English

EDUCATION:

Ph.D., English Language and Literature, University of Virginia, 2008
M.A., English Language and Literature, Middlebury College, 2003
B.A., English Literature and Creative Writing, Dartmouth College, 1999

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INTERESTS: Twentieth and twenty-first century Anglophone literature, secularism
and religiosity, globalization, history of the novel.

My scholarship and teaching focus on the convergence of secularism, religiosity,
and globalization as they register in and shape global literary production in
the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.  My current book project, "Faith in
Fiction: Post-secular Critique and the Global Novel" engages novels by writers
from around the Anglophone world, such as J.M. Coetzee, Anne Michaels, and
Salman Rushdie, and those in adjacent literary traditions, like and Haruki
Murikami and Orhan Pamuk.  I argue that these writers systematically
renegotiate faith in fiction on multiple levels: as a theme of renewed
centrality within narratives of global culture, as a rhetorical and stylistic
resource, and as a way of marshalling the transformative power of fiction.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

--Interview with the Institute for the Advanced Study of Culture: http://www.virginia.edu/iasc/eNews/2008_06/NeumanInterview.mp3

--"Radical Asceticism: The Turning Away of the Other in J.M. Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K." Colman Hogan, ed.  The Literature of Concentration Camps Worldwide.  Cambridge Scholars Press.  2007.

--"Imagining the Future: A Bibliographical Review." The Hedgehog Review.  Spring, 2008

--"In Search of a Gothic Proust: Tales of Terror and the Uncanny in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time." Gothic Studies.  (Forthcoming) 10.1 2008

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES: Faith in the Post-war Global Novel, The European Tradition