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Brewster E. Fitz
Associate Professor
PhD, Yale University
Areas of Interest & Expertise
- Literary Criticism and Theory
- Native American Literature
- Cross-cultural Literature
- Short Story, Detective Fiction
- Writers: Kate Chopin. Leslie Marmon Silko. Simon Ortiz. Diane Glancy. Julia Alvarez. Sandra Cisneros. Ha Jin. Jhumpa Lahiri. Amy Tan. Tony Hillerman.
Recent Upper Division & Graduate Courses Taught
- American Drama
- Non-Western World Literature
- Single Author (Tim O'Brien)
- Native American Literature
- Popular Fiction (Detective Story)
- Studies in Literary Criticism
- Tradtions in Literary Criticism and Theory
- Cross-cultural Authors at the Turn of the 21st Century (Honors Seminar).
Selected Publications
"'Gateman's Gift': Self-reflexive Irony and Allegory in the Narrative of R. K. Narayan," South Asian Review XXVII.2 (Fall 2006).
"Bibi's Babel: Treating Jhumpa Lahiri's 'The Treatment of Bibi Haldar' as the Malady of Interpreters." South Asian Review 26.2 (2005): 116-131.
Silko: Writing Storyteller and Medicine Woman. Norman: OU Press, 2004. (Paperback forthcoming August 2005.)
"Undermining Narrative Stereotypes in Simon Ortiz's 'The Killing of a State Cop'," MELUS 28.2 (Summer 2003): 105-120.
"A Conversation with Robert Olen Butler and Elizabeth Dewberry," Cimarron Review 143 (Spring 2003): 48-61.
"Coyote Loops: Leslie Marmon Silko Holds a Full House in Her Hand," MELUS 27.3 (Fall 2002): 75-91.
"Kate Chopin's 'Desiree's Baby': Emancipating the Readers," Short Story 8.1 (Spring 2000):78-91.
"Philomela on the Plains: Diane Glancy's Flutie," SAIL (Studies in American Indian Literature) 11.3 (Fall 1999): 79-87.
"Cain as Convict and Convert? Cross-cultural Logic in the Song of Roland," MLN 113 (1998): 812-822.
"Ethnocentric Guilt in Tony Hillerman's Dance Hall of the Dead," MELUS 22.2 (Summer 1997): 91-103.
Honors Offices
- Nominated for Distinguished Regents Teaching Award (Spring 2002, 2001)
Recent Grants or Research Trips
- Oklahoma Humanities Council Research Grant (Summer 2004)
- Arts and Sciences Summer Grant for Research (Summer 2003)
Recent Conference Presentations
"Can this Marriage Be Cured? A Reading of the Medico-cultural Metaphor that Informs Jhumpa Lahiri's 'Interpreter of Maladies'." 7th Annual Conference of the South Asian Literature Association. Philadelphia, PA 26-27 December 2006.
"History, Multicultural Irony, and Allegory in James Welch's The Heartsong of Charging Elk," 5th MESEA Conference, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, 18-20 May 2006.
"The Kiss of Death for the Ironist: Nadine Gordimer's 'The Soldier's Embrace'," 15th Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference, Savannah, GA, 24 February 2006.
"To Err or Not to Err: Conflicting Narratives in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's 'The Unknown Errors of Our Lives." 14th annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference, Savannah, GA, 25-27 February 2005.
"The Silent Text of the Cut Sleeve: Ha Jin's 'The Bridegroom'," 24 March 2004, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Short Fiction and Theory, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, 24-27 March 2004.
"The Eloquence of Silence: Ma and Suicide in Kazuo Ishiguro's 'A Family Supper'," 12 July 2002, 7th International Conference on the Short Story in English, New Orleans, LA.
Current Book Project & Research
Yearning for Babel: Cross-cultural Narrative. Authors to be included: Ha Jin, Jhumpa Lahiri, Amy Tan, Sherman Alexie, R. K. Narayan, Julia Alvarez, Sandra Cisneros.
English Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Oklahoma State University
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Stillwater, OK 74078
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