writers to campus each semester and is the advisor for a new student run online literary and arts journal called Popped.
Professor of English & NEH Professor of Humanities
Donald Hoffman Research fellowship, 2004-5
Lindback Prize for Distinguished Teaching, 1986 Class of 1932 Research Professorship, 1992-93 Shire Prize for Excellence in Teaching, 2000-01
B.A., Bennington College;
M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz. (1980)
Books: - Editor, Shakespeare's Richard II, forthcoming, Barnes & Noble, 2007.
- Editor, Norton Critical Edition of Shakespeare's Richard III, forthcoming, W.W. Norton, 2008.
- New Wave Shakespeare on Screen (Polity/Blackwell, 2006), co-authored with Katherine Rowe.
- Repositioning Shakespeare: National Formations, Postcolonial Appropriations (Routledge, 1999)
- Marlowe, Shakespeare, and the Economy of Theatrical Experience (Pennsylvania, 1991)
Recent Publications:
- “Taymor’s Titus in Time and Space: Surrogation andInterpolation,”forthcoming in Renaissance Drama,N.S. 34 (2006).
- Introductions and Annotations, Marlowe's Dr Faustus, forthcoming, Norton Anthology of Drama.
- "Edward II." In Patrick Cheney, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004, pp. 158-173.
- “Suffolk
and the Pirates: Disordered Relations in Shakespeare’s 2 Henry VI." in Richard Dutton and Jean Howard, eds. A Blackwell Companion to Shakespeare, v. 1. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003, pp. 325-343.
- “Shakespeare and the Street: Pacino’s Looking for Richard, Bedford’s The Street King, and the Common Understanding.” in Richard Burt and Lynda Boose, eds. Shakespeare the Movie II. New York & London: Routledge, 2003, pp. 186-199.
- “Shakespeare in Pain: Edward Bond’s Lear and the Ghosts of History,” Shakespeare Survey, 55 (2002): 159-69.
- "King Edward’s Body.” In Richard Wilson, ed. Christopher Marlowe. Longman Critical Readers. London: Longman, 1999, 174-90.
- "Queer Edward II: Postmodern Sexualities and the Early Modern Subject," in Paul W. White, ed. Marlowe, History, and
Sexuality: New Critical Essays on Christopher Marlowe. New York: AMS Press, 1998, 213-23. Reprinted in Avraham Oz, ed., Marlowe: Contemporary Critical Essays (New York: Palgrave, 2003), pp. 200-12.
Courses: Shakespeare, Shakespeare on Film, Renaissance Plays in Process, Postcolonial Literature, Reading Joyce's Ulysses, World Cinemas, Middle-Eastern Literature & Film.
Associate Professor of English Director of Film Studies Robert C. Williams Prize for Junior Faculty, 2001 Faculty Summer Research Grant, 2000, 2001 Bridgebuilders Award, 2000, 2001 Recipient, Mellon Pilot Grant to develop Performance Studies Curriculum, Fall 2001
B.A., Columbia University;
M.A., Ph.D., New York University. (1997)
Books:
- Editor, Joe Orton: A Casebook (NY: Routledge, 2003)
- Editor, Orton's novels, Between Us Girls, Lord Cucumber, and The Boy Hairdresser (Grove Press, 1999), and Orton's plays, Fred and Madge and The Visitors (Nick Hern Books, 1998)
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Recent Publications:
- "A Twitch Upon The Thread: Revisiting Brideshead Revisited." Essay for Catholic Figures and Queer Narratives, edited by Patricia Juliana Smith and Fred Roden (Palgrave, 2006).
- "Writing Bodies In Space: Media Fanfiction and Theatrical Performance," in Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet, ed. Hellekson & Busse, (MacFarland, 2006) p. 225-244.
- "Joe Orton." Commissioned entry for the revised Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, edited by David Scott Kastan (OUP, 2006).
- "Joe Orton: A Literary Biography." British and Irish Dramatists Since World War II, ed. John Bull. (Bruccoli-Clark Layman, 2005) p. 187-202.
- "Performance Theory and Performativity," in Palgrave Advances in Oscar Wilde Studies, edited by Frederick S. Roden. (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2004.) p. 72-95.
- "The Sacred Joke: Comedy and Politics in Pinter's Early Plays." in The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- "A Perfectly Developed Playwright: Joe Orton and Homosexual Reform." in The Queer Sixties, ed. Patricia Juliana Smith. New York: Routledge, 1999.
Courses: Modern, Postwar, and Contemporary Drama, The Literary Marketplace, Literature and Sexuality, Literature and Mass Media, Genres of Popular Fiction, Wilde and Shaw (Senior Seminar), What Work Is: Literature and Labor (Senior Seminar), Performing Popular Culture: Onstage with Buffy the Vampire Slayer (special topic: co-taught with Jim Peck, Theatre)
Associate Professor of English Robert C. Williams Prize for Junior Faculty, 2002
B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago. (1995)
Recent Publications:
- "The Consolation of Physics: Tennyson's Thermodynamic Solution." PMLA (May 2002)
- "On the Origin of Species." in British and Irish Literature and Their Times (Gale, 2001)
- "Reproducing Empire: Moreau and Others," Nineteenth-Century Studies 14 (2000)
- "The Domination of Dorian Gray," Victorian Newsletter (1997)
- "Embracing the Corpse: Discursive Recycling in Rider Haggard's She," English Literature in Transition (1995)
Courses: Literature and Science, Literature and Sexuality, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century British Fiction, Women Writers, Victorian Literature and Culture, Virginia Woolf (Senior Seminar)
DIRECTOR OF AMERICAN STUDIES
Professor of English Class of 1932 Research Professor, 2002-03
B.A., University of Maryland;
M.A., Ph.D., New York University. (1990)
Books:
- Public Native America:
Tribal Self-Representations in Museums, Powwows, and
Casinos (Rutgers University Press, 2006)
- Recalling the Wild: Naturalism and the Closing of the American West (Rutgers University Press, 2000)
Recent Publications:
- "Identity in Mashantucket," American Quarterly (forthcoming 2005)
- "Keeping History at Wind River and Acoma," Ariel: A Review of International English Literature Vol. 26, no. 3 (1995): 139-162
- "Exoticization," The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States Oxford University Press (1995)
- "Placing Source in Light in August and McTeague," Intertexuality in Literature and Film, ed. Elaine Cancelon & Antoine Scapagna (University Press of Florida, 1994)
- "The Fictions of Daniel Boone," Desert, Garden, Margin, Range:
The Significance of Frontiers in American Literature, ed. Eric Heyne (Macmillan, 1992)
- "The Late Lacan Show," Pequod, no. 25 (1990) :106-111
Courses: American Literature, American Writers, Native American Literature, Literature of the City and Frontier, Literature & Film of the Cold War
Associate Professor of English Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, 2000 Ezra Pound Award, 1999 Elizabeth Agee Prize for best manuscript in American Literature, 1998 Robert C. Williams Prize for Junior Faculty, 1998
B.A., Bennington College;
M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers University. (1993)
Books:
- Modernist Mentalities: Habits of Interpretation and American Poetry
(in preparation)
- The Homer Pound Project editing and introducing
Homer Pound's memoirs
- Money & Modernity: Pound, Williams, and the Spirit of Jefferson (Alabama, 1998)
Recent Publications:
- Forthcoming: "Pound and Eliot." Co-author, Ben Lockerd. American Literary Scholarship 2000. (Duke University Press, 2002)
- "Letting the Black Cat Out of the Bag: A Case of Rejected 'American-Africanism' in Pound's Cantos." Paideuma Vol 29, 1&2 (Spring-Fall 2000): 125-142. Reprinted in Ezra Pound and African American Modernism. ed. Michael Coyle (NPF, 2001).
Courses: Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Poetry Writing, Fiction Writing, Living Writers, Making of Modern Literature, Philosophy and Literary Theory, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Contemporary Myth (Senior Seminar)
Associate Professor of English Director of the Writing Center and the First Year Seminar Program Pennsylvania Council of the Arts Grant in Fiction National Society of Arts and Letters Award in Fiction The Hopwood Award in Fiction First Year Advisor Award
B.A., M.F.A., University of Michigan. (1990)
Professor of English Shire Prize for Distinguished Teaching for 1992-93 Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching Sears-Roebuck Prize for Teaching Excellence
B.A., Grinnell College;
M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia. (1985)
Books:
- Writing Analytically (Harcourt Brace 1997), with Jill Stephen (3rd Edition, 2002)
Courses: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century British Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Irish Literature, European Novel, The Nature of Narrative, Fictions of Trevor & McGahern (Senior Seminar)
Department Head
Professor of English Donald B. Hoffman Research Fellowship, 2000-01 Robert C. Williams Prize for Junior Faculty, 1995
B.A., University of California, San Diego;
M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles. (1989)
Books:
- Editor, New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn (Romantic Circles Electronic Editions, University of Maryland, 2007). Link: http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/brownsevern/
- Editor, Joseph Severn: Letters and Memoirs (Ashgate, 2005) - Editor, Selected Letters of John Keats (Harvard University Press, 2002)
- The Sculpted Word: Keats, Ekphrasis and the Visual Arts (University Press of New England, 1994)
Recent Publications:
- "Discomfortably Yours: An Interview with Jonathan Franzen." Muhlenberg Magazine 17 (Summer 2007): 12-13, 30.
- "The Friend of Keats." Muhlenberg Magazine 16 (Winter 2006): 10-11.
- "New Mary Shelley Letters to the Severns." Keats-Shelley Journal 54 (2005): 62-77.
- "After Keats: The Return of Joseph Severn to England in 1838," Romanticism on the Net 40 (2005). http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2005/v/n40/012458ar.html
- "Sacred Relics: A Discovery of New Severn Letters." European Romantic Review 16:3 (2005): 283-295.
- "Writing Keats's Last Days: Severn, Sharp and Romantic Biography," Studies in Romanticism 42 (Spring 2003): 3-26.
- "The Fragile Image: Felicia Hemans and Romantic Ekphrasis," in Felicia Hemans: Reimagining Poetry in the Nineteenth Century. Ed. Nanora Sweet and Julie Melnyk (Palgrave, 2001).
- "Language Strange: A Visual History of Keats's 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci,'" Studies in Romanticism 38 (Winter 1999): 503-535.
Courses: Romantic and Victorian Poetry, Nineteenth-Century British Fiction, English Romanticism, Victorian Literature and Culture, Literature and Film, Imagining Vietnam, The End of the World (Senior Seminar)
Professor of English Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, 1996 Shire Prize for Distinguished Teaching for 1998-99
B.A., University of Illinois;
Ph.D., New York University. (1987)
Books:
- Writing Analytically (Harcourt Brace 1997), with David Rosenwasser (3rd Edition, 2002)
Courses: Renaissance Imagination, Milton, Shakespeare, Lyric Traditions, Poetry and the Imaginative Process
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