Office: Keezell
210
Phone: 540-568-3759
Email: hefnerbe@jmu.edu
Office Hours:
Courses: Fall 2013
Eng 662: Studies in 20th- and 21st-Century Literature of the United States: From Little
Mags to Pulp Rags: American(s) Publishing in the Modernist Eral
Hon 300: Advanced Special Topics in Honors
Specialization: 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:
Erle Stanley Gardner Endowment for Mystery Studies Fellowship, Harry Ransom Center
for the Humanities (2011)
Edna T. Shaeffer Humanist Award, JMU (2011)
JMU Library Collections Development Grant, Black Mask pulp collection, JMU (2010-
2011)
Open Resource Grant for “Hart Crane’s The Bridge: A Digital Resource,” JMU (2010-
2011)
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:
"Weird Investigations and Nativist Semiotics in H.P. Lovecraft and Dashiell Hammett," forthcoming in Modern Fiction Studies.
"Milland Alone: The End of the System, Post-Studio Stardom, and the Total Auteur,”
forthcoming in the Journal of Film and Video.
"'I Used to Be a Highbrow But Look at Me Now': Phrenology, Detection, and Cultural
Hierarchy in S.S. Van Dine,” Clues: A Journal of Detection 30.1 (Spring 2012): 30-41.
“Rethinking Blacula: Ideological Critique at the Intersection of Genres,” Journal of Popular Film and Television 40.2 (Summer 2012): 62-74.
“‘Slipping back into the vernacular’: Anzia Yezierska’s Vernacular Modernism.”
MELUS 36.3 (Fall 2011): 187-211.
“‘Any Chance to Be Unrefined’: Film Narrative Modes in Anita Loos’s Fiction,” PMLA
125.1 (January 2010): 107-120.
“Review of Hard-Boiled Masculinities by Christopher Breu,” NeoAmericanist 1.2
(Spring 2006). Online.
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