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Joseph Conrad, the psychology of extreme conditions as depicted in modern literature, the artist as critic in the 20th century
B.A. University of Toronto, Philosophy and Political Science
M.A. University of Chicago Committee on Social Thought
Ph.D. University of Chicago Committee on Social Thought
Literary Tradition I, II, IV
The Art of Joseph Conrad
Twentieth Century Literature
Literature of the Shoah
The Art of Saul Bellow
Tolstoy's War and Peace
The Romantic Tradition
Literary Study II: Prose Fiction
“Conrad and the Ancient Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry.” The Routledge Companion to Joseph Conrad, Routledge, forthcoming.
“Inwardness on the ‘Narcissus.’” The Conradian, vol. 48., no. 2, forthcoming.
“Cosmic Perspective in a Human Art,” The Conradian, vol. 46, no. 2, 2021, pp. 47-55.
“Teaching Heart of Darkness Now,” Literary Imagination, vol. 23, no. 2, 2021, pp. 170-181. http://academic.oup.com/litimag/issue/23/2
“Marlow, Socrates, and an Ancient Quarrel,” The Conradian, vol. 38, no. 2, 2015, reprinted in Centennial Essays on Conrad’s Chance, edited by Allan Simmons and Susan Jones, Brill/Rodopi, 2016, pp. 53-65.
“A New Afterword” to Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent, Signet Classics, 2015, pp. 263-71.
“The Horror and the Human: The Politics of Dehumanization in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Primo Levi’s Se questo è un uomo.” Conradiana: A Journal of Joseph Conrad Studies, vol. 37, no. 3, 2005, pp. 185-204.
“Conrad and Gender.” The New Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad, edited by J.H. Stape Cambridge University Press, 2015, pp. 132-46.
“Conrad First in the Classroom.” 2013, ConradFirst, www. conradfirst.net/conrad/scholarship/ authors/baldwin.html.
“‘Two Languages’ of Engagement: The Rhetoric of Conrad’s Letters to R.B. Cunninghame Graham.” The Conradian, vol. 37, no. 2, 2012, pp. 20-31.
“‘Simple Ideas’ and the Narrative of Solidarity in ‘Prince Roman.’” The Conradian, vol. 35. no. 1, 2010, pp. 17-27.
“Flannery O’Connor,” Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction. Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.
“The Voice of Comedy in Conrad’s Typhoon and Primo Levi’s The Monkey’s Wrench,” Conradiana: A Journal of Joseph Conrad Studies, vol. 38, no.1, 2006, pp. 17-28.
“Augustinian Physicality and the Rhetoric of the Grotesque in the Art of Flannery O’Connor.” Augustine and Literature, edited by Robert Kennedy, Kim Paffenroth, and John Doody, Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield-Lexington, 2006..
“The Horror and the Human: The Politics of Dehumanization in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Primo Levi’s Se questo è un uomo.” Conradiana: A Journal of Joseph Conrad Studies, vol. 37. no. 3, 2005, pp. 185-204.
“Politics, Martyrdom and the Legend of St. Thekla in Conrad’s Under Western Eyes,” Conradiana: A Journal of Joseph Conrad Studies, vol. 32, no. 2, 2000, pp. 144-157.
“Conrad’s Victory and The Shadow-Line. A Joseph Conrad Companion, edited by Ted Billy and Leonard Orr, Greenwood, 1999, pp. 231-251.
“‘The Worker in Prose’: Conrad’s Anti-theoretical Theory of Art.” Conrad’s Century:The Past and Future Splendour, edited by Laura Davis-Clapper, Columbia University Press, 1999, pp. 189-202.
“Inwardness on the ‘Narcissus” at the 50th Annual Conference of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK), St. Mary’s University, Twickenham, UK, July 6, 2023.
“Divinity and Democracy in Moby Dick.” Annual Conerence of the Association for Core Texts and Classes (ACTC), March 30, 2023.
“Ukraine Thrice Assaulted: The Evolving Poetry of Lyubov Sirota.” Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention, 6 January 2022.
“Cosmic Perspective in a Human Art.” 2021 Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention, 9 January 2021.
“Eros and the ‘Knowing Reading’”: A Response to Jeremy Hawthorn 40th Annual (UK) International Conference on Joseph Conrad University of Kent in Canterbury, July 4, 2014.
“Conrad, Russell, and a Familiar Quarrel” at the 38th Annual Conference of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK) Bath, UK, 8 July 2012.
“Tentative Universals: Conrad, Russell, and the Continuing Quarrel between Poetry
and Philosophy,” the “36th Annual International Conference on Joseph Conrad,” a joint conference of the Joseph
Conrad Society (UK) and the Société Conradienne Française, Paris, September 15-18,
2010.
“Skepticism and the Problem of Moralism: Conrad’s Response to Galsworthy’s A Man of Devon,” Joseph Conrad Society of America International Conference, Chapman University, CA, January 8, 2010.
“Conradian Affect, Narrative Solidarity, and Darwin’s The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals,” 2009 Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, PA, December 29, 2009.
“Russian Literature in a European Context: The Case of Eugene Onegin” University of Dallas, September 23, 2009.
“The Simple Ideas in Conrad’s World? The Case of ‘Prince Roman,’” 34th Annual International Conference of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK), Lincoln, UK, July 2, 2008.
“Hamlet 9-11: A Reading of Jonathan Safron Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,” Las Colinas Literary Club, Las Colinas, November 3, 2008.
“The Many Faces of Salome,” Interdisciplinary Panel on “Salome” (in conjunction with Dallas Opera production of Strauss’ “Salome”), University of Dallas, February 3, 2008.
“The Voice of Comedy in Conrad’s ‘Typhoon’ and Primo Levi’s The Monkey’s Wrench,” Modern Language Association’s Annual Convention, Philadelphia, December 30, 2004.
“Monsters and Meta-narratives: The Case of Frankenstein,” Association for Core Texts and Courses 2004 Conference, Irving, April 16, 2004.
“The Politics of Extreme Conditions in Heart of Darkness and Primo Levi’s If This is A Man,” “Conrad and Territoriality” International Conference of the Joseph Conrad Society of America, Vancouver, Canada, August, 2002.
Plenary Lecture: “Harlequins, Skeletons and Red-Eyed Devils: The Horror and the Human in Conrad and Primo Levi,” University of Chicago Basic Program Spring Weekend, East Troy, WI, April, 2001.
“Savagery and the Human in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness,” the Africana Studies Workshop, Villanova University, April 12, 2000.
“Conrad and Dostoevsky on Human Nature and Nationality,” the University of Pennsylvania Humanities Forum, University of Pennsylvania, April 5, 2000.
“Torn Asunder: Oppositional Madness in Tolstoy’s ‘Notes of a Madman,’” Northeast Modern Language Association’s Annual Convention, Pittsburgh, April 17, 1999.
“Reading from East to West in Conrad’s Non-fiction,” Modern Language Association’s Annual Convention, Toronto, Canada, 1997.
“The Martyrdom of St. Thekla: Spirituality and Politics in Conrad’s Under Western Eyes,” “Conrad in Philadelphia” Conference of the Joseph Conrad Society of America, Philadelphia, 1997.
“‘That Amazing Document’: Superstition and Technology in Conrad’s The Shadow-Line,” Northeast Modern Language Association’s Annual Convention, Philadelphia, April 4, 1997.
“‘Victorious Wretch’? The Puzzle of Haldin’s Name in Conrad’s Under Western Eyes,” Twenty-Second Annual International Conference on Joseph Conrad, London, England, July 6, 1996.
“‘The Worker in Prose’: Conrad’s Anti-Theoretical Theory of Art,” Conrad's Century: International Conference of the Joseph Conrad Society of America, Kent State University, April 10, 1995.
Invited Reviews:
Yael Levin, Joseph Conrad: Slow Modernism. Conradiana, forthcoming.
Helen Chambers, Conrad’s Reading, Palgrave, 2018, for Conradiana, vol. 28., no. 3, 2019.
Laurence Davies, Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad, Cambridge University Press, 2015, for Joseph Conrad Today. Reprinted in The Conradian, vol. 44, no. 1, Spring 2019 issue.
David Miller, Today, Atlantic Books, 2011, for Joseph Conrad Today, vol. 38, no. 2.
Zdisław Najder, Joseph Conrad: A Life (New York: Camden House, 2007) for Joseph Conrad Today vol. 32, no..1, 2008.
Conrad in the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Approaches and Perspectives, edited by Carola Kaplan, Peter Lancelot Mallios, and Andrea White, New York: Routledge, 2004, for Conradiana, vol. 37 no.3, 2006.
Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness: A Casebook, edited by Gene M. Moore, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), for Joseph Conrad Today, vol. 30, no. 1, 2005.
Conrad and Poland, edited by Alex Kurczaba, Boulder, Lublin, New York, Eastern European Monographs, 1996, for Slavic and East European Journal, vol. 43, no. 1, 1999, pp. 224-26.
Kazimiera Ingdahl, A Gnostic Tragedy: A Study in Stanisława Przybyszewska’s Aesthetics and Works, Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1997, for Slavic and East European Journal, vol. 43, no. 4, 2000, pp. 702-4.
