John Paul Riquelme
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ProfessorBA, Rice University
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Teaching and Research Interests
- Post-Romantic literature, primarily poetry and fiction of the long twentieth century, Irish, British, and American
- The Gothic tradition
- Humanistic theory and literary criticism, especially concerning modernity, creativity, aesthetic response, narrative, post-colonialism, and anthropological issues
Selected Publications
- Ed., Gothic & Modernism: Essaying Dark Literary Modernity (2008)
- Norton Critical Ed. of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (2007)
- Bedford/St. Martin’s Case Studies Eds. of Dracula (2002) and Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1998)
- Harmony of Dissonances: T.S. Eliot, Romanticism, and Imagination (1991); Ed., Joyce’s Dislocutions (1984)
- Teller and Tale in Joyce’s Fiction (1983)
- Guest editing for journals: “Reading Modernism, After Kenner” (Modernism/Modernity, 2005)
- “The Writings of Wolfgang Iser” (New Literary History, 2000).
- “The Gothic Technological Imaginary: M. Shelley & O. Butler” (Modern Fiction Studies, 2007)
- “The Negativity of Modernist Authenticity” and “The Mechanic as 20th Century Mona Lisa” (Modernism/Modernity, 2007)
- “Wilde’s Aesthetic Gothic: Pater, Dark Enlightenment, and Dorian Gray,” Norton Crit. Ed. of Dorian Gray (2006)
- “Dissonance, Simulacra, and the Grain of the Voice in Polanski’s Tess” (2005)
- “The Modernity of Hardy’s Poetry” (1999)
- “Location and Home in Beckett, Bhabha, Fanon, and Heidegger” (1998)
Work in Progress
- Research and writing about Wilde and modernism and about modernist authenticity
- An edited collection about T. S. Eliot for students (in press)
Honors, Grants and Awards
- Visiting Scholar, UCLA (Clark Library, Summers 2007–2009)
- Senior Research Fellow, International School of Humanistic Theory, Santiago de Compostela (1998)
- Humboldt Fellow (1987–88; 1983–84)
- Mellon Fellow (1979–80)
Other Professional Activities
- Co-chair, Modernism Seminar (Harvard Humanities Center), 2006–present
- Editorial advisory boards of PMLA (2008–2011) Modern Fiction Studies, Style, Joyce Studies Annual, The James Joyce Quarterly; MLA: Delegate Assembly (1997–99)
- Independent scholars prize committee (1999–2001)
- Executive Committees: Late 19th & early 20th-century English literature (1996–2000), Anglo-Irish Literature Discussion Group (2002–06), The Teaching of Literature (2008-2012)