Joseph Litvak

Education
Ph.D., Yale University
M. Phil., Yale University
B.A., Wesleyan University

Curriculum Vitae
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Research Interests

• Victorian Literature, Especially the Novel
• Literary Criticism and Theory
• Mass Culture of the Cold War
• Jewish Cultural Studies

Courses Taught

• Becoming a Critic
• The Victorian Novel
• Un-American Activities: Popular Culture and the Left
• Black Comedy
• What the Novel Knows
• Representing the Jew
• Horror Stories

Publication Highlights

• Books:
• The Un-Americans: Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture (Duke University Press, 2009)
• Strange Gourmets: Sophistication, Theory, and the Novel (Duke University Press, 1997); winner of Perkins Prize for year's best book on narrative, Society for the Study of Narrative Literature (1999)
• Caught in the Act: Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel (University of California Press, 1992)
• Recent Articles:
• "Vulgarity, Stupidity, and Worldliness in Middlemarch," in Victorian Vulgarity, ed. Susan David Bernstein and Elsie B. Michie (Ashgate, 2009)
• “Glad to Be Unhappy,” in After Sex?: New Work since Queer Theory, special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly, ed. Janet Halley and Andrew Parker (Summer 2007)
• “Jew Envy,” in special issue of Women’s Studies Quarterly, ed. Jane Gallop (Fall/Winter 2006)
• “The Content of Style,” review of D.A. Miller, Jane Austen, or the Secret of Style, Novel 38 (Spring/Summer 2005)
• “The Aesthetics of Jewishness: Shelley Winters,” in Aesthetic Subjects, ed. Pamela Matthews and David McWhirter (University of Minnesota Press, 2003)
• "Jewish Geography: Trollope and the Question of Style,” in Nineteenth-Century Geographies, ed. Helena Michie and Ronald R. Thomas (Rutgers University Press, 2003)
• “Adorno Now,” Victorian Studies 44 (Autumn 2001)
• “Bad Scene: Oliver Twist and the Pathology of Entertainment,” Dickens Studies Annual 26 (1998)

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