Syllabus for the 2023 lecture course “American poetry.”

Syllabus for the MA course “The American Modernist Novel,” Okayama University, spring 2023.

Syllabus for fall 2021 liberal arts/specialized education course on audio fiction and podcasts

Syllabus for fall 2021 seminar course on science fiction in the magazines

This is the pre-copyedited version of the chapter “Confronting Race and Racism in the Post-Apocalyptic American City.”

The final version of this chapter appears in the book Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror, edited by Stefan Rabitsch, Michael Fuchs, and Stefan L. Brandt, University Press of…[Read more]

Syllabus for the spring 2021 research seminar course on Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved.

Version 2 (accepted version, pre-publication) of the article Serial Fiction Podcasting and Participatory Culture: Fan Influence and Representation in The Adventure Zone. The final version of this article appeared in European Journal of Cultural Studies, Volume 23, Issue 2, 2020, pages 223-243.

Syllabus for spring 2021 seminar course on Nella Larsen’s novels Quicksand and Passing

Syllabus for spring 2020 research seminar course on Nella Larsen’s novel Passing

Several critics note that the construction of architectural forms is a process laced with violence, that structures then contain dormant violence, and that they will ultimately meet with a violent end. Terry Smith writes that “from at least some of its beginnings … architecture has had various degrees and kinds of violence built, as it were, int…[Read more]

When it began to emerge in the magazines, early science fiction was uniquely placed to explore the rapid changes affecting nineteenth-century urban life. Early progenitors of science fiction, from Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe to Richard Jefferies and H. G. Wells, found that to work in an emerging and as yet undefined genre, conventions had to…[Read more]

In an interview with Hillary Chute, shortly after the publication of
Footnotes in Gaza (2009), Joe Sacco describes his impression of the
insistence of the past on the present: “It’s almost as if history
bleeds. In people’s minds, one bit of history bleeds into another bit
of history. … And it gives you this idea … that history hasn’t re…[Read more]