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Joel Black

January 07, 2023

Joel Black is a Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. Black has written extensively on subfields of literature and film studies areas such as romanticism, postmodernism, philosophy and history of science, and cultural studies. He is the author of The Aesthetics of Murder: A Study in Romantic Literature and Contemporary Culture (1991) and The Reality Effect: Film Culture and the Graphic Imperative (2002).

Career

Education and awards

In 1972, Black completed his B.A. at Columbia College of Columbia University, and then one year later he finished his M.A. in English Literature, also at Columbia University. In the 1976-77 school year, Black won a fellowship called the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienststipendium, and in 1979, he won a Fellowship at the School of Criticism and Theory at the University of California at Irvine). In 1979, Black completed his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Stanford University.

In the 1982-83 school term, Black won an NEH Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, and in 1989, he won a Fulbright Travel Grant. In 1990, 1992, 1994–96, and 1998, Black won University of Georgia Faculty Research Grants, and in 1997, Black received the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Fellowship.

Research and Teaching

In 1978-79, Black was an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Hamilton College in New York state. From 1979 to 1982, Black was an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From 1983 to 1986, he was an Assistant Prof. of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia.

In 1986, Black was promoted to Associate Professor at the University of Georgia. In 1986 and 1989, Black was a UGA Exchange Professor at Universitaire, Instelling Antwerpen, Antwerp, in Belgium. In 1990, Black was a Visiting Professor at Emory University. In 2003, Black was promoted to Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia.

Bibliography

Books

  • The Aesthetics of Murder: A Study in Romantic Literature and Contemporary Culture (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991)
  • The Reality Effect: Film Culture and the Graphic Imperative (Routledge, 2002), iix + 286pp.

Chapters, Articles, and Essays

  • "Scientific Models," in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism (Volume 5: Romanticism), ed. Marshall Brown (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 115–137.
  • "Literature as Secret History," in Literatur im Zeitalter der Globalisierung, eds. Manfred Schmeling, Monika Schmitz-Emans, and Kerst Walstra (Würzburg: Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, 2000), pp. 83–97.
  • "The Genealogy of Violence in African-American Literature: Non-Native Sources of Native Son," in The Conscience of Humankind: Literature and Traumatic Experience (Vol. 3 of the Proceedings of the Fifteenth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association), ed. Elrud Ibsch (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000), pp. 325–36.
  • "Literature, Film and Virtuality: Technology's Cutting Edge," in Extreme Beauty: Aesthetics, Politics and Death, eds. James E. Swearingen and Joanne Cutting-Gray (London: Continuum, 2002), pp. 78–88.
  • "Real(ist) Horror: From Execution Videos to Snuff Films," in Underground USA: Filmmaking Beyond the Hollywood Canon, eds. Xavier Mendik and Steven Jay Schneider (London: Wallflower Press, 2002).
  • "(De)feats of Detection: The Spurious Key Text from Poe to Eco," in Detecting Texts: The Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism, eds. P. Merivale and S. E. Sweeney. (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), pp. 75–98.
  • "Taking the Sex Out of Sexuality: Foucault's Failed History," in Rethinking Sexuality: Foucault and Classical Antiquity, eds. David Larmour, Paul Allen Miller, and Charles Platter (Princeton University Press, 1998), pp. 42–60.
  • "Writing After Murder (and Before Suicide): The Confessions of Werther and Rivière," in Reading After Foucault: Institutions, Disciplines, and Technologies of the Self, 1750-1830, ed. Robert Leventhal (Wayne State University Press, 1994), pp. 233–59.
  • "The Hermeneutics of Extinction: Denial and Discovery in Scientific Literature," Comparative Criticism 13: Literature and Science, ed. E. S. Shaffer (Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 147–69.
  • "Mixed Signals in the Body Languages of Sexual, Commercial, and Extraterrestrial Discourse," in Mimesis, Semiosis, and Power, ed. R. Bogue (John Benjamins, 1991), pp. 157–83.
  • "Newtonian Mechanics and the Romantic Rebellion: Introduction," in Beyond the Two Cultures: Essays on Science, Technology, and Literature, ed. Joseph W. Slade and Judith Yaross Lee (Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1990), pp. 131–39.
  • "Confession, Digression, Gravitation: Thomas De Quincey's German Connection," in Thomas De Quincey: Bicentenary Studies, ed. Robert L. Snyder (University of Oklahoma Press, 1985), pp. 308–37.
  • "Paper Empires of the New World: Pynchon, Gaddis, Fuentes," Proceedings of the Tenth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (New York: Garland, 1985), vol. 3, pp. 68–75.
  • "The Paper Empires and Empirical Fictions of William Gaddis," reprinted in In Recognition of William Gaddis, eds. John Kuehl and Steven Moore (Syracuse University Press, 1984), pp. 162– 73.
  • "Idolology: The Model in Artistic Practice and Critical Theory," in Mimesis in Contemporary Theory, Vol. 1: The Literary and Philosophical Debate (John Benjamins, 1984), pp. 172–200.
  • "Aesthetics of Gender: Winckelmann, Friedrich Schlegel, and the Hermaphroditic Ideal," ch. 14 in Fragments: Incompletion & Discontinuity, ed. L. Kritzman (New York Literary Forum 8-9, [1981]), pp. 189–209.

Articles in Journals

  • "Freud, Moses, and the Death of Rabin," Mortality 7, no. 1 (2002), pp. 83–95.
  • "Psyche's Progress: Soul- and Self-making from Keats to Wilde," Intertexts 5, no.1 (2001), pp. 7–22.
  • "Grisham's Demons," College Literature 25.1 (Winter 1998), pp. 35–40.
  • "'You Must Remember This': The Intimate and the Obscene in Filmic Narrative," Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature, 40 (1992), pp. 83–89.
  • "The Scientific Essay and Encyclopedic Science," Stanford Literature Review, 1:1 (Spring 1984), pp. 119–48.
  • "Pynchon's Eve of De-struction," Pynchon Notes 14 (Feb. 1984), pp. 23–38.
  • "The Paper Empires and Empirical Fictions of William Gaddis," The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 2 (Summer 1982), pp. 22–31.
  • "Levana: Levitation in Jean Paul and Thomas De Quincey," Comparative Literature, 32 (Winter 1980), pp. 42–62.
  • "Probing a Post-Romantic Paleontology: Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow," Boundary 2, 8:2 (Winter 1980), pp. 229–54.

Review Articles

  • "Murder: The State of the Art," American Literary History 12, no. 4 (winter 2000), pp. 780–93.
  • Review of The Changes of Cain by Ricardo J. Quinones, The Comparatist, 17 (May 1993), pp. 141–45.
  • "Romanticism and the Sciences," (review of Romanticism and the Sciences, Andrew Cunningham and Nicholas Jardine, eds.), Studies in Romanticism, 31 (Fall 1992), pp. 394–401.
  • "Postmodernist Fictions" (review of Postmodernist Fiction by Brian McHale), Pynchon Notes, 18-19 (Spring-Fall 1986), pp. 96–109.
  • "The Literature of Play and the Literature of Power" (Literature, Mimesis and Play by M. Spariosu), Poetics Today, 4:4 (1983), pp. 773–82.
  • "Allegory Unveiled" (review of Stephen Greenblatt, ed., Allegory and Representation, and Morton W. Bloomfield, ed., Allegory, Myth and Symbol), Poetics Today, 4:1 (Winter 1983), pp. 109–26.
  • "Rhetorical Questions and Critical Riddles" (review of Paul de Man, Allegories of Reading), Poetics Today, 1:4 (Summer 1980), pp. 189–201.

Reviews

  • Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Milan V. Dimić, eds., Comparative Literature Now: Theories and Practice, in Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 27:1-2 (2002), pp. 307–11.
  • Ben Stoltzfus, Lacan and Literature: Purloined Pretexts, in The Comparatist, vol. 22 (May 1998), pp. 194–96. .
  • Michael Felske, Zukünftige Vergangenheit: Thomas De Quinceys Suspiria de Profundis als natalteleologische Autobiographie, European Romantic Review 8, no. 2 (Spring 1997), pp. 209–13.
  • Sarah Webster Goodwin and Elisabeth Bronfen, eds. Death and Representation, in Victorian Studies, 39:1 (Autumn 1995), pp. 77–79.
  • George Levine, ed., Realism and Representation: Essays on the Problem of Realism in Relation to Science, Literature, and Culture, in Philosophy and Literature, 18:1 (April 1994), pp. 187– 89.
  • Eduardo González, The Monstered Self: Narratives of Death and Performance in Latin American Fiction, MLN, 107:5 (Dec. 1992), pp. 1064–67).
  • Herbert Lindenberger, The History in Literature: On Value, Genre, Institutions, in The Wordsworth Circle 22: 4 (Fall 1991), 228-30.
  • John Johnston's Carnival of Repetition: Gaddis's The Recognitions and Postmodern Theory, in MLN, 105:5 (December 1990), pp. 1120–24.
  • Virgil Nemoianu, The Taming of Romanticism: European Literature and the Age of Biedermeier, in Philosophy and Literature, 10:1 (April 1986), pp. 133–35.
  • Renate Jurzik, Der Stoff des Lachens: Studien über Komik, in Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire, 64:3 (1986), pp. 595–97.
  • Frederick Garber, The Autonomy of the Self from Richardson to Huysmans, in Comparative Literature Studies, 20: 4 (Winter 1983), pp. 450–53.

January 07, 2023
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Joel Black is a Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia in Athens Georgia Black has written extensively on subfields of literature and film studies areas such as romanticism postmodernism philosophy and history of science and cultural studies He is the author of The Aesthetics of Murder A Study in Romantic Literature and Contemporary Culture 1991 and The Reality Effect Film Culture and the Graphic Imperative 2002 Contents 1 Career 1 1 Education and awards 1 2 Research and Teaching 2 Bibliography 2 1 Books 2 2 Chapters Articles and Essays 2 3 Articles in Journals 2 4 Review Articles 2 5 ReviewsCareer EditEducation and awards Edit In 1972 Black completed his B A at Columbia College of Columbia University and then one year later he finished his M A in English Literature also at Columbia University In the 1976 77 school year Black won a fellowship called the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienststipendium and in 1979 he won a Fellowship at the School of Criticism and Theory at the University of California at Irvine In 1979 Black completed his Ph D in Comparative Literature at Stanford University In the 1982 83 school term Black won an NEH Fellowship for Independent Study and Research and in 1989 he won a Fulbright Travel Grant In 1990 1992 1994 96 and 1998 Black won University of Georgia Faculty Research Grants and in 1997 Black received the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Fellowship Research and Teaching Edit In 1978 79 Black was an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Hamilton College in New York state From 1979 to 1982 Black was an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill From 1983 to 1986 he was an Assistant Prof of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia In 1986 Black was promoted to Associate Professor at the University of Georgia In 1986 and 1989 Black was a UGA Exchange Professor at Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen Antwerp in Belgium In 1990 Black was a Visiting Professor at Emory University In 2003 Black was promoted to Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia Bibliography EditBooks Edit The Aesthetics of Murder A Study in Romantic Literature and Contemporary Culture The Johns Hopkins University Press 1991 The Reality Effect Film Culture and the Graphic Imperative Routledge 2002 iix 286pp Chapters Articles and Essays Edit Scientific Models in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism Volume 5 Romanticism ed Marshall Brown Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000 pp 115 137 Literature as Secret History in Literatur im Zeitalter der Globalisierung eds Manfred Schmeling Monika Schmitz Emans and Kerst Walstra Wurzburg Verlag Konigshausen amp Neumann 2000 pp 83 97 The Genealogy of Violence in African American Literature Non Native Sources of Native Son in The Conscience of Humankind Literature and Traumatic Experience Vol 3 of the Proceedings of the Fifteenth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association ed Elrud Ibsch Amsterdam and Atlanta Rodopi 2000 pp 325 36 Literature Film and Virtuality Technology s Cutting Edge in Extreme Beauty Aesthetics Politics and Death eds James E Swearingen and Joanne Cutting Gray London Continuum 2002 pp 78 88 Real ist Horror From Execution Videos to Snuff Films in Underground USA Filmmaking Beyond the Hollywood Canon eds Xavier Mendik and Steven Jay Schneider London Wallflower Press 2002 De feats of Detection The Spurious Key Text from Poe to Eco in Detecting Texts The Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism eds P Merivale and S E Sweeney University of Pennsylvania Press 1999 pp 75 98 Taking the Sex Out of Sexuality Foucault s Failed History in Rethinking Sexuality Foucault and Classical Antiquity eds David Larmour Paul Allen Miller and Charles Platter Princeton University Press 1998 pp 42 60 Writing After Murder and Before Suicide The Confessions of Werther and Riviere in Reading After Foucault Institutions Disciplines and Technologies of the Self 1750 1830 ed Robert Leventhal Wayne State University Press 1994 pp 233 59 The Hermeneutics of Extinction Denial and Discovery in Scientific Literature Comparative Criticism 13 Literature and Science ed E S Shaffer Cambridge University Press 1991 pp 147 69 Mixed Signals in the Body Languages of Sexual Commercial and Extraterrestrial Discourse in Mimesis Semiosis and Power ed R Bogue John Benjamins 1991 pp 157 83 Newtonian Mechanics and the Romantic Rebellion Introduction in Beyond the Two Cultures Essays on Science Technology and Literature ed Joseph W Slade and Judith Yaross Lee Ames Iowa Iowa State University Press 1990 pp 131 39 Confession Digression Gravitation Thomas De Quincey s German Connection in Thomas De Quincey Bicentenary Studies ed Robert L Snyder University of Oklahoma Press 1985 pp 308 37 Paper Empires of the New World Pynchon Gaddis Fuentes Proceedings of the Tenth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association New York Garland 1985 vol 3 pp 68 75 The Paper Empires and Empirical Fictions of William Gaddis reprinted in In Recognition of William Gaddis eds John Kuehl and Steven Moore Syracuse University Press 1984 pp 162 73 Idolology The Model in Artistic Practice and Critical Theory in Mimesis in Contemporary Theory Vol 1 The Literary and Philosophical Debate John Benjamins 1984 pp 172 200 Aesthetics of Gender Winckelmann Friedrich Schlegel and the Hermaphroditic Ideal ch 14 in Fragments Incompletion amp Discontinuity ed L Kritzman New York Literary Forum 8 9 1981 pp 189 209 Articles in Journals Edit Freud Moses and the Death of Rabin Mortality 7 no 1 2002 pp 83 95 Psyche s Progress Soul and Self making from Keats to Wilde Intertexts 5 no 1 2001 pp 7 22 Grisham s Demons College Literature 25 1 Winter 1998 pp 35 40 You Must Remember This The Intimate and the Obscene in Filmic Narrative Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature 40 1992 pp 83 89 The Scientific Essay and Encyclopedic Science Stanford Literature Review 1 1 Spring 1984 pp 119 48 Pynchon s Eve of De struction Pynchon Notes 14 Feb 1984 pp 23 38 The Paper Empires and Empirical Fictions of William Gaddis The Review of Contemporary Fiction 2 Summer 1982 pp 22 31 Levana Levitation in Jean Paul and Thomas De Quincey Comparative Literature 32 Winter 1980 pp 42 62 Probing a Post Romantic Paleontology Thomas Pynchon s Gravity s Rainbow Boundary 2 8 2 Winter 1980 pp 229 54 Review Articles Edit Murder The State of the Art American Literary History 12 no 4 winter 2000 pp 780 93 Review of The Changes of Cain by Ricardo J Quinones The Comparatist 17 May 1993 pp 141 45 Romanticism and the Sciences review of Romanticism and the Sciences Andrew Cunningham and Nicholas Jardine eds Studies in Romanticism 31 Fall 1992 pp 394 401 Postmodernist Fictions review of Postmodernist Fiction by Brian McHale Pynchon Notes 18 19 Spring Fall 1986 pp 96 109 The Literature of Play and the Literature of Power Literature Mimesis and Play by M Spariosu Poetics Today 4 4 1983 pp 773 82 Allegory Unveiled review of Stephen Greenblatt ed Allegory and Representation and Morton W Bloomfield ed Allegory Myth and Symbol Poetics Today 4 1 Winter 1983 pp 109 26 Rhetorical Questions and Critical Riddles review of Paul de Man Allegories of Reading Poetics Today 1 4 Summer 1980 pp 189 201 Reviews Edit Steven Totosy de Zepetnek and Milan V Dimic eds Comparative Literature Now Theories and Practice in Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 27 1 2 2002 pp 307 11 Ben Stoltzfus Lacan and Literature Purloined Pretexts in The Comparatist vol 22 May 1998 pp 194 96 Michael Felske Zukunftige Vergangenheit Thomas De Quinceys Suspiria de Profundis als natalteleologische Autobiographie European Romantic Review 8 no 2 Spring 1997 pp 209 13 Sarah Webster Goodwin and Elisabeth Bronfen eds Death and Representation in Victorian Studies 39 1 Autumn 1995 pp 77 79 George Levine ed Realism and Representation Essays on the Problem of Realism in Relation to Science Literature and Culture in Philosophy and Literature 18 1 April 1994 pp 187 89 Eduardo Gonzalez The Monstered Self Narratives of Death and Performance in Latin American Fiction MLN 107 5 Dec 1992 pp 1064 67 Herbert Lindenberger The History in Literature On Value Genre Institutions in The Wordsworth Circle 22 4 Fall 1991 228 30 John Johnston s Carnival of Repetition Gaddis s The Recognitions and Postmodern Theory in MLN 105 5 December 1990 pp 1120 24 Virgil Nemoianu The Taming of Romanticism European Literature and the Age of Biedermeier in Philosophy and Literature 10 1 April 1986 pp 133 35 Renate Jurzik Der Stoff des Lachens Studien uber Komik in Revue Belge de Philologie et d Histoire 64 3 1986 pp 595 97 Frederick Garber The Autonomy of the Self from Richardson to Huysmans in Comparative Literature Studies 20 4 Winter 1983 pp 450 53 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Joel Black amp oldid 924496161, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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