Joshua Pederson
Associate Professor, Humanities
Books
The Forsaken Son: Child Murder and Atonement in Modern American Fiction (Northwestern University Press, May 2016).
Sin Sick: Moral Injury in Literature (Cornell University Press, June 2021)
Selected Publications
“Cognitive Approaches to Trauma and Literature.” Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma. Eds. Colin Davis and Hanna Meretoja.
“Toward a Literary Theory of Moral Injury.” Narrative. 2020.
“Dangerous God, Sacred Work: Ned Cobb’s Theology.” Religion and Literature. 2019.
“Trauma and Narrative.” Cambridge Critical Concepts: Trauma and Literature. Ed. Roger Kurtz. Cambridge University Press. 2018.
“The Writer as Dervish: Sufism and Poetry in Orhan Pamuk.” Religion and Literature. Fall 2014.
“Speak, Trauma: Toward a Revised Understanding of Literary Trauma and Theory.” Narrative. Fall 2014.
“Signifying Moses to Death: Hurston and Reed, Disowning Exodus.” Twentieth-Century Literature. Fall 2012.
“Gnostic Mantra: Reading Religious Syncretism in Ginsberg’s ‘Plutonian Ode’.” Religion and Literature. Spring-Summer 2010.
“The Gospel of Thomas (Pynchon): Abandoning Eschatology in Gravity’s Rainbow.” Religion and the Arts. Spring 2010.
“’More Life’ and More: Harold Bloom, the J Writer, and the Archaic Judaism of Angels in America.” Contemporary Literature. Fall 2009.
“Building the Aural Stage: Beckett’s Embers and Visual Radio.” In Making the Stage: Essays on the Changing Concept of Theatre, Drama, and Performance. Ann C. Hall, editor. (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009).
Other Professional Activity and/or Awards
The James Phelan Award for the Best Essay in Narrative, 2014.
Humanities Foundation Fellowship, Boston University, 2008