08 Wednesday Nov 2023
Posted in Publications
I’m pleased to have published two related book chapters on Don DeLillo’s relation to visual media:
“Screen, Image and the Technological Sublime,” in The Edinburgh Companion to Don DeLillo and the Arts, ed. Catherine Gander (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023), 290–302.
“Signs: Print, Image, and Digital Media in DeLillo,” in Don DeLillo in Context, ed. Jesse Kavadlo (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 144–52.
08 Friday Apr 2022
Posted in Conferences, Uncategorized
I was the moderator and interviewer for the Opening Address: A Conversation with Valeria Luiselli, at the Northeast Modern Language Association Convention in Baltimore, MD, March 10, 2022.
08 Friday Apr 2022
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Written in pre-Covid times and much delayed in publication, my contribution on “Post-9/11 Narratives” has appeared in The Encyclopedia of American Fiction, 1980-2020, edited by Patrick O’Donnell, Stephen Burn, and Lesley Larkin. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2022. Chapter 160. 1079-87.
14 Saturday Nov 2020
Posted in Publications
Professor Joseph Conte has just published his third monograph, Transnational Politics in the Post-9/11 Novel. The book argues that the formal inventiveness of writers such as DeLillo, Eggers, Pynchon, Coetzee, Pamuk, and Hamid reflect the radical reorientation of global politics after 9/11.
Transnational Politics in the Post-9/11 Novel
06 Tuesday Oct 2020
Posted in Lectures
Thanks so much to Dr. Carrie Tirado Bramen, Rebekah Burke, and Hilary Vandenbark in the UB Gender Institute for a rewarding (and my first via Zoom) talk in the Feminist Research Alliance Workshop. And thanks as well to all who participated in the conversation on Laila Lalami, Valeria Luiselli, and narratives of migration.
23 Wednesday Sep 2020
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I will be presenting a lunch-hour talk, Transnational America: The New Global Citizen in the Novels of Laila Lalami and Valeria Luiselli, in the Feminist Research Alliance Workshop in the University at Buffalo Gender Institute, on Thursday, October 1, 2020 from 12:00 – 1:30 pm, via Zoom.
Gender Institute Lecture
16 Wednesday Sep 2020
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My chapter, “Cosmopolitanism and Remigration in Laila Halaby’s Once in a Promised Land and Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist,” has been published in Shifting Twenty-First-Century Discourses, Borders, and Identities, edited by Oana Celia Gheorghiu. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020. 3-22.
05 Thursday Dec 2019
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05 Thursday Dec 2019
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Transnational Politics in the Post-9/11 Novel suggests that literature after September 11, 2001 reflects the shift from bilateral nation-state politics to the multilateralism of transnational politics. While much of the criticism regarding novels of 9/11 tends to approach these works through theories of personal and collective trauma, this book argues for the evolution of a post-9/11 novel that pursues a transversal approach to global conflicts that are unlikely to be resolved without diverse peoples willing to set aside sectarian interests. These novels embrace not only American writers such as Don DeLillo, Dave Eggers, Ken Kalfus, Thomas Pynchon, and Amy Waldman but also the countervailing perspectives of global novelists such as J. M. Coetzee, Orhan Pamuk, Mohsin Hamid, and Laila Halaby. These are not novels about terror(ism), nor do they seek comfort in the respectful cloak of national mourning. Rather, they are instances of the novel in terror, which recognizes that everything having been changed after 9/11, only the formally inventive presentation will suffice to acknowledge the event’s unpresentability and its shock to the political order.
New York and London: Routledge, 2020
Hardback: 9780367236069
eBook (VitalSource) : 9780429280733
xv, 278 pp.
19 Tuesday Nov 2019
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Trump Fiction: Essays on Donald Trump in Literature, Film, and Television
Edited by Stephen Hock
CONTRIBUTIONS BY
Joseph M. Conte, Clinton J. Craig, Caitlin R. Duffy, Shannon Finck, Susan Gilmore, Laura Gray-Rosendale, Ashleigh Hardin, Stephen Hock, Meredith James, Peter Kragh Jensen, Bruce Krajewski, Tim Lanzendörfer, William Magrino, David Markus, Jaclyn Partyka, Steven Rosendale, and William G. Welty
“A masterful example of contemporary cultural studies, Trump Fiction assembles an array of insightful scholars working at the cutting edge of their fields to offer timely analyses of the social, cultural, and political phenomenon of Trumpism. By examining Trump’s presence in a dizzying array of cultural artifacts from the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, the collection offers an invaluable historicization of the present. It also lays crucial groundwork for emerging conversations about the defining cultural forms of the present by exploring contemporary cultural responses to Trump’s candidacy and presidency. Filled with smart observations and juicy tidbits, these essays promise to engage, inform, and ultimately reshape the way we understand where we’ve been and where we’re going.”
— Mitchum Huehls, University of California, Los Angeles
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Trump Fiction: Essays on Donald Trump in Literature, Film, and Television examines depictions of Donald Trump and his fictional avatars in literature, film, and television, including works that took up the subject of Trump before his successful presidential campaign (in terms that often uncannily prefigure his presidency) as well as those that have appeared since he took office. Covering a range of texts and approaches, the essays in this collection analyze the place Trump has assumed in literary and popular culture. By investigating how authors including Bret Easton Ellis, Amy Waldman, Thomas Pynchon, Howard Jacobson, Mark Doten, Olivia Laing, and Salman Rushdie, along with films and television programs like The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Sesame Street, Sex and the City, Two Weeks Notice, Our Cartoon President, and Pose have approached and shaped the discourse surrounding Trump, the contributors collectively demonstrate the ways these cultural artifacts serve as sites through which the culture both resists and abets Trump and his rise to power.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Stephen Hock is associate professor of English at Virginia Wesleyan University.
Hardback: ISBN 978-1-4985-9804-0 November 2019 Regular price: $95.00/£65.00 After discount: $66.50/£45.50 ebook: ISBN 978-1-4985-9805-7 November 2019 Regular price: $90.00/£60.00 After discount: $63.00/£44.10 *eBooks can only be ordered online.
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