海角社区

Dr.  J. Gerald  Kennedy 

Boyd Professor  - English

Bachelor's Degree(s): B. A. Grove City College, (cum laude)

Master's Degree: M. A. Duke University

PhD: Ph. D. Duke University

Phone: (225) 578-9021

E-mail: jgkenn@lsu.edu

Office: 245B2 Allen

Area of Interest

American Literature, short fiction, literary nationalism and modernism 

Awards & Honors

2011 Boyd Professorship in Humanities (海角社区 Most Distinguished Endowed Chair)
2009 Lillian Gary Taylor Fellowship, University of Virginia
2005-06 Louisiana Board of Regents ATLAS Fellowship
2003 NEH Senior Fellowship
2003 Lifetime Honorary Membership, Poe Studies Association
2003 James W. Gargano Award, Poe Studies Association
2002 Mellon Travel Grant, Harry Ransome Humanities Research Center
2001-02 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1999 海角社区 Distinguished Research Master
1993 海角社区 Foundation Distinguished Faculty Award
1990 海角社区 Summer Research Grant; Manship Summer Grant (supplement)
1988 NEH Travel to Collections Grant
1987 LEH Mini-grant for Graduate Humanities Program Lecture Series
1982 Pushcart Prize Selection
1980 海角社区 Summer Research Grant
1977 NEH Summer Stipend
1976 海角社区 Summer Research Grant
1974 海角社区 Summer Research Grant
1973 Phi Beta Kappa, Duke University

Selected Publications

Books:
The Life of Black Hawk, ed. (New York: Penguin, 2008).
The Portable Edgar Allan Poe, ed. (New York: Penguin, 2006).
Romancing the Shadow: Poe and Race, ed. with Liliane Weissberg (New York:
Oxford University Press, 2001).
Oxford Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe, ed. (New York: Oxford University Press,
2001).
French Connections: Hemingway and Fitzgerald Abroad, ed. with Jackson R. Bryer (New York: St. Martin鈥檚 Press, 1998; paperback, 1999).
Modern American Short Story Sequences: Composite Fictions and Fictions of Community, ed. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym and the Abyss of Interpretation (New York:
Twayne, 1995).
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym and Related Tales, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1994).
Imagining Paris: Exile, Writing, and American Identity (New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1993; paperback, 1994).
Poe, Death, and the Life of Writing (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987).
American Letters and the Historical Consciousness, ed. with Daniel Mark Fogel (Baton Rouge: 海角社区 Press, 1987).
The Astonished Traveler: William Darby, Frontier Geographer and Man of Letter
(Baton Rouge: 海角社区 Press, 1981).

Forthcoming books:
Illusions of National Destiny: Nation-building and Cultural Conflict in the Age of Poe
(Oxford University Press, 2011).
The American Novel to 1870, co-edited with Leland S. Person, Vol. 5, Oxford History of
the Novel in English, gen. ed. Patrick Parrinder (Oxford University Press, 2011).

Monograph
The American Turn of Edgar Allan Poe (Baltimore: Edgar Allan Poe Society, 2002).

Essays and Articles:
鈥淯nwinnable Wars, Unspeakable Wounds: Locating 鈥楾he Man That Was Used Up,鈥� Poe
Studies 39-40 (Fall 2008): 77-89.
鈥淐ooper鈥檚 Europe and his Quarrel with America鈥� A Historical Guide to James Fenimore
Cooper, ed. Leland S. Person (New York: Oxford UP, 2007), 91-122.
鈥淎ngling for Affection: Absent Fathers, Fatherhood, and Fishing in A Farewell to
Arms,鈥� in Hemingway鈥檚 Italy, ed. Rena Sanderson (Baton Rouge: 海角社区 Press, 2006), 119-30.
鈥淭he Short Story and the Short-Story Sequence, 1865-1914鈥� in Blackwell Companion to American Fiction,1865-1914, ed. Robert Paul Lamb and G. R. Thompson (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), 149-74.
鈥溾�楢 Mania for Composition鈥�: Poe鈥檚 Annus Mirabilis and the Violence of Nation
Building, American Literary History 17 (Spring 2005): 1-35.
鈥淔itzgerald鈥檚 鈥極ne Trip Abroad鈥� and the Sense of an Ending,鈥� F. Scott Fitzgerald Review
3 (2004):17-26.
鈥淣ational Narrative and the Problem of American Nationhood,鈥� in Blackwell
Companion to American Literature, 1790-1865, ed. Shirley Samuels (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004), 7-19.
鈥淧oe, Fitzgerald, and the American Nightmare,鈥� Edgar Allan Poe Review 5 (Fall 2004):
4-14.
鈥淚ncubi nazionali di Poe,鈥� in Fantastico Poe, ed. Roberto Cagliero (Verona: Ombre
Corte, 2004), 21-37. [trans.Hilia Brinis]
鈥淓arly Nineteenth-Century American Literature,鈥� in American Literary Scholarship 2001, ed. David J. Nordloh (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003), 251-79.
鈥淓arly Nineteenth-Century American Literature,鈥� in American Literary Scholarship 2000, ed. David J. Nordloh (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002), 227-52.
鈥淔itzgerald鈥檚 Expatriate Years and the European Stories,鈥� in The Cambridge Companion
to F. Scott Fitzgerald, ed. Ruth Prigozy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 118-42.
鈥淚mperiled Communities in Edward P. Jones鈥檚 Lost in the City and Dagoberto Gilb鈥檚 The
Magic of Blood,鈥� Yearbook of English Studies, 31 (2001):10-23 (with R. Beuka)
鈥淒oing Country: Hemingway鈥檚 Geographical Imagination,鈥� Southern Review 35 (Spring
1999): 325-29.
鈥淔iguring the Damage: Fitzgerald鈥檚 鈥楤abylon Revisited鈥� and Hemingway鈥檚 鈥楾he Snows
of Kilimanjaro,鈥欌�� in French Connections: Hemingway and Fitzgerald Abroad, edited with Jackson R. Bryer (New York: St. Martin鈥檚 Press, 1998), 317-43.
鈥淭he Violence of Melancholy: Poe Against Himself,鈥� American Literary History 8 (1996): 533-51.
鈥淗emingway, Hadley, and Paris: The Persistence of Desire,鈥� in The Cambridge
Companion to Hemingway, ed. Scott Donaldson (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 197-220.
鈥淔rom Anderson鈥檚 Winesburg to Carver鈥檚 Cathedral: The Short Sequence and the
Semblance of Community, in Modern American Short Story Sequences: Composite Fictions and Fictions of Community (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 194-215.
鈥淭he Limits of Reason: Poe鈥檚 Deluded Detectives,鈥� in On Poe: The Best from
American Literature, ed. Louis J. Budd and Edwin H. Cady (Durham: Duke University Press, 1993), 172-84.  Reprinted from American Literature 47 (1975): 184-96.
鈥淧oe, 鈥楲igeia,鈥� and the Problem of Dying Women,鈥� in New Essays on Poe's Major Tales, ed. Kenneth Silverman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 113-29.
鈥淧ym Pourri: Decomposing the Textual Body,鈥� in Poe鈥檚 鈥淧ym鈥�: Critical Explorations,
ed. Richard Kopley (Durham: Duke University Press, 1992), 167-74.
鈥淥ut of the Picture: Mrs. Krebs, Mother Stein, and 鈥楽oldier鈥檚 Home,鈥欌�� Hemingway
Review 12 (1992):1-11. (with Kirk Curnutt)
鈥淗emingway鈥檚 Gender Trouble,鈥� American Literature 63 (1991):187-207.
鈥淧lace, Self, and Writing,鈥� The Southern Review 26 (1990): 496-516.
鈥淓legy for a 鈥楻ebel Soul鈥�: Henry Clay Preuss and the Poe Debate,鈥� Poe and His Times,
ed. Benjamin F. Fisher IV (Baltimore: Edgar Allan Poe Society, 1990), 226-34.
鈥淭he Semiotics of Memory: Suicide in The Second Coming,鈥� in Critical Essays on WalkerPercy, ed. J. Donald Crowley and Sue Mitchell Crowley (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1989), 208-25.  Reprinted from Delta 13 (1981): 103-25.
鈥淭oward a Poetics of the Short Story Cycle,鈥� Journal of the Short Story in English 11
(1988): 9-25.
鈥淟ife as Fiction: The Lure of Hemingway鈥檚 Garden,鈥� The Southern Review 24 (1988):
451-61.
鈥淧hantasms of Death in Poe鈥檚 Fiction,鈥� in The Tales of Poe, ed. Harold Bloom (New
York: Chelsea House, 1987), 111-33.  Reprinted from The Haunted Dusk: American Supernatural Fiction, 1820-1920, ed. Howard Kerr, John W. Crowley, and Charles L. Crow (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1983), 37-65.
鈥淧arody as Exorcism: 鈥楾he Raven鈥� and 鈥楾he Jewbird,鈥欌�� in Critical Essays on Bernard
Malamud, ed. Joel Salzberg (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1987), 108-15.  Reprinted from Genre 13 (1980): 161-69.
鈥淎n Interview with Walker Percy,鈥� in Conversations with Walker Percy, ed. Lewis A.
Lawson and Victor A. Kramer (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1985), 226-44.  Reprinted from Delta 13 (1981): 1-20. (with Ben Forkner)
鈥淭he Invisible Message: The Problem of Truth in Pym,鈥� in The Naiad Voice: Essays on
Poe's Satiric Hoaxing, ed. Dennis W. Eddings (Port Washington, N. Y.: Associated Faculty Press, 1983), 124-35. Reprinted in revised form from Topic 30 (1976): 41-53.
鈥淲hat Hemingway Omitted from 鈥楥at in the Rain,鈥欌�� Les Cahiers de la Nouvelle 1
(1983):75-81.
鈥淩oland Barthes, Autobiography, and the End of Writing,鈥� in The Pushcart Prize, VII:
Best of the Small Presses, ed. Bill Henderson (Wainscott, New York: Pushcart Press, 1982), 429-48.  Reprinted from Georgia Review 35 (1981): 381-98.
鈥淕limpses of the 鈥楬eroic Age鈥�: William Darby's Letters to Lyman C. Draper,鈥� The
Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine 63 (1980): 37-48.
鈥淭he Sundered Self and the Riven World: Love in the Ruins,鈥� in The Art of Walker Percy: Stratagems for Being, ed. Panthea Reid Broughton (Baton Rouge: 海角社区 Press, 1979), 115-36.
  鈥淐ooper's Anti-Intellectualism: The Comic Man of Learning,鈥� Studies in American Humor 3 (1979): 69-75.
  鈥淧oe and Magazine Writing on Premature Burial,鈥� Studies in the American Renaissance 1 (1977): 165-78.  
鈥淭he Magazine Tales of the 1830s,鈥� American Transcendental Quarterly 24 (1974):
23-28.
  鈥淭he Preface as a Key to the Satire in Pym,鈥� Studies in the Novel 5 (1973): 191-96.
  鈥淛effery Aspern and Edgar Allan Poe: A Speculation,鈥� Poe Studies 6 (1973):17-18.

Documentary essay:
鈥淓dgar Allan Poe,鈥� in Mystery and Suspense Writers, Vol. 2, ed. Robin W. Winks and
Maureen Corrigan (New York: Charles Scribner鈥檚 Sons, 1998), 733-55.

Note:
鈥淛ames D. B. DeBow.鈥� Southern Writers: A Biographical Dictionary. Ed. Robert
Bain, Joseph M. Flora, and Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Baton Rouge: 海角社区 Press (1979):122-3.  

Reviews:
Improvised Europeans: American Literary Expatriates and the Siege of London, by Alex
Zwerdling. Journal of English and Germanic Philology 99 (2000): 604-07.
Letters from the Lost Generation: Gerald and Sara Murphy and Friends, ed. Linda
Patterson Miller.  Resources for American Literary Study 21 (1995): 326-28.
Paris in American Literature, by Jean M茅ral. American Literature 62 (1990): 702-03.
Geniuses Together: American Writers in Paris in the 1920s, by Humphrey Carpenter.
American Literature 61 (1989): 114-15.
鈥淧oe, Materiality, and the Fate of Mind,鈥� essay-review of Fables of Mind: An Inquiry into Poe鈥檚 Fiction, by Joan Dayan. Poe Studies 21 (1988): 21-22.
The Poe Log, by Dwight Thomas and David K. Jackson. Poe Studies Association
Newsletter 15 (1987): 3-4.
The Problematic Fictions of Poe, James, and Hawthorne, by Judith L. Sutherland.
American Literature 58 (1986): 288-89.
The Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce, ed. Umberto Eco and Thomas A. Sebeok.
Philosophy and Literature 10 (1986): 122-23.
Epistolarity: Approaches to a Form, by Judith Gurkin Altman. L'Esprit Cr茅ateur 23 (1983):109-10.
The Literature of Terror: A History of Gothic Forms from 1765 to the Present Day, by
David Punter. ECCB, n.s. 7(1981):367-68.
Literary Impressionism, James and Chekhov, by Peter Stowell. The Henry James Review
1(1980):272-3.
Walt Whitman鈥檚 Champion: William Douglas O'Connor, by Jerome M. Loving. South
Central Bulletin 38(1978):128-29.
Building Poe Biography, by John C. Miller. American Literature 50(1978):655-56.
Variety of Attempt: British and American Fiction in the Early Nineteenth Century, by
Neal Frank Doubleday.  American Literature 49 (1977):273-75.
Poe鈥檚 Fiction: Romantic Irony in the Gothic Tales. by G. R. Thompson. Studies in
American Humor 1(1974):52-54.