Office: Keezell
210
Phone: 540-568-3759
Email: hefnerbe@jmu.edu
Office Hours: Fall 2009 - MWF 11:1`5-12:15, M 4:00-6:00
Courses: Fall 2009
GENG 248 Survey of American Literature II, MWF 1:25 - 2:15
ENG 344 American Realism and Naturalism, MWF 10:10-11:00
ENG356 Modern American Novel, MW 2:30-2:45
Specialties: American fiction, 1865-1945; popular literary genres (esp. hard-boiled crime and detective fiction, dime novels, and westerns); American modernism; American periodical culture; silent film and film history; popular film genres (western, detective/noir, horror, etc.); American language and slang; literature and the American Left; jazz and literature; early sound recording history and technology.
Education:
Ph.D., English, City University of New York, 2009
B.A., German, Transylvania University, 2001
B.A., English, Transylvania University, 1999
Awards:
The Alfred Kazin Prize for the Best Dissertation in American Literature and Culture, CUNY (2009)
Sponsored Dissertation Fellowship, CUNY (2008-2009)
Sue Rosenberg Zalk Student Travel and Research Grant, CUNY (2007, 2008, 2009)
Doctoral Student Research Grant, CUNY (2007)
Provost’s Fellowship, CUNY (2004-2009)
Rollin Prize (Best graduate essay in American Culture), Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association in the South Conference (2006)
Publications:
“‘Any Chance to Be Unrefined’: Film Narrative Modes in Anita Loos’s Fiction,” forthcoming in PMLA 125.1 (January 2010)
“‘Slipping back into the vernacular’: Anzia Yezierska’s Vernacular Modernism,” (under review)
“Review of Hard-Boiled Masculinities by Christopher Breu,” NeoAmericanist 1.2 (Spring 2006). Online.
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