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Joseph A. Boone

Professor of English, Gender Studies and Comparative Literature

Contact Information
E-mail: josephbo@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-2818
Office: THH 402G

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Curriculum Vitae
 

Education

Ph.D. novel as genre, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1/1982
M.A. English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 8/1976
B.A. English summa cum laude with honors, Duke University, 6/1974
 

Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History

Associate and Full Professor, University of Southern California, 01/01/1991-  
Associate and Assistant Professor, Harvard University, 01/01/1982-01/01/1990  
 

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests

Professor Boone researches the novel as genre, gender and queer studies, narrative theory, and modernism. The author of four books, his articles have appeared in publications such as PMLA, Novel, Contemporary Literature, Modern Fiction Studies and South Atlantic Quarterly. He served as Chair of the Department from 2001-2005.
 

Publications

Book

Boone, J. A. (2000). Coed., Queer Frontiers: Millennial Geographies, Genders, Go West and Generations, Wisconsin, 2000. 411. U of Wisconsin P.
Boone, J. A. (1998). Libidinal Currents: Sexuality and the Shaping of Modernism, Chicago, 1998. U of Chicago Press.
Boone, J. A. (1990). Coed., Engendering Men: The Question of Male Feminist Criticism, Routledge,1990.
Boone, J. A. (1987). Tradition Counter Tradition: Love and the Form of Fiction, Chicago,1987. U of Chicago Press.
 

Essay

Boone, J. A. (2010). "Modernist Re-Orientations: Imagining Homoerotic Desire in the 'Nearly' Middle East". pp. 42 ms pp. Modernism/Modernity17.3 (September 2010): 561-605..
 

Other

Boone, J. A. (2011). Coed., Special Issue PMLA: "Celebrity, Fame, Notoriety". PMLA.
 

Multimedia Scholarship and Creative Works

Musical Drama, Librettist/writer for full cast production of musical adaptation of Melville novel, CON-MAN, USC Village Gate Theatre, auspices of Visions and Voices, April 23-25, 2010, Spring 2010   
Tiffany Mills Dance Co, NYC, invited to write the libretto to a new dance work by T. Mills Dance Co based in NYC. Multimedia collaboration with Carlos Vasquez, Puerto Rican composer, Fall 2009   
Musical Drama, CON-MAN: A Musical Apocalypse (book-libretto musical inspired by Herman Melville novel The Confidence Man; premiered Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, 1Jan 2004; 2:45 hours playing time); LA premiere in April 2010 at the University Village Theater,under auspices of Voices and Visions Program,starring John Fleck and directed by David Schweizer, 2003-  
 

Honors and Awards

USC Advancing Research in the Soc Sci and Humanities (ARSSH) Award ($20,000), 2009-2010   
Residency at the National Humanities Center, M. H. Abrams and NEH Fellow, 2009-2010   
Director (Invited), "Modern Love," Durrell School of Corfu, Greece, 5/2008-6/2008  
Bogliasco Foundation Residency Fellowship, Liguria Study Center for Humanities and Arts, Genova Italy, 11/15/2007-12/19/2007  
USC Zumberge Research and Innovation Fund Award, Zumberge Senior Fellowship Award, 2006-2007   
Huntington Library Research Fellowship Recipient, Early Modern Studies Institute Senior Fellowship, Fall 2006   
Fulbright Award, "Crossings Institute" Professor, Bogazici Univ., Istanbul Turkey, 6/2005-7/2005  
USC Innovative Teaching Award, 2001-2002   
Valparaiso Foundation Residency Fellowship, Sapin, 5/2000-6/2000  
USC Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award, best book prize for Libidinal Currents: Sexuality and the Shaping of Modernism, 1999  
Rockefeller Fellowship Recipient, Rockefeller Fellow, Bellagio, 1998  
MLA Crompton-Noll Award, Best Essay in Gay and Lesbian Studies, 1996  
Guggenheim Fellowship Recipient, academic project, 1995-1996  
Irvine Foundation Diversity Research Grant, 1992-1993   
UC Davis Humanities Institute Fellowship, 1990-1991  
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship Recipient, Senior Fellowship Grant, 1990-1991   
Levenson Teacher of Year Harvard U Junior Faculty Finalist, 1985-1986   
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship Recipient, Fellowship Grant for Recent Recipients of the PhD, 1984-1985   
Levenson Teacher of Year Harvard U Junior Faculty Finalist, 1984-1985   
 

Service to the Profession

Administrative Appointments

Chair, Department of English, 09/2002-08/2006  
 

Committees

Editorial Board, PMLA (profession's flagship journal; six appointed to board internationally for term), 2001-2003  
Member, Advisory Committee to the PMLA Editorial Board, 1994-1997  
Chair, MLA Division on Prose Fiction, Chair for 1996, 1993-1997  
 

Editorships and Editorial Boards

Editorial Board (one of six, internationally selected), PMLA, 2001-2003  
 
 
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