nadel 2010

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

Ph.D., Professor of English

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PhD thesis: 

The Alternate Vision: Renunciation in the Novels of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy (1970)

Research Interests:

  • biography
  • the Victorians
  • literary modernism (J. Joyce, E. Pound, S. Beckett)

Teaching experience:

Courses: Victorian novel; Popular literature; The Body in Literature; Mapping the Victorian city; Beckett's Work; Joyce's Work; Literary Biography.

Lecture courses in England, Israel, Italy, China, Germany, Monaco, Ireland, the U.S., Canada.

Selected bibliography:

Articles:

  1. Maugham and Woolf in Russia: Ashenden and Orlando. Journal of English Language and Literature, vol. 66: 1 (2020). P. 23–43.
  2. I Married a Communist: The Book! The Movie! The Commie Threat! Philip Roth Studies, 16.2 (2020). P. 3–15.
  3. Wells and Gorky. H.G. Wells and All Things Russian, ed. Galya Diment. Anthem, 2019. P. 143–156.
  4. Jersey Boys: Philip Roth and Bruce Springsteen. Journal of English Language and Literature, 65:3 (Sept. 2019). P. 425–439.
  5. "Ezra Pound’s Global Poetics." Literature of the Americas 7 (2019): 202-224.
  6. “Oriental Bloomsbury.” Modernist Cultures. Special Issue on Global Modernism 13.1 (2018): 14–32.
  7. “Mansfield, Movement and Dance,” Katherine Mansfield Annual, ed. Gayla Diment, Gerri Kimber, et al, 2017: 89-106.
  8. “Laughter in Jerusalem: Eichmann, Brecht and Arendt.” Clio 45:3 (2017): 335–354.
  9. “Beckett, Proust and the Darkroom,” Journal of Modern Literature 40: 4 (Summer 2017): 51-61.
  10. “Father and Daughter, Leslie Stephen and Virginia Woolf,” Journal of English Language and Literature, 62: 2 (June 2016): 177-94.
  11.  “The Ethics of Transformative Texts,” Foreign Literature Studies, 38:4 (2016): 7-14. Wuhan University, China.
  12.  “Oriental Woolf,” Affirmations: of the Modern (Australia). 4:1 (2016): 65-91. Special issue on transnational modernisms.
  13.  “‘Count Me In,’ Comedy in Dracula,” Victorian Literary Cultures, Studies in Textual Subversion, ed. Kenneth Womack and James M. Decker. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, 2016, 129-152.
  14.  “Roth @25: Publishing Goodbye, Columbus,” Roth After 80, ed. David Gooblar and Aimee Pozorski. Lanham, MD: Lexington, Books, 2016. 19-27.
  15.  “The Bloomsbury Short Story,” Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences. 10.1 (2016): 5-19Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
  16. “Copyright , Empire and The Politics of Print,” Topia 93 (2015): 29-51.
  17. “White Rain: 9/11 and American Fiction,” Canadian Review of American Studies, 45.2 (2015): 125-48.
  18. “Apollinaire/ Stein/ Picasso,” Journal of English Language and Literature, 61 (June 2015): 173-191.
  19. “‘The Nature of Fun’: The Late Essays of David Foster Wallace,” David Foster Wallace, Critical Insights, ed. Philip Coleman. Amenia, NY: Grey House, 2015. 209-20.
  20. “The Fingerprint or The Photograph? The Fiction of Biographical Facts,” English Language and Literature 60.1 (2014) 59-76.
  21. “Ezra Pound and MI 5,” Paideuma 40 (2013): 327-47.
  22. “Philip Roth and Film,” Roth and Celebrity, ed. Aimee Pozorski. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2012. 47-66.
  23. “Boxing with Brecht: David Mamet and Bertolt Brecht,” Journal of Dramatic theory and Criticism, XXVI (2011): 103-24.

Books:

  • Philip Roth. A Counterlife. Oxford UP, 2021.
  • Cathay: Ezra Pound's Orient. China: Penguin, 2015.
  • Modernism's Second Act, A Cultural Narrative. New York: Palgrave, 2013.
  • A Critical Companion to Philip Roth. NY: Facts on File, 2011.
  • Ezra Pound in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010, ed.
  • Leon Uris: Life of a Best Seller. Texas: U of Texas Press, 2010.
  • David Mamet, A Life in the Theatre. NY: Palgrave, 2008; UK: Methuen, 2008.
  • The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007.
  • Pound, Ezra. Early Writings, Poems and Prose.  New York: Penguin, 2005, ed.
  • Joyce and His Publishers. Dublin: National Library of Ireland, 2005.
  • Ezra Pound, A Literary Life. London: Palgrave, 2004.
  • Double Act, A Life of Tom Stoppard. London: Methuen, 2002; New York: St. Martin’s, 2002.
  • The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ, Press, 1999, ed.
  • Various Positions, A Life of Leonard Cohen. Toronto: Random House, 1996; New York: Pantheon, 1996.
  • Leonard Cohen, His Life as Art. Downsview, ON: ECW Press, 1994.
  • Pound, Ezra. The Letters of Ezra Pound to Alice Corbin Henderson. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1993, ed.
  • Joyce and the Jews, Culture and Texts. London: Macmillan, 1989.
  • Biography: Fiction, Fact & Form. London: Macmillan, 1984.

Membership:

The Ezra Pound Society

Awards:

  • Distinguished University Scholar, University of British Columbia;
  • Times of London top seven best books in theater and film for David Mamet: A Life in the Theatre (2008);
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1996);
  • UBC Medal for Canadian Biography (1996);
  • Killiam Faculty Research Fellowship (1994);
  • Killiam Research Prize (1992).