| FACULTY BIOGRAPHY
barbara Foley
Professor
E-mail: bfoley@andromeda.rutgers.edu
Telephone: (973) 353-5822
Office: Hill Hall 513
WEB SITE: www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~bfoley/
Education:
Radcliffe College BA (Phi Beta Kappa) magna cum laude (1969)
University of Chicago MA (1971)
University of Chicago Ph.D. with Honors (1976)
Employment History:
Professor of English, Rutgers-Newark. 1995-present.
Associate Professor of English, Rutgers-Newark.
1987-1995. Tenure awarded 1990.
Assistant Professor of English and American Studies,
Northwestern U. 1980-87.
Assistant Professor of English, U of WI-Madison. 1976
–79.
Books:
Spectres of 1919: Class and Nation in the Making of
the New Negro. Volume I of Projected Trilogy, The New Negro and the
Left: Jean Toomer and the Politics of the Harlem Renaissance. Forthcoming,
University of IL P. 2003.
Radical Representations: Politics and Form in US
Proletarian Fiction, 1929-1941. Durham and London: Duke UP. 1993.
Telling the Truth: The Theory and Practice of
Documentary Fiction. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell UP, 1986.
Articles, Book Chapters, Review Essays,
Interviews:
“Race, Class, and Communism: The Young Ralph Ellison and
the Whole Left.” Forthcoming in Radical Relevance: Essays toward a
Scholarship of the “Whole Left.” Ed. Steven Rosendale and Laura
Gray-Rosendale. Forthcoming, SUNY P. 2004.
“Looking Backward, 2001-1969: Student Movements in the
Era of ‘Globalization.’” In Amitava Kumar, Ed. World Bank Literature.
Minneapolis: University of MN P, 2003. Pp. 26-39.
Interview with Barbara Foley. Ed. Shaobo Xie and
Fengzhen Wang. In Dialogues on Cultural Studies: Interviews with
Contemporary Critics. Calgary: University of Calgary P, 2003. Pp. 79-92.
“From Communism to Brotherhood: The Drafts of Invisible Man.” In Bill V. Mullen and James A. Smethurst, Eds. Left of
the Color Line: Race, Radicalism, and Modern Literatures of the United States.
Forthcoming, University of NC P, Fall 2003.
“From Situational Dialetics to Pseudo-Dialectics: Mao,
Jiang, and Capitalist Transition.” Cultural Logic 5, 3 (Fall 2002), http://eserver.org.clogic/.
“New Historicism, Liberalism, and the Re-Marginalization
of the Left.” Review Essay on Sean McCann, Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled
Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism; Catherine
Jurca, White Diaspora: The Suburb and the Twentieth-Century American
Novel and Michael Szalay, New Deal Liberalism:
American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State. Minnesota
Review n.s. 55-57, Special Issue on 50s Culture, (2002): 303-18.
“Ten Propositions on the Relation of Marxism to
Working-Class Studies.” Forthcoming, Rethinking Marxism 14 (Fall 2002).
Reprinted and translated into Chinese in Marxist Philosophical Research.
Ed. Institute of Marxist Philosophy, Wuhan University, PRC.
“The Politics of Post-Positivist Realism.” Cultural Logic 4, 2 (2002). http://eserver.org.clogic/.
Interview with Barbara Foley. Conducted by Leo
Parascondola. In Workplace: E-Journal of the MLA Graduate Student Caucus.
December 2000. http:///www.workplace-gsc.com/.
"From Wall Street to Astor Place: Historicizing
Melville’s ‘Bartleby.’” American Literature 72 (March 2000): 87-116.
“Reading Redness: Politics and Audience in Ralph
Ellison’s Early Fiction.” Journal of Narrative Technique 29 (Fall
1999): 323-339.
"Theory Into Practice: An Interview with Barbara Foley.”
Conducted by Richard Hancuff and Noreen O’Connor. Minnesota Review n.s.
50-51 (October 1999): 113-22.
“Roads Taken and Not Taken: Anticommunism, Post-Marxism,
and African American Literature.” Cultural Logic. Summer 1998. http://eserver.org/clogic/.
"Writing Up the Working Class: The Proletarian Novel in
the U.S.” SAMAR 11 (Spring-Summer 1999): 26-30.
“Ralph Ellison as Proletarian Journalist.” Science and
Society 62 (Winter 1998-99): 537-56.
“In the Land of Cotton: Economics and History in Jean
Toomer’s Cane.” African American Review 32 (Summer 1998):
181-98.
Interview with Barbara Foley. Conducted by Ron
Strickland. Mediations 21 (Spring 1998): 58-66.
“Lepers in the Acropolis: Liberalism, Capitalism, and the
Crisis in Academic Labor.” Review Essay on Cary Nelson, Manifesto of a
Tenured Radical and Cary Nelson, Ed., Will Teach for Food: Academic
Labor in Crisis. Contemporary Literature 39 (Summer 1998): 317-36.
“The Rhetoric of Anti-Communism in Invisible Man.” College English 59 (September 1997): 530-47.
“Jean Toomer’s Washington and the Politics of Class: From
‘Blue Veins’ to Seventh-Street Rebels.” Modern Fiction Studies 42
(Summer 1996): 289-322. Winner of 1996 Margaret Church Award for best article
published in MFS.
Introduction to Myra Page, Moscow Yankee. The
Radical Novel in the United States Reconsidered Series. Ed. Alan Wald. Urbana
and London: U of IL P. 1996. Pp. vii-xxvii.
“Renarrating the Thirties in the Forties and Fifties.” Prospects: An Annual of American-Cultural Studies. 20 (1995): 455-66.
“Jean Toomer’s Sparta.” American Literature 67
(December 1995): 747-775.
“What’s at Stake in the Culture Wars.” Review Essay on
Peter Shaw. Recovering American Literature; John Guillory, Cultural
Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation, and Gerald Graff, Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American
Education. New England Quarterly 68 (September 1995): 458-79.
“Proletarianism Revised.” Review essay on James D. Bloom, Left Letters: The Culture Wars of Mike Gold and Joseph Freeman; Walter
Kalaidjian, American Culture Between the Wars: Revisionary Modernism and
Postmodern Critique, and Michael E. Staub, Voices of Persuasion:
Politics of Representation in 1930s America. Minnesota Review n.s.
43/44 (November 1995): 198-211.
“Wayne Booth and the Politics of Ethics.” In Rhetoric
and Pluralism: Legacies of Wayne Booth. Ed. Frederick J. Antczak.
Columbus: OH State UP. 1995, Pp. 135-52.
“Generic and Doctrinal Politics in the Proletarian
Bildungsroman.” In Understanding Narrative. Ohio SU Series on the
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative. Ed. James Phelan and Peter Rabinowitz.
Columbus, OH: OH State UP, 1994, Pp. 43-64.
"Class.” Rethinking Marxism. 5 (Summer 1992):
117-28.
“Race and Class in Radical African-American Fiction of
the Depression Years.” Nature, Society and Thought: A Journal of
Dialectical and Historical Materialism. 3, 3 (1990): 305-24.
“Subversion and Oppositionality in the Academy.” College Literature, Special Edition on The Politics of Teaching Literature
17, 2/3 (1990): 64-79.
"Marxism in the Post-Structural Moment: Some Notes on the
Problem of Revising Marx.”
Cultural Critique 15 (1990): 5-37.
“Women and the Left in the 1930s.” American Literary
History 2 (Spring 1990): 150-169.
“The Politics of Poetics: Ideology and Narrative Form in
Dreiser’s An American Tragedy and Wright’s Native Son.” In Narrative Poetics: Innovations, Limits, Challenges. Ed. James Phelan.
Columbus, OH: Papers in Comparative Studies Vol. 5, 1986-87. Pp. 55-67.
“The Politics of Deconstruction.” Genre. Special
Issue on Deconstruction, 17 (Spring-Summer 1984): 113-34.
“Charles Feidelson and the Deconstruction of American
Literature.” American Quarterly 36 (Spring 1984): 42-64.
“Fact, Fiction, Fascism: Mimesis and Testimony in
Holocaust Narrative.” Comparative Literature 34 (Fall 1982): 330-360.
“The Treatment of Time in The Big Money: An
Examination of Ideology and Literary Form.” Modern Fiction Studies.
Special Issue on John Dos Passos 26 (Autumn 1980): 447-467.
“History, Fiction, and the Ground Between: The Uses of
the Documentary Mode in Black Literature.” PMLA 95 (May 1980): 389-403.
“Fact, Fiction, and Reality.” Contemporary Literature 20 (Summer 1979): 357-78.
“History, Fiction, and Satirical Form: The Example of
Dos Passos’ 1919.” Genre. 12 (Fall 1979): 357-378.
“From U.S.A. to Ragtime: Notes on the
Forms of Historical Consciousness in Modern Fiction.”
American Literature 50(March 1978): 85-105.
REVIEWS, NOTES, LETTERS, ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES:
Review of Alan Wald, Exiles from a Future Time: The
U.S. Writer and the Left. Forthcoming, New England Quarterly.
Summer 2003.
Review of Class and Its Others, ed. J. K.
Gibson-Graham, Stephen A. Resnick and Richard D. Wolff, and Re/Presenting
Class: Essays in Postmodern Marxism, Ed. J.K. Gibson-Graham, Stephen A.
Resnick and Richard D. Wolff. Science and Society 67 (Summer 2003):
245-48.
Review of Erin A. Smith, Hard-Boiled: Working-Class
Readers and Pulp Magazines. Journal of American History. (December
2001): 1126-27.
Review of Caren Irr, The Suburb of Dissent: Cultural
Politics in the United States and Canada During the 1930s. American
Historical Review 105 (December 2000): 1725-1726.
“Proletarian Literature.” Encyclopedia of American
Studies. NY: Grolier. Forthcoming, Fall 2002.
Review of Bill V. Mullen, Popular Fronts: African
Americans and Communism, 1936-1945. African American Review 35
(Spring 2001): 8-9.
Review of Robert B. Jones, ed., Jean Toomer: Selected
Essays and Literary Criticism. Resources for American Literary Study 25, 1 (1999): 122-23.
Review of Fredric Jameson, The Seeds of Time. Modern Philology 94 (February 1997): 422-26.
Review of Douglas Wixson, Worker-Writer in America:
Jack Conroy and the Tradition of Midwestern Literary Radicalism 1898-1990. Modern Philology 94 (November 1996): 271-275.
Review of Carla Cappetti, Writing Chicago: Modernism,
Ethnography, and the Novel. Modern Philology 94 (August 1996):
129-132.
Reply to Sanford Pinsker. New England Quarterly 59
(June 1996): 320-21.
Review of Constance Coiner, Better Red: The Writing
and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. American
Literature 68 (June 1996): 485-86.
“The Federal Writers Project.” In Encyclopedia of
African-American History and Culture. Ed. Jack Salzman, David L.Smith, and
Cornel West. Forthcoming. NY and London: Macmillan. 1997.
Review of Terry A. Cooney, Balancing Acts: American
Thought and Culture in the 1930s. Journal of American History 82
(March 1996): 1625-26.
“Tillie Olsen.” In Companion to American Thought.
Ed. Richard Wightman Fox and James T. Kloppenberg. Oxford and Cambridge: Basil
Blackwell. 1995, Pp. 509-11.
Review of Michael E. Staub, Voices of Persuasion:
Politics of Representation in 1930s America, American Literature 67
(September 1995): 403.
Review of Phyllis Frus, The Politics of Poetics of
Journalistic Narrative: The Timely and the Timeless. Modern Fiction
Studies 41 (Summer 1995): 344-46.
Review of Dana D. Nelson, The Word in Black and
White: Reading ‘Race’ in American Literature, 1638-1867, and James S.
Leonard et al., Black Perspectives on ‘Huckleberry Finn.’ Modern
Philology 92 (February 1995): 379-85.
Review of Tobin Siebers, Cold War Criticism and the
Politics of Skepticism. Modern Fiction Studies 40 (Winter
1995): 446-47.
Review of Alan A. Block, Anonymous Toil: A
Re-Evaluation of the American Radical Novel in the Twentieth Century. Modern Fiction Studies 40 (Autumn 1994): 153-54.
Review of James Murphy. The Proletarian Moment: The
Controversy Over Leftism in Literature, and Lynn Hanley, Writing War:
Fiction, Gender, and Memory. Modern Fiction Studies 38 (Autumn
1992): 989-91.
Review of Paula Rabinowitz, Labor and Desire: Women’s
Revolutionary Fiction in Depression America. American Literature 64
(December 1992): 837-39.
Review of Naomi Jacobs, The Character of Truth:
Historical Figures in Contemporary Fiction. Modern Philology 90
(November 1992): 308-12.
Review of Lawrence Schwartz. Creating Faulkner’s
Reputation: The Politics of Modern Literary Criticism. Novel: A Forum
on Fiction 23 (Winter 1990): 218-20.
Review of Donald Pizer, Dos Passos’ U.S.A.: A Critical
Study. Journal of English and Germanic Philology 89 (April 1990):
266-69.
Review of Peter J. Rabinowitz, Before Reading:
Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation. Novel: A
Forum on Fiction 23 (Fall 1989): 92-94.
Review of Lennard J. Davis, Resisting Novels: Ideology
and Fiction. Ariel 20 (1989): 189-91.
Review of Alan Wald, The New York Intellectuals: The
Rise and Fall of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1980s. Minnesota Review n.s. 30.31 (Spring-Fall 1988): 205-208.
Review of Jonathan Arac. Postmodernism and Politics. Comparative Literature Studies 25, 2 (1988): 197-201.
Review of John Frow, Marxism and Literary History. Ariel 18 (July 1987): 86-88.
Review of Gail L. Mortimer, Faulkner’s Rhetoric of
Loss: A Study in Perception and Meaning. American Literature 57 (March
1985): 161-62.
Review of Lennard J. David, Factual Fictions: The
Origins of the English Novel. Genre 17 (Winter 1984): 422-25.
Review of Lawrence Langer, Versions of Survival: The
Holocaust and the Human Spirit. Comparative Literature 36 (Summer
19984): 282-84.
Review of Tony Bennett, Formalism and Marxism. Modern Philology 80 (May 1983): 443-46.
Review of Robert C. Rosen, John Dos Passos: Politics
and the Writer. International Fiction Review 9, 2 (1982): 129-32.
“E.L. Doctorow.” In Twentieth Century Novelists. 3rd Ed. London and NY: Macmillan and St. Martin’s P, 1982, Pp. 182-83.
Letter of response regarding 1980 PMLA article. PMLA 96 (January 1981): 106-07.
REPRINTS AND EXCERPTS:
Telling the Truth: The Theory and Practice of
Documentary Fiction. Excerpts of Chapter One. In Essential of the
Theory of Fiction. Ed. Patrick D. Murphy. Durham: Duke UP. Fall 1996.
Interview with Barbara Foley. Conducted by Rich Hancuff
and Noreen O’Connor.
Reprint in Jeff Williams, Ed., Critics at Work: The
Minnesota Review Interviews. Forthcoming, University of MN P. 2002.
“Subversion and Oppositionality in the Academy.”
Reprint in Pedagogy Is Politics: Literary Theory and
Critical Thinking. Ed. Maria-Regina Kecht. Urbana and Chicago: U of IL P,
1992, Pp. 70-89.
Reprint in Margins in the Classroom: Teaching
Literature. Ed. Kostas Myrsiades and Linda S. Myrsiades. Minneapolis: U of
MN P, 1994, Pp. 137-52.
Reprint in Beyond the Corporate University: Culture
and Pedagogy in the New Millennium. Ed. Henry A. Giroux and Kostas
Myrsiades. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001. Pp. 195-212.
“The Politics of Poetics: Ideology and Narrative Form in
Dreiser’s An American Tragedy and Wright’s Native Son.”
Reprint in Richard Wright: Critical Perspectives Past
and Present. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and K. A. Appiah. Amistad
Literary Series. NY: Amistad, 1993, Pp./ 188-89,
“The Politics of Deconstruction.”
Reprint in Rhetoric and Form: Deconstruction at Yale.
Ed. Robert Con Davis and Ronald Schliefer. Norman, OK: U of OK P, 1985, Pp.
113-34.
“From U.S.A. to Ragtime: Notes on the Forms
of Historical Consciousness in Modern Fiction.”
Reprint in E. L. Doctorow: Essays and Conversations.
Ed. Richard Trenner. Princeton: Ontario Review Critical Series, 1983, Pp.
158-79.
Excerpted in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol.
18. Ed. Sharon Gunton, Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1982, Pp. 212-23.
Reprint in The Chelsea House Library of Literary
Criticism. Ed. Harold Bloom. NY: Chelsea House, 1985.
“Jean Toomer’s Sparta.” Reprint in Short Story
Criticism. Ed. Justin Carr. 45: 289-301. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group,
2001.
“Jean Toomer’s Washington and the Politics of Class: From
‘Blue Veins’ to Seventh Street Rebels.”
Reprint in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Justin Carr.
45: 311-25, Farmington Hill, MI: Gale Group, 2001.
“In the Land of Cotton: Economics and Violence in Jean
Toomer’s Cane.”
Reprint in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Justin Carr.
45: 333-44. Farmington Hill, MI: Gale Group, 2001.
WORK IN PROGRESS:
Encyclopedia entries on Jean Toomer, Ralph Ellison, and
John Dos Passos for Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics, Ed. M.
Keith Booker (Westport, CT: Greenwood).
The University and/in the Class War. Panel on “The
University in a Time of War.” Sponsored by the Division on Sociological
Approaches to Literature. MLA Convention, San Diego, December 2003.
The New Negro and the Left: Jean Toomer and the Politics
of the Harlem Renaissance (trilogy):
The Toomer Who Wrote Cane. (vol. 2)
Georgia on My Mind: Politics and History in Jean
Toomer’s Cane (vol. 3).
Sins of Omission: The Unmaking and Making of Ralph
Ellison’s Invisible Man.
Representing John Brown: Whiteness and the Politics of
Anti-Racism.
PRESENTATIONS/PANEL ORGANIZING:
“The Continuing Relevance of Proletarian Literature in
the 21st Century.” Conference on Marxism and the Twenty-First Century.
University of Havana, Havana, Cuba. May 2003.
“Alain Locke, the Left, and the Making of The New
Negro.” Center for Working-Class Studies. Youngstown, OH. May 2003:
Marxist Literary Group Summer Institute, Davis CA. June 2003.
“The Radical Origins of the Harlem Renaissance.” Annual
Paumanok Lecture. LIU-Brooklyn Campus, April 2003.
“A Critique of Pure Tolerance.” Panel on “Promoting
Diversity and Tolerance on College Campuses After 9/11/01: Theory and
Practice.” Sponsored by the MLA Ad Hoc Committee on Diversity and Tolerance.
MLA Convention. December 2002.
“Teaching about the Politics of Oil.” MLA Radical Caucus
Conference on “Teaching in a Time of ‘Endless War.’” CUNY Graduate Center.
November 2002.
Panelist. “Current Developments in Marxism Feminism: A
Roundtable.” Panel Sponsored by Science and Society. Socialist Scholars
Conference. April 2002.
“Class, Visible, and Invisible.” Radical Caucus Session
on “Class: Unwelcome Guest in Bourgeois Literature.” MLA Convention, December
2001.
“War, Austerity, and the Politics of Academic
Organizing.” Symposium on Academic Labor Activism. NC State University,
October 2001.
“Jean Toomer and Modernism.” Special Exhibition on
Graphics for Jean Toomer’s Cane. Temple University, October 2001.
“Worker-Student Alliance: Then and Now.” Brecht Forum.
October 2001.
“U.S. Working-Class Studies in International
Perspective.” International Conference on “Marxism 2001.” Yunnan Academy of
Social Sciences, Kunming, China, June 2001.
“Ten Propositions on the Relation of Marxism to
Working-Class Studies.” Biennial Conference on Working-Class Studies.
Youngstown State University, May 2001.
“It’s Happening: Antiracist Activism in the Academy and
the Rank-and-File Women’s Movement.” Biennial Conference on Working-Class
Studies. Youngstown State University, May 2001.
“Race and Place in the Making of the New Negro:
Culturalism and the Harlem Renaissance.” Invited Lecture. Department of
English. University of CA at Berkeley, March 2001.
“The New Negro and the Politics of Culturalism.” Critical
Theory Program. University of CA at Davis, March 2001.
“Making Communism Invisible: The Drafts of Invisible
Man.” Re-Thinking Marxism Conference. University of MA at Amherst,
September 2000.
Panelist and Panel Organizer. “Marxist Pedagogy.” Marxist
Literary Group Summer Institute, June 2000.
“Defetishizing the ‘Economic’ in Marx’s Wage-Labor and
Capital.” Marxist Literary Group Summer Institute, June 2000.
“The Anti-Communistization of Invisible Man.”
Marxist Theory Colloquium, NY University, April 2000.
“Keynote Address. “Red Black Writers, the Project of
Marxist Criticism, and the Praxis of the Marxist Scholar.” Graduate Student
Conference, “The Future of Those Who Make It: Revolutionary Speculations.”
University of FL, March 2000.
“The New Negro and the Left.” Division on Sociological
Approaches to Literature Session on “Nation and Class,” MLA Convention,
December 1999.
“Ralph Ellison’s Proletarian Short Fiction.” Center for
Working-Class Studies Biennial Conference, Youngstown State University, June
1999.
“The Drafts of Invisible Man.” Marxist Literary
Group, University of IL at Chicago, June 1999.
“Jean Toomer, History, and Modernism.” Graduate Student
Colloquium, George Washington University, Spring 1999.
“Jean Toomer and the Left.” The Brecht Forum, April 1999.
Panel Organizer. Division on Sociological Approaches to
Literature Session on “Representing the Left.” MLA Convention, December 1998.
“Ralph Ellison and the Problem of Audience.” Special
Session on “Radicalism and the Middle-Class Writer.” MLA Convention, December
1998.
“Postmodernism, the Left, and African-American
Literature.” SUNY-Buffalo, Spring 1998.
“Jean Toomer, History, and the New Negro.” Colloquium,
Rutgers-Newark, March 1998.
“Jean Toomer, ‘Trauma,’ and History.” Special Session on
“Race and Trauma.” MLA Convention, December 1997.
“Roads Taken and Not Taken: Anticommunism, Post-Marxism,
and African-American Literature.” Special Session on “The Politics of
Post-Marxism.” MLA Convention, December 1997.
“Jean Toomer and Georgia.” “A New Tradition: The Harlem
Renaissance and Its Heritage: A Conference and Celebration.” Paine College,
Augusta, GA, October 1997.
“Toeing the Line: Ralph Ellison’s Early Journalism and
Communist Party Politics.” Conference on Working-Class Studies and the Future
of Work, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH, June 1997.
Panelist, Teach-In on “The Future of Academic Work.”
Rutgers-New Brunswick, February 1997.
Chair and Panel Organizer, “The Reemergence of the Right
in the Academy.” Session Sponsored by the Division on Sociological Approaches
to Literature, MLA Convention, December 1996.
“Ralph Ellison, Anticommunism, and the Discourse of the
Cold War.” Rethinking Marxism Conference, December 1996, Also delivered at the
Brecht School, June 1997.
“Ralph Ellison, the Federal Writers Project, and the New
Masses.” Special Session on “The Representation of the Masses, 1900-1950.”
Midwest Modern Language Association, November 1996.
Panel Organizer and Panelist. “Marxism, Globality, and
Proletarian Internationalism.” Marxist Literary Group, June 1996.
“The Rhetoric of Anti-Communism in Invisible Man.”
Radical Caucus Session, “Proletarian Literature Revisited.” MLA Convention,
December 1995. Also delivered at the University of AR, March 1996. Revised
version delivered at the Conference on “The Cold War and American Culture.”
University of Toledo, April 1996.
“Marxism and the Dialectic of Race and Class.” Seminar,
University of AR, March 1996.
“How Oppositional is Oppositional Criticism?” Keynote
Address, Conference on “Oppositional Criticism.” Bowling Green State
University, March 1996.
Chair and Panel Organizer, “The Difference Class Makes.”
Session sponsored by the Division of Sociological Approaches to Literature,
MLA Convention, December 1995.
“Jean Toomer and the Left.” Conference, “Working-Class
Lives/Working-Class Studies.” Youngstown State U, June 1995.
Panel Co-Leader, “Organizing in the Diaspora.” Symposium,
“Old Themes/New Directions: Studying the Third World in the Nineties.”
Rutgers-Newark, March 1995.
“Jean Toomer’s Seventh Street and Literary Proletarianism.”
Special Session. “International Proletarian Literature, MLA Convention,
December 1994.
“Jean Toomer, Economics, and the Politics of Modernism.”
Society for Critical Exchange, October 1994.
“The Women of Cane: From Myth to History.” Third
Southern Conference on Women’s History, Southern Association for Women
Historians, June 1994.
“The Retreat from Proletarianism: Renarrating the 1930s
in the 1940s and 1950s.” Symposium, “The Politics of Culture in the Cold War
Era.” U of PA, March 1994. Also delivered at the Essex County Ethical Culture
Society, February 1995. Also delivered as Cultural Studies Discussion
Group/English Department Colloquium, Rutgers University, April 1995.
“The Repression of History in Jean Toomer’s Cane.”
Special Session, “Honoring Picket Lines: The Politics of Labor and Leftism in
New Historicist Practice.” MLA Convention, December 1993.
“Irony and History in Melville’s ‘Bartleby.’”
International Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, April 1993.
Panel Organizer, Special Session, “Black Writers and Left
Politics.” MLA Convention, December 1992.
“Gender and Class in Women’s Proletarian Fiction.”
Session, “Women Writers of the 1930s and 1940s.” Institute for Research on
Women, New Brunswick, NJ, May 1992.
“Teaching Multiculturalism.” Workshop for Integration
Project, Rutgers-Newark, April 1992.
“Socialism and Marxist Theory.” SUNY-Buffalo Graduate
Student Conference on Marxism, March 1992.
“Tradition and Experiment in American Proletariat
Fiction.” Marxist Literary Group Session,
“Culture of the 1930s.” MLA Convention, December 1991.
“The Politics of Multiculturalism.” NJ Project
Conference, October 1991.
“American Literary Leftism and the Great Depression.”
Colloquium, Rutgers-Newark Honors Program, October 1991.
“Feminism and Class in American Proletarian Fiction.”
English Department, Rutgers-New Brunswick, April 1991.
“Class.” Division of Criticism Session. “After Glasnost:
Whither Marxist Criticism?” MLA Convention, December 1990.
“Revising the American Literature Syllabus.” Institute
for Research on Women, New Brunswick, NJ, May 1990.
“Discourses of Race and Class: Radical Politics and
Levels of Narrative in Depression-Era Proletarian Fiction.” International
Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, April 1990.
“The CP and the City: Proletarian and Folk Ideology in
William Attaway and Richard Wright.” Division on Afro-American Literature,
Midwest MLA, November 1989.
“Women and the Left in the 1930s: Some Implications for
Marxist and Feminist Theory.” Center for Twentieth-Century Studies, U of
WI-Milwaukee, April 1989.
“Rereading the 1930s: Politics, History, Theory.”
Colloquium, English Department, Rutgers-Newark, March 1989.
“Marxist Critics of the 1930s and Bourgeois Aesthetic
Theory.” Midwest MLA, November 1988.
“The Politics of Realism in Proletarian Fiction.”
Organizer, Special Session, “The Politics of Realism in American Literature.”
International Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, April 1988.
“Resources at the Newberry Library for the Study of
Radical Writers in the Early Twentieth Century.” Colloquium, Newberry Library,
February 1988.
“The Proletarian Novel: Problems of Historical Context
and Political/Aesthetic Evaluation.” Seminar, Newberry Library, January 1988.
“Marxism in the Poststructuralist Moment: Notes on the
Problem of Revising Marx.” Conference, “Changing Marx.” U of PA, December
1987.
“Subversion and Oppositionality in the Academy.” Special
Session, “Theory/Pedagogy/Politics.” MLA Convention, December 1986.
Session Organizer, “The Decanonization of American
Literature.” Midwest MLA Convention, November 1986.
“Textual ‘Subversion’ and Political Oppositionality.”
Symposium, “Criticism and Pedagogy in the Waste Land.” Hamilton College,
October 1986.
Panelist, “Politics and the Academy.” Marxist Literary
Group Summer Institute, June 1986.
“The Politics of Poetics: Ideology and Narrative Form in
Dreiser’s An American Tragedy and Wright’s Native Son.”
International Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, April 1986. Also
delivered at City College, CUNY, April 1986. Also delivered at Conference,
“The Arts and Disciplines of Literary Study.” SUNY-Stony Brook, March 1987.
“The Chicago School and Marxism.” Special Session, “The
Chicago School of Literary Criticism, MLA Convention, December 1985.
“Poststructuralism: Politics, Theory, and Practice.”
Colloquium, Northwestern U, March 1985.
Respondent to Lawrence Lipking, “Aristotle’s Sister:
Feminism and Literary History.” Colloquium, Northwestern U, January 1985.
“The Politics of Deconstruction.” Special Session,
“Contemporary Narrative Theory and the Yale Critics.” MLA Convention, December
1984.
Chairperson and organizer, Special Session, “The Politics
of Melville Criticism.” MLA Convention, December 1984.
“The Pseudopolitics of Epistemological Rupture.” Special
Session, “Indiscre(e)tions: The Interpenetration of Fictional and Nonfictional
Genres.” MLA Convention, December 1983.
Respondent to Michael Kearns, “Phantoms of Mind:
Melville’s Criticism of Transcendental Psychology.” Division on American
Literature before 1870, Midwest MLA Convention, November 1983.
Panelist, “Myths and Realities of Ph.D. Employment: A
Workshop on Academic and Non-Academic Careers.” U of Chicago, October 1983.
Seminar, “The Contemporary Nonfiction Novel and the New
Journalism.” Northwestern U, November 1983.
Respondent to John Beverly, “Gongora, Gongorism, and the
Production of Solitude.” Northwestern U, March 1981.
Respondent to Mark Poster, “Foucault, Marx, and History.”
Northwestern U, April 1981.
“Ideology in Contemporary Documentary Narrative.” Special
Session, “Postmodern American Fiction and Nonfiction: Correspondences and
Differences.” MLA Convention, December 1989.
“Four American Novelists and the Problem of Influence.”
Colloquium, English Department, U of WI-Madison, February 1978.
“Feminism and Tragedy in Edith Wharton’s The House of
Mirth.” Radio Lecture, U of WI-Extension, October 1977.
“Racism and Sexism in American Literature: The
Ideological Interlock.” Symposium, “Racism, Sexism and Culture.” U of
WI-Extension, June 1977.
GRANTS AND AWARDS:
Rutgers Research Council. 2001-02. ($1,500).
Teacher of the Year Award, University College, Rutgers
University. 2000.
Rutgers Research Council. 1998-99. ($800).
National Endowment for the Humanities. 1996-97.
($30,000).
Rutgers Research Council. 1995-96. $850.
The Graduate School. Rutgers-Newark. 1993-94. ($300).
The Graduate School. Rutgers-Newark. 1990-91. ($1,000).
FASP Leave, Rutgers-Newark. Fall 1990.
National Endowment for the Humanities/Newberry Library
Fellowship. 1987-88. ($20,000, supplemented by Rutgers to salary level).
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship.
1987-88. (declined to accept NEH fellowship).
Office of Research and Special Projects Grant,
Northwestern U. 1981-82 ($700 for work-study student).
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship.
1980 ($2,500).
American Council of Learned Societies Semester
Fellowship. Spring 1980 ($2,500).
U of WI Graduate School Research Grants. Summers 1978 and
1979 ($2,000 apiece).
Special Humanities Fellowship, U of Chicago. 1969-72
($3,000 year plus tuition).
Isabel Briggs Traveling Fellowship, Radcliffe College.
1969 (declined).
TEACHING:
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT AT RUTGERS
English 223-224: Survey of American Literature, I & II.
English 363-364: The Novel in America, I & II.
English 395-396: African –American Literature, I & II.
English 351-352: Studies in American Authors, I & II.
English 348-349: Minorities in American Literature, I &
II.
English 368-369: Class in American Literature, I & II.
Honors Course taught in conjunction with History component.
English 369: Special Topics in American Literature: The
Harlem Renaissance.
English 369: Special Topics in American Literature: The
Radical Tradition in American Literature.
GRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT AT RUTGERS
English 561: Proletarian Literature.
English 508: Marxist Literary Theory.
English 558: Urban Literature.
English 521: The American 1920s.
English 521: The Harlem Renaissance.
English 521: The American 1930s.
English 521: The American Novel Between the Wars.
Independent
Studies Conducted at Rutgers
Proletarian Writers.
Afro-American Writers.
Feminism and Marxism in 1930s U.S. Literature.
Marxist Theory (Graduate and Undergraduate Levels).
Women and the Marxist Tradition.
THESIS SUPERVISION AT RUTGERS
“The Representation of Rape in Modernism.” (Ph.D.
Thesis-service as second reader).
“Radical Black Writers of the 1930s” (Undergraduate
Honors. Thesis).
“Motherhood in Black Women’s Literature” (MA Thesis).
“Leftist Female Journalists of the 1930s” (MA Thesis).
“The Politics of John Steinbeck” (MA Thesis).
PH.D. THESIS SUPERVISION AT CAMPUSES OTHER THAN
RUTGERS
Marcial Gonzalez, “The Postmodern Turn in Chicano
Studies.” Stanford University, 1999.
Jennifer Cotter, University of Pittsburgh (1999-present).
Rich Hancuff, George Washington University
(2000-present).
Charles Cunningham, Carnegie Mellon University (2001).
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT AT RUTGERS
Course release (Spring 1989) for participation in DHE
grant for integration of gender, race, and class into the curriculum. Result:
Revision of English 223-224, 363-364.
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:
Member, Editorial Collective Workplace: The E-Journal
of the MLA Graduate School Caucus. 1999-present.
Member, Steering Committee, MLA Radical Caucus.
1994-present.
Member, Editorial Board, Minnesota Review.
1992-present.
Member, Editorial Board and Manuscript Review Committee, Science and Society. 1997-present.
Delegate, MLA Delegate Assembly, 1996-1999.
Member, Division on Sociological Approaches to
Literature. MLA 1994-99. President, 1999.
Editorial Board, Ariel: A Journal of International
English Literature. 1987-1993.
President, American Literature Before 1870 Section.
Midwest MLA. 1985-1986.
Secretary, American Literature Before 1870 Section.
Midwest MLA. 1984-1985.
Delegate, MLA Delegate Assembly. 1982-1985.
CURRENT MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Modern Language Association
MLA Radical Caucus
American Association of University Professors
Marxist Literary Group
Historians of American Communism
Center for Working-Class Studies
MANUSCRIPT READER:
MELUS
College English
M/MLA Journal
PMLA
American Quarterly
Mosaic
American Literary History
Modern Fiction Studies
Minnesota Review
American Educational Research Journal
Science and Society
Journal of Narrative Technique
Duke-UP
U of MN P
U of MO P
U of IL P
U of IA P
U of NC P
UP of MS
Princeton UP
Cambridge UP
OH State UP
Harvard UP
Modern Language Association
Columbia UP
SUNY-Buffalo P
GRANT EVALUATOR:
The Newberry Library
The National Endowment for the Humanities
American Council of Learned Societies
EVALUATOR FOR TENURE AND PROMOTION:
University of Cincinnati
CO State University
Wesleyan U
CUNY-John Jay College
CUNY-Baruch College
CUNY-City College
SUNY-Albany
PA State U
U of CA-Santa Barbara
U of TX-San Antonio
U of MA-Boston
U of AL
UNIVERSITY SERVICE AT RUTGERS:
“Organizing at the Grassroots.” Conference on Influencing
State Policy. Rutgers University-Newark, April 2003.
Faculty Advisor, Rutgers Acts for Peace and Justice
(RAP-J), 2002-03.
Chair, Faculty Student Affairs Committee, 1999-2002.
AAUP Grievance Co-Counsel and Counsel. 1991, 1999, 2000,
2001, 2002.
FAS-N A & P Committees, 1990, 2000.
Search Committee, Academic Foundations, 1997-98.
English Department Graduate Director, 1991-1997.
FAS-N Faculty Library Committee, 1993-94, Chair
1994-1996.
Board, Institute for Research on Women, 1994-95.
Member, English Department Events Committee, 1994-95.
Member, Dean’s Committee on University College-Newark,
1994-96.
Member, Provost’s EO Committee, 1994-95.
Panelist, “What is Feminism?” Rutgers-Newark, Spring
2000.
Panelist, “What’s Wrong with Welfare ‘Reform’?” School of
Social Work, Rutgers-Newark, Fall 1999.
NCAS Honors Colloquium, “Welfare Reform and/in Newark.”
Fall 1999.
Speaker, “Workfare and the Reemergence of Slave Labor.”
Rutgers-Newark NOW Forum on Welfare Repeal, Fall 1996.
Panel Organizer and Speaker, “Welfare ‘Reform” and the
Criminalization of Motherhood.” Teach-In Against the Contract on America.
Rutgers-Newark, March 1995.
Co-Organizer of Symposium, “Old Theories/New Directions:
Studying the Third World in the Nineties.” Rutgers-Newark, Spring 1995.
Faculty Advisor, Rutgers-Newark NOW, 1995-98.
Graduate School Executive Committee, 1993-1996.
Participant and Co-Organizer, Faculty Cultural Studies
Discussion Group, 1992-95.
AAUP Grievance Hearing Pool, 1992-94.
Faculty Guest Columnist, Rutgers Observer, 1993,
1994, 1995.
Faculty Supervisor in English Education, Rutgers-Newark,
1993-present.
Women’s Studies Council, 1988-present.
Colloquium, Women’s Studies Program, “Welfare ‘Reform’
and the Contract on America.” Spring 1995.
Panelist, “The AAUW Report and Women at Rutgers-Newark.”
Colloquium, Women’s Studies Program, Spring 1995.
Provost’s Middle States Progress Report Commission,
1992-93.
Faculty MC, Senior Awards Night, May 1992.
Graduate School Admission and Financial Aid Committee,
1991-94.
Faculty Fellow, Woodward Hall, Leadership of half-dozen
student workshops on culture and politics, 1991-93.
NCAS Admissions Committee, 1990-93.
English Department Curriculum and Budget Committee,
1990-1996.
NCAS Faculty/Student Affairs Committee, 1989-92.
Panelist, “The Rhetoric and Meaning of the Gulf War.” ASG
Teach-In, February 1991.
Faculty Advisor, Advocates for Choice, 1990-92.
English Department Library Commtitee, 1988-89, 1994-95.
Rutgers University Speakers Bureau, 1990-Present,
Presentations on “Literature and Social Values” at Middletown High School
(1991) and North Arlington High School (1993, 1995).
Faculty Keynote Speaker, Freshman Recruitment Night,
Spring 1990.
Faculty Advisor, Advocates for Choice, 1989-92.
Graduate School Membership Committee, 1990-91.
Phi Beta Kappa Secretary, 1988-90.
COMMUNITY SERVICE:
Member, Combating Racism Task Force, NOW-NJ,
1989-present; Chair 1994-96, 2000-2002.
Member, Steering Committee, Women of Color and Allies,
Essex County Chapter, NOW-NJ, 1999-present.
Member, NOW-NJ State Board, 1990-96, 2000-present.
Member, Essex County NOW, 1989-1995.
Guest Speaker, “The Politics of Oil.” Teach-In on the
Coming War. Ramapo College, November 2002.
Co-Organizer, NOW-NJ State Conference, “The Many Faces of
Violence and Racism.” Rutgers University-Newark, October 2000.
Guest Speaker, “The Function of the University.” Teach-In
Against Racism, Ramapo College, April 1999.
Co-Organizer, NOW-NUJ Women’s Summit on Overcoming
Racism.” Rutgers-Newark, June 1998.
Organizer and Panelist, “Is Workfare Slave Labor?” NOW
National Conference, Memphis, TN, June 1997.
Panel Organizer, “Women, Work, and Welfare.” Institute
for Research on Women, New Brunswick, NJ, May 1996.
Panelist, “Having an Impact on Government and Going
Beyond the Vote.” R.E.D. (Rutgers-Essex Drew) Conference on “Making the
Personal Political.” Essex County College, March 1996.
Guest Lecturer, “Women and Politics in the Grim New Days:
Problems and Prospects.”
Celebration of Women’s History Month, AT&T, Holmdel, NJ,
March 1996.
Guest Lecturer, “The Four Big ‘Isms’ of the 20th Century.” University High School Academic Decathlon, November 1995.
Panelist, “Voting Rights, Redistricting, and Grassroots
Opposition to Inequity.” Conference on Race and Inequity, Howard University,
Washington, D.C., October 1995.
Chair, Affirmative Action/Membership Committee, NOW-NJ,
1990-94.
Steering Committee, Committee to Elect Saundra
Addison-Simpson, Candidate for Member-At-Large, Newark City Council, Spring
1994.
Organizer and Panelist, “Racism Can Be Bad for Your
Health.” NOW-NJ State Conference, October 1994.
Organizer, “The Politics of Welfare ‘Reform.’” Institute
for Research on Women, New Brunswick, NJ, July 1994.
Organizer, “Combating Racism in the Women’s Movement.”
Midatlantic Regional NOW Conference, May 1994.
Organizer, “Racism and Welfare ‘Reform.’” NOW-NJ State
Conference, November 1993.
Co-Organizer, “Racism in Education: A Scenario.” NOW-NJ
State Conference, November 1991.
Member, Tuxedo Parkway Block Association (Newark),
1994-99.
Member, University High School (Newark) PTSO, 1989-97.
Member and Activist, Ivy Hill Neighborhood Association
(Newark), 1988-91.
Organizer and Host, “Essex County NOW and Women’s
Issues.” Local Public Access Cable TV Program, 1992-98.
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