Department of English & Comparative Literature

Erin G. Carlston

Department of English & Comparative Literature

Greenlaw Hall

CB #3520

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

(919) 962-4037

Education

Stanford University. Modern Thought and Literature, M.A. 1989, Ph.D. 1995.

École Normale Supérieure/Université Paris VII. Sciences des textes et documents, D.E.A. June 1992, mention très bien.

Radcliffe College, Harvard University. English and American Literature and Language, A.B. mcl 1985.

Employment

Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. July 1999-present (tenured Spring 2005).

Lecturer, Program in Cultures, Ideas and Values, Stanford University. 1995-1999.

Grants, Fellowships and Honors (Post-Graduate)

Creative Campus Fellowship, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, UNC-CH. Spring 2013.

University Research Council Grant, Fall 2011. $1,150.00

UNC-CH Foundation Research Grant, Spring 2007. $1,000.00

Mayers Fellowship, Huntington Library, November 2006. $2,000.00

Spray-Randleigh Fellowship, 2005-6. $15,000.00

Blackwell Fellowship, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, UNC-CH. Fall 2003.

2002 Margaret Church Memorial Award for “Secret Dossiers: Sexuality, Race and Treason in Proust and the Dreyfus Affair.” This award is given for the best essay to appear in Modern Fiction Studies.

Brandes Course Development Award, UNC-CH Honors Program, academic year 2002-2003. $3,000.00

Fred A. and Gail M. Fearing Faculty Enrichment Fund, September 2000. $400.00

UNC/IBM General College Curriculum Technology Enhancement Grant, Faculty Information Technology Advisory Committee. Spring 2000.

Affiliated Scholar, Beatrice M. Bain Research Group on Gender at the University of California at Berkeley, 1998-1999.

Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, Stanford University, 1998-1999.

Books, Book Chapters, and Journal Articles

Double Agents: Espionage, Literature and Liminal Citizens. NY: Columbia University Press, forthcoming February 2013.

“The Cambridge Spies, Intelligence and Sexual Profiling.” British Politics Review 7.3 (August 2012): 8-9.

“Teaching Jewish Literature in the South: A Conversation.” MELUS 37.2 (Summer 2012): 187-200.

“German Vices: Sexual/Linguistic Inversions in Fin-de-Siècle France.” Romanic Review 100.2 (May 2009): 279-305.

“‘Making the Margins Chaos’: Romantic and Anti-Romantic Readings of La Maravilla.” Aztlán 30.2 (Fall 2005): 113-135.

“A Useful Fiction? Joyce, Proust and the Idea of the Nation,” in Bloomsday 100, ed. Niall O’Driscoll. Dublin: Hyperfecto Digital Media, 2005. DVD.

“Secret Dossiers: Sexuality, Race and Treason in Proust and the Dreyfus Affair,” Modern Fiction Studies 48.4 (December 2002): 937-68.

Thinking Fascism: Sapphic Modernism and Fascist Modernity. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1998.

“Defiance and Reconciliation in Paul Celan’s Die Niemandsrose,” in Borders, Exiles and Diasporas, eds. Elazar Barkan and Marie-Denise Shelton. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1998. 115-22.

“‘A Finer Differentiation’: Homosexuality and the American Medical Community, 1926-1940,” in Science and Homosexualities, ed. Vernon A. Rosario. New York: Routledge, 1996. 177-96.

“Versatile Interests: Reading Bisexuality in The Friendly Young Ladies,” in RePresenting BiSexualities, eds. Donald Hall and Maria Pramaggiore. New York: New York UP, 1996. 165-79.

“Layers of Revelation,” OVERhere 16:1 (Summer 1996): 19-40.

“Zami and the Politics of Plural Identity,” in Textual Theory/Sexual Practice, eds. Susan J. Wolfe and Julia Penelope. Cambridge & Oxford: Blackwell, 1993. 226-36.

Review Articles, Book Reviews and Other Publications

Review of Women Modernists and Fascism by Annalisa Zox-Weaver. Modernism/Modernity, forthcoming Winter 2013.

“Modern Literature Under Surveillance: American Writers, State Espionage and the Cultural Cold War.” American Literary History 22.3 (Fall 2010): 615-25. Translated into Vietnamese as “Văn học hiện đại bị giám sát: Tác giả Mỹ, tình báo quốc gia và cuộc chiến tranh lạnh văn hóa.”

“Fascism and the literary imagination,” review of American Women Writers and the Nazis by Thomas C. Austenfeld and Sex Drives by Laura Frost. Modern Fiction Studies 49.4 (Winter 2003): 824-31.

“Marguerite Yourcenar.” Lesbian Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia, ed. Bonnie Zimmerman. New York: Garland Publishing, 2000. 824-5.

“The Language of Man,” Cultural Critique 13 (Fall 1989): 191-202. Translation of “Le langage de l’homme,” rpt. in Luce Irigaray, Parler n’est jamais neutre (Paris: Éditions de Minuit, 1985) 281-92.

Invited Talks and Lectures (Selected)

“Queer Lives and Literature in the Early 20th Century.” Durham County Library, Durham, NC. 3 June 2010.

“Good for the Jews? The Rosenberg Trial and Conflict in the Jewish Community." Judea Reform Aleynu, Durham, NC. 23 January 2010.

“The Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.” Jewish Community Center Speaker Series, Raleigh, NC. 18 February 2009.

“Revenge of the Schlemiels: Tony Kushner on Identity and Citizenship.” Modernist & Avant-Garde Studies Research Unit of the Institute for Humanities Research, University of California at Santa Cruz. 10 March 2008.

“Traitors in America: From the Rosenbergs to Tony Kushner.” Adventures in Ideas Seminar on “Xenophobia: Nationality & Ethnicity in Wartime America,” Program in the Humanities and Human Values, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC. 7-8 December 2007.

Interview with Frank Stasio on “Xenophobia in Wartime America.” The State of Things, North Carolina Public Radio. 6 December 2007.

“’The Ganelon Type’: Auden and Espionage.” Auden Centenary Lecture, University of Maryland (Baltimore County). 21 February 2007.

“The Implications of the Dreyfus Affair.” North Carolina Jewish Studies Lecture Series, Temple Beth Israel, Fayetteville, NC. 11 February 2005.

“The Crisis of Liberalism in 19th Century France.” Triangle Seminar for Jewish Studies, National Humanities Center. 20 September 2004.

“Jewishness in the Late 19th Century”; “The Dreyfus Affair”; “James Joyce and Jewishness.” Lecture series for Institute of Judaism I, Little Switzerland, NC. 16-19 August 2004.

“French Secularism and the Legacy of the Dreyfus Affair.” Chaverim Lecture Series, Durham-Chapel Hill Jewish Federation, Durham NC. 14 July 2004.

“American Expatriate Writers in Europe.” Guest lecture for English 67, “Gay and Lesbian Literature,” Santa Clara University. 17 October 2003.

“German Vices: Sexual/Linguistic Inversions in Fin-de-Siècle France.” Department of French & Italian Lecture Series, Stanford University. 16 October 2003.

“Dissembling Invisibility.” Lecture sponsored by Literature and Society Program, University at Buffalo (SUNY). 22 September 2000.

“Double Agents: Jews, Homosexuals, and Treason in Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past.” Beatrice M. Bain Affiliated Scholars Lecture Series, University of California at Berkeley. 26 April 1999.

“Thinking Fascism: The Necessary Risks of Fascist Cultural Studies.” Cultural Studies Colloquium Series, University of New Mexico. 13 March 1997.

“Political Erotics in the Fascist Era.” Jing Lyman Lecture Series, Stanford University. 2 March 1994.

Conference Presentations (Selected)

Chair and participant, “Teaching Barnes” seminar. International Djuna Barnes Conference, London, UK. 20-22 September 2012.

Participant, “Modernisms: Wars, States, and Citizens” seminar. New Modernisms X, Victoria, British Columbia. 11-14 November 2010.

Chair and participant, “X-Treme Pedagogy II: Joyce in Translation.” Praharfeast, Prague, Czech Republic. 13-18 June 2010.

“Sexuality, Gender and Citizenship in the Rosenberg Trial.” Western Political Science Association, Vancouver, BC. 18-21 March 2009.

Chair and participant, “Travel Literature” seminar. New Modernisms IX, Long Beach, CA. 1-4 November 2007.

“Treasonous Angels: Tony Kushner on Identity and Citizenship.” América Aquí: Transhemispheric Visions and Community Connections (ASA), Philadelphia, PA. 11-14 October 2007.

Chair and participant, “Treason” seminar. New Modernisms VIII, Tulsa, OK. 19-22 October 2006.

“Poetry Under Cover: W.H. Auden and the Cambridge Spies.” New Modernisms VII, Chicago, IL. 3-6 November 2005.

"Sleeping With Wolves." Gender Difference and Cultural Resistance, UNC-Asheville, Asheville, NC, 31 March-2 April 2005.

“Cities of the Plain and the City on the Hill: Sodomy and Zionism in Proust.” Imperialisms — Temporal, Spatial, Formal (ACLA), State College, PA. 10-13 March 2005.

"Animal Crackers: Madness, Liminality and the Beast Turning Human." New Modernisms VI, Vancouver, BC. 21-24 October 2004.

Respondent, “Queer Theory.” Unity Conference, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 12 April 2003.

“Dueling Identities.” New Modernisms IV, Madison, WI. 31 October-3 November 2002.

Chair and participant, “X-Treme Pedagogy: Teaching Ulysses and the Wake to Undergraduates.” Mediterranean Joyce, Trieste, Italy. 16-22 June 2002.

Chair, “Modernism, Lesbian Discourse, and the Problems of National Identity”; chair and participant, “Bodies: Premodern, Modern, Postmodern” seminar. New Modernisms III, Houston, TX. 12-15 October 2001.

Chair and participant, “Aiming the Canon: A Roundtable on ‘Great Books’ Programs.” Southern Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 13-15 September 2001.

“Homosex as Treason.” Topos/Chronos: Aesthetics for a New Millennium (ACLA), Boulder, CO. 19-22 April 2001.

“The limp and melting hand of a hypocrite and a traitor.” New Modernisms II, Philadelphia, PA. 12-15 October 2000.

“Good Girls Don’t—Or Do They? Nausicaa, Gerty, and the Problem of the Dissimulating Virgin,” Joyce 2000, London, U.K. 24-30 June 2000.

Respondent, “The Figure of the Lesbian in Modernity,” New Modernisms I, Penn State, 7-10 October 1999.

“Banality vs. Barbarism Revisited: Fascism and the Production of Political Value.” Comparative Literature and Cultural Transnationalisms (ACLA), Montreal, Quebec. 8-11 April 1999.

“The Excorporation of Buckeye: Squatters, Suburbs and the Phoenix Frontier.” Western Humanities Conference, Phoenix, AZ. 22-25 October 1998.

“Victim Predestined or Sacred Infidel? Anti-Semitism, Ritual Murder and the Messianic Narrative of Ulysses.” Classic Joyce, Rome, Italy. 14-20 June 1998.

Chair and respondent, “Chester Himes and the Harlem Renaissance.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, Orlando, FL. 8-11 April 1998.

“‘An Immoderate Taste for Form.’” Djuna Barnes Centennial Conference, University of Maryland, 2-3 October 1992.

“‘The Learned Corruption of Language’: Nightwood’s Failed Flirtation with Fascism.” Fascism(s): Roots–Extensions–Replays, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, 2-4 April 1992.

“Are You a Good Nationalism, Or a Bad Nationalism? Québec’s Quest for a Kinder, Gentler Nation” (presented by proxy). Western Humanities Conference, University of California at Los Angeles, 18-20 October 1991.

Courses Taught

Department of English, Honors Program, Jewish Studies and Sexuality Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill:

ENGL 51, “Boy Raised By Wolves”: Wild-Child Stories and Theories of Human Nature

ENGL 29H/135H, Epic Traditions; The Literary Legacy of the Trojan War; Epic, Lyric and Tragedy

ENGL 150, Introduction to Fiction

ENGL/SXST 287, Another Country: Homoeroticism in 20th Century British Literature

ENGL 288, Modernism

ENGL/JWST 289, Jewish American Literature

ENGL 345, U.S. American Literature and Culture of the 20th Century

ENGL 355, The British Novel 1870-1945

ENGL 366, Literature and the Other Arts/CMPL 466 Modernism

ENGL 384, The Lesbian Novel

ENGL 657, James Joyce’s Ulysses

ENGL 857/CMPL 890, The Meanings of Modernisms; International Modernism and the Arts

ENGL 860, The Thirties: Left Culture & Politics in the U.K., 1930-1940

ENGL 990, Modernist Women: Djuna Barnes, H.D. and Mina Loy

Post-doctoral Fellow/Instructor, Stanford University:

Introduction to the Humanities, Stanford. The Good Life, Fall 1998.

Program in Cultures, Ideas, and Values, Stanford. Great Works, 1995-1999.

English/Continuing Studies, Stanford. Who’s Afraid Of James Joyce’s Ulysses?, Winter 1998.

Freshman English, Stanford. Literature and composition: Women and Modern Literature, Winter/Spring 1989.

Innovative Academic Courses, Stanford. Undergraduate seminar: Sexual Identity in Literature: Lesbian Novels of the 20th Century, Spring 1988.

Honors Theses Supervised:

John Robson Coiner, “A style is a style is a style: Gertrude Stein’s influence on the style of Ernest Hemingway’s The First Forty-Nine” (2003, winner of the Kimball King Award)

Kristen Haven, “The north begins inside: Louis MacNeice's literal, psychological, and rhetorical journey north in Letters from Iceland” (2003)

Emilie Ziemer, “The marketing of Harry Potter and its effects on children's publishing” (2005)

Abigail Farson, “Motherhood and the limitations on artistic creation in Virginia Woolf’s novels” (2010)

Alexandra Macey, “Authentically catholic yet wholeheartedly renegade: liberation, identity and the telos of Stephen Dedalus in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” (2012)

M.A. Theses Supervised

Deric Corlew, “The Mind's Eye and Plastic Structure in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and The Waves” (2006)

Dissertations Supervised

Catherine Clark, “Reading Sapphic Modernisms: Belle Epoque Poésie and Poetic Prose” (2010)

Leslie Davison, “A Case For Modernism: Tracing Freud in Bloomsbury” (2010)

Professional Service:

•Book and article manuscripts evaluated for University of Florida Press, Stanford University Press, Ashgate Publishing Company, Modern Fiction Studies, Modernism/Modernity, Oxford University Press, Philament, Patterns of Prejudice.

•2002-2005, fellowship applications evaluated for Standard Research Grants Program of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

•2005-2008, Editorial board, South Atlantic Review.

University and Departmental Service:

·  Ongoing: Steering Committee, Carolina Center for Jewish Studies; CCJS Speaker’s Bureau sub-committee 2003-2005.

·  2003-2006, 2011-present: Dept. of English Graduate Advisory Committee

·  2004-2006, 2011-present: Dept. of English Graduate Admissions Committee

·  2007-2010: Director, Program in Sexuality Studies.

·  2007-2008, Advisory Board (ex officio), Provost’s Committee for LGBTQ Life at Carolina.

·  2002-2006, Advisory Board, Office for GLBTQ Life & Study at UNC-CH. Acting Director of the Board, Spring 2006.

·  2000-2010: Founder and Chair, Queer Faculty and Staff Network

·  2005 and 2006, Dept. of English, Whitfield Prize committee

·  March 2004: Participant, Association of Graduate English Students panel on “Preparing A C.V.”

·  April 2003: In conjunction with my interdisciplinary Honors seminar, arranged participation of evolutionary geneticist Dr. Andrew Berry (Harvard University) in Science Symposium organized by the Johnston Center.

·  2002-2006: Faculty advisor, Association of English Majors

·  2000-2003: Faculty advisor, Queer Network for Change

·  2002: Dept. of English, Macmillan Prize committee

·  2001-2: Chair, Academic Curriculum subcommittee of the Provost’s Planning Committee on GLBTQ issues at UNC-Chapel Hill

·  2001-2: Dept. of English, Critical Speakers Lecture Series planning committee

·  2001-2: Dept. of English, Committee on Grade Appeals

Professional Memberships:

·  American Comparative Literature Association

·  American Studies Association

·  International James Joyce Foundation

·  Modernist Studies Association

·  Modern Language Association

References:

·  Joseph A. Boone. Professor of English and Gender Studies, Dept. of English, University of Southern California.

·  Jonathan Freedman. Professor, Dept. of English Language and Literature, University of Michigan.

·  Paul Saint-Amour. Associate Professor, Dept. of English, University of Pennsylvania.

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