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Employment
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, Fall 2012–
Assistant Professor, Department of English
Eugene Lang College, The New School, Spring 2012
Adjunct Instructor, Literary Studies
New York University, Fall 2011
Adjunct Instructor, Gallatin School, Writing Program
Stanford University, 2009–2011
Fellow, Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities
Lecturer, English Department
Education
Yale University, 2004–2009
Ph.D. in English Language and Literature, December 2009
Dissertation: “Modernist Fictions of Aesthetic Autonomy”
Supervisors: Langdon Hammer and Amy Hungerford
Harvard University, 2000–2004
A.B. summa cum laude in Physics and Mathematics, June 2004
Publications
Fictions of Autonomy: Modernism from Wilde to de Man. Monograph forthcoming from Oxford University Press in the Modernist Literature & Culture Series.
“Servants, Aestheticism, and ‘The Dominance of Form.’” ELH 77, no. 3 (Fall 2010): 615–43.
“The Two Voices of Wallace Stevens’ Blank Final Music.” Wallace Stevens Journal 29, no. 2 (Fall 2005): 213–32.
Review of Consuming Traditions by Elizabeth Outka and The Speed Handbook by Enda Duffy. Studies in the Novel 43, no. 2 (Summer 2011): 281–85.
In Progress
“Hatterr Abroad: G. V. Desani on the Scene of World Literature.”
“Modernist Studies Without Modernism: A Manifesto for Twentieth Century Studies.” Co-author.
“Wastes of Time: Genre and the Literary Field since 1890” (preliminary title). Book project.
Teaching Experience
Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
Twentieth Century Fiction I (slated, fall 2012)
Popular Reading: Low to Middling Genres, 1890–1945 (slated, fall 2012)
Principles of Literary Study: Fiction (slated, spring 2013)
The Social Construction of Literature (slated, spring 2013)
Eugene Lang College, The New School. Taught a required course in Literary Studies:
Literary Foundations II (Spring 2012, two sections)
Gallatin School, New York University. Designed and taught a first-year writing seminar:
Coming of Age: Selves, Writers Societies (Fall 2011)
Stanford University. Designed and taught undergraduate seminar courses in English:
The Poetry of Wallace Stevens (Winter 2011)
Everything But Modernism: Low to Middling Genres (Autumn 2010)
Prizewinners: Anglophone Novelists and the Nobel Prize, 1991–2007 (Spring 2010)
Expats and Cosmopolitan Fiction, 1900–1940 (Autumn 2009)
Yale University, Teaching Fellow. Led one discussion section in:
The American Novel Since 1945 (Spring 2008)
The Modern British Novel (Fall 2007)
Modern Poetry (Spring 2007)
Shakespeare: Histories and Tragedies (Fall 2006)
Yale University, Guest Lecture. The American Novel Since 1945, January 30, 2008:
On Nabokov’s Lolita; video recording publicly available online through Open Yale Courses:
http://oyc.yale.edu/english/american-novel-since–1945/content/sessions/lecture06.html
Fellowships, Honors, and Awards
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, Stanford University, 2009–2011
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholars Program Fellowship, 2009–2010 (declined)
James A. Veech Dissertation Prize, Yale University, 2011
(for the best dissertation in English in 2009–2010)
Whiting Fellowship, Yale University, 2008–2009
John F. Enders Scholarship, Yale University, 2008
Noah Webster Prize in the History of the English Language, Yale University, 2006
(for my essay “On the Variety of fāh in Beowulf”)
Richard J. Franke Interdisciplinary Fellowship, Yale University, 2004–2008
Graduate Fellowship, Yale University, 2004–2008
Sophia Freund Prize, Harvard College, 2004
(for the highest GPA in my graduating class)
Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard College, 2003
John Harvard Scholarship, Harvard College, 2001–2004
Detur Prize, Harvard College, 2001
Presentations
“The Song of Misrecognition: Indian Love Lyrics in E.M. Hull, Tagore, and Yeats.” American Comparative Literature Association, Providence, March 2012.
“Tautology, Autonomy: The Common Sense of Wallace Stevens.” Modernist Studies Association, Buffalo, NY, October 2011.
“G. V. Desani, T. S. Eliot, and the Paper Shortage Excuse.” Seminar on “Reception, Circulation and Consumption: The Social Infrastructure of Modernism.” Modernist Studies Association, Buffalo, NY, October 2011.
“Where Literary History Doesn’t Happen: Genre Fiction and the Modern.” American Comparative Literature Association, Vancouver, BC, March 2011.
“Late Style, a Modernist Invention (Eliot, Adorno, Beethoven, and Others).” Workshop in Poetics, Stanford Humanities Center, November 2010.
“H. Hatterr Abroad: G. V. Desani, World Literary History, and the Impasse of Modernist Studies.” Modernist Studies Association, Victoria, BC, November 2010.
“The Dynamite Classroom, or, Global Cultural Capital: Teaching the Nobel.” Seminar on “Globalizing Modernist Studies: Research and Teaching Strategies.” Modernist Studies Association, Victoria, BC, November 2010.
“Literature without External Reference: Tautology in Wallace Stevens and Paul de Man.” Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities, Stanford University, November 2009.
“Françoise on Top, Marcel on Bottom: Monsieur Proust and the Servants.” Modernist Studies Association, Montreal, November 2009.
“Lateness, Expression, and Impersonality in Adorno and T. S. Eliot.” American Comparative Literature Association, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 2009.
“Modernism’s Impersonal Late Style: T. S. Eliot, Theodor Adorno, and Beethoven’s Last Works.” Twentieth Century Colloquium, English Department, Yale University, January 2009.
“Losing All Connection: Joyce, Barnes, and Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism.” Modernist Studies Association, Nashville, Tennessee, November 2008. Also presented at the Twentieth Century Colloquium Graduate Student Conference, English Department, Yale University, May 2008.
“Using Pierre Bourdieu’s The Rules of Art.” Using Theory Lunch Series, English Department, Yale University, September 2008.
“Marxist Simplification, Modernist Aestheticism, and Domestic Service.” Seminar on “Modernist Simplicity,” Modernist Studies Association, Long Beach, California, November 2007.
Respondent, Panel on “The Future of Modernist Studies” with Jeffrey Schnapp, Victoria Rosner, and Jing Tsu. Twentieth Century Colloquium, English Department, Yale University, October 2007.
“Servants, Aestheticism, and ‘The Dominance of Form.’” Twentieth Century Colloquium Graduate Student Conference, English Department, Yale University, May 2007.
Other Academic Activities and Service
Seminar organizer, “Bad Reception, Missed Connection, Clogged Circulation,” American Comparative Literature Association, Providence, March 2012.
Seminar organizer, “Institutions of Periodization,” American Comparative Literature Association, Vancouver, BC, March 2011.
Panel organizer, “Modernist Studies Without Modernism II: Geographies of Twentieth-Century Culture” (one of a pair of linked panels), Modernist Studies Association, Victoria, BC, November 2010.
Blogger, Arcade: A Digital Salon (http://arcade.stanford.edu), 2010–present.
Panel organizer and chair, “Wallace Stevens Among Others,” American Literature Association, San Francisco, May 2010.
Seminar organizer, “Twentieth-Century Studies: Modernist Studies Without Modernism,” Modernist Studies Association, Montreal, November 2009.
Participant, Workshop in Poetics, Humanities Center, Stanford University (September 2009–present).
Student convener and organizer of annual graduate-student conference, Twentieth Century Colloquium, English Department, Yale University (May 2008–May 2009).
Founder and organizer, Using Theory Lunch Series, English Department, Yale University (2007–2009: a seminar series for faculty and graduate students on the uses of theory; website at http://usingtheory.blogspot.com. Subsequently established as a standing Theory & Media Colloquium).
Course research assistant for “Poetry After 1950” (Yale, Fall 2007): prepared a course webpage.
Research assistant for Langdon Hammer (2005–2006): compiled notes and chronology for and edited proofs of the Complete Poems and Selected Letters of Hart Crane (Library of America, 2006).
Participant in reading groups at Yale for Contemporary Poetry (2004–2009) and Finnegans Wake (2006–2007).
Representative, Yale English Department Graduate Student Advisory Committee (2005–2006).
Languages
French (spoken, written, read)
Italian (spoken, written, read)
Ancient Greek (read)
German (read)
Old English (read)
Sanskrit (read)
Research Interests
Twentieth-century fiction and poetry in English and French
Modernism; aestheticism
Sociology of literature; literary theory; history of criticism
Genre fiction and popular literature
Literary transnationalism and world literature
Indian literature in English; Indology and English-language literature
Linguistic, cognitive, and computational approaches to literary study