Jeremy Hawthorn

C.V.CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Jeremy Miles Hawthorn Tel. home: Int. + 47 72 887602

 

mobile/cellphone (47) 90 18 14 27

 

Starrmyra 99 Tel. office: Int. + 47 73 596787

 

7091 Tiller FAX: Int. + 47 73 596770

 

Norway E-mail: jeremy.hawthorn@hf.ntnu.no

 

Born 9 May 1942; nationality: British.

 

EDUCATION

 

1966: M.A., Department of English, University of Leeds

 

1964: B.A. (Hons) English (upper second), Department of English, University of Leeds

 

CURRENT POSITION

 

Professor of Modern British Literature

 

English Section

 

Department of Modern Foreign Languages

 

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

 

7491 Trondheim

 

Norway

 

1974–81 Principal Lecturer, Department of Languages and Cultures, Sunderland

 

Polytechnic (and Course Leader, B.A. Communication Studies).

 

1972–4 Senior Lecturer, Department of History and Communication Studies, Sheffield

 

Polytechnic.

 

1966–72 Assistant then full lecturer, Department of English, St. David’s University

 

College, Lampeter, Wales (University of Wales).

 

TEACHING

 

Most recent undergraduate teaching has centred on the novel, the short story; literary theory,

 

modernism.

 

Postgraduate teaching has included courses on literary theory; the literature of the Titanic

 

disaster; the fiction of Joseph Conrad; the fictional gaze, modern British short fiction.

 

SELECTED ACADEMIC SERVICE

 

Spring 2007 and Spring 2009 semesters, subject coordinator for English, Department of

 

Modern Languages, NTNU.

 

Member of ‘Narrative Theory and Analysis’ research group, Centre for Advanced Study,

 

Oslo, 2005–2006 <http://www.cas.uio.no/Groups/0506Narrative/index.html>.

 

September 2002–August 2005: Elected Deputy Head of Department, Department of Modern

 

Languages, NTNU.

 

August 1996: Elected Head of Department of English, member of Faculty Council, and of

 

Faculty Executive Committee. (Three-year period of office.)

 

January 1990 – December 1993: Leader of Project ‘Take Credit!’ (distance-teaching of 10-

 

credit English course (= half first-year university course) in collaboration with Norwegian

 

national radio and TV).

 

1988: Appointed member of Faculty Committee for Doctoral Programme, University of

 

Trondheim (Chairperson 1990).

 

1986: Elected Head of Department of English, and member of Faculty Board, University of

 

Trondheim.

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

 

1. Books and articles

 

1.1. Forthcoming

 

‘Feminine Ships, Feminized Men, and Masculine Women: the Displaced Challenge to

 

Gender Binaries in Joseph Conrad’s Fiction’. Accepted for publication in L’Epoque

 

Conradienne.

 

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1.2. Published

 

‘Authority and the Death of the Author’. In Stephen Donovan, Danuta Fjellestad and Rolf

 

Lundén (eds), Authority Matters: Rethinking the Theory and Practice of Authorship.

 

Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008, 65–88.

 

‘Travel as incarceration: Jean Rhys’s After Leaving Mr Mackenzie’. In Attie de Lange, Gail

 

Fincham, Jakob Lothe, and Jeremy Hawthorn (eds), Literary Landscapes: From

 

Modernism to Postcolonialism. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2008, 58–74.

 

‘Life Sentences: Linearity and its Discontents in Joseph Conrad’s An Outpost of the Islands’.

 

In Jakob Lothe, Jeremy Hawthorn, and James Phelan (eds), Joseph Conrad: Voice,

 

Sequence, History, Genre. Theory and Interpretation of Narrative. Ohio State

 

University Press, 2008, 123–45.

 

‘Lookalikes: Conrad and the Denial of Human Individuality’.

 

<http://conradfirst.net:8080/conrad/hawthorn-essay>

 

‘Joseph Conrad’s Half-finished Fictions’. In The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist

 

Novel, ed. Morag Schiach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, 151–64.

 

Sexuality and the Erotic in the Fiction of Joseph Conrad. London: Continuum, 2007.

 

‘A propos “A propos de(s) bottes”’. L’Epoque Conradienne 32, 2006, 41–8.

 

‘“The right word”: the individual appropriation of language in Joseph Conrad’s Under

 

Western Eyes.’ In Joseph Conrad 3, edited by Josiane Paccaud-Huguet. Caen:

 

Editions Minard, 2006.

 

‘Theories of the Gaze’. In Patricia Waugh (ed.), Literary Theory and Criticism. Oxford:

 

Oxford University Press, 2006, 508–18.

 

‘Reading and writhing: the exotic and the erotic in Joseph Conrad’s An Outcast of the

 

Islands’. In Charles Armstrong and Øyunn Hestetunn (eds), Postcolonial

 

Dislocations: Travel, History, and the Ironies of Narrative. Oslo: Novus Forlag, 2006,

 

227–239.

 

‘Artful Dodges in Mental Territory: Self-Deception in Conrad’s Fiction’, Conradiana, 37(3),

 

Fall 2005, 205–31.

 

‘Death and the Image: Photography, the Gaze, and the Limits of Realism.’ In Peter Drexler

 

and Rainer Schoor (eds), Against the Grain / Gegen den Strich gelesen. Potsdam:

 

Trafo 2005, 161–79.

 

‘The Use of “Coon” in Conrad: British Slang or Racist Slur?’. The Conradian 30(1), 2005,

 

111–17.

 

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‘Conrad and the Erotic: “A Smile of Fortune” and “The Planter of Malata”’. In Daphna

 

Erdinast-Vulcan, Allan H. Simmons and J.H. Stape (eds), Joseph Conrad: The Short

 

Fiction. Special issue of The Conradian. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004, 111–41.

 

‘Morality, Voyeurism, and “Point of View”: Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom (1960)’. Nordic

 

Journal of English Studies 2(2), 2003, 303–24.

 

‘The Richness of Meanness: Joseph Conrad’s “To-morrow” and James Joyce’s “Eveline”’. In

 

Jakob Lothe, Juan Christian Pellicer, and Tore Rem (eds), Literary Sinews: Essays in

 

Honour of Bjørn Tysdahl. Oslo: Novus Press, 2003, 107–20.

 

‘Optical Toys and X-ray Machines: Seeing and Believing in Lord Jim’. In Nathalie Martinière

 

(ed.), Lord Jim de Joseph Conrad. Nantes: Editions du Temps, 2003, 74–94.

 

‘Seeing is Believing: Power and the Gaze in Charles Dickens’s The Adventures of Oliver

 

Twist’. Nordic Journal of English Studies 1(1), 2002, 107–32.

 

‘Narcissism, Seeing and Imperialism: Narrative Technique and Ideology in The Nigger of the

 

“Narcissus”’. In David Bell (ed.), Joseph Conrad’s ‘The Nigger of the “Narcissus”’.

 

Östersund: Mid-Sweden University College, 2002, 25–36.

 

‘Herman Melville’s Typee: The Voyeur and the Imperial Gaze’. In Jakob Lothe, Anne Holden

 

Rønning and Peter Young (eds), Identities and Masks: Colonial and Postcolonial

 

Studies. Kristiansand: Norwegian Academic Press, 2001, 33–50.

 

(With Paul Goring and Domhnall Mitchell). Studying Literature: The Essential Guide.

 

London: Arnold, 2001.

 

‘Class, Voyeurism and Sadism: Henry James’s “In the Cage”’. In Ulf Lie and Anne Holden

 

Rønning (eds), Dialoguing on Genres. Oslo: Novus Press, 2001, 181–97.

 

‘Power and Perspective in Joseph Conrad’s Political Fiction: The Gaze and the Other’. In

 

Gail Fincham and Attie de Lange (eds), Conrad at the Millennium: Modernism,

 

Postmodernism, Postcolonialism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001,

 

275–307.

 

‘Not What it Used To Be: Conrad’s Travels in a Discovered World’. In Karin Hansson (ed.),

 

Journeys, Myths and the Age of Travel: Joseph Conrad’s Era. Rønneby: University of

 

Karlskrona/Ronneby, 1998, 13–35.

 

‘Repetitions and Revolutions: Conrad’s Use of the Pseudo-iterative in Nostromo’. In Josiane

 

Paccaud-Huguet (ed.), Joseph Conrad 1: la fiction et l’Autre, special Conrad issue of

 

La Revue des Lettres Modernes. Paris: Lettres Modernes Minard, 1998, 125–49.

 

Cunning Passages: New Historicism, Cultural Materialism, and Marxism in the

 

Contemporary Literary Debate. London: Arnold, 1996.

 

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‘Breaking Loose from Oneself: Perspectival Shift as Epistemological Break in Conrad’.

 

L’Epoque Conradienne 22 (1996), 7–27.

 

‘Joseph Conrad’s Theory of Reading’. In Andrew Kennedy & Orm Øverland (eds),

 

Excursions in Fiction: Essays in Honour of Professor Lars Hartveit on His 70th

 

Birthday. Oslo: Novus Press, 1994.

 

Joseph Conrad: Narrative Technique and Ideological Commitment. London: Edward Arnold,

 

1990. Paperback edition 1992. Chapter 3 reprinted in Jakob Lothe (ed.), Conrad in

 

Scandinavia, Columbia UP, 1995. Parts of chapter 1 are reprinted in Andrew Roberts

 

(ed.), The Longman Joseph Conrad Reader, 1998. Parts of chapter 8 are reprinted in

 

Readings on Joseph Conrad, Greenhaven Press, 1998. Part of chapter 6 is included in

 

the fourth edition of the Norton edition of Heart of Darkness (ed. Paul Armstrong,

 

2006).

 

‘D.H. Lawrence and the Working-Class Novel’. In Keith Brown (ed.), Rethinking Lawrence.

 

Buckingham: Open University Press, 1990, 67–78. Reprinted in David Ellis & Ornella

 

de Zordo (eds), D.H. Lawrence: Critical Assessments, Robertsbridge, Helm Information,

 

1992.

 

Unlocking the Text. London: Edward Arnold, 1987. Greek translation: Crete University Press,

 

1993.

 

A Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory. London: Edward Arnold, 1992. Second

 

edition, 1994. German translation, Grundbegriffe moderner Literaturtheorie,

 

Tübingen: Francke Verlag, 1994. Lithuanian translation, Moderniosios Literatûros

 

Teorijos Žinynas. Vilnius: Tyto Alba, 1998. Third edition, 1998. Fourth edition 2000.

 

Korean translation, Dong In Publishing Company, Seoul, 2003.

 

Bleak House. (‘Critics Debate’ series). Houndmills: Macmillan, 1987.

 

Studying the Novel. London: Edward Arnold, 1985. Japanese edition Tokyo: Kaibunsha,

 

1988; Indian edition New Delhi: Universal Book Stall, 1991; second edition 1992;

 

third edition 1997; fourth edition 2001, fifth edition 2005.

 

‘Formal and Social Issues in the Study of Interior Dialogue: the Case of Jane Eyre’. In

 

Jeremy Hawthorn (ed.), Narrative, London: Edward Arnold, 1985, 86–99.

 

‘Between the Slogans and the Political Biography: Jack Lindsay’s British Way Novels’. In

 

Bernard Smith (ed.), Culture and History: Essays Presented to Jack Lindsay, Sydney:

 

Hale & Iremonger, 1984, 198–211.

 

Multiple Personality and the Disintegration of Literary Character. London: Edward Arnold,

 

1983. Parts of this work have been reprinted by Greenwood Press. Chapter 3, ‘The

 

Mistakes of a Night: Double Standards in She Stoops to Conquer’ is reprinted in

 

Drama Criticism (volume 8), in Gale Research’s ‘Discovering the Curriculum’

 

program.

 

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‘Individuality and Characterization in the Modernist Novel’. In D. Jefferson & G. Martin

 

(eds), The Uses of Fiction. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1982, 41–58.

 

‘Ulysses, Modernism, and Marxist Criticism’. In W. McCormack & A. Stead (eds), James

 

Joyce and Modern Literature. London: Routledge, 1982, 112–25. Reprinted in

 

Bernard Benstock (ed.), Critical Essays on James Joyce’s Ulysses, Boston: G.K. Hall,

 

1989.

 

Joseph Conrad: Language and Fictional Self-Consciousness. London: Edward Arnold, 1979.

 

(USA: Nebraska UP.)

 

Virginia Woolf’s ‘Mrs Dalloway’: A Study in Alienation. London: Sussex University Press,

 

1975.

 

Identity and Relationship. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1973. (USA: New York: Norwood

 

Editions, 1976.) Japanese translation with a new introduction, Tokyo: Mirashai, 1979.

 

2. Editorial work

 

See Joseph Conrad: Voice, Sequence, History, Genre (2008) and Literary Landscapes: From

 

Modernism to Postcolonialism (2008), above.

 

2008 – Member of the editorial board of the Collected Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad

 

(Cambridge University Press).

 

Introduction, note on the text, and explanatory notes for the World’s Classics edition of

 

Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes. Oxford: OUP, 1983. New edition, with a new

 

introduction, a new note on the text, new explanatory notes, and a re-edited text of the

 

novel, Oxford: OUP, 2003.

 

Introduction, Note on the Text, and Notes for the World’s Classics edition of Joseph Conrad,

 

The Shadow-Line. Oxford: OUP, 1985. New edition, with a substantially revised

 

introduction, a new note on the text, new explanatory notes, and a re-edited text of the

 

novel, Oxford: OUP, 2003.

 

Introduction and notes for a study edition of Joseph Conrad, An Outpost of Progress. Cáceres

 

(Spain): Ediciones Universidad de Extremadura, 1984.

 

(Co-editor with John Corner) Communication Studies: An Introductory Reader. London:

 

Edward Arnold, 1980. Second edition 1985; third edition 1989; fourth edition 1993.

 

Introduction and Bibliography for a reissue of Ralph Fox, The Novel and the People. London:

 

Lawrence and Wishart, 1979. Spanish translation Mexico: Nuestra Tiempo, 1980;

 

Japanese translation Tokyo: Mirashai, 1984.

 

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And the following volumes in the Stratford-upon-Avon Studies, second series (London,

 

Edward Arnold):

 

Criticism and Critical Theory, 1984

 

The British Working-class Novel in the Twentieth Century, 1984

 

Narrative, 1985

 

The Nineteenth-century British Novel, 1986

 

Propaganda, Persuasion and Polemic, 1987

 

General Editor, Stratford-upon-Avon Studies (published by Edward Arnold, London)

 

1984–90.

 

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