Selected Papers
(for work post-2008 I refer you to VBN
full-text uploads)
Literary Studies:
The Survival of a Dissident
Poet: Life in the Little Magazines before and after the Web – the Case
of The Evergreen Review and Robert Gibbons (Presented
at ESSE-9 in Århus, August
2008)
Post
9-11 Fiction as Trauma Narrative:
Safran Foer
ICLP 25, Lisbon, July 2-7, 2008
The
Cultural Kernel
and the Transnational Subject: Meena Alexander
The Cultural
Kernel Conference, Reims, March 2008
The Atlantic Community, March
2008
A
burst of language
following a collision with a large piece
of furniture...
Studio, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2007
The Atlantic
Community,
January 2008
Beat
Dreams? Jack Kerouac’s Book of Dreams
24.
International
Literature & Psychology Conference, Belgrade,
July 2007
The Ambiguous
Valorization of Madness in Beat Literature
23. International
Literature & Psychology Conference, Helsinki, June/July 2006
Representations of Big Sur in Late Modernist and Early
Postmodernist American Writing
Space Haunting Discourse,
Karlstad, June 2006
Constructing
and Deconstructing Racism in Conrad
The Plurality of
Interpretation Colloquium, Reims, March 2006
Narratives of
Disorder, Disorders of Narrative
Invited presentation, IPSA, U. of Florida,
Gainesville, Fl., February 2006
Paper
as published in Psy Art, September 2006
The
Beats as Cultural
Others/Exotics in Recent Memoirs by Exile Poets
Paper for
Louisville
20th C. Literature Conference, February 2006 & BAAS, Leicester,
April 2007
“Small,
but exalted” – Otherness in Nella Larsen’s Novels
Article appearing in Cultural Text Studies: An Introduction,
February 2006
Postmodern
Identity-work and Historiography: The ‘Facts’ in
the Strange Case of Monsieur Federman
Introduction to
Lisbeth R
Pedersen: Surface
Disturbances - A
Reading of Raymond Federman’s Surfictions..., Working Papers
39, 2005 (PDF)
Tourette as
Reconstructions of
Pain and Joy in
Fiction: Lethem, Lefcourt, Hecht, Rubio, Byalick
22. International
Literature & Psychology Conference, Cordoba, July 2005 (PDF
from proceedings); HASE 6, Athens, October 2005
Beat Dreams? The Books of Dreams
of Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs
Dream Writing,
Canterbury, October 2005
Poetics
and Materiality: The Spools, Loops and Patches of Jack Kerouac
and A.R. Ammons
NAAS 2005,
Växjö, May 2005
A Comment on an Iconic Reading of
Two e.e. cummings Poems
Brief responsum to a paper by Michael Webster & Etienne
Terblanche at the Iconicity
Symposium, Krakow, March 2005
“Let us
space”: Chaos and
Order/Concrete
Prose Icons in Mark Z.
Danielewski's House of Leaves
Chaos
and Order Colloquium, Reims, March 2005; Iconicity Symposium,
Krakow, March 2005
Images of Europe: Readings
in
the Literary Topography of Generational Writings
Contribution appearing in CTS 2: Transatlantic
Negotiations
of Genre in the Short Fiction of Alasdair Gray
8th
International.
Conf. on the Short Story in English, Alcalá, Spain
AAU
guest lecture, “Untitled” - Feb.
7, 2005
Also appearing in Dept. of Languages and Int..., Working Papers
37, 2005 (PDF)
Postmodern
Gothic and
Juvenalian/Menippean Satire in Bret Easton Ellis’s The
Informers
ESSE-7 Conference,
Zaragoza, September 2004; Literary Research/Recherche
Littéraire, vol.21, nos. 41-42, 2004
Better
than Text? – Textuality as Sexuality in Postmodern North American Prose
Poems
Poetry &
Sexuality Conference,
Stirling, July 2004
Jewishness
and Identity in Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless
Brooklyn
NAES,
Aarhus,
May 27, 2004; forthcoming in conference proceedings, unedited on-line
version here
Some Remarks on Lexical Fragments and
Romanian Echoes in T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”
Timisoara
BAS Conference, May 14, 2004, published in Caiet
de Semiotica 16, pp. 129-136; Timisoara, Romania, 2006,
co-authored w.
Camelia Elias
Images of Europe in Generational Novels:
From Bohemia to Eurotrash
BAAS
Conference paper, April 16, 2004
Katabasis in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian
EAAS Conference,
Prague, April 3, 2004; revised version appearing in Orbis Litterarum, vol 60, 1 -
Feb. 2005 (PDF)
Theorizing
Belonging: The Short Story Sequences of
Salinger, Updike and Coupland
Interdisciplinary
Approaches to Short Fiction
Theory and Criticism Conference, Salamanca, March 26, 2004
The Tic'ing Detective: Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn
Louisville
20th C. Literature Conference, February 29, 2004
Cultural
and Individual Memory in Raymond Federman's The Twofold Vibration
CYSSE Conference
paper, February 21, 2004
An
On & Off Beat: Kerouac's Beat Etymologies
Article appearing in Philament's
Off-Beat Issue & AAU
English lecture, February 16, 2004
“Tereu”
as lexical fragment or vocative in T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”
Paper appearing in The Explicator,
Vol. 62,
Number 2 - Winter 2004, co-authored
w.
Camelia Elias
Freudian
Economies in Poe
Article appearing in Nordic
Journal of English Studies,
vol.3, no. 3,
2004
The
Use of Doubles in Poe's Love Stories
Brenau University Lecture,
October 2003
“Small,
but exalted” – Difference and Otherness in Nella Larsen’s Life
and Work
Brenau University talk, October
2003
Youth
and Innocence as Textual Constructs in the Short Stories of J.D.
Salinger and Douglas Coupland
OASIS
article
Generation
X
as a Book/Object: A Microsemiotic Reading
A chapter from my PhD
dissertation (2001) (Dissertation abstract)
Love, Identity and Reason in the Tales of
Edgar Allan Poe (PDF)
Full text of my out-of-print, book-length study: Dept. of
Lang. and Intercultural Studies, Working papers,
vol. 23 (1994)
Cultural Studies:
Icons of Transgression: Charles
Manson & Patty Hearst
EAAS-2008, Oslo, May 2008
The Cadillac as Cultural Text
Maple Leaf and Eagle 12,
Helsinki, May 2008
Ekphrasis in
Reverse: The Use and Abuse of Poetry in Popular Film
High Culture, Low Culture:
Reprises, Recycling, Recuperations, Strasbourg, France, November 2007
They
Say They Put a
Man on the Moon
- Fallen
Astronaut
– Violence, Bodies,
and Moon Art
NAAS
2007, Tampere, May 2007
Cultural studies essays in Danish,
commissioned by Det Humanistiske
Studiemiljøudvalg, 2006
& Kulturkapellet, 2007:
1)
Livskvalitet,
kultur og
identitet
(Mellemrummet’s PDF)
2) Musik
som historisk og kulturel tekst
3) Kulturkanon
og kulturforståelse: eksklusion og participation (Mellemrummet’s PDF)
4)
Hvorfor kunst- og
kulturformidling?
Poetry and Politics,
Stirling,
July 2006
Countercultural
Icon-work: Adversarial and Collaborative Uses of “Uncle Sam”
Maple
Leaf and Eagle Conference,
Helsinki, May 2006
Portraits
of Blacks: Nella
Larsen and Early 20th C. Danish Paintings
Presentation at Denmark
and the Black Atlantic Conference, KU, May 2006
Transatlantic: New Perspectives
Brief theoretical contribution appearing in CTS 2: Transatlantic,
co-authored w. Camelia
Elias
Adaptation in
Adaptation: A Real Fictitious
Story(line)
Article in OpenWindows:
Remediation Strategies in Global Film Adapations,
eds. Jørgen Riber Christensen & Kyle Nicholas
Physicists in
the Field of Fiction
Invention, BCLA Conference,
Leeds, July 2004, revised version appearing in Comparative
Critical Studies, vol
2, no. 2 2005
The Celtic Ray: Representations of Diaspora
Identities in Van Morrison Lyrics
Presentation at
Eagle
& Maple Leaf
Conference,
Helsinki,
May 2004
Revised version appears in Re-mapping
Exile: Realities and Metaphors
in Irish Literature
and History, ed by M. Böss et al., Århus UP, 2005
5 Faces of Derrida (PDF)
Dept. of Lang. and Intercultural Studies, Working papers,
vol. 35
Derrida, 911 and Cultural Analysis
Chapter in Culture,
Media, Theory, Practice: Perspectives,
ed. Ben Dorfman, Aalborg U.P., 2004
Forgiving
Derrida for Dying...
Presentation for 5 Faces of
Derrida event,
AAU
October 18, 2004
Sacred
and Profane Iconwork: Elvis Presley and Jane Fonda
AAU
English Lecture, February 2, 2004
Revised version in US
Icons and Iconicity, eds. Hölbling, Rieser & Rieser, American Studies in Austria, vol.
4, LIV Verlag, Austria, 2006
Cultural
Acceleration and Labelling of Generations
Complexity
Conference AAU January 2004
Belated
Paratext in Generational Writings
Complexity
Conference AAU January 2004
Some
Theses Concerning the Icon
A contribution to the field of Cultural
Iconology
The
Cultural Semiotics of the 'X'
An
article drawn from my PhD
dissertation (2001)
Pedagogy:
Pros
and Cons of Project Based Learning
Presentation of the AAU
Project Model: 2 Personal Narratives (w.
Camelia Elias)
