School of English Literatures & Philosophy

Dr John Bolin

BA (California), DPhil (Oxford)

Email: jbolin@uow.edu.au
Location: 19:1097
Telephone: 61 (02) 4221 3099

Teaching

In 2012 John is teaching the following subjects in the English Literatures program:

  • ENGL264: Modernism
  • ENGL267: US Literature
  • ENGL380: Postmodern American Fictions

Publications

Book

  • Beckett and the Modern Novel, under contract and at print with Cambridge University Press August, 2012

Book Chapters

  • ‘Romantic Disillusionment in Murphy and The Sorrows of Young Werther’ in All Sturm and No Drang: Beckett and Romanticism, Mark Nixon and Dirk Van Hulle, ed.s, Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007, 101-116
  • ‘A demented form of the particular: Surrealism, Suite and Eleutheria’ in Samuel Beckett Today/Aujour’hui: Filiations & Connexions/Filiations & Connecting Lines. Mével, Yann, Dominique Rabaté and Sjef Houppermans eds., Amsterdam and New York, NY, 2011, 98-114

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

  • ‘Preserving the integrity of incoherence’?: Dostoevsky, Gide, and the Novel in Beckett's 1930 Lectures and Dream of Fair to Middling Women’. Winner of The Review of English Studies Essay Prize. Published in RES, September 2009, vol. 60: 515 - 537
  • ‘Murphy, Les Caves du Vatican and the “Modern” Novel’, in Modernism/Modernity, Nov. 2011, vol. 18, no. 4: 771-788

Reviews

  • Moody, David. Ezra Pound: Poet (Volume 1) A Portrait of the Man and his Work, Volume 1 The Young Genius 1885–1920, Notes and Queries, December 2008, vol. 55: 537 - 538
  • Le Juez, Brigitte. Beckett before Beckett, Journal of Beckett Studies, no. 20.1, April 2011
  • Matthews, John T.. William Faulkner: Seeing Through the South, Notes and Queries, December 2010
  • Hayes, Patrick. JM Coetzee and the Novel: Writing and Politics after Beckett, Notes and Queries, 2011
  • Baron, Scarlett. 'Strandentwining Cable': Joyce, Flaubert, and Intertextuality, forthcoming in Notes and Queries, 2012 
Last reviewed: 8 March, 2012