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Edward P. Walkiewicz

Professor
Literature Program Director
Editor, Cimmaron Review
BA, Yale University; MA, Columbia University; PhD, The University of New Mexico


Areas of Interest & Expertise

  • Modern and Contemporary Literature
    (especially Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, James Joyce, John Barth)
  • Literature and Science
  • Science Fiction

Recent Upper-Division & Graduate Courses Taught

Graduate Courses:

  • Positioning Postmodernism
  • Revising Modernism
  • Ulysses in Context

Upper Division:

  • American Novel Post 1900
  • American Poetry Post 1900
  • Science Fiction
  • American Literature Post 1900: "Alienation and Activism"
  • Pursuing Postmodernism (Honors seminar)

Selected Publications

 

Ezra Pound and Senator Bronson Cutting: A Political  Correspondence, 1930-1935. With Hugh Witemeyer. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1995. 

"Ulysses, Order, Myth: Classification and Modern Literature. "  Pedagogy, Praxis, Ulysses. Ed. Robert Newman. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1995. 241-52.

"Poetry: 1900 to the 1940s." American Literary Scholarship 2001. Ed. Gary F. Scharnhorst. Durham: Duke UP, 2003. 393-419.

 "Poetry:1900 to the 1940s." American Literary Scholarship 2002. Ed. David Nordloh. Durham: Duke UP, 2004. 363-397.

Entries on "Bronson Cutting" and "George Holden Tinkham." The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia . Ed. Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos and Stephen J. Adams . Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2005.

Honors & Offices

  • Phi Kappa Phi, Graduate Student Council Outstanding Teaching Award

Recent Grants & Research Trips

  • Big XII Faculty Fellowship, University of Kansas, 2005.
  • Research Grant, Oklahoma Humanities Committee, 2005 (funded research at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library).

Recent Conference Presentations

 

 "' in the manner of a biologist' : Ezra Pound and the Life Sciences." Modern Language Association Convention, San Francisco, December 1998.

"Joyce's 'jock the wrapper ' : Masculinity, Misogyny, Modernity." North American James Joyce Conference, Tulsa, June 2003.

"'for the origin of spices: ' Gender, Colonialism, and Classification in Finnegans Wake." Joyce's Ireland Conference, U of Kansas, June 2004.

Current Research & Projects

  • Articles on Joyce and Jack the Ripper and Gender, Colonialism, and Classification in Finnegans Wake.
  • "'What is the Matrix?': Simulated Reality in Film and Fiction", (article in progress).
  • "The Proto-Postmodernism of Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451", (article in progress).
  • Book-length studies of Joyce and biology and science fiction and American culture, 1945-2000.


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