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John Paul Riquelme
jpriquel@bu.edu
http://people.bu.edu/jpriquel/
Professor.  B.A., Rice; M. Phil., Ph.D., Yale 

Teaching and Research Interests: Post-Romantic literature, primarily poetry and fiction of the long 20th 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.: Dracula (2002), 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 Modern 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:  A book on Wilde and modernism.  An edited collection about T. S. Eliot for students.

Honors, Grants and Awards: Visiting Scholar, UCLA (Clark Library, Summer 2007, 2008); 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; Joyce Studies Annual, and 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 Literarure (2008-2012)