{"id":35892,"date":"2019-02-13T16:19:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T21:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=35892"},"modified":"2024-10-04T11:44:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T15:44:01","slug":"christopher-coffman","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/profile\/christopher-coffman\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Coffman"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Teaching Interests<\/h3>\n<p><span> <\/span>Literature, film, philosophy and rhetoric<\/p>\n<h3>Research Interests<\/h3>\n<p>Contemporary American fiction and poetry, esp. William T. Vollmann and Thomas Pynchon; Literary Aesthetics; Popular music, esp. The Grateful Dead<\/p>\n<h3>Selected Publications<\/h3>\n<h4><strong>Books<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Editor. <em>After Postmodernism: The New American Fiction<\/em>. Routledge, 2021. Rpt. of spec. issue of <em>Textual Practice<\/em> vol. 33, no. 2 (2019): 195\u2013337. (with Theophilus Savvas)<\/p>\n<p><em>Rewriting Early America: The Prenational Past in Postmodern Literature<\/em>. Lehigh UP, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Editor. <em>William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion<\/em>. U of Delaware P, 2015. Pbk rpt. 2016. (with Daniel Lukes)<\/p>\n<p>Editor. <em>Framing Films: Critical Perspectives on Film History<\/em>. Kendall \/ Hunt, 2009. (with Natalie McKnight, Cheryl Boots, and Christopher Fahy)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cgs\/files\/2019\/02\/Rewriting-America-book-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"248\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-42158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/files\/2019\/02\/Rewriting-America-book-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/files\/2019\/02\/Rewriting-America-book.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 165px) 100vw, 165px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cgs\/files\/2019\/02\/Film-book.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"245\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-42159\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cgs\/files\/2019\/02\/After-Postmodernism-book-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"159\" height=\"243\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-42160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/files\/2019\/02\/After-Postmodernism-book-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/files\/2019\/02\/After-Postmodernism-book.jpg 424w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 159px) 100vw, 159px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cgs\/files\/2019\/02\/Vollmann-book-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"242\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-42167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/files\/2019\/02\/Vollmann-book-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/files\/2019\/02\/Vollmann-book.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 161px) 100vw, 161px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"title\"><strong>Recent Articles and Essays<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cLiterary Sources for Puccini\u2019s <i>Le Villi<\/i>: Translating Alphonse Karr\u2019s \u2018Les Willis.\u2019\u201d <i>The Opera Journal<\/i> vol. 57, no. 1, 2024, pp. 1\u201325.<\/span><br \/>\n<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;<em>The Monkey Wrench Gang<\/em> (1975): Edward Abbey<em>.<\/em>\u201d <i>The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Novel and Politics<\/i>, edited by Bryan M. Santin, Cambridge UP, 2023, pp. 307\u2013317.<\/span><br \/>\n<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cClowns in the Burying Ground: Ovid, William Shakespeare, and the Grateful Dead.\u201d <i>Literary Matters<\/i>, vol. 15, no. 3, 2023. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.literarymatters.org\/15-3-clowns\/\" class=\"ms-outlook-linkify\">https:\/\/www.literarymatters.org\/15-3-clowns\/<\/a>.<\/span><br \/>\n<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cPins: Texts and Textiles from Shakespeare to Moralio\u011flu.\u201d <i>The Smart Set<\/i>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesmartset.com\/pins\/\" class=\"ms-outlook-linkify\">https:\/\/www.thesmartset.com\/pins\/<\/a>. 6 April 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018All that\u2019s still unsung\u2019: Agamben\u2019s Potentiality and the Grateful Dead.\u201d <em>Grateful Dead Studies<\/em> vol. 4, 2019\u20132020, pp. 60\u201385.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEcology and the Environment.\u201d <em>Thomas Pynchon in Context<\/em>, edited by Inger H. Dalsgaard, Cambridge UP, 2019, pp. 187\u2013194.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother Apocalypse: Digital Ecologies and Late Pynchon.\u201d <em>The New Pynchon Studies<\/em>, edited by Joanna Freer, Cambridge UP, 2019, pp. 124\u2013140.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Sentence Is Most Important: Styles of Engagement in William T. Vollmann\u2019s Fictions.\u201d <em>Enthymema<\/em> no. 23, 2019, pp. 20\u201335. doi: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.13130\/2037-2426\/11919.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFeverish Fictions: William T. Vollmann and American Literary History after Postmodernism.\u201d <em>Textual Practice<\/em> vol. 33, no. 2, 2019, pp. 245\u2013262. doi:10.1080\/0950236X.2018.1509270. Rpt. in <em>After Postmodernism: The New American Fiction<\/em>. Edited by Christopher K. Coffman and Theophilus Savvas, Routledge, 2020, pp. 51\u201368. (with Theophilus Savvas)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerican Fiction after Postmodernism.\u201d Introduction. <em>Textual Practice<\/em> vol. 33, no. 2, 2019, pp. 195\u2013212. doi: 10.1080\/0950236X.2018.1505322. Rpt. in <em>After Postmodernism: The New American Fiction<\/em>. Edited by Christopher K. Coffman and Theophilus Savvas, Routledge, 2020, pp. 1\u201318. (with Theophilus Savvas)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Center is not Holding: Joan Didion and the California Dreamer.\u201d <em>A Dark California: Essays on Dystopian Depictions in Popular Culture<\/em>, edited by Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice and Agata Zarzycka, McFarland, 2017, pp. 15\u201324. (with Kathleen Vandenberg)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLonely Atoms.\u201d Introduction. <em>William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion<\/em>, edited by Christopher K. Coffman and Daniel Lukes, U of Delaware P, 2015, pp. 1\u201321.<\/p>\n<h3>Recent Presentations and Talks<\/h3>\n<p><span>\u201cOn A Lost Prelude: When Robert Hunter Directed the Grateful Dead.\u201d Grateful Dead Studies Association, Popular Culture Association, Chicago, Illinois, 03\/2024<\/span><br \/>\n<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cReversed Remediation and the Poetics of War in Robert Hunter\u2019s <i>A Strange Music<\/i>.\u201d Grateful Dead Studies Association, Popular Culture Association, Chicago, Illinois, 03\/2024<\/span><br \/>\n<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cLike an Angel: Robert Hunter, Rainer Maria Rilke, and the Problematic Muse.\u201d Grateful Dead Studies Association, Popular Culture Association, San Antonio, Texas, 04\/2023<\/span><br \/>\n<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c<i>Finnegans <\/i>Wake<i>\u00a0of the Flood<\/i>: James Joyce\u2019s Grateful Dead.\u201d Grateful Dead Studies Association, Popular Culture Association, virtual conference, 04\/2022<\/span><br \/>\n\u201cWilliam T. Vollmann Changed My Life, or, Vollmann and the Rilkean Imperative,\u201d public talk at the <em>Conversations with William T. Vollmann<\/em> book launch, Unnameable Books, Brooklyn, NY, 02\/2020<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGerman Romantic Philosophy, Georgic Poetry, and \u2018Weather Report Suite, Part 2 (Let It Grow).\u2019\u201d Grateful Dead Scholars Caucus, Southwest Popular \/ American Culture Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 02\/2020<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Robert Hunter\u2019s Elegiac Verse.\u201d Grateful Dead Scholars Caucus, Southwest Popular \/ American Culture Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 02\/2020<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOvid, William Shakespeare, and the Grateful Dead.\u201d Grateful Dead Scholars Caucus, Southwest Popular \/ American Culture Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 02\/2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJonathan Swift, James Joyce, and the Figure of the Artist,\u201d invited talk at the 16th Dublin International Symposium on Jonathan Swift, Dublin, Ireland, 11\/2017<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGlobal Literatures and Anglophone Fiction after Postmodernism,\u201d Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers Annual Convention, The Catholic University of America, 10\/2016<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGlobal and Local: Some Problems for American Literatures in the Post-National Era,\u201d A Sense of Inexhaustibility: A Colloquium on William T. Vollmann, BU, 10\/2016<\/p>\n<p>Introduction, A Sense of Inexhaustibility: A Colloquium on William T. Vollmann, BU, 10\/2016<\/p>\n<p>Introduction and Response to \u201cTransgression in the Fictional World of William Vollmann,\u201d by Qian Cheng, BU, 02\/2016<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWilliam T. Vollmann and American Literature after Postmodernism,\u201d BU, 02\/2015<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLove, Death, and Documents: Horror fiction and le mal d\u2019archive,\u201d Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, University of Connecticut, 03\/2016<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaunted Reportage: Vollmann\u2019s Ugly American and Journalistic Exception,\u201d Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, University of Connecticut, 03\/2016<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn <em>William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion<\/em>,\u201d public talk at the 11th St. Bar, New York City, NY, 02\/2015<\/p>\n<h3>Other Recent Professional Activity<\/h3>\n<p><span>Editorial Board Member for <\/span><i>Impact<\/i><span>, the journal <\/span><i>Grateful Dead Studies<\/i><span>, and the <\/span><i>Grateful Dead Studies Working Papers Series.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Submissions Reviewer for <em>PMLA<\/em>, <em>Irish Studies Review<\/em>, Cambridge University Press,\u00a0<em>Atlantis.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Organizer of the \u201cWriting, the State, and the Rise of Neo-Nationalism: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Concerns\u201d conference at BU\u2013London, UK, 06\/2018 (with Thomas Finan)<\/p>\n<p>Organizer and Chair of the \u201cAmerican Fiction after Postmodernism\u201d panel at the Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Johns Hopkins University, 03\/2017<\/p>\n<p>Organizer of \u201cA Sense of Inexhaustibility: A Colloquium on William T. Vollmann\u201d conference at BU, 10\/2016<\/p>\n<p>Book Reviews Editor for <em>Impact: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mentor to Visiting Scholar from Nanjing Normal University, China, 2015\u20132016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13125,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/35892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13125"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/35892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49059,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/35892\/revisions\/49059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}