J. Brooks Bouson
| Title: | Professor | |
| E-mail: | jbouson@luc.edu |
Personal Information
Education:
Ph.D., English, Loyola University of Chicago
Publications:
Books
Embodied Shame: Uncovering Female Shame in Contemporary Women’s Writings. Albany: SUNY Press, 2009.
Jamaica Kincaid: Writing Memory, Writing Back to the Mother. Albany:
SUNY Press, 2005.
Quiet As It’s Kept: Shame, Trauma, and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison.
Albany: SUNY Press, 2000.
Brutal Choreographies: Oppositional Strategies and Narrative Design in the Novels of
Margaret Atwood. Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993.
The Empathic Reader: A Study of the Narcissistic Character and the Drama of the Self. Amherst, Mass: University of Massachusetts Press, 1989.
Books (edited volumes)
Critical Insights: Margaret Atwood. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, forthcoming 2012.
Margaret Atwood: The Robber Bride, The Blind Assassin, and Oryx and Crake.
London: Continuum Press, 2011.
Critical Insights: Emily Dickinson. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2010.
Critical Insights: Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2009.
Recent Articles and Book Chapters
“We’re Using up the Earth. It’s Almost Gone”: A Return to the Post-Apocalyptic Future in Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature, forthcoming 2011.
“Negotiating with Margaret Atwood.” Margaret Atwood: The Robber Bride, The Blind Assassin, and Oryx and Crake. London: Continuum Press, 2011. 1–17.
“Quiet As It’s Kept: Shame, Trauma, and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison” (on Song of Solomon). Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon: Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Infobase Publishing, 2009. 57-86.
“The Politics of Empathy and Self in Christa Wolf’s The Quest for Christa T. / Die Politik der Empathie und des Selbst in Christa Wolfs Nachdenken uber Christa T. Special edition of the European Self Psychology Journal—Selbstpsychologie: Europäische Zeitschrift für Psychoanalytische Therapie und Forschung: Selobstpsychologie und die Künste 35 (2009): 53-70.
“‘It’s Game Over Forever’: Atwood’s Satiric Vision of a Bioengineered Posthuman Future inOryx and Crake.” Margaret Atwood: Bloom’s Modern Critical Views. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Infobase Publishing, 2009. 93-110.
“Insect Transformation as a Narcissistic Metaphor in Kafka’s Metamorphosis.” Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Infobase Publishing, 2009. 35-46.
“Like Him and His Own Father before Him, I Have a Line Drawn through Me”: Imagining the Life of the Absent Father inMr. Potter.” Jamaica Kincaid: Modern Critical Views. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Infobase, 2008. 159-74.
“Uncovering ‘the Beloved’ in the Warring and Lawless Women in Toni Morrison’s Love.” Midwest Quarterly 49. 4 (Summer 2008): 358-373.
“‘Teaching English Isn’t the Clean Work It Used to Be’: Satirizing the Plight of Token Professionals in Richard Russo’s Straight Man.” Academic Novels as Satire: Critical Studies of an Emerging Genre. Ed. Kimberly Rae Connor and Mark Bosco, S. J. Lewiston: Mellen Press, 2007. 111-130.
“True Confessions: Uncovering the Hidden Culture of Shame in English Studies.” JAC 25. 4 (2006): 625-50.
“‘Speaking the Unspeakable’: Shame, Trauma and Morrison’s Fiction.” Toni Morrison: Bloom’s Modern Critical Views. Ed. Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2005. 121-148.
“ ‘It’s Game Over Forever’: Atwood’s Satiric Vision of a Bioengineered Posthuman Future inOryx and Crake.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature 39.3 (2004): 139-156.
“ Sethe’s ‘Best Thing.’” Toni Morrison’s Beloved. Ed. Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2004. 91-101.
“‘A Commemoration of Wounds, Endured and Resented’: Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin as Feminist Memoir.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 44.3 (Spring 2003): 251-69.
“‘You Nothing But Trash’: White Trash Shame in Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina.” Southern Literary Journal 34. 1 (Fall 2001): 101-23.
“The Misogyny of Patriarchal Culture in The Handmaid’s Tale.” The Handmaid’s Tale: Modern Critical Interpretations. Ed. Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2001. 41-62.
“The Edible Woman’s Refusal to Consent to Femininity.” Margaret Atwood: Modern Critical Views. Ed. Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2000. 71-91.
“‘Quiet as It’s Kept’: Shame and Trauma in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.” Scenes of Shame: Psychoanalysis, Shame, and Writing. Ed. Joseph Adamson and Hilary Clark. Albany: SUNY Press, 1999. 207-236.
“A Feminist/Psychoanalytic Approach in a Women’s College.” Approaches to Teaching Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Ed. Sharon Wilson, Thomas Friedman, and Shannon Hengen. New York: Modern Language Association, 1996. 122-27.
“‘Slipping Sideways into the Dreams of Women’: The Female Dream Work of Power Feminism in Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride.” LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory 6 (1995): 149-166.
Offices Held:
Assistant Department Chair, 2002-present
Undergraduate Programs Director, 1998-2001