Teaching

Teaching Experience

Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Emory University, 1997-present

Visiting Professor
Université Charles-de-Gaulle (Lille III), France, Winter-Spring, 1996

Associate Professor of English
Emory University, 1991-1996

Assistant Professor of English
Emory University, 1985-1991

Visiting Lecturer, English
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) , Fall 1983-1984

Lecturer
Queens College of the City University of New York, Spring 1981-Fall 1982

Lecturer
Fordham University, Fall 1979-Spring 1981

Teaching Assistant
Columbia University, Fall 1977-Spring 1978

Selected Course Lists

A. Undergraduate

* Contemporary Literature (Hi-Tech Fictions)
* Literature in the Age of Digital Media
* Chaos Theory in Science and Literature
* Senior Seminar in Science, Technology and Literature
* Contemporary Science Fiction
* Postmodern Fiction
* Introduction to Poetry
* Modern American Literature
* Seminar in Science, Technology and Literature
* Science, Technology and Contemporary Literature
* London Modernism
* Foundations of Modern Criticism
* Literature of the 1970s

B. Graduate

* Literature, Consciousness, Cognitive Science
* Digital Media and Net Culture
* Figurations of An-organic Life
* 20th Century Literature and Media Theory
* Discourse, Sexuality, Gender
* Contemporary Theory and Methodology
* Radical Aesthetics
* Theories of Comparative Literature
* From Language to Discourse
* Modern/Postmodern Literature
* From Heidegger to Hyper text
* Literary Theory and Postmodernism
* Literature and 20th Century Techné

Ph.D. Dissertations Directed

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Stefanie Harris, 1999
Technologies of Representation: Literature and Media, 1895-1930

Sujay Sood, 1997
The Ethical Moment in Postcolonialism and Postmodernism

Nicholas Spencer, 1996
Utopia and Zone: Politics and Technology in the Fiction of Upton Sinclair, John Dos Passo, Thomas Pynchon, Robert Coover, William Gibson and Bruce Sterling

Nicole Cooley, 1996
The Avant-Garde and the End of the Century: Gertrude Stein, Postmodernism and Contemporary Women Writers

Jennifer Jeffers, 1994
Repetition and the Theater: Production of Difference in Beckett

Nancy Rutkowski, 1991
Ideologies of Gender in the Fiction of John Hawkes

Matthias Konzette, 1991
The Listener’s Own Sense: Wallace Stevens and the Poetics of Modernism

Magali Michael, 1990
Feminism and the Postmodernist Impulse: Doris Lessing, Marge Piercy, Margaret Atwood, and Angela Carter

Matthew Stewart, 1988
Making Sense of Chaos: Prose Writing, Fictional Kind and the Reality of Vietnam