Academic Books

The Academic Novel

My first academic book, The British and American Academic Novel: The Professorroamane, The Comic Campus, The Tragic Self, will be published as a monograph by Parkgate Press in August, 2011 (under the F Street Books imprint).

Using a historical timeline of influence, the dissertation examines British and American fiction of the twentieth century: novels, short stories and plays all about the lives of professors and students.

Overall, the university is configured, at turns, as essentially tragicomic, beginning as comic but turning darker through the twentieth century. To read more, please click here.

Teaching

I am currently Lecturer in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University in London, as well as Professorial Lecturer in English at the George Washington University, Washington.

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British and American universities

Academic settings

The photographs above show scenes from various British and American university campuses and their college shields or logos.

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James Hogue, Princeton graduate, athlete, imposter

Paul Morphy, chess player, world champion

English Ph.D. Dissertation book list

Novels

1 Amis, Kingsley. Lucky Jim (1953).

2 Beerbohm, Max. Zuleika Dobson (1911).

3 Bernays, Anne. Professor Romeo (1989).

4 Bradbury, Malcolm. The History Man (1975).

5 Bradbury, Malcolm. Eating People is Wrong (1959).

6 Byatt, A. S. Possession: A Romance (1990).

7 Cather, Willa. The Professor’s House (1925).

8 Chabon, Michael. Wonder Boys (1995).

9 Coetzee, J. M. Disgrace (1999).

10 Coetzee, J. M. Elizabeth Costello (2003).

11 Cross, Amanda. Death in a Tenured Position (1981).

12 Davies, Robertson. The Rebel Angels (1982).

13 Delillo, Don. White Noise (1985).

14 Djerassi, Carl. The Bourbaki Gambit: A Novel (1994).

15 Ellis, Bret Easton. The Rules of Attraction (1987).

16 Fitzgerald, F. Scott. This Side of Paradise (1920).

17 Galbraith, John Kenneth. A Tenured Professor (1990).

18 Goldstein, Rebecca. The Mind-Body Problem: A Novel (1983).

19 Grudin, Robert. Book: A Novel (1992).

20 Hassler, Jon. Rookery Blues (1995).

21 Hynes, James. Publish and Perish: Three Tales of Tenure and Terror (1997).

22 Hynes, James. The Lecturer’s Tale (2002).

23 Jacobson, Howard. Coming from Behind (1983).

24 Jarrell, Randall. Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy (1954).

25 Kenyon, Michael. The Trouble with Series Three (1967).

26 Lewis, C. S. That Hideous Strength (1945).

27 Lodge, David. A David Lodge Trilogy: Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work (1975, 1984, 1988).

28 Lurie, Alison. Foreign Affairs (1984).

29 McCarthy, Mary. The Groves of Academe (1951).

30 Malamud, Bernard. A New Life (1961).

31 Malone, Michael. Foolscap: A Novel (1991).

32 Nabokov, Vladimir. Pnin (1957).

33 O’Brien, Tim. Tomcat in Love (1998).

34 Russo, Richard. Straight Man (1997).

35 Roth, Philip. The Professor of Desire (1977).

36 Sarton, May. Faithful Are the Wounds (1955).

37 Sayers, Dorothy L. Gaudy Night (1936).

38 Schine, Cathleen. Rameau’s Niece (1993).

39 Sebald, W.G. The Rings of Saturn (1995).

40 Sharpe, Tom. Porterhouse Blue(1974).

41 Smith, Zadie. On Beauty (2005).

42 Snow, C. P. The Masters (1951).

43 Tartt, Donna. The Secret History (1992).

44 Trilling, Lionel. Of This Time, Of That Place (1943) (Short Story).

45 Williams, John. Stoner(1965).

46 Unsworth, Barry. The Big Day (1976).

47 Weller, George Anthony. Not to Eat, Not for Love (1933).

48 Wolfe, Tom. I am Charlotte Simmons (2004).

Plays

1 Albee, Edward. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962).

2 Edson, Margaret. Wit (1999).

3 Gilman, Rebecca. Spinning into Butter (1999).

4 Gray, Simon. Butley (1971).

5 Mamet, David. Oleanna (1992).

6 Russell, Willy. Educating Rita (1980).

7 Thurber, James. Male Animal (1940).

8 Wasserstein, Wendy. Third (2004).

Theoretical texts

1 Arendt Hannah. The Life of the Mind (1978).

2 Bahktin, M. M. The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (1975).

3 Bloom, Allan. The Closing of the American Mind (1987).

4 Carter, Ian. Ancient Cultures of Conceit : British University Fiction in the Post War Years (1990).

5 Freud, Sigmund. Beyond The Pleasure Principle (1920); Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921); The Ego and the Id (1923).

6 Frye, Northrop. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957).

7 Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1974).

8 Guillory, John. The Problem of Literary Canon Formation (1993).

9 Goffman, Erving. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1956).

10 Jameson, Fredric. The Political Unconscious (1981).

11 Kerr, Clark. The Uses of the University (1963).

12 Leslie, William Bruce. Gentlemen and Schiolars: College and Community in the "Age of the University" (2005).

13 Newfield, Christopher. Ivy and Industry: Business and the Making odf the American University, 1880-1980 (2003).

14 Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Birth of Tragedy and the Genealogy of Morals (1872/1887).

15 Ohmann, Richard. English in America: A Radical View of the Profession (1976).

16 Showalter, Elaine. Faculty Towers, The Academic Novel and Its Discontents (2005).

17 White, Hayden. Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe (1973).

18 Womack, Kenneth. Postwar Academic Fiction (2002).

Total = 64 texts

Matt Fullerty writes novels about chess, crime and conmen, namely a chess prodigy, a murderess and an art forger.

Author of novels THE KNIGHT OF NEW ORLEANS, THE MURDERESS AND THE HANGMAN and AMERICAN CON ARTIST.