Title: Associate Professor
Office: Morton Hall 103C
Phone: (910) 962-7545
e-mail:borenm@uncw.edu
Education:
PhD, English (1998). University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.
MFA, Visual Arts (1991). State University of New York, Buffalo.
BA, English (1986). University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
Teaching and Research Interests:
My teaching and research interests range across a wide spectrum of American literature, from Melville to Jacobs to Faulkner. I employ a variety of critical approaches based on close readings, and I am particularly interested in how powerful works of literature defy interpretation to perennially generate new meaning. My writing-intensive classes are often interdisciplinary, and their success depends to great extent on student participation.
Some Courses Taught:
Composition; Advanced Composition; Introduction to Literature; American Literature to 1870; American Literature Since 1870; British Literature Since 1700; American Visionaries; Postmodernism in the Visual and Literary Arts; Southern Literature; Literary Theory; The History of Literary Criticism; Lyrical Poetry; American Gothic; Enslaving America: Literature of Human Subjugation; The Novels of William Faulkner; The American Epic; Madness and American Literature; American Romanticism; Psychoanalysis and Literature.
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Book:
Student Resistance: A History of the Unruly Subject. New York: Routledge Press
(August 2001), 356pp.
Articles:
“Slipping the Shackles of Subjectivity: The Narrator as Runaway in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl." Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism 161 (2007). Reprint.
“Revolutionary Learning,” Radical Experiments in Utopian Pedagogies. Ed. Mark Cote and Richard Day. Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2006.
“A Fiery Furnace and a Sugar Train: Metaphors that Challenge the Critical Legacy of Phillis Wheatley’s ‘On Being Brought from Africa to America’.” The CEA Critic 67.1 (2004): 38-56.
“On the Importance of Literary Studies in the Making of Responsible Citizens.” International Journal of Humanities and Peace 20.1 (2004): 56-59.
"The Southern Super Collider: William Faulkner Smashes Language into Reality in As I Lay
Dying." The Southern Quarterly (summer 2002).
"Slipping the Shackles of Subjectivity: The Narrator as Runaway in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl." Genre, 34 (spring 2001).
"The Talented Professor X." Chronicle of Higher Education, 48:12 (November 12, 2001).
“What’s Eating Ahab? The Logic of Ingestion and the Performance of Meaning in Moby-Dick.” Style, vol. 34, no.1 (Spring 2000).
“More than a Line: The Unmistakable Impression of Significance and the Dashes of Henry James.” Philological Quarterly, vol.77, no. 3 (Fall 1999).
"Do Academic Giants Still Walk the Earth?" Chronicle of Higher Education, vol. 46, no. 3
(September 10, 1999).
“Beasts of Burden.” Lingua Franca (July/August 1998).
“Flannery O’Connor and the Word Made Flesh.” Studies in American Fiction, vol. 26, no. 1
(Spring 1998).
Selected Readings, Lectures, and Conferences:
"The Talented Professor X." Arts and Letters Live. Read by John Benjamin Hickey. Dallas Museum of Art. March 24, 2003. Originally published in Chronicle of Higher Education, 48:12 (November 12, 2001).
"The Talented Professor X." Texas Bound. Read by James Black. Alley Theatre, Houston. June 2, 2003. Originally published in Chronicle of Higher Education, 48:12 (November 12, 2001).
"The Unruly Subject." Katherine K. Buckner Distinguished Presentation Series, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, North Carolina. October 30, 2001.
"The Velocity of Language." Public Lecture at Whitechapel Gallery, London. Sponsored by
Whitechapel, with the Tate Museum. November 22, 1998.
“National Landscapes in Rousseau and Wordsworth.” Panel Chair. American Conference on Romanticism, Athens, Georgia. January 22, 1998.
“Signing the Text, Henry James.” American Name Society Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada. December 29, 1997.
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Budgie Stuffed With J. G. Ballard's Crash. Mixed media, 1991. |
Selected Art Exhibitions:
Speed: Visions of an Accelerated Age. 1998. Artist in group show. “Budgie Stuffed with J.G. Ballard’s Crash.” The Whitechapel Gallery, London. Show also includes work by Joseph Beuys, Chris Burden, Marcel Duchamp, Roy Lichtenstein, Filippo Marinetti, Henri Matisse, Francis Picabia, Ed Ruscha, Robert Smithson, and Andy Warhol.
Crash: Nostalgia in the Era of Cyberspace. 1994. Artist in group show. “Budgie Stuffed with J.G. Ballard’s Crash.” Threadwaxing Space. New York, New York. Show also includes work by Vito Acconci, Guy Debord, Martha Rosler, Leslie Thornton, and Andy Warhol.
Paradise Regained. 1991. Solo show. Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York.
