{"id":6427,"date":"2018-08-29T15:29:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T19:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/?post_type=profile&p=6427"},"modified":"2022-09-09T11:23:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T15:23:41","slug":"leland-monk","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/profile\/leland-monk\/","title":{"rendered":"Leland Monk"},"content":{"rendered":"

For CV\u00a0click here<\/a><\/p>\n

I came to the Boston University English department trained in the study of the novel, especially the Victorian and modern British novel.\u00a0 I\u2019ve taught undergraduate courses in the Bront\u00ebs, George Eliot, James Joyce, and the Bloomsbury group.\u00a0 I\u2019ve taught graduate seminars in narrative theory, the historical novel, and Joyce.\u00a0 My book Standard Deviations: Chance and the Modern British Novel <\/i> examines the novelistic interest in chance phenomena from George Eliot to James Joyce, demonstrating how British novelists\u2019 paradoxical efforts to include chance events in their meaningful plots gave rise to narrative innovations and contributed to modernist aesthetics.\u00a0 I\u2019ve also published essays on Jane Austen\u2019s Emma<\/i> as murder mystery; Walter Scott\u2019s The Heart of Midlothian<\/i> as Foucauldian prison structure; and the sense of nothingness in E. M. Forster\u2019s A Passage to India<\/i>.<\/p>\n

I have pursued my interest in gender and sexuality studies while at BU, offering a course in gay and lesbian literature (later incorporating film) every three years since the 1990s, so every generation of students has the opportunity to study such material.\u00a0 I\u2019ve taught graduate courses in queer theory and published an essay on homosexual panic in Henry James.<\/p>\n

Currently I mostly teach courses in film, usually in conjunction with literature and always with a literary sensibility.\u00a0 I\u2019ve taught undergraduate courses in Roman Polanski, David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick, Max Ophuls, film noir, the horror film, Hollywood genre films, and Shakespeare on film.\u00a0\u00a0 I regularly offer a graduate seminar in film theory.\u00a0 I\u2019ve published essays on Michael Haneke\u2019s two versions of Funny Games<\/i>; Max Ophuls\u2019 interest in the way people care for each other; and (forthcoming) film adaptations of Bram Stoker\u2019s novel Dracula<\/i>.\u00a0 I am now working on two film-based projects:\u00a0 \u201cHollywood Ending,\u201d about closure in classical American cinema; and \u201cPsycho<\/i>-Paths,\u201d a study of the cinematic precursors and progeny of Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s game-changing 1960 film.<\/p>\n

Selected publications<\/h5>\n
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  • Standard Deviations: Chance and the Modern<\/em> British Novel <\/em>(Stanford UP, 1993)<\/li>\n
  • \u201cHollywood Endgames\u201d in The Blackwell Companion to Michael Haneke<\/em>, ed. Roy Grundmann (Blackwell, 2010)<\/li>\n
  • Entry on \u201cJohn Addington Symonds\u201d in Gay Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia<\/em>, ed. George E. Haggerty (New York: Garland, 2000)<\/li>\n
  • \u201cA Terrible Beauty is Born: Henry James, Aestheticism, and Homosexual Panic\u201d in Bodies of Writing, Bodies in Perfor\u00admance<\/em>, ed. Thomas Foster, Carol Siegel, and Ellen E. Berry, Genders<\/em> 23 (New York UP, 1996)<\/li>\n
  • \u201cApropos of Nothing: Chance and Narrative in Forster\u2019s A Pass\u00adage to India,<\/em>\u201d Studies in the Novel<\/em>, 26: 4 (Winter, 1994)<\/li>\n
  • \u201cThe Novel as Prison: Scott\u2019s The Heart of Midlothian<\/em>,\u201d Novel<\/em>,\u00a0 27:3 (Spring, 1994)<\/li>\n
  • \u201cMurder She Wrote: the Mystery of Jane Aus\u00adten\u2019s Emma<\/em>,\u201d The Journal of Narrative Tech\u00adnique<\/em>, 20:3 (Fall, 1990)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
    Work in progress<\/h5>\n
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    • \u201cHollywood Ending,\u201d a study of closure in commercial American cinema<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":12176,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/6427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/6427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6436,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/6427\/revisions\/6436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}