Edward Comentale (Email; phone 812-855-2930)
Associate Professor
Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1999
B.A., Boston University, 1993

RESEARCH INTERESTS
British and Irish Literature (1900-present), International Modernism, The Avant-Garde, Psychoanalytic and Marxist Theory, The Frankfurt School, Postmodern Fiction and Poetry

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PARTIAL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
Books:
Modernism, Cultural Production, and the British Avant-Garde ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

T. E. Hulme and the Question of Modernism , eds. Edward P. Comentale and Andrzej Gasiorek (Hampshire: Ashgate Press, 2004)

The Cultural Politics of Ian Fleming and 007 , eds. Edward P. Comentale, Stephen Watt, and Skip Willman ( Indiana University Press, 2005)

Articles, Introductions, and Chapters:
"The Shropshire Schizoid and Other Modernist Machines," forthcoming in inaugural issue of Modernist Cultures, 2004).

"Ian Fleming¹s Company Man: James Bond and the Management of Modernism," in The Cultural Politics of Ian Fleming and 007 ( Indiana University Press, 2005).

"Hulme¹s Feelings," in T. E. Hulme and the Question of Modernism (Hampshire: Ashgate Press, 2004).

"Introduction: On the Significance of a Hulmean Modernism," in T. E. Hulme and the Question of Modernism (Hampshire: Ashgate Press, 2004 ­ with Andrzej Gasiorek).

"'A Veritable Age of Reason': Modernism, Comedy, and Technology in The Coens' O Brother, Where Art Thou?," forthcoming in collection titled The Coen Brothers: On Screen and Beyond.

"Thesmophoria: Suffragettes, Sympathetic Magic, and Classical Modernism," Modernism/Modernity. 8:3 (September 2001) 471-492.

PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
"On Nerves, Neuroses, and the Modernist Network." The Thirty-Second Annual Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, Louisville, Kentucky. February, 2004.

"Managing Modernism: Corporate England and the Possibilities of 'Corporate Realism.'" 46th Annual Midwest Modern Language Association Convention. Chicago, Illinois. Indiana. November, 2003.

"A Rich New Circuitry: D.H. Lawrence and the Electric Affinities of Modernism." Modernist Cultures: Fifth Annual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association,² Birmingham, England. September, 2003.

"Ian Fleming, Corporate England, and the Ruins of Modernism," The Cultural Politics of Ian Fleming and 007. Bloomington, Indiana. May, 2003.

"Pixilating the Past: The Coen Brothers, Postmodernity, and Laughter." New Modernisms 4: Fourth Annual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association. Madison, Wisconsin. October, 2002.

"'Masses in Relation': Wilfred Owen, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, & The Great War." New Modernisms 3: Third Annual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association. Houston, Texas. October, 2001.

"Modernism and Masculinity." New Modernisms 3: Third Annual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association. Houston, Texas. October, 2001.

"Thesmophoria: Suffragettes, Sympathetic Magic, and Classical Modernism." New Modernisms 2: Second Annual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October, 2000.

"A Position Paper on Classicism and Modernism." New Modernisms 2: Second Annual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October, 2000.

"'Call Yourself a Man!' The Return of the Avant-Garde Man in Contemporary Film." Rethinking the Avant-Garde: Between Politics and Aesthetics. Notre Dame, Indiana. April, 2000.

"Reconceiving the Avant-Garde." The New Modernisms: The Inaugural Conference of the Modernist Studies Association. State College, Pennsylvania. October, 1999.

"Middlethoughts, Middlevalues, and Middlesex: Bloomsbury and the Significanceof a Middle-Class Art." University of Buffalo¹s British Studies Symposium. Buffalo, New York. November, 1998.

"A Futurist in London: Marinetti and the British Mob." Border Crossings: Refiguring Culture and Literature in the Space Between, 1914-1945. New Paltz, New York. October, 1998.

"Images of Fascism in Post-War Italian Film." NEMLA Convention. Baltimore, Maryland. April 1998.

"'Quicker, darling!': The Past, Progress, and The Creative Will in Joyce¹s 'Scylla & Charybdis.'" North American James Joyce Symposium. Toronto, Ontario. June 1997.

"'Erotic Garbage': Mina Loy and the Aesthetics of Trash." Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. Louisville, Kentucky. February, 1995.

PRESENTATIONS AND PAPERS ON PROFESSIONALIZATION
"On Writing and the Profession," Panel arranged by English Department for the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate Carnegie. Bloomington, Indiana, 2004.

"Applying and Interviewing for your First Job." The Forty-Second Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association. Kansas City, Missouri. November, 2000.

"Tales from the Market: The Successful Job Search." 8th Annual Indiana University Conference in the Humanities. Bloomington, Indiana. March, 2000.