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Contact Information
332 Bachelor Hall
Oxford Campus
513 529 5268
melleytd@muohio.edu
On leave Fall 2007
Tim Melley
Titles
- Associate Professor
- Affiliate of American Studies
Education
- Ph.D., English Literature, Cornell, 1995
- M.F.A. in Fiction, Cornell, 1993
- M.A., English, Cornell
- M.A. in English, University of Cambridge
- B.A. in Biology and English, Amherst College
Teaching Interests
- Nineteenth and twentieth century American literature and culture
- Modernism and postmodernism
- Fiction writing
- Literary and cultural theory
- Cultural studies
Research Interests
- American literature and culture since 1950
- Fiction writing
Selected Publications
- Empire of Conspiracy: The Culture of Paranoia in Postwar America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000.
- “Brainwashed!: Conspiracy Theory and Ideology in the Cold War United States.” New German Critique 103 (Winter 2008), forthcoming.
- “Technology, Technique, Techne: Teaching White Noise.” Approaches to Teaching Don DeLillo’s White Noise. Ed. Timothy Engles. New York: Modern Language Association, 2005: 73–83.
- “The Prince of Natick.” Story Quarterly 40 (2004): 95-125.
- “Behold.” The Sun 342 (June 2004): 42-44.
- “Postmodern Amnesia.” Contemporary Literature 44.1 (2003): 106-131.
- “Modern Nervousness: George Beard, Henry Adams, and the Symptoms of Historical Change.” Arizona Quarterly (2003): 59-86.
- “A Terminal Case: William Burroughs and the Logic of Addiction.” High Anxieties: Cultural Studies in Addiction. Ed. Marc Redfield and Janet Farrell Brodie. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002: 38-60.
- “Agency Panic and the Culture of Conspiracy.” Conspiracy Nation: The Politics of Paranoia in Postwar America. Ed. Peter Knight. New York: New York University Press, 2001. 57-81.
- “Sneaker in the Dark.” Epoch 50.3 (2001): 298-314.
- “Outlaws.” Columbia: A Magazine of Poetry and Prose 28 (Winter 1998): 14-29.
- “Staring into the Sun.” The Threepenny Review 68 (Winter 1997): 16-17.
- “‘Stalked by Love’: ‘Female Paranoia’ and the Stalker Novel.” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 8.2 (1996): 68-100.
- “Bodies Incorporated: Scenes of Agency Panic in Gravity’s Rainbow.” Contemporary Literature 35.4 (1994): 709-738.
- “My Crap Life.” The Sun 224 (August 1994): 12-15. Presented on “This American Life,” Public Radio International, (November 15, 1997).
- “Going to the Elephant.” The Mississippi Review Prize Issue 23.1-2 (1994): 26-51.
- “Performing Experiments: Materiality and Rhetoric in Thoreau’s Walden.” ESQ: A Journalof the American Renaissance 39.4 (1993): 252-277. Winner of the Merton J. Sealts Jr. Prize for best essay of the 1993 volume of ESQ.
Web Publications
- “Going to the Elephant.”
The Mississippi Review Prize Issue 23.1-2 (1994): 26-51.
http://www.mississippireview.com/1995/02melley.html - “My Crap Life.” The Sun 224 (August 1994): 12-15.
Presented on “This American Life,” Public Radio International, (November 15, 1997).
http://www.thislife.org/pages/descriptions/97/83.html - “Conspiracy Theory and the Populist Imagination.”
Review of Mark Fenster, Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture, Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1999.
Electronic Book Review 10 (winter 99/00).
http://www.altx.com/ebr/reviews/rev10/r10mel.htm - “Behold.”
The Sun 342 (June 2004): 42-44. Nominated by Sun for Pushcart Prize.
http://www.thesunmagazine.org/june2004.html
Work in Progress
Tim Melley is currently at work on a collection of stories and a study of trauma in recent historical fiction.