Faculty Directory
Robert L. Caserio
Professor of English
Contact:
155 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
Office Phone: 814-865-6409
rlc25@psu.edu
Office Hours:
Tuesday 2:30-4, Wednesday 4-5:30
Brief Bio:
Educational History:
Ph.D. Yale University
B.A. Cambridge University
B.A. Columbia University
Research Interests:
19th and 20th century English and American fiction; the history and theory of narrative forms; gay and lesbian literary traditions
Awards:
For The English Novel 1900-1950: History and Theory (Twayne-Simon and Schuster Macmillan)
Co-winner of the Perkins Prize, from the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature for distinguished studies of narrative, 2000
Major Publications:
The Novel in England 1900-1950: History and Theory (Twayne-Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, Prentice Hall International, 1999)
Plot, Story and the Novel: From Dickens and Poe to the Modern Period (Princeton University Press, 1979)
Book-in-progress :
Citizen Queen: Democratic Dogmas and Gay and Lesbian Fiction in the 20th Century
Other Publications :
Chapters in books: A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction (2005); The New Cambridge History of 20th Century English Literature (2004); Ford Madox Ford's Modernity (2003); W. H. Auden: New Essays (2002); Outside Modernism: In Pursuit of the English Novel, 1900-1930 (2000).
Essays in journals: "James, Cather, Vollmann and the Distinction of Historical Fiction," Symploke (2004);
"Politics and Sex in A Glastonbury Romance ," Western Humanities Review (2003); "Citizenship 2000," Cultural Studies (2000).
Encyclopedia entries: "Fiction II," The Johns Hopkins Encyclopedia of Literary Theory and Criticism , revised edition (2005); "Robert Coover," The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story (2000); "J. R. Ackerley," "Roger Casement," "Paul Goodman," The Encyclopedia of Homosexuality (2000).
Reviews: American Literature (2004, 2001); modernism/Modernity (2001).
Reprinted essays: "The Name of the Horse: Hard Times, Semiotics, and the Supernatural," Umberto Eco (Sage, 2005); "The Mansfield Moment," Short Story Criticism 83 (Thomson-Gale, 2005); "Ford Madox Ford, His Fellow Writers, and History: Another Tale of Shem and Shaun," Modernism and the Individual Talent/Moderne und besondere Begabung (Anglistik/Amerikanistik-LIT, 2002); "Twentieth Century English Literature," The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage , revised edition (Routledge, 2002); "Auden's New Citizenship," Contemporary Literary Criticism 123 (Gale Research, 2000).
National Professional Service:
Senior advisory editor, The Journal of Modern Literature
Non-fiction editor, Western Humanities Review
Advisory board member, Narrative
Member, Modern Languages Association
Past member, editorial advisory board of the MLA journal PMLA
Past member, MLA's Division Executive Committees (on late 19th and early 20th century English literature, and on 20th century English literature)
Past member, MLA Delegate Assembly
Past member, MLA's Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and Responsibilities
Past president, Society for the Study of Narrative Literature
Member, Joseph Conrad Society
Member, Ford Madox Ford Society
Member, Modernist Studies Association
