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Dimuro, Joseph A. Lecturer Humanities 238 Tel: 310.825.8668 Fax: 310.267.4339 Send E-mail
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Education Ph.D., English Language and Literature, University of Chicago, 2000 B.A., English and History, cum laude, Assumption College, 1981 Study: Exchange Scholar, Harvard University, 1988-1989 Dissertation: “The 1893 Ferris Wheel and the Cultural Politics of National Identity” Directors: Kenneth W. Warren, Bill Brown, and Lisa Ruddick Fields of Specialty Late 19thC American Literature; Cultural Studies and Literary Theory; The Novel and Narrative Theory; Visual Culture and Literature; Anglo-American Modernism Selected UCLA Courses Taught
Previous Teaching Appointments University of Pennsylvania, Lecturer, 1996-2001 Selected Honors UCLA Non-Senate Professional Development Award, Spring 2005 and Spring 2006. Recent and Forthcoming Publications “The ‘Salient Angle’: Revising the Queer Case of Henry Blake Fuller’s Bertram Cope’s Year,” Textual Cultures 2:1 (Spring 2007): 136-154. Editor, The Cliff Dwellers: A Novel by Henry Blake Fuller ([1893] Peterborough, Ontario, Canada: Broadview Literary Texts), forthcoming 2008. Editor, Bertram Cope’s Year by Henry Blake Fuller ([1919] Peterborough, Ontario, Canada: Broadview Literary Texts), forthcoming 2008. Selected Conference Papers “‘The Salient Angle’: Revising the Queer Case of Bertram Cope’s Year,” Committee on Scholarly Editions panel, Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, DC, December 2005. “‘In the Blue Air of Possibility’: Ferris Wheel Riders and the Sensation of Americanness, Circa 1893,” Southern California Americanist Group, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, May 2002. “‘The Feeling of Crude Extensity’: The Sensational Roots of William James’s Racism,” William James and United States Imperialism: New Perspectives (special session organizer and panel member), Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, Illinois, December 1999. “Building Pressure: Literary Skyscrapers and the Closing of American Space,” Architecture and American Literature: New Perspectives (special session organized by William A. Gleason), Modern Language Association Convention, San Francisco, California, December 1998. Turning the Nationalist Body: The Ferris Wheel and the Cultural Politics of Dislocation, Circa 1893,” “A New National Environment”: Physical and Cultural Practices of Late Nineteenth-Century American Nationalism (special session chaired by Eric J. Sundquist), American Studies Association Convention, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 1995. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||