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Jonathan P. Eburne
Josephine Berry Weiss Early Career Professor in the Humanities
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and English

Contact:
424 N.  Burrowes
University Park, PA 16802                
Office phone:    814-863-0968    
jpe11@psu.edu              

http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/p/jpe11/

Office Hours:
By appointment

Educational History:
A.B. Dartmouth College; Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania


Research interests:
Modernism; Literary Theory; Surrealism and the Avant-Garde; Crime Fiction and Film; Transatlantic Studies of Literary and Cultural Exchange; American Literature since 1865.
Awards:  Research Fellow, Harry Ransom Center; Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University; Chateaubriand Fellow


Major publications:
Essays in PMLA, Modern Fiction Studies, Yale French Studies, Studies in the Novel, Pleine Marge, and Symploke. 
Co-edited forthcoming special issue of Modern Fiction Studies, entitled "Paris, Modern Fiction, and the Black Atlantic."


Books in progress: 
Surrealism and the Art of Crime