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William Ross HandleyAssociate Professor of EnglishContact Information E-mail: handley@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-3733 Office: THH 404E LINKS Curriculum Vitae |
Education |
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 Ph.D. English, University of California, Los Angeles, 11/1997
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D.Phil. English Literature, University of Oxford, England, 7/1995
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M. Phil. British Literature, 1880-1960, University of Oxford, England, 5/1988
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B.A. English; Political Science, Stanford University, 6/1986
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M.A. Humanities, Stanford University, 6/1986
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Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History |
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Associate Professor of English, University of Southern California, 05/01/2002-
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Assistant Professor of English, University of Southern California, 01/01/1999-01/01/2002
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Assistant Professor of Literature and of English and American Literature, Harvard University, 01/01/1995-01/01/1999
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Description of Research |
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Summary Statement of Research Interests |
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| My research interests predominantly concern the literature, film, historiography, and culture of the American West, past and present. I have also written about and teach other aspects of British and American literature, particularly modernism and narrative theory. | |
Research Specialties |
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| The American West; American Studies; 19th and 20th Century American Literature; Modernism. | |
Affiliations with Research Centers, Labs, and Other Institutions |
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Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, Moderator, Working Group on Fiction and History
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Publications |
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Book |
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Handley, William R., ed. (Ed.).
(2011).
The Brokeback Book: From Story to Cultural Phenomenon. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.
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Handley, William R, and Nathaniel Lewis (Ed.).
(2004).
True West: Authenticity and the American West. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press.
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Handley, W. R.
(2002).
Marriage, Violence, and the Nation in the American Literary West. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
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Book Chapter |
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Handley, W. R.
(2011).
"The Pasts and Futures of a Story and a Film". (Vol. The Brokeback Book). pp. 1-23.. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.
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Handley, W. R.
(2009).
"The Popular Western" in 'A Companion to the Modern American Novel', ed. John T. Matthews. (Vol. 10). pp. 437-453.. Malden, MA and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
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Handley, W. R.
(2007).
"The Vanishing American (1925)" in *America First: Naming the Nation in U.S. Film*, ed. Mandy Merck. pp. 44-64.. Routledge.
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Handley, W. R.
(2004).
Willa Cather: "The West Authentic," The West Divided. pp. p. 72-94.. Lincoln, NE: True West: Authenticity and the American West/University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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Handley, W. R.
(2004).
"Freeways in the City of Angels" in *Working Sites: Texts, Territories, and Cultural Capital in American Cultures*, eds. William Boelhower and John Leo. pp. p. 178-207.. University of Amsterdam Press.
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Handley, W. R.
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"Wister's Omniscience and Omissions" in 'Reading The Virginian in the New West.' Eds. Melody Graulich and Stephen Tatum. pp. p. 39-71.. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.
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Handley, W. R.
(1993).
The Ethics of Subject Creation in Bakhtin and Lacan. pp. p. 144-162.. Mikhail Bakhtin: Carnival and Other Subjects/Rodopi Press.
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Handley, W. R.
(1991).
"War and the Politics of Narration in Jacob's Room" in 'Virginia Woolf and War: Fiction, Reality, and Myth'. Ed. Mark Hussey. pp. p. 110-133.. Syracuse University Press.
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Encyclopedia Article |
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Handley, W. R.
(2004).
"Western Fiction" in Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, ed. Jay Parini. Vol. 4, 334-343. University of Oxford Press.
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Journal Article |
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Handley, W. R.
(2005).
Detecting the Fictions of History in *Watershed*. Callaloo/Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. p. 305-312.
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Handley, W. R.
(2004).
Belonging(s): Plural Marriage, Gay Marriage, and the Subversion of 'Good Order'. Discourse/Wayne State University Press. pp. p. 85-109.
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Handley, W. R.
(2001).
Distinctions without Differences: Zane Grey and the Mormon Question. Arizona Quarterly/University of Arizona.
Vol. 57, pp. 1, 1-33..
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Handley, W. R.
(1995).
The House a Ghost Built: Nommo, Allegory, and the Ethics of Reading in Toni Morrison's Beloved. Contemporary Literature/University of Wisconsin Press.
Vol. 36, pp. 4, 676-701..
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Handley, W. R.
(1994).
The Housemaid and the Kitchen Table: Incorporating the Frame in To the Lighthouse. Twentieth Century Literature/Hofstra University.
Vol. 40, pp. 1, 15-41..
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Honors and Awards |
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USC Zumberge Research and Innovation Fund Award, 2000-2001
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Huntington Library Research Fellowship Recipient, Keck and Mayers Fellowship, 1998
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Service to the Profession |
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Administrative Appointments |
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Director of Graduate Admissions and Recruitment, Department of English, 2007-2011
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Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of English, 2003-2005
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Editorships and Editorial Boards |
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General Editor, "Postwestern Horizons" Book Series for the University of Nebraska Press, 2002-
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Professional Offices |
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Executive Secretary and Treasurer, Western Literature Association, 2010-2014
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President, Western Literature Association, 2004-2005
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