Office: Holton Hall G36
Phone: 414-229-5960
e-mail: gjay@uwm.edu
Web Site: http://www.uwm.edu/~gjay
Ph.D., English, SUNY-Buffalo (1980)
B.A., Literature, UC-Santa Cruz (1975)
Multiculturalism
American Literature to 1900
History of American Criticism
American Cultural Criticism 1890-1940
Backgrounds of Modernism 1880-1940
Critical Theory; 19th Century American Novel
Literature, Ethics, and Postmodernity
Contemporary Fiction and Cultural Differences
Major Author courses on Whitman, Dickinson, and Adrienne Rich
Director, Cultures and Communities Program
Member, Modern Language Association Delegate Assembly
Project Director, NEH Summer Institute on Rethinking American Studies, July-August, 1995
Founding member, Teachers for a Democratic Culture
Books:
American Literature and the Culture Wars. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1997
America the Scrivener: Deconstruction and the Subject of Literary History. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1990
T.S. Eliot and the Poetics of Literary History. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1983; (with David Lee Miller)
After Strange Texts: The Role of Theory in the Study of Literature. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama Press, 1985
Articles:
"'White Man's Book No Good': D. W. Griffith and the American Indian." Cinema Journal 39:4 (2000), 3-26.
"Strategies and Challenges in High-Tech Teaching." Works and Days 16:1-2 (1998), 393-410.
"Women Writers and Resisting Readers." Legacy 15:1(1998), 104-110.
"Jewish Writers in the Multicultural Literature Class." Heath Anthology Newsletter 16 (Fall 1997), 8-11.
"Critical Pedagogy: A Reassessment". Co-authored with Gerald Graff. In Higher Education Under Fire: Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities. Ed. Michael Berube and Cary Nelson. New York: Routledge, 1995.
"Taking Multiculturalism Personally: Ethnos and Ethos in the Classroom." American Literary History 6:4 (1994), 613-32.
"Knowledge, Power, and the Struggle for Representation." College English 56:1 (1994), 9-29.
"Postmodernism in The Waste Land: Woman, Mass Culture, and Others." In Rereading the New: A Backward Glance at Modernism. Ed. Kevin J. H. Dettmar. Ann Arbor, MI.: U of Michigan Press, 1992, 221-48.
"The End of 'American' Literature: Toward a Multicultural Practice." College English 53:3 (1991), 264-81.
