Dr. Patrick McGee
Read Professor - English
PhD: Ph.D., Literature, University of California at Santa Cruz
Phone: (225) 578-2475
E-mail: pmcgee@lsu.edu
Office: 245B1 Allen
Area of Interest
Critical Theory and Cultural Studies; Film Studies; Irish Studies; Modernism; Romanticism
Awards & Honors
2003 海角社区 Distinguished Research Master, 2004
海角社区 Distinguished Faculty Award, 2003
Regents Research Grant, Spring 2003
Manship Summer Grant, 2002
Tiger Athletic Foundation Award for Undergraduate Teaching, 2001
海角社区 Research Council Summer Grant, 1994
海角社区 Research Council Summer Grant, 1992
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend,1988
Fulbright Graduate Research Grant for France 1982-1983
Selected Publications
BOOKS:
1. Paperspace: Style as Ideology in Joyce's 鈥淯lysses鈥�. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988.
2. Telling the Other: The Question of Value in Modern and Postcolonial Writing. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.
3. Cinema, Theory and Political Responsibility in Contemporary Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
4. Ishmael Reed and the Ends of Race. New York: St. Martin's, 1997.
5. Joyce beyond Marx: History and Desire in 鈥淯lysses鈥� and 鈥淔innegans Wake.鈥� The Florida James Joyce Series. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001.
6. From 鈥淪hane鈥� to 鈥淜ill Bill鈥�: Rethinking the Western. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.
7. Theory and the Common from Marx to Badiou. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
8. Bad History and the Logic of Blockbuster Cinema. New York: Palgrave Macmillam, 2012.
ARTICLES:
A. Published
1. 鈥淕ender and Generation in Faulkner's 'The Bear',鈥� The Faulkner Journal 1 (1985): 46-54.
2. 鈥淛oyce's Nausea: Style and Representation in 'Nausicaa',鈥� James Joyce Quarterly 24.3 (1987): 305-18.
3. 鈥淯lysses as Commodity,鈥� The James Joyce Literary Supplement 1 (1987): 9-10.
4. 鈥淭heory in Pain,鈥� Genre 20.1 (1987): 66-84.
5. 鈥淭ruth and Resistance: Teaching as a Form of Analysis,鈥� College English 49.6 (1987): 667-78.
6. 鈥淚s There a Class for This Text?: The New Ulysses, Jerome McGann, and the Issue
of Textual Authority,鈥� Works and Days 5.2 (1987): 27-44.
7. 鈥淛oyce's Pedagogy: Ulysses and Finnegans Wake as Theory.鈥� Coping with Joyce: Essays from the Copenhagen Symposium. Ed. Morris Beja and Shari Benstock. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1989.
Pp. 206-19.
8. 鈥淩eading Authority: Feminism and Joyce,鈥� Modern Fiction Studies 35.3 (1989): 421-36.
9. 鈥淲oolf's Other: The University in Her Eye,鈥� Novel 23.3 (1990): 229-46.
10. 鈥淭he Error of Theory,鈥� Studies in the Novel 22.2 (1990): 148-62.
11. 鈥淭exts Between Worlds: African Fiction as Political Allegory.鈥� Decolonizing Tradition: New Approaches to Twentieth-Century British Literary Canons. Ed. Karen Lawrence. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. Pp. 239-260.
12. 鈥淭he Politics of Modernist Form, or, Who Rules The Waves?鈥� Modern Fiction Studies 38.3 (1992): 631-650.
13. 鈥淒ecolonization and the Curriculum of English.鈥� Race, Identity, and Representation in Education. Ed. Warren Crichlow and Cameron McCarthy. New York: Routledge, 1993. Pp. 280-288.
14. 鈥淲hen Is a Man Not a Man? or, The Male Feminist Approaches 'Nausicaa'.鈥� Joyce in the Hibernian Metropolis: Essays from the 1992 Dublin Symposium. Ed. Morris Beja and David Norris. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1996.
Pp. 122-27.
15. 鈥�'Heavenly Bodies': Ulysses and the Ethics of Marxism.鈥� A Companion to James Joyce's 鈥淯lysses鈥�: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism. Ed. Margot Norris. New York: St. Martin's, 1998. Pp. 220-38.
16. 鈥淢asculine States and Feminine Republics: Finnegan's Wake as Historical Document.鈥�
Joyce: Feminism / Post / Colonialism. European Joyce Studies 8. Ed. Ellen Carol Jones. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 1998. Pp. 261-87.
17. 鈥淢achines, Empires, and the Wise Virgins: Cultural Revolution in 'Aeolus'.鈥� 鈥淯lysses鈥�: En-Gendered Perspectives. Ed. Kimberly J. Devlin and Marilyn Reizbaum. Columbia: University of South Carolina
Press, 1999. Pp. 86-99.
18. 鈥淭errible Beauties: Messianic Time and the Image of Social Redemption in James
Cameron鈥檚 Titanic.鈥� Postmodern Culture 10.1 (1999): 45 pars.
19. 鈥淗umpty Dumpty and the Despotism of Fact: A Critique of Stephen Howe's Ireland
and Empire.鈥� Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies 7.2 (2003): 50 pars.
20. 鈥淓rrors and Expectations: The Ethics of Desire in Finnegan's Wake.鈥� James Joyce and the Difference of Language. Ed. Laurent Milesi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 161-79.
21. "The Communist Flaneur, or Joyce's Boredom. Joyce, Benjamin, and Urbanism. European Joyce Studies 21. Ed. Maurizia Boscagli and Enda Duffy. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011.
REVIEW-ARTICLES:
1. 鈥淛oyce and Postcreation.鈥� Rev. of Gen猫se de Babel: Joyce et la cr茅ation, by Claude Jacquet et al. The James Joyce Literary Supplement 1 (1987): 14-15.
2. Rev. of Peculiar Language: Literature as Difference from the Renaissance to James Joyce, by Derek Attridge. James Joyce Quarterly 26.1 (1988): 129-137.
3. 鈥淭hree Critics and Twelve Apostles.鈥� Rev. of Joyce's 鈥淯lysses鈥�: The Larger Perspective, ed. Robert D. Newman and Weldon Thornton. James Joyce Literary Supplement 2.2 (1988): 2-3.
4. Rev. of Reauthorizing Joyce, by Vicki Mahaffey, and Joyce and the Law of the Father, by Frances Restuccia. Genre 22.3 (1989): 315-21.
5. 鈥淛oyce and Poststructuralism.鈥� Rev. of The French Joyce, by Geert Lernout. James Joyce Literary Supplement 5.1 (1991): 14-15.
6. 鈥淔eminist Text / Feminist Countertext.鈥� Rev. of Textualizing the Feminine: On the Limits of Genre, by Shari Benstock. James Joyce Literary Supplement 6.1 (1992): 8-9.
7. 鈥淛oyce in History.鈥� Rev. of James Joyce's Ireland, by David Pierce. James Joyce Literary Supplement 6.2 (1992): 33-34.
8. 鈥淛oyce Superhero or The Other Penelope.鈥� Rev. of Joyce's Web: The Social Unraveling of Modernism, by Margot Norris. James Joyce Literary Supplement 8.1 (1994): 19-20.
9. 鈥淓xorcising Modernism.鈥� Rev. of The Ghosts of Modernity, by Jean-Michel Rabat茅. James Joyce Literary Supplement 11.2 (1997): 5-7.
10. 鈥淎rt for the Sake of a Sale.鈥� Rev. of Art for Art鈥檚 Sake and Literary Life: How Politics and Markets Helped Shape the Ideology
& Culture of Aestheticism, by Gene Bell-Villada. James Joyce Literary Supplement 13.1 (1999): 18-19.
11. 鈥淐ommon, All Too Common.鈥� Rev. of Who Reads 鈥淯lysses鈥�? The Rhetoric of the Joyce Wars and the Common Reader, by Julie Sloan Brannon. James Joyce Literary Supplement 18.1 (2004): 6-8.
REVIEWS:
1. Rev. of Post-Structuralist Joyce, ed. Derek Attridge and Daniel Ferrer. Genre 18.2 (1986): 193-6.
2. 鈥淭he Sexuality of Reading.鈥� Rev. of The Virgin Text: Fiction, Sexuality, and Ideology, by Jon Stratton. Novel 22.2 (1989): 244-46.
3. Rev. of A Constant Journey: The Fiction of Monique Wittig, by Erika Ostrovsky. L'Esprit createur 22.2 (1992): 107-108.
4. Rev. of James Joyce, Authorized Reader, by Jean-Michel Rabate, and Wandering and Return in 鈥淔innegans Wake鈥�: An Integrative Approach to Joyce's Fictions, by Kimberly J. Devlin. The Yearbook of English Studies 24 (1994): 319-320.
5. Rev. of Joyce, Race, and Empire, by Vincent J. Cheng, and Joyce and the Invention of Irish History: 鈥淔innegans Wake鈥� in Context, by Thomas C. Hofheinz. The Yearbook of English Studies 27 (1996): 313-14.
REPRINTS:
1. 鈥淕esture: The Letter of the Word.鈥� Critical Essays on James Joyce's 鈥淯lysses鈥�. Ed. Bernard Benstock. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1989. Pp. 304-26 (from Paperspace).
2. 鈥淭he Politics of Modernist Form, or, Who Rules The Waves?鈥� Virginia Woolf: An MFS Reader. Ed. Maren Linett. Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming
WORK-IN-PROGRESS:
1. "Savage Ontology: Spinoza, Blake, Hugo, Joyce, Lawrence and Other Politcal Monsters." (a book project)