John Paul Riquelme
jpriquel@bu.edu
http://people.bu.edu/jpriquel/
Professor; Education: 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; 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. 2008); "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: A book on Wilde and modernism.
Honors, Grants and Awards: Clark Library Short-Term Fellowship and NEH Seminar, UCLA (Summer 2007); 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 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 Literature (2008-2012).