CURRICULUM VITAE—CARL FREEDMAN
[September 2019]

Academic Position:

William A. Read Professor of English Literature

Faculty Member, Program in Film and Media Arts

Faculty Member, Program in Comparative Literature
Louisiana State University



Contact Information:

Campus Address:
     Department of English, Louisiana State University,
     Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA

Campus Telephone: (225) 578-4086

E-mail Address: CFREED2780@gmail.com



Education:

1983: Ph.D. in English, Yale University

1975: B.A. in English, Oxford University

1973: B.A. with Highest Honors in English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill



History of Academic Positions:

2017-present: William A. Read Professor of English Literature, Louisiana State University

2014-2017: Russell B. Long Professor of English, Louisiana State University

2012-2014: James F. Cassidy Professor of English, Louisiana State University

2001-2012: Professor of English, Louisiana State University

1989-2001: Associate Professor of English, Louisiana State University

1984-1989: Assistant Professor of English, Louisiana State University

1983-1984: Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University



Academic Honors:

2018: Pilgrim Award from the Science Fiction Research Association for Lifetime Achievement in the field of science-fiction scholarship

2017-present: William A. Read Professorship, Louisiana State University

2016: Tiger Athletic Foundation Undergraduate Teaching Award, Louisiana State University (several such awards given annually, with $2000 cash prize)

2015: Manship Summer Research Grant, Louisiana State University

2014-present: Russell B. Long Professorship, Louisiana State University

2013-2014: ATLAS (Awards to Louisiana Artists and Scholars) Grant awarded by the Louisiana Board of Regents to support me during the academic year in pure research

2013: 2012 Distinguished Research Master of Arts, Humanities, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Louisiana State University (one such award given annually, with $2500 annualized salary supplement)

2012-present: James F. Cassidy Professorship, Louisiana State University

2012: Manship Summer Research Grant, Louisiana State University

2009: Regents Research Grant, Louisiana State University

2008: LSU Foundation Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award (one such award given annually, with $1500 cash prize).

2004: Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award (voted by the English Graduate Student Association, Louisiana State University).

2003: Manship Summer Research Grant, Louisiana State University

2002: Excerpt from Critical Theory and Science Fiction chosen as featured text for discussion at the Theory Roundtable of the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (Ft. Lauderdale, Florida; March 2002)

2002: Regents Research Grant, Louisiana State University

2001: Critical Theory and Science Fiction named an Outstanding Academic Book of 2000 by Choice

1999: Pioneer Award for Excellence in Scholarship from the Science Fiction Research Association (awarded for the best article in science-fiction criticism annually; winning article: “Kubrick’s 2001 and the Possibility of a Science- Fiction Cinema”)

1994: Summer Faculty Research Stipend, Louisiana State University

1992: Manship Summer Research Grant, Louisiana State University

1989: Summer Faculty Research Stipend, Louisiana State University

1985: Summer Faculty Research Stipend, Louisiana State University

1984: Margaret Church Modern Fiction Studies Memorial Prize for best article to appear in the journal during the year (winning article: "Antinomies of 1984”)

1983-1984: Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Wesleyan University



Publications:

I. Authored Books:

Art and Idea in the Novels of China Miéville (Canterbury, UK: Gylphi Press, 2015).

Versions of Hollywood Crime Cinema: Studies in Ford, Wilder, Coppola, Scorsese, and Others (Bristol, UK and Chicago, USA: Intellect Books, 2013).

The Age of Nixon: A Study in Cultural Power (Winchester, UK: Zero Books, 2012).
[See also Andrew Lawless, “The Age of Richard Nixon—a study in cultural power” (an extended interview with me), Three Monkeys Online, May 21, 2013]

The Incomplete Projects: Marxism, Modernity, and the Politics of Culture (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2002).

Critical Theory and Science Fiction (Hanover and London: Wesleyan University Press and University Press of New England, 2000). Named an Outstanding Academic Book of 2000 by Choice.

George Orwell: A Study In Ideology and Literary Form (New York and London: Garland, 1988).

II. Edited Books:

Conversations with Samuel R. Delany (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009). Edited, with an introduction, other prefatory material, and one new interview.

Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2008). Edited, with an introduction, other prefatory material, and one new interview.

Conversations with Isaac Asimov (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2005). Edited, with an introduction and other prefatory material.

III. Special Issues of Journals:

Special issue of PMLA on “Science Fiction and Literary Studies: The Next Millennium” (May 2004) (co-coördinated with Marleen S. Barr).

Special issue of Science-Fiction Studies on Philip K. Dick (July 1988) (co-edited with George Slusser).

IV. Articles:

“Kennedy in History and in Cinema: A Critical Analysis of Oliver Stone’s JFK,” forthcoming in Film International.

“From Nixon to Trump: Metastases of Cultural Power,” Los Angeles Review of Books, 4 June 2018, 7025 words.

“Character and Capital in the Wall Street Films of Oliver Stone,” Film International, #77-78 (2016:3-4), pp. 43-54.

“American Civilization and Its Discontents: The Persistence of Evil in Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt,” in The Cambridge Companion to Alfred Hitchcock, ed. Jonathan Freedman (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. 92-105.

​“Capitalist Realism in Three Recent Science-Fiction Films,” Paradoxa, #26 (December 2014), pp. 67-80.

“From Genre to Political Economy: Miéville’s The City & The City and Uneven Development,” CR: The New Centennial Review Vol. 13, # 2 (fall 2013), pp. 13-30.

"Notes on Benjamin, Adorno, Mann, and the Cinema of Michael Haneke," Film International, #57 (2012:3), pp. 16-35.

“Hobbes after Marx, Scorsese After Coppola: On GoodFellas,” in Film International, #49 (2011:1), pp. 42-62.

“The Supplement of Coppola: Primitive Accumulation and the Godfather Trilogy,” in Film International, #49 (2011:1), pp. 8-41. [This item and the preceding one form a special section, "Gangsterism and Capitalism," which also includes a brief introduction by me and which constitutes most of the issue.]

“Marxism, Cinema, and Some Dialectics of Science Fiction and Film Noir,” in Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction, ed. Mark Bould and China Miéville (London: Pluto Press, 2009), pp. 66-82.

“The End of Work: From Double Indemnity to Body Heat,” in Neo-Noir, ed. Mark Bould, Kathrina Glitre, and Greg Tuck (London & New York: Wallflower Press, 2009), pp. 61-74.

“Marxism and Science Fiction,” in Reading Science Fiction, ed. James Gunn, Marleen S. Barr, and Matthew Candelaria (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp. 120-132.

“Post-Heterosexuality: John Wayne and the Construction of American Masculinity,” Film International, #25 (2007:1), pp. 16-31.

“Speculative Fiction and International Law: The Marxism of China Miéville,” Socialism and Democracy, Vol. 20, No. 3 (November 2006), pp. 25-39.

“About Delany Writing: An Anatomical Meditation,” Extrapolation, Summer 2006, pp. 16-29.

“An American Tragedy: On Oliver Stone’s Nixon,” Film International, #19 (2006:1), pp. 14-23.

“To the Perdido Street Station: The Representation of Revolution in China Miéville’s Iron Council,” Extrapolation, Summer 2005, pp. 235-248. Reprinted in New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction, ed. Donald M. Hassler and Clyde Wilcox (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008), pp. 259-271.

“Versions of the American Imperium in Three Westerns by John Ford,” Film International, #18 (2005:6), pp. 14-25.

“Samuel Delany: A Biographical and Critical Overview,” in A Companion to Science Fiction, ed. David Seed (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), pp. 398-407.

“Foreword” to re-issue of Samuel Delany, Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2004) pp. xi-xiv.

“Polemical Afterword: Some Brief Reflections on Arnold Schwarzenegger and on Science Fiction in Contemporary American Culture,” PMLA, May 2004, pp. 539-546.

“Towards a Marxist Urban Sublime: Reading China Miéville’s King Rat,” Extrapolation, Winter 2003, pp. 395-408.

“Memories of Holden Caulfield—And of Miss Greenwood,” The Southern Review, Spring 2003, pp. 401-417. Reprinted in Harold Bloom, ed., Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations: J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye— New Edition (New York: Bloom’s Literary Criticism, 2009), pp. 167-182.

“A Note on Marxism and Fantasy,” Historical Materialism, vol. 10:4 (2002), pp. 261-271.

“London as Science Fiction: A Note on Some Images from Johnson, Blake, Wordsworth, Dickens, and Orwell,” Extrapolation, Fall 2002, pp. 251- 262.

“Science Fiction and the Two Cultures: Reflections After the Snow-Leavis Controversy,” Extrapolation, Fall 2001, pp. 207-217. Reprinted in Science Fiction and the Two Cultures: Essays on Bridging the Gap Between the Sciences and the Humanities, ed. Gary Westfahl and George Slusser (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009), pp. 11-21.

“Science Fiction and Utopia: A Historico-Philosophical Overview,” in Learning from Other Worlds: Estrangement, Cognition and the Politics of Science Fiction and Utopia, ed. Patrick Parrinder (Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press, 2000; and Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001), pp. 72-97.

“Kubrick’s 2001 and the Possibility of a Science-Fiction Cinema,” Science- Fiction Studies, July 1998, pp. 300-318 [winner of the Pioneer Award for Excellence in Scholarship from the Science Fiction Research Association] [reprinted in Linda Pavlovski, ed., Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism 112 (Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale Group, 2002), pp. 251-261] [reprinted, in Russian translation, in Theory of Science-Fiction Film, ed. Natalia Samutina, (Moscow: New Literary Observer Publishing House, 2006), pp. 345-366].

“Remembering the Future: Science and Positivism from Isaac Asimov to Gregory Benford,” Extrapolation, Summer 1998, pp. 128-138.

“The Case Against the Case Against Space--And a Case for Science Fiction,” Science-Fiction Studies, March 1998, pp. 143-152.

“Rhetorical Hermeneutics, Huckleberry Finn, and Some Problems with Pragmatism,” in Reconceptualizing American Literary/Cultural Studies, ed. William E. Cain, (New York: Garland, 1996), pp. 111-121.

“Science Fiction and the Question of the Canon,” in Science Fiction and Market Realities, ed. Gary Westfahl, George Slusser, and Eric Rabkin, (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996), pp. 117-127.

“How to Do Things with Milton: A Study in the Politics of Literary Criticism,” in Critical Essays on John Milton, ed. Christopher Kendrick (New York: G.K. Hall, 1995), pp. 19-44.

“Theory, the Canon and the Politics of Curricular Reform: A Response to Gerald Graff,” in Teaching the Conflicts: Gerald Graff, Curricular Reform, and the Culture Wars, ed. William E. Cain (New York: Garland, 1994), pp. 53-66.

“Beyond the Dialect of the Tribe: James Joyce, Hugh MacDiarmid, and World Language,” in Hugh MacDiarmid: Man and Poet, ed. Nancy K. Gish (Edinburgh and Orono, Maine: Edinburgh University Press and the National Poetry Foundation, 1992), pp. 253-273.

“Style, Fiction, Science Fiction: The Case of Philip K. Dick,” in Styles of Creation: Aesthetic Technique and the Creation of Fictional Worlds, ed. George Slusser and Eric Rabkin (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992), pp. 30-43.

“Louisiana Duce: Notes Toward a Systematic Analysis of Postmodern Fascism in America,” Rethinking Marxism, Spring 1992, pp. 19-31.

“Forms of Labor in Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest,” PMLA, March 1991, pp. 209-221 [co-authored with Christopher Kendrick]. Reprinted in The Critical Response to Dashiell Hammett, ed. Christopher Metress (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994), pp. 12-29.

“England as Ideology: From Upstairs Downstairs to A Room with a View,” Cultural Critique, Winter 1990-91, pp. 79-106.

“The Interventional Marxism of Louis Althusser,” Rethinking Marxism, Fall-Winter 1990, pp. 309-328.

“Power, Sexuality, and Race in All the King's Men,” in Southern Literature and Literary Theory, ed. Jefferson Humphries (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990), pp. 127-141.

“History, Fiction, Film, Television, Myth: The Ideology of M*A*S*H,” The Southern Review, Winter 1990, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 89-106.

“The Transformation Problem and Cultural Theory,” in Comparative Literature East and West: Traditions and Trends, ed. Cornelia N. Moore and Raymond A. Moody (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989), pp. 22-28.

“The Mandarin Marxism of Theodor Adorno,” Rethinking Marxism, Winter 1988, pp. 85-111 [co-authored with Neil Lazarus][see also “Reply to Dan Kiamie and Rita DeSalvo,” Rethinking Marxism, Fall 1989, pp. 167-169].

“Philip K. Dick and Criticism,” Science-Fiction Studies, July 1988, pp. 121- 130. Reprinted in On Philip K. Dick, ed. R.D. Mullen, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr., Arthur B.Evans, and Veronica Hollinger (Terre Haute & Greencastle: SF- TH Inc., 1992), pp. 145-153.

“Nietzsche and Ideology-Critique: A Note on Twilight of the Idols,” Rethinking Marxism, Summer 1988, pp. 103-114.

“Science Fiction and Critical Theory,” Science-Fiction Studies, July 1987, pp. 180-200 [see also “Another Response to John Fekete,” Science-Fiction Studies, March 1989, pp. 116-117].

“Marxist Theory, Radical Pedagogy, and the Reification of Thought,” College English, January 1987, pp. 70-82.

“Antinomies of Nineteen Eighty-four,” Modern Fiction Studies, Winter 1984, pp. 601-620 [winner of the Margaret Church MFS Memorial Prize]. Reprinted in Bernard Oldsey and Joseph Browne, eds., Critical Essays on George Orwell (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1986), pp. 90-109.

“Possibilities of a Political Aesthetic: The Case of Hugh MacDiarmid,” The Minnesota Review, Fall 1984, pp. 41-57.

“Overdeterminations: On Black Marxism in Britain,” Social Text, Winter 1983/84, pp. 142-150.

“Towards a Theory of Paranoia: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick,” Science-Fiction Studies, March 1984, pp. 15-24. Reprinted in On Philip K. Dick, ed. R.D. Mullen, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr., Arthur B. Evans, and Veronica Hollinger (Terre Haute & Greencastle: SF-TH Inc., 1992), pp. 111- 118. Also reprinted in Philip K. Dick: Contemporary Critical Interpretations, ed. Samuel J. Umland (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995), pp. 7-17.

“Writing, Ideology, and Politics: Orwell's ‘Politics and the English Language’ and English Composition,” College English, April 1981, pp. 327-340 [see also “Carl Freedman Responds,” College English, April 1983, pp. 412-414].

V. Review-Articles:

"Russia 1917: You Are There [review of China Miéville, October: The Story of the Russian Revolution], Los Angeles Review of Books, 8 July 2017, 3035 words.

“An Edward Said for SF Criticism?” [review of John Rieder, Colonialism And the Emergence of Science Fiction], Extrapolation, Spring 2010, pp. 176-183.

Untitled review-article on recent work about George Orwell, Historical Materialism, vol. 14:3 (2006), pp. 245-258.

“Connections of Late Capitalism: Steven Shaviro, Science Fiction, and the Network Society” [review of Steven Shaviro, Connected or What It Means to Live in the Network Society], Science-Fiction Studies, July 2004, pp. 271-282.

Untitled review-article on Veronica Hollinger and Joan Gordon, eds., Edging into the Future: Science Fiction and Contemporary Cultural Transformation, Extrapolation, Spring 2004, pp. 106-112.

“Hail Mary: On the Author of Frankenstein and the Origins of Science Fiction” [review of editions of and critical and biographical work on Mary Shelley], Science-Fiction Studies, July 2002, pp. 253-264.

“Adventures of the Dialectic: or, On Delany as Critic” [review of Samuel Delany, Shorter Views: Queer Thoughts and the Politics of the Paraliterary], Science-Fiction Studies, March 2001, pp. 107-118.

“Science Fiction and the Triumph of Feminism” [review of Marleen Barr, ed., Future Females, the Next Generation: New Voices and Velocities in Feminist Science Fiction Criticism], Science-Fiction Studies, July 2000, pp. 278-289.

“Lies, Damned Lies, and Science Fiction: Thomas M. Disch and the Culture of Mendacity” [review of Thomas M. Disch, The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World], Science-Fiction Studies, July 1999, pp. 324-331.

“In Search of Dick's Boswell” [review of recent biographical and bibliographical work on Philip K. Dick], Science-Fiction Studies, March 1991, pp. 104-109. Reprinted in On Philip K. Dick, ed. R.D. Mullen, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr., Arthur B. Evans, and Veronica Hollinger (Terre Haute & Greencastle: SF-TH Inc., 1992), pp. 257-261.

VI. Shorter Articles:

"Utopianism and Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer,” Science Fiction Film and Television, Vol. 9, no. 1 (2016), pp. 84-86.

“Samuel R. Delany,” in Fifty Key Figures of Science Fiction, ed. Mark Bould et alia (London: Routledge, 2009), pp. 61-66.

“Isaac Asimov,” in Fifty Key Figures of Science Fiction, ed. Mark Bould et alia (London: Routledge, 2009), pp. 7-12.

VII. Interview:

“A Conversation with Samuel R. Delany about Sex, Gender, Race, Writing—and Science Fiction,” in Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction’s Newest New-Wave Trajectory, ed. Marleen Barr (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2008), pp. 191-235.

VIII. Reviews:

“What Kid Wrote” [review of Kenneth R. James, ed., In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany. Vol. 1, 1957-1969], Science-Fiction Studies, November 2018, pp. 618-621.

Untitled review of Ewa Mazierska and Alfredo Suppia, eds., Red Alert: Marxist Approaches to Science Fiction Cinema, Science Fiction Film and Television, Vol. 10, no. 3 (October 2017), pp. 413-417.

Untitled review of China Miéville, This Census-Taker, in Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, #125 (2016), pp. 106-109.

“Political Surrealism, Surreal Politics” [review of China Miéville, The Last Days of New Paris], Los Angeles Review of Books, 26 December 2016, 2076 words, here

Untitled review of China Miéville, Three Moments of an Explosion, in Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, #123 (2016), pp. 119-122.

“A Useful Guide to American Science Fiction” [review of Eric Carl Link and Gerry Canavan (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction], Science-Fiction Studies, November 2015, pp. 590-593.

Untitled review of China Miéville, Embassytown, in Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, #112 (summer 2011), pp.79-83.

"Science Fiction and Its Others" [review of Paul Meehan, Tech-Noir and Fred Botting, Limits of Horror], Science-Fiction Studies, November 2011, pp. 528-530.

Untitled DVD Review of Patricio Guzmán (dir.), Nostalgia for the Light, Science Fiction Film and Television, Vol. 4, no. 2 (Autumn 2011), pp. 302-306.

“An Adorno for Our Time” [review of Darko Suvin, Defined by a Hollow: Essays on Utopia, Science Fiction and Political Epistemology], Extrapolation, Spring 2011, pp. 110-116.

Untitled DVD review of Gabriel Range (dir.), Death of a President, Science Fiction Film and Television, Vol. 2, no. 2 (Autumn 2009), pp. 327-332.

“No Breakthroughs, but One Good Essay” [review of James Holden and Simon King, Conceptual Breakthrough: Star/Alien], Science-Fiction Studies, November 2009, pp. 534-536.

Untitled review of James Naremore, On Kubrick, in Science Fiction Film and Television, Vol. 1, no. 1 (Spring 2008), pp. 133-138.

“The Science (Fiction) of Life” [review of special issue of Biography on “Life Writing and Science Fiction,” ed. John Rieder], Extrapolation, Spring 2008, pp. 159-163.

Untitled review of Diane Carson and Heidi Kenaga, eds. Sayles Talk: New Perspectives on Independent Filmmaker John Sayles, in Film International, #24 (2006:4), pp. 67-70.

Untitled review of China Miéville, Looking for Jake, in Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, #97 (Summer 2006), pp. 108-113.

Untitled review of Mark Bould, Film Noir: From Berlin to Sin City, in Film International, #20 (2006:2), pp. 81-83.

“Fantastic Quest” [review of David Sandner, ed., Fantastic Literature: A Critical Reader], Science-Fiction Studies, November 2005, pp. 537-540.

Untitled review of Kim Stanley Robinson, Forty Signs of Rain, in Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, #95 (Autumn 2005), pp. 125-130.

“Racing Delany” [review of Jeffrey Allen Tucker, A Sense of Wonder: Samuel R. Delany, Race, Identity, and Difference], Science- Fiction Studies, November 2004, pp. 476-479.

Untitled Review of Susan Lederer, Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature, in Isis: Journal of the History of Science Society, September 2003, pp. 506-507.

“Thought, Imagination, and C. S. Lewis” [review of Kathryn Lindskoog, Sleuthing C. S. Lewis: More Light in the Shadowlands and Mineko Honda, The Imaginative World of C. S. Lewis: A Way to Participate in Reality], Science-Fiction Studies, March 2003, pp. 141-143.

“Apocalypse Often” [review of Jerome Shapiro, Atomic Bomb Cinema: The Apocalyptic Imagination on Film], Science-Fiction Studies, November 2002, pp. 515-520.

Untitled Review of Tom Moylan, Scraps of the Untainted Sky: Science Fiction, Utopia, Dystopia, in Extrapolation, Summer 2002, pp. 237-241.

“Subversion in the Time of the Cleavers” [review of M. Keith Booker, Monsters, Mushroom Clouds, and the Cold War: American Science Fiction and the Roots of Postmodernism, 1946-1964], Science-Fiction Studies, March 2002, pp. 112-116.

Untitled Review of David Cochran, America Noir: Underground Writers and Filmmakers of the Postwar Era, in Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres, #16, February 2002, pp. 236-241.

“The ABCs of Science Fiction” [review of Adam Roberts, Science Fiction and Andrew Butler, The Pocket Essential Cyberpunk], Science-Fiction Studies, November 2001, pp. 443-447.

“Superman Among the Stars” [review of Leonard F. Wheat, Kubrick’s 2001: A Triple Allegory], Science-Fiction Studies, July 2001, pp. 296-299.

Untitled Review of Marleen Barr, Genre Fission: A New Discourse Practice for Cultural Studies, in Extrapolation, Summer 2001, pp. 192-195.

“An Anatomy of Hope” [review of Samuel Delany, 1984: Selected Letters], Science-Fiction Studies, November 2000, pp. 523-526.

“Of Cities and Bodies” [review of Samuel Delany, Times Square Red, Times Square Blue and Bread & Wine: An Erotic Tale of New York], Science-Fiction Studies, July 2000, pp. 356-357.

“A Biology of Art?” [review of Bret Cooke & Frederick Turner, eds., Biopoetics: Evolutionary Explorations in the Arts], Science-Fiction Studies, March 2000, pp. 170-172.

“Bold Interdisciplinary Speculation” [review of Gregory Benford, Deep Time: How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia], Science-Fiction Studies, March 2000, pp. 174-175.

IX. Encyclopedia and Symposium Entries:

Untitled remembrance of Mark Fisher, in “In Memoriam: Mark Fisher,” Los Angeles Review of Books, 11 March 2017, 683 words.

“A Science Fiction of Finance Capital?” (Entry in Symposium on Globalization and Science Fiction), Science-Fiction Studies, November 2012, p. 379.

Entry in Special Section on Science-Fiction Criticism, Extrapolation, Spring 2009, pp. 12-13.

Frank McConnell, R.I.P.: An Eaton Memory,” in Frank McConnell, The Science of Fiction and the Fiction of Science: Collected Essays on SF Storytelling and the Gnostic Imagination, ed. Gary Westfahl (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009), pp. 168-169.

Entry in Roundtable on Science-Fiction Criticism, Science-Fiction Studies, November 2006, pp. 394-395.

Entry on Perdido Street Station by China Miéville, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, ed. Gary Westfahl (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005), Vol. 3, pp. 1200-1202.

Entry on Philip K. Dick, Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics, ed. M. Keith Booker (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005), Vol. 1, pp. 210-202.

Entry in Symposium on Jules Verne, Science-Fiction Studies, March 2005, pp. 173-174.

“The Strongest Link: Science Fiction as Social Register,” Symposium on Social Science Fiction, Science-Fiction Studies, July 2003, pp. 176-178.



Major Academic Service:

Local:

2017-present: Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Louisiana State University

2010: Member, Graduate Council, Louisiana State University

January 2006-August 2009: Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English, Louisiana State University

1995-96, 1997-98, 1999-2000: Executive Committee, Department of English, Louisiana State University

1989-90,

1991-1993: Job Placement Officer, Department of English, Louisiana State University

1989-90: Director, Graduate Humanities Program, Louisiana State University

National & International:

2014-present: Member, Editorial Board, Progress in Arts and Humanities

2013-present: Member, Editorial Board, Advances in Literary Study

2009-present: Member, Editorial Advisory Board of the How to Read Theory Series, Pluto Press

2003-present: Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Historical Materialism

2002: Chair, Science Fiction Discussion Group, Modern Language Association

2000-present: Member, Board of Editors, Extrapolation

1988-present: Manuscript Referee, Rethinking Marxism

1987-present: Editorial Consultant, Science-Fiction Studies

1985-1986: Reviewer for Choice

1983-1992: Editorial Associate, Social Text



Conference Papers and Invited Public Lectures:

“From Nixon to Trump: Metastases of Cultural Power,” Historical Materialism Conference (Fourteenth Annual), November 2017 [London].

“Capitalist Realism and Three Recent Science-Fiction Films,” Historical Materialism Conference (Eleventh Annual), November 2014 [London]. ​

“Capitalist Realism in Three Recent Science-Fiction Films,” paid keynote address at Conference on “SF/F Now,” University of Warwick, August 2014 [Coventry, UK].

“Nixon and Watergate,” paid invited lecture in the “Superpower” section of the Southbank Centre’s year-long The Rest Is Noise Festival; November 2013 [London].

“Notes on Benjamin, Adorno, Mann, and the Cinema of Michael Haneke,” paid lecture tour of Taiwan funded by the National Science Council of Taiwan; lectures given at the National Cheng Chi University (Taipei), at the National Chung Hsing University (Taichung), and at the National Cheng Kung University (Tainan); November 2012 [Taiwan].

"The Benjaminian Cinema of Michael Haneke," Historical Materialism Conference (Eighth Annual), November 2011 [London].

"From Genre to Political Economy: Miéville's The City & The City and Uneven Development," Eaton Science Fiction Conference, February 2011 [Riverside, California].

“Marxism, Cinema, and Some Dialectics of Science Fiction and Film Noir,” paid keynote address at Colloquium on "Explosive Past, Radiant Future," University of Toronto, March 2010 [Toronto]. Lecture delivered in absentia because of illness.

“General Reflections on Marxism and Science Fiction,” Historical Materialism Conference (Sixth Annual), November 2009 [London].

“Marxism, Cinema, and Some Dialectics of Science Fiction and Film Noir,” invited paid lecture in Spring 2009 CHASS Speaker Series on Science Fiction, University of California at Riverside, April 2009 [Riverside, California].

“Noir, Science Fiction, and Some Dialectics in Film,” Historical Materialism Conference on New Directions in Marxist Theory, November 2007 [London].

“Marxism, Cinema, and Some Dialectics of Science Fiction and Film Noir,” paid keynote address at Conference on Fantasy*Identity*Politics, University of Florida, October 2007 [Gainesville].

“Between Equal Rights and Bas-Lag: The Marxism of China Miéville,” Historical Materialism Conference on New Directions in Marxist Theory, December 2006 [London].

“The End of Work: From Double Indemnity to Body Heat,” paid keynote address at Straub Symposium, University of Wisconsin, October 2006 [Madison].

“About Delany Writing: An Anatomical Meditation,” paid keynote address at Samuel R. Delany: A Critical Symposium, SUNY, March 2006 [Buffalo].

“To the Perdido Street Station: The Politics of China Miéville’s Iron Council,” Eaton Science Fiction Conference, May 2005 [Seattle].

“To the Perdido Street Station: The Literary Politics of China Miéville’s Iron Council,” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, March 2005 [Ft. Lauderdale, Florida].

“The Marxist Urban Sublime of China Miéville,” Conference on Marxism on the World Stage, November 2003 [Amherst, Massachusetts].

“Rats and Spiders and the Beat Goes On: China Miéville’s Marxist Urban Sublime,” WisCon Conference on Feminist Science Fiction, May 2003 [Madison, Wisconsin].

“London as Science Fiction: A Note on Some Images from Johnson, Blake, Wordsworth, Dickens, and Orwell,” Conference on Literary Representations of London, July 2002 [London].

“The Erotic Poetry of Kenneth W. Starr,” Conference on Marxism 2000, September 2000 [Amherst, Massachusetts].

“Science Fiction and the Two Cultures: Reflections After the Snow-Leavis Controversy,” Eaton Science Fiction Conference, January 1999 [Riverside, California].

“Ernst Bloch and the Hope Principle in Contemporary Science Fiction,” MLA Convention, December 1998 [San Francisco].

“Samuel Delany and the Dialectics of Difference,” MLA Convention, December 1997 [Toronto].

“Remembering the Future: Science and Positivism from Isaac Asimov to Gregory Benford,” Joint Meeting of Eaton Science Fiction Conference and Science Fiction Research Association Conference, June 1997 [Long Beach, California].

“Towards Dialectical Journalism: Alexander Cockburn's Golden Age,” Conference on Politics and Languages of Contemporary Marxism, December 1996 [Amherst, Massachusetts].

“On Kubrick's 2001: The Quest for Generic Authority and the Possibility of a Science-Fiction Cinema,” Eaton Science Fiction Conference, April 1994 [Riverside, California].

“The Philosophical Future of Trotskyism,” Conference on Marxism in the New World Order: Crises and Possibilities, November 1992 [Amherst, Massachusetts].

“Louisiana Duce: Notes Toward a Systematic Analysis of Postmodern Fascism in America,” Tenth Annual Conference on Marxian Social Theory, April 1992 [Amherst, Massachusetts].

“Canon Fodder: Science Fiction, the Great Books, and the Literary Marketplace,” Eaton Science Fiction Conference, April 1990 [Riverside, California].

“Arabs, Yuppies, Revolutionaries: Joanna Russ's Feminist Dialectics,” MLA Convention, December 1989 [Washington].

“The Interventional Marxism of Louis Althusser,” Conference on Marxism Now: Traditions and Differences, December 1989 [Amherst, Massachusetts].

“Philip K. Dick--Stylist?”, Eaton Science Fiction Conference, April 1989 [Riverside, California].

“The Ideology of Upstairs Downstairs,” Popular Culture Association Conference, April 1989 [St. Louis].

“Marxist Theory and Radical Pedagogy,” College English Association Conference, April 1988 [New Orleans].

“The Transformation Problem and Cultural Theory,” Conference on Comparative Literature East and West, January 1988 [Honolulu].

“MacDiarmid and Joyce,” MLA Convention, December 1986 [New York].

“Science Fiction and Critical Theory,” MLA Convention, December 1985 [Chicago].

“Nietzsche and Ideology-Critique,” MLA Convention, December 1984 [Washington].

“Literature vs. Politics: Some Considerations on Liberal Humanism,” Southern Comparative Literature Association Conference, February 1984 [Knoxville].

“Science Fiction and Paranoia,” MLA Convention, December 1982 [Los Angeles].



Teaching:

Theory:

Modern Critical Theory (graduate and undergraduate)

Marxist Critical Theory (graduate and undergraduate)

Introduction to Humanities (graduate)

Marxism and Culture (undergraduate honors)

Marx’s Capital (graduate independent study)

Film:

Science-Fiction Cinema (graduate and undergraduate)

John Wayne’s America (undergraduate)

The American Crime Film (undergraduate)

The Films of Alfred Hitchcock (undergraduate)

Noir Film and Fiction (undergraduate)

Literature:

Modern Fiction (graduate and undergraduate)

Modern Poetry (graduate and undergraduate)

Science Fiction and Utopia (graduate and undergraduate)

Literature and Politics (graduate and undergraduate)

The Fiction of James Joyce (graduate)

The Fiction of Samuel Delany (graduate)

Modern Drama (undergraduate)

History of the English Novel, Part Two (undergraduate)

History of English Literature, Part Two (undergraduate)

History of American Literature, Part Two (undergraduate)

Contemporary American Fiction (undergraduate)

The Modern Epic Novel (undergraduate)

The Fiction of China Miéville (undergraduate)

Social Marginality and Literary Representation (undergraduate)

The Oxford Christian Novelists (undergraduate)

Noir Film and Fiction (undergraduate)

East European and Russian Science Fiction (graduate independent study)

Finnegans Wake (graduate independent study)

Cyberpunk Fiction (undergraduate independent study)

The Work of George Orwell (undergraduate independent study)

Introduction to Fiction (sophomore)

Introduction to Poetry and Drama (sophomore)

Introduction to Poetry (sophomore)

Introduction to Drama (sophomore)

Language and Composition:

English Composition (freshman)

Political Writing (freshman)

English as a Foreign Language (Yale Summer Language Institute)



Doctoral Dissertations and M.A. Theses Directed:

Amandine Faucheux, “Carceral Dreams: Punishment in Contemporary Utopian Fiction” (doctoral dissertation successfully defended, 19 February 2019).

Peter Pappas, “Thrillology: Affective Intensities and the Everyday Spectacular in American Literature and Culture” (doctoral dissertation successfully defended, 24 November 2014).

Amanda Wicks, "The Imagined Space of After: Post-Apocalypse Narratives from 1980-2010" (doctoral dissertation in progress; co-directed with Lauren Coats).

Kristopher Mecholsky, “Adaptation as Anarchist: A Complexity Method for Ideology-Critique of American Crime Narratives” (doctoral dissertation successfully defended, 6 July 2012). Awarded the James Olney Distinguished Dissertation Award and the Lewis P. Simpson Distinguished Dissertation Award for a Dissertation in Literary History and Criticism.

Rich Cooper, “Radical Realms: A Materialist Theory of Fantasy Literature” (doctoral dissertation successfully defended, 25 April 2011).

Suparno Banerjee, “Other Tomorrows: Postcoloniality, Science Fiction and India” (doctoral dissertation successfully defended, 10 May 2010; co-directed with Pallavi Rastogi).

Joseph Brown, “The American Jeremiad in Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century Science Fiction” (doctoral dissertation successfully defended, 23 March 2009).

Jennifer Farrell, “Synaptic Boojums: Lewis Carroll, Linguistic Nonsense, and Cyberpunk” (doctoral dissertation successfully defended, 15 June 2007).

Lisa Costello, “Who Speaks and Who Listens? Genre, Gender, and Memory in Holocaust Discourses” (doctoral dissertation successfully defended, 14 May 2007; co-directed with Katrina Powell). Awarded the Lewis P. Simpson Distinguished Dissertation Award for a Dissertation in Literary History and Criticism. Also awarded the Josephine A. Roberts Alumni Association Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.

Dallas Hulsey, “The Iconography of Nationalism: Icons, Popular Culture, and American Nationalism” (doctoral dissertation successfully defended, 1 September 2005). Awarded the Lewis P. Simpson Distinguished Dissertation Award for a Dissertation in Literary History and Criticism.

Valerie Holliday, “Conspiracy Culture in America after World War II” (doctoral dissertation successfully defended, 28 March 2005 ).

Bradley Bankston, “Against Biopoetics: On the Use and Misuse of the Concept of Evolution in Contemporary Literary Theory.” (doctoral dissertation successfully defended, 3 November 2003). Awarded the Lewis P. Simpson Distinguished Dissertation Award for a Dissertation in Literary History and Criticism.

Anne-Marie Thomas, “It Came from Outer Space: The Virus, Cultural Anxiety, and Speculative Fiction” (doctoral dissertation successfully defended, 13 May 2002).

Amy Baria, “Within the Realm of Possibility: Magic and Mediation in Native American and Chicano/a Literature”(doctoral dissertation successfully defended, 8 May 2000).

Eamon Halpin, “The City as Body and Image: The Poetics of the City in Epic and Novelistic Literature” (doctoral dissertation successfully defended, 15 December 1994).

William Watson, “Imagining Workers: The Working-Class Presence in Late Nineteenth Century American Literature” (doctoral dissertation successfully defended, 18 November 1993; co-directed with Daniel Fogel).

Dennis Sutherland, “Splinters: American Film Heroes and the Vietnam War” (M.A. thesis successfully defended, 6 July 1992).

Erin Mooney, “Forging New Links: Sexuality and Subjectivity in Monique Wittig” (M.A. thesis successfully defended, 18 May 1990).

Jon Thompson, “Modernism's Illegitimate Progeny: Fictions of Crime and the Experience of Modernity” (doctoral dissertation successfully defended, 6 October 1989). Published as Fiction, Crime, and Empire: Clues to Modernity and Postmodernism (University of Illinois Press, 1993).