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Gary Stonum's teaching and advising page

 

 

Fall 2009 teaching:

ENGL (and WLIT) 386/486, Narrative Theory (syllabus)

Humanities Publication Workshop (schedule)

Office hours:  M 4-4:30, W 12:30 - 2:30 and by next-day appointment to gary.stonum@case.edu

 

Some courses
(with the most recent syllabus)

Course title level last offered
Departmental seminar (modern American fiction) upper-division majors fall 2008
Contemporary US fiction upper-division majors and grad students fall 2007
William Faulkner graduate seminar

spring 2007

(calendar)
American literature survey primarily for majors spring 2009
Postwar postmodernism graduate seminar spring 2006
SAGES first seminar: life of the mind first-year undergrad fall 2007
Narrative theory upper-division majors and grad students fall 2004
Major American writers general undergrad spring 2006
Senior seminar: Anglo-American modernism senior majors fall 2003
Idea(s) of American literature grad students fall 2003
Introduction to literature in English general undergrad fall 2002
Literary and critical theory upper-division majors and grad students

spring 2009
Modern(ist) American literature upper-division majors and grad students fall 2001
Topics in African-American literature: Toni Morrison and her peers upper-division majors and grad students spring 2001
Critical Theory grad students fall 2000
Composition first-year undergrad fall 1999
American literature to 1865 upper-division majors and grad students fall 1999

 

 

Dissertation Students and Ph.D. Dissertations

  • William Francis, The novels of Vance Bourjaily: A critical study, 1975

    • Julia A. Harding, A reputation study of the Pre-Raphaelites, 1979

    • Joanne Tilberry, The literary method of Virginia Woolf: A phenomenological approach, 1982

    • Zita McShane, Functions of the grotesque in 20th-century American fiction, 1983

    • Reiko Maekawa (American Studies), F.O. Matthiessen: After American Renaissance, 1985

    • Jacquelyn McLendon, The myth of the mulatto psyche: A study of the works of Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen, 1986

    • Sarah Brown, Amazing grace: A study of the means and offer of grace in the short fiction of Flannery O'Connor, 1987

    • Marilyn Mobley, Roots and wings: the folk esthetic, mythic impulse and cultural function of narrative in the fiction of Sarah Orne Jewett and Toni Morrison, 1987

    • Linda Meixner, Faulkner's Horace Benbow: Dandy-esthete of Yoknapatawpha, 1992

    • Marge Geiger, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: The sounds of identity. 1997

    • David Rutledge , Beyond the book: Vladimir Nabokov's metaphysics and literary structures, 1997

    • Saad Asswailim , Myth, ideology and silence in three novels by Vance Bourjaily, 1999

    • Yonjae Jung, "The most inseparable of companions" : Lacan(-izing) Freud(-ianized) Poe, 2000

    • Bradley Ricca, American Zodiac: Astronomy in Dickinson, Melville, and Poe , 2003

    • Darcy Brandel, If I Had a Hammer:  Reading Experimental Writing in the Context of Progressive Social Change, 2006


    • Narcisz Fejes, Absorbing East-Central Europe: Representations of the Region in Modern British Literature, 2006.

    Jenifer Wolkowski, Ideas of Community in Three Depression-Era Southern Novels:  Faulkner's The Hamlet, Dargan's Call Home the Heart, and Still's River of Earth, 2008.

Current Dissertation Students

Natalija Grgorincic and Ognjen Raden:  Collaborative Authorship

 

 

 

 
 

 

Most recent update, October 2009