• Edgar Allen Poe

• Jack Kerouac

• T.S. Eliot

• Nella Larsen

• J.D. Salinger/John Updike/Douglas Coupland

• Bret Easton Ellis

• Cormac McCarthy

• Raymond Federman

• The cultural semiotics of the “X”

• Generationality and generational novels

• Images of Europe in literature

• Cultural iconology

• Elvis Presley and Jane Fonda as American icons

• Van Morrison’s lyrics as narratives of exile and longing
  

• Jacques Derrida and 9-11

• Adaptation in the film Adaptation
  

• Jonathan Lethem
  

• The prose poems of Margaret Atwood and Nin Andrews

• Alan Lightman and Andrew Crumey as physicists and novelists

• The short fiction of Alasdair Gray

• Iconicity in Mark Z. Danielewski

• The poetics of A. R. Ammons and Jack Kerouac

• Tourette syndrome as a post-modern trope in fiction

• Beat Generation dream writing

• Beat writers as cultural Others in exile poets’ memoirs

• Disorder Narratives

• Racism in Conrad

• Portraits of black subjects in Danish modernist painting

• Countercultural icon-work: The case of Uncle Sam

• Representations of Big Sur in American 1950s and '60s writing

• The ambiguous valorization of madness in Beat literature

• The lyrics of Neil Young, Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell as Canadian cultural critiques

• Moon art

• Poetry used as reverse ekphrasis in popular films

• Meena Alexander and 'the cultural kernel'
  

• Cadillacs as cultural texts

• Patty Hearst and Charles Manson as icons of transgression

• Post- 9/11 novels: Jonathan Safran Foer, Ken Kalfus, Don DeLillo, a.o.

• Syndrome Literature

• Robert Gibbons and The Evergreen Review

• Neal Cassady and On The Road

• Derrida's Style

• The Tragic Logic of Passing

• Buddhism and meat

• Yuppies and Psychopaths in Blank Generation Literature

• The Lyrics of Nick Drake as Expressions of Existential Anxiety

• Christy Moore's album Listen as a Glocal Text

• Patrick Kavanagh's “On Raglan Road” Remediated
  

Articles have appeared in The Explicator, Philament, OASIS, Orbis Litterarum, The Nordic Journal of English Studies, Literary Research, Caiet de Semiotica, PsyArt, Imaginaires, Recherches Anglaises et Nord-Americaines, Academic Quarter and Comparative Critical Studies - as well as in numerous conference proceedings volumes and themed monographs (3 new book chapters are forthcoming in 2012). Book reviews have appeared in Cercles and Studio Journal. A piece from The Explicator was reprinted in 2007 in Harold Bloom’s highly selective reader on T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land.

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His current book projects are American Icons - Transgression and Commodification (expected completion date, Summer 2012), Transatlantic – A Cultural Text Studies Approach (postponed), and Postmodern Jewish Novels (postponed indefinitely).

His editorial projects are centered around the activities of the Cultural Text Studies (CTS) project, which includes a monograph series of which he is the general editor (Vols. 1 (co-edited by him and Camelia Elias) & 2 have appeared). A web-based CTS journal is under development as part of the newly launched departmental Research News pages. He is also the editor of 5 Faces of Derrida, a short collection commemorating Jacques Derrida with 4 readings of aspects of Derrida’s work and a round-table discussion of the recent film Derrida (Department of Languages, Culture and Aesthetics, Working Papers 35, January, 2005). Part of this work was presented at the Following Derrida conference in Winnipeg, October 2006 by his colleagues Søren Balle and Gray Kochhar-Lindgren. Recently the IRGiC volume on intermedial and interarts connections which he co-edited has appeared from Aalborg University Press, under the Danish title Interaktioner - Kunstarternes produktive Mellemværender.

Two of his translation projects have appeared in book form from Eyecorner Press:

1. Årstider i Skeptikerens Himmel - Aforismer af Valeriu Butulescu (63 pp. - selected, translated and ed. w/ Camelia Elias), 2008
2. Jagged Timeline - Selected Poems by Robert Gibbons (180 pp. - selected, translated and ed., w. a scholarly intro.), March 2010

In 2003-4 he set a personal record by appearing at 15 international conferences in one academic year, giving 12 different papers at these events. This feat he will never attempt to duplicate.
The 2004-5 academic year featured (only) 6 conferences, including ESSE-7 in Zaragoza, where he was both a seminar convener (Disorders of the Mind in Literature and Film) and a participant in a workshop on “The Gothic”. The year continued with conferences in Alcalá, Reims and Krakow, NAAS 2005 in Växjö and ICLP 22 in Cordoba.
2005-6 featured a total of 11 conferences, starting with appearances in Canterbury and Athens in October '05 and Louisville, Kentucky in February '06, Reims in March, Copenhagen and Helsinki (Maple Leaf & Eagle 11) in May, and Karlstad in June, ICLP 23 in Helsinki and “Poetry and Politics” in Stirling, both in July '06. In April at the EAAS-2006 in Nicosia he convened a workshop on the poetics of nonconformity with Nephie Christodoulides, and at ESSE-8 in London in August 2006 he was co-convener of Anthony Johnson’s seminar on “The New Imagology”.
The fall of '06 was conference free, but the rest of the 2006-7 season featured BAAS-2007 in Leicester, NAAS-2007 in Tampere, and culminated with ICLP 24 in Belgrade.
The 2007-8 academic year was more prolific, having commenced with two events in France: Strasbourg in November '07, and Reims in March 2008, followed by two Nordic events in May: Renvall’s Maple Leaf & Eagle 12 and EAAS-2008 in Oslo. After ICLP 25 in Lisbon in July, August of ’08 featured 2 more talks at ISSEI-11 in Hesinki, and at ESSE-9 in Aarhus.
The 2008-9 academic year opened with a delightful Kerouac conference in Birmingham in December. Spring 2009 only featured two events, both recurrent favourites: NAAS , this time held in Copenhagen, and ICLP 26, which was held in Viterbo, Italy.
The 2009-10 academic year held 8 events, including the big European conferences: EAAS-2010 in Dublin, where he convened a workshop on Remediating the Beats; ESSE-10 in Turin in August; as well as recurrent events such as Renvall's Maple Leaf and Eagle (No. 13!) and the NAES, also held in Finland (Oulu) this year. The summer of 2010 of course featured the annual PsyArt event, ICLP 27 - this year held in Hungary (we already anticipate hosting ICLP 28 in Roskilde 2011!). Three more conference appearances: An invited lecture at the Syndrome Syndrome symposium at Keele in the UK, the Style In Theory event on Malta, and the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture after 1900 (this time with an association workshop for Psy-Art'ers where he was an invited panelist).
The 2010-11 academic year featured a first ever Irish Studies event, namely the NISN 7 in Tromsø in December; the NAAS 2011 in Oslo in May - and of course the Roskilde Psychology and the Arts Conference in June 2011.
2011-12 started with another Irish Studies do in Dalarna, Sweden, in November, and the spring of '12 will feature a return to the Maple Leaf and Eagle conference in Helsinki (5th consecutive appearence) and PSY-ART (formerly ICLP) 2012 in Ghent, Belgium (8th consecutive year), as well as the inaugural European Beat Studies Network gathering in Holland in September...

He has completed research and exchange visits to University of British Columbia, Vancouver (1996); Columbia University, New York (2001); University of Lisbon (2003); Brenau University, Georgia, USA (2003 & 2004). A visit to University of Helsinki (Renvall Institute) and Oulu University, Finland took place in late April 2005. A third visit to Brenau to celebrate the launch of the collaborative CTS 2 volume, Transatlantic, and an invited lecture at IPSA in Gainesville, Florida, both took place in February 2006. A re-visit to Oulu took place in April 2007. In December 2007 he was invited to visit and lecture at Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania. February 2010 featured a presentation of Transatlantic scholarship at Georgia Gwinnett College, Lawrenceville, GA.

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