| JOHN CHARLES HAWLEY Professor of English, Chair of Department Santa Clara University 95053 (408) 554-4956; email: JHawley@scu.edu |
EDUCATION Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. major: English "Charles Kingsley, Rhetorical Fiction, and the Victorian Periodical Press" Director: David DeLaura; second reader, Nina Auerbach S.T.M., Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley. major: Theology and Psychology "Otto Rank, Ernest Becker, and Walter Kasper: A Discussion of Christian Hope" M.Div., Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley. major: Theology and Literature M.A., St. Louis University. major: English A.B., St. Louis University. major: Philosophy; minor: Classics. cum laude Postdoctoral Study Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, working on African and Indian literature; 2003 Georgetown University, Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, NEH Summer Institute, "Islam and the 21st Century: Heritage and Prospects," Professor John Voll; five weeks; 1999 University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, NEH Summer Seminar; "Postcolonial Literature and Theory," Professors Feroza Jussawalla and Reed Way Dasenbrock; six weeks; 1996 Boston College, NEH Summer Seminar: "Political and Religious Romance in the English Novel," Prof. Judith Wilt; seven weeks; 1991 Columbia University, NEH summer seminar; "James Joyce: Aspects of a Narrative Career," Prof. Michael Seidel; 1987 Academic Honors and Grants 2007 elected to membership in the International Association of University Professors of English 2003 Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio (Italy) Study and Conference Center residency, 22 April-20 May (competitive) Provost’s grant ($3400) to guest edit Special Issue of South Asian Review on topic of "Globalization with a Focus on South Asia" 2002 nominated to run for Secretary of United States Association for Commonwealth Language and Literature Studies [one of two nominees, three years term, if elected] Dean’s Community of Scholars Grant ($7000) to support planning and SCU hosting of second annual meeting of United States Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies conference One of two finalists called to campus for interviews for a six-month Distinguished Visiting Professorship in World Literature, Hawaii Pacific University, Honolulu. [The other finalist was selected.] 2001 Dean’s Community of Scholars Grant ($3500) to support planning and SCU hosting of annual meeting of Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, November 2000 [first annual] University Award for Recent Achievement [last five years] in Scholarship nominated to run for 2nd Vice-President of Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association; [one of two nominees; the other candidate was elected; if I’d been elected I would have been 1st VP following year, and President the third year] 1999 appointed to Academic Council of the Ameen Rihani Institute, Washington DC [promotes multicultural literature and works to strengthen historic and cultural links between Lebanon, the Arab World, and the United States] 1996 Santa Clara University, Thomas Terry Research Grant: "Punch in the Victorian Period and Its Portrayal of Colonial Expansion" 1989 NEH-sponsored Ethnic Studies Summer Workshop, Santa Clara University 1987 NEH Summer Faculty Writing Seminar, Santa Clara University Santa Clara University Research Grant: "James Joyce and M.M. Bakhtin" elected to Alpha Sigma Nu honor society TEACHING AND RELATED EXPERIENCE Teaching and Writing 2005- Professor, Santa Clara University 1992-05 Associate Professor, Santa Clara University 1986-92 Assistant Professor, Santa Clara University 1978-81 Teaching Fellow, University of Pennsylvania Courses Taught Lower Division Composition and Rhetoric, I & II Western Culture: Literature III (Romanticism to Present) Introduction to Literary Study Introduction to Poetry Survey of English Literature III (19th and 20th Centuries) Composition and Literature (thematic courses) Asian-American Literature The Catholic Novel Law vs. Imagination Community-Based (Service-Based) Learning India and its Diaspora in Film and Fiction Upper Division Postcolonial and Commonwealth Literature African Literature Pan-African Literature South Asian Literature Gay and Lesbian Cultural Studies Victorian Literature Women and Literature (Victorian era) Modern British Literature Modern Fiction (James, Proust, Joyce, Kafka, et al) Contemporary Literature English Novel II (principally 19th century) Senior Seminars in: Darwin Woolf and Lawrence James Joyce Literature of the Third World Gender Representation in Recent Film and Fiction Postcolonial Theory Relevant Non-Academic Professional Experience 1983-84 Literary Editor, America magazine, New York 1983-84 Weekly columnist, America magazine Teaching Enrichment 2007 departmental representative, Association of Departments of English, Summer Seminar East, Montreal 20-24 June 2006 departmental representative, Association of Departments of English, Summer Seminar West, on curricular reform and related matters, 26-29 June, Blaine, Washington. 2004 Three-day Western Association of Schools and Colleges Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities (WASC) Annual Meeting on the topic of "Understanding Student Learning: Research and Praxis to Improve Effectiveness," one of the College’s representatives, Fairmont Hotel, San Jose. 14-16 April. 2003 Two-week seminar on teaching as a vocation (DISCOVER program: Developing and Inspiring Scholarly Communities Oriented toward Vocational Engagement and Reflection, funded by the Lilly Endowment). The Bannan Center, June 23-July 3. 2002 One-week seminar on Community-Based Learning (Service Learning). Arrupe Center, Santa Clara University. June departmental representative, Association of Departments of English, Summer Seminar North, on curricular reform and related matters, 13-16 June, Cooperstown, New York 2001 Two-week seminar on use of Technology in the Classroom. David Armstrong and Michael Ballen, Santa Clara University. June. SCHOLARLY WORK Books The Global Crescent: The Islamist Challenge to Islam and to the World [under development] 2008 In India in Africa, Africa in India: Indian Ocean Cosmopolitanisms [in production, Indiana University Press] LGBTQ America Today [under contract with Greenwood Press] 2007 The Postcolonial and the Global, co-edited with Revathii Krishnaswamy. [in production, University of Minnesota Press] 2005 An Introduction to Amitav Ghosh: Beyond the Commonwealth. Foundation Press (strategic partner of Cambridge UP in India) 2003 Guest editor, South Asian Review 24.1. Special Issue on South Asian Globalization and Diaspora Guest editor, Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies 10.1 Special Issue on postcolonial gay and lesbian writing 2001 Editor, Postcolonial, Queer: Theoretical Intersections. State University of New York Press, in series "Explorations in Postcolonial Studies," series editor Emmanuel Eze Editor, Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Literatures. Greenwood P Editor, Postcolonial and Queer Theories: Intersections and Essays. Greenwood P, in series "Contributions to the Study of World Literature." 2000 Editor, Through A Glass Darkly: Essays in the Religious Imagination. NetLibrary, Inc. (Boulder, CO) Editor,Divine Aporia: Postmodern Conversations About the Other. Bucknell UP. 1999 Editor, Cross-Addressing: Resistance Literature and Cultural Borders. NetLibrary, Inc. (Boulder, CO) 1998 Editor, Christian Encounters with the Other. NYU Press. British edition, Historicizing Christian Encounters with the Other. Macmillan Editor, The Postcolonial Crescent: Islam's Impact on Contemporary Literature. Peter Lang 1996 Editor, Cross-Addressing: Resistance Literature and Cultural Borders. SUNY Press, in their Postmodern Culture series Editor, Through A Glass Darkly: Essays in the Religious Imagination. Fordham UP Editor, Writing the Nation: Self and Country in the Post-Colonial Imagination. Rodopi Press, in their Critical Studies series 1994 Editor, Reform and Counterreform: The Dialectics of the Word in Western Christianity since Luther Mouton de Gruyter, in their Religion and Society series Articles in Refereed Journals 2008 "Bia "Biafra as Heritage and Symbol: Adichie, Mbachu, Iweala," Research in African Literatures. 2007 "Heading South." (Invited position paper, inaugurating new journal, Global South). Global South 1.1: 159-63. 2004 "The Emerging Fictionalization of AIDS in Africa." Proteus: A Journal of Ideas. 21.1: 39-44. 2003 "Can the Cosmopolitan Speak: The Question of Indian Novelists’ Authenticity." South Asian Review 24.2 (2003): 26-40. "Counter-Imperial Masculinity: The Case of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840-1922)." Anglo-Saxonica: Revista do Centro de Estudios Anglisticos da Universidade de Lisboa 19 (2003): 39-50. 2002 "‘R. K. Narayanswami B.A.B.L. Engine Driver’: Story-Telling and Memory in The Grandmother’s Tale, and Selected Stories." South Asian Review 23.1: 86-105 2001 "The Bombay Boys of Mira Nair, Firdaus Kanga and ArdashirVakil." South Asian Review. 22: 40-56 2000 "The Role of Sexuality in Nation-Building: Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy and Timothy Mo’s The Redundancy of Courage." Tamkang Review (Taiwan) 31.4: 117-34. 1996 "Nuruddin Farah -- Orality, Tribalism, and the Postcolonial Search for Ultimate Reality and Meaning." Journal of Ultimate Reality ad Meaning 19.3: 189-205 1995 "Bell, Book, and Candle: Alasdair Gray̓s Poor Things and the Exorcism of Victorian Sentiment." Review of Contemporary Fiction 15.2: 175–77 [circulation 3,175; three external reviewers] "Ben Okri's Spirit-Child: Abiku Migration and Postmodernity." Research in African Literatures 26.1: 30-39 [principal journal in African literature; circulation 1,200; three external reviewers; 200-350 articles submitted yearly, 30-40 published] 1994 "Mongo Beti and Jean-Marc Éla: Literary and Christian Liberation in Cameroon." The Literary Griot: International Journal of Black Oral and Literary Studies 6.2: 14-23 "Popular Literature's Contribution to the Religious Imagination." Media Development 40.3: 11–12 1993 "Robert Antoni's Divina Trace and the Womb of Place." ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 24.1: 91-104 [a major journal of commonwealth literature; three external reviewers; 150-160 articles submitted yearly, 26 published] "Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Christian Imagination." Gerard Manley Hopkins Annual. 45-56 1992 "Charles Kingsley and Literary Theory of the 1850's." Victorian Literature and Culture 19: 167 - 88. [formerly Browning Institute Studies; circulation 1,000; three external reviewers; 50-60 articles submitted yearly, 12-16 published] "Jose Maria Arguedas, Ngugi wa Thiong'o and the Search for a Language of Justice." Pacific Coast Philology. 27.1: 69-76 [circulation 1,300; three external reviewers; 100-150 articles submitted yearly, 10-15 published] "Charles Kingsley and the Via Media." Thought 67: 287-301 1991 "Baptizing the Victorian Epimetheus." Science et Esprit 43.3:349-54 "Charles Kingsley and the Book of Nature." Anglican and Episcopal History 61.4: 453-71 "Newman and the Anxiety of Influence." Nineteenth-Century Prose 18.2: 40-48 1989 "The Water-Babies as Catechetical Paradigm." Children's Literature Association Quarterly 14:19-22 "Mary Barton: The Inside View from Without." Nineteenth Century Studies 3: 23-30 [50 articles submitted yearly; 6 published] 1986 "Responses to Charles Kingsley̓s Attack on Political Economy." Victorian Periodicals Review 19.4: 131-37 Chapters in Books by Other Editors "The Pa n-African Been-To Novel," in MLA Options for Teaching Series: Teaching Anglophone Caribbean Literatures. (forthcoming) Reprint of "The Role of Sexuality in Nation-Building: Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy and Timothy Mo’s The Redundancy of Courage," in Empire Building Yesterday and Today, ed. Silvia Nagy-Zekmi. (under consideration at Pennsylvania State UP) 2008 "Unrecorded Lives," in India in Africa, Africa in India: Indian Ocean Cosmopolitanisms, ed. John C. Hawley. Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP. 2007 "Jihad as Rite of Passage," in Masculinity in Middle Eastern Literature and Film, ed. Lahoucine Ouzgane. Routledge. "At the Crossroads of Postcolonial and Globalization Studies: Agencies for Resistance, Prospects for Evolution," in The Postcolonial and the Global, eds. Revathi Krishnaswamy and John C. Hawley. Minneapolis, MN: U of Minnesota P. 2006 "Theorizing the Diaspora," in Global Fissures: Postcolonial Fusions, ed. Clara Joseph and Janet Wilson. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi. 3-16. "Edward Said, John Berger, Jean Mohr: In Search of an Other Optic," in Paradoxical Citizenship: A Tribute to Edward Said, ed. Silvia Nagy-Zekmi. Lanham, MD: Lexington. 203-10. "‘Archaic Ambivalence’: The Case of South Africa," in Demythologizing Contemporary Postcolonial Writing, edited by Igor Maver; Lanham, MD: Lexington. 67-84. 2005 "Lavender Ain’t Pink: Emerging Queer Self-Expression in a Non-White World," in Postcolonial Whiteness: A Critical Reader on Race and Empire, ed. Alfred J. López. State University of New York P. 53-77. 2004 ""The War of the Worlds, Wells, and the Fallacy of Empire." Flashes of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from The War of the Worlds Centennial, Nineteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Ed. David Ketterer and Robert Philmus, Praeger. 43-52. "Mapping Utopia: Spatial and Temporal Sites of Meaning." The Utopian Fantastic, ed. Martha A. Bartter. Westport, CT: Praeger P. 17-22. 2003 "Moses Isegawa’s Abyssinian Chronicles as the Bildungsroman of Despair: AIDS and the Irrelevance of Reconciliation," in Resistance and Reconciliation: Writing in the Commonwealth, ed. Bruce Bennett et al. Canberra: The Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. 187-200. 2002 "Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Ambiguous Adventure: Nervous Conditions and the Blandishments of Mission Education." Missions of Interdependence: A Literary Directory, ed. Gerhard Stilz. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 183-93. 2001 "Colonizing the Mind: ‘Leo Africanus’ in the Renaissance and Today." Colonial and Postcolonial Incarceration, ed. Graeme Harper. Continuum/Cassell. 53-66. "Levels of National Engagement in Ibrahim Tahir’s The Last Imam." Mapping the Sacred: Religion, Geography and Postcolonial Literatures, ed. Jamie S. Scott. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 265-74. 1999 "Enlightened Stockbrokers and Wily Dervishes: Ameen Rihani’s Path between the Scylla of Fanaticism and the Charybdis of Modernity." Kahlil Gibran and Ameen Rihani: Prophets of Lebanese-American Literature. Ed. Naji B. Oueijan, Assaad Eid, Carol Kfoury, and Doumit Salameh. (PALMA Journal, special issue). Beirut: Notre Dame UP. 57-63 "`A far better rest I go to': Dickens and the Undiscovered Country." Dickens, Europe, and the New Worlds. Ed. Anny Sadrin. London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin’s. 181-93. 1998 "Jimmy Joyce vs. the ʻOld Hag with the Yellow Teeth, ʻThe Great Squaw Victoria." Images of Joyce. Ed. Clive Hart, George Sandulescu, Bonnie K. Scott, and Fritz Senn. Gerrards Cross, UK: Colin Smythe. 2 Vols. I: 47–55. 1997 "Gus Lee, Chang-Rae Lee, and Li-Young Lee: The Search for the Father in Asian American Literature." Ideas of Home: Literature of Asian Migration. Ed. Geoffrey Kain. East Lansing: Michigan State UP. 183-95 1996 "The Re-Racination of Driss Chraïbi: A Hajj in Search of Mecca." Aspects of Islam in African Literature. Ed. Kenneth Harrow. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. 62-76 "Coming to Terms: Buchi Emecheta's Kehinde and the Birth of a ʻNation’." Emerging Perspectives on Buchi Emecheta: Published and Unpublished Writings. Ed. Marie Umeh, Trenton NJ; Asmara, Eritrea. 333-348 1995 "A Ratio Studiorum for the Postcolonialist's Classroom." Left Margins: Cultural Studies and Composition Pedagogy. Ed. Karen Fitts. SUNY P. 255–65, 317–18 1994 "Imagining Hopkins as a Priest." Saving Beauty: Further Studies in Hopkins. Ed. Michael E. Allsopp and David Downes. Vol. 6 of Origins of Modernism. Garland. 133-56 "We Wretched of the Earth: The Search for a Language of Justice." Postcolonial Literature and the Biblical Call for Justice. Ed. Susan VanZanten Gallagher. Jackson: UP of Mississippi. 125 - 35 1993 "Assimilation and Resistance in Female Fiction of Immigration: Bharati Mukherjee, Amy Tan, and Christine Bell." Rediscovering America: National, Cultural, and Disciplinary Boundaries Re-examined. Ed. Arnulfo G. Ramirez. Louisiana State UP. 226–34 1992 "The Muscular Christian as Schoolmarm." Victorian Scandals. Ed. Kristine Ottesen Garrigan. Ohio: Ohio UP. 134-56 Chapters, including Introductions, in My Own Books 2001 "Introduction." Postcolonial, Queer: Theoretical Intersections. Ed. John C. Hawley. Albany, NY: State University of New York P, 1-18. "Preface." Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, ix-xii "Preface" and "Afterword." Postcolonial and Queer Theories. Intersections and Essays. Ed. John C. Hawley. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, ix-x; 197-208 2000 "Waiting For." Divine Aporia: Postmodern Conversations About the Other. Ed. John C. Hawley. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP 1998 "Making Disciples of All Nations." Christian Encounters with the Other. Ed. John Hawley. NY: NYU P "Contemporary Islamic Encounters with the Printed Word." The Postcolonial Crescent: Islam's Impact on Contemporary Literature. Ed. John Hawley. NY: Peter Lang. 1–31 1996 "Introduction." Cross–Addressing: Resistance Literature and Cultural Borders. Ed. John Hawley. Albany: SUNY P. 1–11 "Voice or Voices in Post–Colonial Discourse?" Writing the Nation: Self and Country in Post–Colonial Imagination. Ed. John Hawley. Amsterdam / Atlanta: Rodopi. x–xxvii "Introduction." Through A Glass Darkly: Essays in the Religious Imagination. Ed. John Hawley. NY: Fordham UP. xi–xix 1994 "Literature and the Evolution of Religious Discourse: A Concluding Essay." Reform and Counterreform. Ed. John Hawley. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 225-40 Encyclopedia Articles, and Other Reference Works 2004 "Postcolonial Theory." South Asian Literature in English: An Encyclopedia, ed. Jaina C. Sanga. Greenwood P. 249-53. 2003 "Firdaus Kanga" South Asian Novelists in English: An A to Z Guide, ed. Jaina C. Sanga. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 2003. 118-21. "Ardashir Vakil." South Asian Novelists in English: An A to Z Guide, ed. Jaina C. Sanga. Westport, CT: Greenwood P. 288-91.2001 "Michael Brodsky." American Short Story Writers Since World War II, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 244, ed. Patrick Meanor. 34-39. "Eva Gore-Booth." Late Victorian and Edwardian Women Poets, Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 240, ed. William B. Thesing. Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman. 69-78. 2000 "Gus Lee." Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook, ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. Greenwood P. 185-91. 1998 "Freya Stark." Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 195, British Travel Writers 1910–39. Ed. Barbara Brothers. Detroit: Gale Research. 325–40 "Ngugi wa Thiong'o." Postcolonial African Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Pushpa Parekh and Siga Jagne. Westport, CT: Greenwood P. 318–31 1996 "South African Writing in English." English Postcoloniality: Literatures from Around the World. Ed. Radhika Mohanram and Gita Rajan. Westport, CT: Greenwood P. 53-62 "Drink, by Emile Zola," ; "A Grain of Wheat, by Ngugi wa Thiong'o"; "Kiss of the Spider Woman, by Manuel Puig," Masterplots. Pasadena: Salem P. 1846-49; 2620-23; 3445-48 "Blood Music, by Greg Bear." McGill's Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature. Ed. A.J. Sobczak. Pasadena: Salem. 74-75 "Laurence Oliphant." Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 166, British Travel Writers 1837 - 75. Ed. Barbara Brothers. Detroit: Gale Research. 275 - 93 "The Bench, by Richard Rive ";"Bridging, by Max Apple ";"The Comedian, by John L’Heureux"; "Pretty Ice, by Mary Robison"; "The Rich Brother, by Tobias Wolff. Masterplots II: Short Story Supplement. Pasadena: Salem P. 2867-69; 2928-30; 3007-9; 3841-43; 3911-13 1995 "Gerard Manley Hopkins"; "Francis Thompson." Encyclopedia of Catholicism. Ed.by Richard P. McBrien. San Francisco: Harper Collins 1993 "Darwinism";"Mary Elizabeth Braddon"; "Maud Gonne"; "Charles Spurgeon"; "Nineteenth Century"; "Westminster Review"; "The Spectator." The 1890s: An Encyclopedia of British Literature, Art and Culture. Ed. G.A. Cevasco. Garland P. 139-41; 74; 235-36; 583; 438-39; 669-70; 576 1992 "W.B. Yeats's ʻCrazy Jane Talks with the Bishop'"; "T.S. Eliot's ʻPortrait of a Lady'"; "David Jones's ʻIn Parenthesis'"; "Robert Browning's ʻSordello,'" in Masterplots II: Poetry. Los Angeles: Salem P. 464-66; 1719-21; 1074-78; 2035- 39 Popular Articles 1995 "The Poetry of Hesitant Affirmation," Catholic World (July-August): 172-77 1990 "Newman the Novelist," America. 8 Dec.455-57 1983–84 "The Word." (Regular weekly column). America 19 Nov. 1983 - 16 June 1984 1981 "The Demands of Nicholas Nickleby," America 28 Nov. 343-44 100 Book Reviews in Refereed Journals 100 Book Reviews in Popular Venues Reprinted Articles 2004 "Jose Maria Arguedas, Ngugi wa Thiong'o and the Search for a Language of Justice." Reprinted in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Gale Publishers. 147: 23-29 [reprints the "most authoritative interpretations" of novelists]. 2002 "Orality, Tribalism, and Postcolonial Ultimate Meaning in Contemporary Somalia," reprinted in Emerging Perspectives on Nuruddin Farah, ed. Derek Wright, Africa World Press. 67-94. 1994 "Jose Maria Arguedas, Ngugi wa Thiong'o and the Search for a Language of Justice." Pacific Coast Philology (1992):69-76; revised version, published as "We Wretched of the Earth: The Search for a Language of Justice."Postcolonial Literature and the Biblical Call for Justice. Ed. Susan Gallagher. UP of Mississippi. 125-35 1992 "The Water-Babies as Catechetical Paradigm." Children's Literature Association Quarterly 14 (1989):19-22; reprinted in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Ed. Joann Cerrito. Detroit and London: Gale. 258-61. Published as Service 1996 Invited letter on forum topic of Interdisciplinary Goals in Literary Studies. First letter in The Role of Theory section. PMLA 111.2 (March ): 283. [the leading journal in the profession] 1990 "1989 CCL Book Award Citation, Christianity and Literature, (Winter) 229-32 Papers, Presentations, and Invited Lectures 2007 "The Colonizing Impulse of Postcolonial Theory," Modern Language Association, Chicago, 26-30 December Chair, "Resistance to English in Anglophone Literature," Modern Language Association, Chicago, 26-30 December " Assimilation, Then and Now, and the Napoleonic Impulse of Postcolonial Theory." "Stories of Empire: Narratological Directions in Postcolonial Theory and Practice." 13-15 September, University of Vienna, Austria. "The Edifice Complex and African Fiction." Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, 17-22 August, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. "Be Careful What You Ask For: Geoff Ryman’s Lust for Johanna Sinisalo’s Troll." ICFA conference on Representing Self and Other: Gender in the Fantastic, Ft. Lauderdale 14-18 March. 2006 "‘A Child Died That Night’: Trauma and the Child in Times of Civil Conflict." "Writing About War" panel sponsored by Division on African Literature, Modern Language Association annual convention. Philadelphia, 26-31 December. " Deshpande/Usha vs. Pamuk/Eco: At Play in the Fields of the National Allegory." "Globalism and its Discontents" panel sponsored by Division on Literature in English other than British and American, Modern Language Association annual convention. Philadelphia, 26-31 December. "Jihad as Rite of Passage." Plenary session, "Fundamentalism and Literature, Global/Local." University of Muenster, Germany. 19-22 November. "India in Africa, Africa in India." African Studies Association annual convention, San Francisco. 16-18 November. "Grey Streets, Uncertain Prospects: The Lotus People and Their Many Casbahs." "Global and Local" conference, University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa, 9-12 July. "Everybody Loves a Conspiracy." Presentation on The DaVinci Code for the Oshe Lifelong Learning Institute, Santa Clara University, 15 May. 2005 Chair, "Nonaligned Literature from Bandung to the World Bank." Modern Language Association annual convention, Washington DC, 26-31 December. "Tariq Ali’s Islam Quintet and the Role of the Secular in Islam." South Asian Literature Association conference, Washington DC, 26-27 December. Keynote address: "Nation vs The Globe in the Literary Arena." Past the Post: (New) Literatures in English in a Globalized World conference, Delhi University, India, 7-9 December. Panelist, "Translating Nations through (New) Literatures. Chair, Plenary Session III: "Old and New Literatures in English: A Newer and Better World?" "Teaching Literature in Women’s and Gender Studies Core Courses." National Women’s Studies Association conference, Orlando, 9-12 June. "Religion and the Sinews of Identity in National Diasporas." 19th World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Tokyo, 24-30 March . 2004 "Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide and the Blurring of National Boundaries," South Asian Literary Association annual conference, Philadelphia, 26-27 December Chair, "Africa in India, India in Africa," Modern Language Association annual convention, Philadelphia, 26-31 December. 2003 Guest lecture, "Identity Politics and Gendered Subjectivity," Aparajita Nanda’s class, University of California at Berkeley, 26 February 2004. "The Emerging Fictionalization of AIDS in Africa." Winter lunch seminar, Program for the Study of Women and Gender, 18 February Invited respondent, "Globalization and Postcoloniality panel," Modern Language Association annual meeting, San Diego, 30 December Chair, "Anglophone Interjections III: Southern Cosmopolitanisms," Modern Language Association annual meeting, San Diego, 29 December 2003 "The Emerging Fictionalization of AIDS in Africa." African Studies Association annual meeting, Boston, 30 Oct.-2 Nov. 2003; chair panel on "AIDS, the Media and Creative Arts" "Theorizing the Diaspora." ‘Inside the Whale’: The Postcolonial and Globalisation. University of Northampton, Great Britain. 11-13 July 2003 "Recent South African Fiction: Sexuality, Mythology, and Neocolonial Anomie." 12th Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference, Georgia Southern University/Savannah, 28 February-1 March 2002 "Red Earth, Pouring Rain, and the Question of Authenticity," Third Annual Meeting of the South Asian Literary Association, New York, 27 December chairing "Eurocentrism and Postcolonial Responses," Modern Language Association annual conference, New York, 27-30 December "Reading Gerard Manley Hopkins in the Roman Catholic Church in 2002." Hopkins: The Rome Conference, at The Gregorian University, 18-21 October chair, "Radical Explorations: Modernism, Domination and Eroticism in the Work of Paul Bowles," American Literature Association Conference, Long Beach, 30 May-2 June "Mapping a Nation on One’s Skin: Somali Familial Displacement in Nuruddin Farah’s Blood Trilogy." Triennial Conference, European Association for Commonwealth Language and Literature Studies, University of Copenhagen, 21-27 March 2001 "Counterintuitive Aesthetics: the Language Question in African Literatures." (Invited Panel participant in response to speech by Ngugi wa Thiong’o on use of native African languages in written literature). Modern Language Association conference, New Orleans, 27-30 December "The Postcolonial Queer." Globalicities conference, Michigan State University, 18-20 October "Moses Isegawa’s Abyssinian Chronicles and the New African Sense of Place." Australian Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies Conference, Canberra. 9-14 July 2000 "Bombay Boys: Firdaus Kanga’s Trying to Grow, Ardashir Vakil’s Beach Boy,and Salaam Bombay." South Asian Literature Association convention, Washington DC. 28-30 December "Counter-Imperial Masculinity: The Case of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840-1922)." Culture and Nation (Fourth International English culture conference). University of Lisbon, Portugal. 28-30 November "What has U.S. Ethnic Literature to do with Postcolonial Studies." Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. Rhode Island College. 5-6 May. 1999 "The Globalization of Queer Theory." Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association. Portland State University. 5-6 November. "The Not-so-innocents Abroad: Hegemonic Overtones of the American Libidinal Economy." Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association and Canadian Association of American Studies. Montreal. 28-31 October. "The Role of Sexuality in Nation-Building: Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy and Timothy Mo’s The Redundancy of Courage." Eighth Quadrennial International Conference on Comparative Literature ("Reading the Fin de Siecle, Writing the Millennium"), Tamkang University, Taiwan 27-29 August "Conversion, Deconversion, and Cross-Conversion: Migratory Subjectivities in (Post)Colonial Exchange." Triennial conference of the Association for the Study of the New English Literatures, and the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies ("Colonies, Mission, Cultures in the English-Speaking World: Dependence, Independence and Interdependence at the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century"), University of Tubingen, Germany. 6-11 April "Mapping Utopia: Spatial and Temporal Sites of Meaning." International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, Florida. 17-22 March 1998 Chair and Session Organizer, "Perspectives on Ben Okri." Modern Language Association annual convention, San Francisco. 27-30 December "Mythic Models for Women in Kenzaburo Oë and Recent Asian American Fiction." Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association conference, Scripps College. 7-9 November "Enlightened Stockbrokers and Wily Dervishes: Ameen Rihani Charts the Scylla and Charybdis of Modernity and Religious Commitment." Notre Dame University, Beirut, Lebanon, 17-21 August Readings from Cross-Addressing, Christian Encounters with the Other, and The Postcolonial Crescent. The Hopkins Reading Series, Adobe Lodge, Santa Clara University, 28 May "H.G. Wells and Contemporary Theories of the Other." Nineteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Dania, FL, 28-31 March 1997 "A Plague on Both Your Houses: A History Maker and Time's Border Disputes." Modern Language Association, Toronto, 28 Dec. "Shawn Wong's Homebase: As American as I Wannabe." Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, San Jose State Univ., 7-9 Nov. "Gus Lee, Chang-Rae Lee and Li-Young Lee: The Search for the Father in Asian American Literature." Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States (MELUS) international conference, University of Hawaii at Manoa, April "Fantasies of Cosmology: Italo Calvino and Stanislaw Lem on the Proper Uses of Science Fiction." International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts annual meeting, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, March 19-23 1996 "‘A far better rest I go to’: Dickens and the Undiscovered Country." Dickens, Europe and the New Worlds, Universite de Bourgogne, Dijon, France, 13-16 June "The Obverse of the Exhibition: Oscar Wilde Hiding the Culture of Decay." Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Conference, Yale University Center for British Art, 12-13 April 1995 "Driss Chraibi and the Search for a New Mecca." Africa 2000 conference, Hofstra University, 12-14 October "Late Nineteenth, Late Twentieth Century Concepts of Decadence." An invited lecture, Fairfield University 12 October "Nuruddin Farah, Tribalism, Orality, and the Postcolonial Search for Ultimate Reality and Meaning." 8th Biennial Conference of the International Society for the Study of Human Ideas about Ultimate Reality and Meaning, University of Toronto, 16-19 August "Artaud, Foucault, and Stephen King: Misery and the Literature of Pain." Sixteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Florida International University, 22-26 March 1994 "ʻAltiora Peto': Laurence Oliphant's Peregrinations and the Transmigration of the Family Soul." Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, College of William and Mary. April 9 1993 "Loca or Libre: Reinaldo Arenas and the Gay Challenge to the Left." Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, Univ. of Washington, Nov. 5-7 "Seeking a Past in the Present: V.S. Naipaul's The Enigma of Arrival and the Caribbean Migrant Experience." Association of Caribbean Studies, Mena House, Cairo, Egypt, July 26-Aug. 1 "Religious Imagination in its Historical Context." An invited paper, Literary Studies Group, Wycliff Hall, Oxford University, May 15 1992 "Christian Liberation in Caribbean Literature." International Conference on Religion and Literature, University of Glasgow, Scotland September 24-26 "Tennyson and the Empire." Tennyson International Conference, Lincoln, England, 24-27 July "Hopkins and Christian Imagination." An invited paper. Gerard Manley Hopkins International Summer School, Monasterevin, Kildare, Ireland July 2-5 "Ulysses and Some Post-Colonial Modernist Texts." 13th International James Joyce Symposium, Dublin, 14-21 June "Kim versus The Secret Agent: Spies, Untouchables, and Avatars of Empire." Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Centuries Studies Association, Loyola University, April 9-12 "Mongo Beti and Jean-Marc Ela: Literary and Christian Imagination in the Liberation of Cameroon." for Northeast Modern Language Association, SUNY-Buffalo, April 3-5 "Assimilation and Resistance in Female Fiction of Immigration: Bharati Mukherjee, Amy Tan, and Christine Bell." "Rediscovering America: 1492-1992, National, Cultural, and Disciplinary Boundaries Re-examined," an interdisciplinary conference on the Columbian Quincentenary, Louisiana State Univ., Feb. 26-29 1991 "Jose Maria Arguedas and Ngugi wa Thiong'o: The Search for a Language of Justice." Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, November "Heath Street, Hampstead, 1853: Plotting a Protestant Transubstantiation." Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Yale Center for British Art, April 1990 "Newman and the Anxiety of Influence." J.H. Newman Centennial, Creighton Univ., Omaha, Oct. "Continuities Between Conrad and Joyce." Joseph Conrad International Society, annual meeting, Univ. of Kent, Canterbury, England, July "Jimmy Joyce vs. the ‘old hag with the yellow teeth,’ ‘the great squaw Victoria’." JamesJoyce International Conference, Princess Grace Irish Library, Monte Carlo, Monaco, June "John Milton's Sense of Vocation." Western Regional Meeting, Conference on Christianity and Literature, Seattle Pacific Univ., April "Basilisks and Damsels: In Distress." Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, California State Univ. at Long Beach, March 1989 "Citation: 1989 Conference on Christianity and Literature Annual Book Award." Modern Language Assoc. annual convention, Washington DC, Dec. "ʻThe Apostle of Science' and the Deconstruction of Nature." Southern British Studies Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, November "Hopkins, Browning, and Religious Aesthetics." Hopkins Centennial Symposium, St. Joseph's Univ., Philadelphia, Sept. "A Painful Encounter: A Dialogic Approach." James Joyce in Philadelphia Conference, Curtis Institute of Music, June "Charles Kingsley, Christian Socialism, and Technology." Interdisciplinary Nineteenth- Century Studies Conference, Portland State University, April "Magic Realism and the Polemics of Escapist Fiction." Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Feb. 1988 "The Water-Babies as Catechetical Paradigm." Modern Language Association annual meeting, New Orleans December "Mary Barton: The Inside View from Without."Southeastern Nineteenth Century Studies Association, Georgetown University, Washington DC, April "Aboard The English Mail-Coach: DeQuincey's Rite of Non-Passage." Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, Northeastern University, Boston, April 1987 "A Catholic Reading of Hawthorne's ʻYoung Goodman Brown’." An invited paper, Conference on Christianity and Literature, Midwest Regional Meeting, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, October "ʻThe Ghastly Ring of Prophetesses': Charles Kingsley and Women's Education." Midwest Victorian Studies Association, Annual Meeting, Newberry Library, Chicago, April "The Muscular Christian as Schoolmarm." Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Association, Annual Meeting, San Jose State University, April 1986 "Charles Kingsley's Religious Compromise." Conference on Christianity and Literature, Northeast Regional Meeting, Pace University, NY, October "Representing What Should Be: Charles Kingsley's Rhetorical Aesthetic." Western Assoc. for Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, Annual Meeting, Scripps College, March 1982 "Literature as Liturgy." Conference on Christianity and Literature Northeast Regional meeting, Concordia College, NY, October SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION AND THE COMMUNITY Service to the University 2006-09 Chair, English Department 2006-08 undergraduate Core Curriculum Committee 2006 "Everyone Loves a Conspiracy." Talk on The DaVinci Code for Osher returning learning symposium, May panelist (A&S representative), "Fifty Ways to Promote Scholarship." Univeristy Research Colloquium, 28 Feb. 2005 Faculty Senate President emeritus organizing committee; panel moderator, "Out There: First National Conference of Scholars and Student Affairs Personnel Involved in LGBTQ Issues on Catholic Campuses," 28-29 October 2004-05 Faculty Senate President member, University Coordinating Committee member, University Budget Council 2003-04 Faculty Senate President-elect (President, 2004-05; emeritus, 2005-06) member, Research Committee 1999- associate, Center for Multicultural Learning; member, Access committee 1998–01 member, Academic Affairs University Policy Committee 1997-99 moderator, Alpha Sigma Nu honor society 1997–00 member, Catholic Studies Advisory Board, and Dialogue and Design Group on Intellectuals, Religion and the Academy 1997–8 Chairman, Student Communications Board 1997- affiliated faculty, Ethnic Studies 1995–6 member, Diversity Committee 1995–7 member, Faculty Affairs University Policy Committee member, Benefits Subcommittee 1993–4 member, University Task Force on Governance 1993-5 member, Student Communications Board 1988–91 Chairman, Student Communications Board 1988- member, Women’s and Gender Studies faculty 1987–8 Chairman, Santa Clara University Library Committee 1986-91 moderator, Alpha Sigma Nu honor society Service to the College 2000-03 member, Rank and Tenure Committee; chair, 2002-03 2000-01 chair, College of Arts & Sciences 150th anniversary conference and academic- year-long celebration 1999-02 member, Grievance Committee for Arts and Humanities Division 1999-00 member, Richard J. Riordan award (student community service) committee member, joint Modern Language/English Dept. Search committee for Chicano/a Literature position 1998 chairman, panel on methods for publishing research, Faculty in-service day 1997–8 member, Rank and Tenure Committee 1995–7 participant, Pilot program to restructure Freshman advising 1994–5 member, Task Force on core science requirement assessment Service to the Department 2006 summer Chairman of the department Chairman, Search Committee, Academic Year Lecturers member, Curriculum Committee 2005 member, Search Committee, tenure track position in African American studies 2004 Chairman, Search Committee, two tenure track positions in composition and rhetoric member, Search Committee for lecturers in composition and rhetoric 2003-04 Chairman, Curriculum Committee 2002-03 member, Search Committee for lecturer positions in composition and rhetoric; member, Search Committee for Departmental Administrative Assistant 2001-03 member, Executive Committee 2000-01 member, Search Committee for Cultural and Gender Studies specialist 2000 summer Chairman of the Department 1999-02 member, Canterbury Student Fellowship Committee 1998–99 Chairman, Search Committee for African American literature specialist 1998-01 member, Budget committee 1997–99 Chairman, Curriculum Committee 1992–02 Library Liaison 1994–96 member, Executive Committee 1994–95 Chairman, Search Committee for African American literature specialist 1994 participant, department colloquium on strategies for publication 1993–95 member, faculty evaluation team 1993–94 member, Search Committee for Writing specialist 1991–92 member, Search Committee for American literature specialist 1990–92 member, Executive Committee Service to the Profession 2006- Host-institution organizer, 4th international conference of United States Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, Oct. 27-29 President, United States Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies 2005 The external reader, PhD in English, Jadavpur University, Calcutta National Secretary, United States Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies 2004- Advisory Board, The Global South, U Miss journal on southern-hemispheric postcolonial studies 2003- Executive Committee, South Asian Literary Association 2003 outside reviewer of two proposed new graduate courses in postcolonial theory and literature for Loyola University of Chicago 2003- Associate Editor, South Asian Review 2003-07 executive committee on Modern Language Association executive committee on English Literature Other Than British and American 2002 Host-institution organizer of second annual conference of United States Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, 26-28 April 2001 Host-institution organizer (with Catherine Montfort) of annual conference of Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, 9-11 November 2000-03 Executive committee, U S Association for Commonwealth Literature Studies 1998 Host-institution organizer for Conference on Christianity and Literature, May 1–2 [This is the fifth time I have organized this meeting on campus. Though technically a regional meeting, I have not only nationalized it, but also introduced an international element. Typically, ninety papers are delivered. Recently speakers have traveled from Norway, Israel, Japan, and Germany. Before my participation, the western division of this organization was moribund. It is now one of the most vibrant in the national network.] 1997–00 Executive committee, Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association 1997 Chair and Session Organizer, "Intersections of Postcolonial and Queer Theory." Modern Language Association annual convention, Toronto, 27-30 Dec. Nominated to run for election to executive board of Interdisciplinary Nineteenth- Century Studies. Unsuccessful Chair, "Burials and Cemeteries in Victorian England." Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies conference, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 5 April 1996 Chair, "Discourses of Conversion." Modern Language Association annual conference, Washington DC, December 1995–97 Alpha Sigma Nu honor society national board member 1995 Host-institution organizer for Conference on Christianity and Literature, May 5–6 Chair, "Natural Selection." Northeast Victorian Studies Association, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 7-9 April Nominated to run for President of the Conference on Christianity and Literature. Unsuccessful ("extremely close") 1993 Chair and Session Organizer, "Islam's Impact on Contemporary Literature," Modern Language Association annual meeting, Toronto, Dec. 27 1992–93 Chairman, Executive Committee on Religious Approaches to Literature, Modern Language Association [I believe I am the first Santa Clara faculty member to be elected to any executive committee of this important organization. Nomination and election is drawn from the 10,000 or so members] 1992–93 National Vice-President, Conference on Christianity and Literature 1991–95 National Secretary, Alpha Sigma Nu honor society 1991 Host-institution organizer for Conference on Christianity and Literature, May 3–4 1990–94 Executive Committee on Religious Approaches to Literature, Modern Language Association 1989 Host-institution organizer for Conference on Christianity and Literature, May 5–6 1989 Chairman, annual book award committee, Conference on Christianity and Literature 1987 Host-institution organizer for Conference on Christianity and Literature, May 9 External reviewer for the following: 2007 Haworth Press, regarding Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States) 2006 Mosaic, a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature Christianity and Literature Research in African Literatures outside evaluator for tenure and promotion case at three universities PMLA South Asian Review Nineteenth-Century Contexts Palgrave Macmillan Press, book manuscript on Nehru’s impact on contemporary Indian novels Prentice Hall, a new rhetoric text LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory 2005 ARIEL (A Review of International English Literature) LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory Pedagogy Bucknell University press, book manuscript on modernism and theatre MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States) South Asian Review 2004 PMLA Edinburgh University Press, book manuscript on Asian American liteature Outside evaluator for tenure case at three universities Lexington Books, book manuscript on the production of the Muslim woman in the discourse of female Orientalism, French psychoanalytic feminism, and Maghrebian nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism State University of New York Press, book manuscript on queer representation and the politics of culture in Southern Africa Christianity and Literature LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory South Asian Review Pluto Press, postcolonial literature and theory 2003 Outside evaluator for promotion case at one university named Associate Editor, South Asian Review LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory South Asian Review 2002 appointed examiner for Master of Arts at one university Christianity and Literature Longman Publishers, African literature section Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies editorial board, JASAL, The Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory State University of New York Press MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States) 2001-0 editorial board, South Asian Review 2000 MELUS PALMA Research Journal (Notre Dame University, Beirut, Lebanon); member of International Advisory Board Contemporary Literature 1999 Outside evaluator for tenure and promotion case for one university Lynne Rienner Publishers (formerly Three Continents Press) ARIEL (A Review of International English Literature) 1998 PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association) Research in African Literatures College English Nineteenth-Century Contexts 1997 Mosaic: A journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature Nineteenth-Century Contexts 1996 Outside evaluator for tenure and promotion case for one university Victorian Periodicals Review Fordham University Press State University of New York Press Christianity and Literature Memberships in Professional Organizations Modern Language Association, 1977 to present South Asian Literary Association, 1998 to present Association for Commonwealth Literature and Languages, 1996 to present Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, 1981 to present James Joyce Foundation, 1989-1994 Conference on Christianity and Literature, 1982 to present Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Association, 1986 to 1996 Midwest Victorian Studies Association, 1987-1992 African Literature Association, 1994 to present Community Service I have been an active member of choruses over the years (San Jose Symphony 1996-2000; San Francisco Symphony 1986-90, 1993-95; London Symphony 1992-93; Oakland Opera 1991; Bronx Opera 1985; Oratorio Society New York 1983-85; Collegiate Chorale NY 1982; Oakland Symphony 1975-77) and I list here the Compact Disc recordings in which I participated. 1994 Brahms, Requiem. San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Herbert Blomstedt conductor. London (GRAMMY award winner) 1993 Elgar, The Light of Life. London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Richard Hickox conductor. Chandos 1993 Ravel, Daphnis and Chloe. London Sumphony Orchestra and Chorus. Ken Nagano conductor. Erato 1993 Elgar, Caractacus. London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Richard Hickox conductor. Chandos 1991 Orff, Carl, Carmina Burana. San Francisco Symphony and Chorus, Herbert Blomstedt conductor. London (GRAMMY award winner) 1990 Brahms, Choral Works. San Francisco Symphony and Chorus, Herbert Blomstedt conductor. London | 
