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Erik Dussere

Assistant Professor
Department of Literature

  • Professor Dussere's teaching and research are primarily focused on the literature, film, and culture of twentieth-century America, although he is also interested in topics such as French film, the postcolonial novel, and cultural studies. His first book, Balancing the Books: Faulkner, Morrison, and the Economies of Slavery, was published in 2003. He has also published articles about comic books and strips, and is currently writing about film noir and detective fiction.

  • Degrees

    PhD, Literatures in English, Rutgers University
    BA, English, University of Massachusetts

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Teaching

  • Spring 2013

    • LIT-346 Topics in Film: Hollywood in the Seventies
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Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Selected Publications

       
  • Balancing the Books: Faulkner, Morrison, and the Economies of Slavery. New York: Routledge, 2003
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  • “Out of the Past, Into the Supermarket: Consuming Film Noir,” Film Quarterly 60:1
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  •  “Subversion in the Swamp: Pogo and the Folk in the McCarthy Era,” The Journal of American Culture 26:1
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  • “Accounting for Slavery: Economic Narratives in Morrison and Faulkner,” Modern Fiction Studies 47:2
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  • “The Debts of History: Southern Honor, Affirmative Action, and Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust,” Faulkner Journal 17:1; Winner of the Hinkle Award for Scholarship in the Faulkner Journal 2000-2005
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  • The Queer World of the X-Men,” Salon, July 12, 2000.

 

Professional Presentations

       
  • “The Space of Conspiracy in The Parallax View,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Chicago, IL, March 2007.
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  •  Presentation and discussion on Fahrenheit 451 for the NEA’s “Big Read,” Institute of Museum and Library Services, Washington, DC, October 2006.
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  • “Conspiracy of Skin: Chester Himes and the Detective Novel,” Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, DC, December 2005.
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  • “Pulp is Beautiful: The Black Panther Meets the Seventies,” American Studies Association Conference, Washington, DC, November 2005; MLA Convention, Philadelphia, PA, December 2004.

 

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