Joseph Boone Professor of English, Gender Studies and Comparative Literature Contact Information E-mail: josephbo@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-2818 Office: THH 402G LINKS Curriculum Vitae

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

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