Alissa G. Karl, Ph.D
- Associate Professor
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(585) 395-2342
akarl@brockport.edu
Office: Liberal Arts 237
Education
- PhD, English Language and Literature, University of Washington, 2005
- MA, English, University of Manchester (UK), 1999
- BA, English, summa cum laude, George Washington University, 1998
Areas of Specialty
- Modern and Contemporary British, Anglophone, Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures
- Cultural Studies of Economics and Finance
- The novel
- Literature, the nation-state and globalization
- Critical Theory and Cultural Studies
Courses Taught
Teaching
- British, Anglophone and Transatlantic Literature Courses
- Contemporary British Literature (MA seminar, SUNY Brockport)
- Modern British Literature (MA seminar and undergraduate)
- 20th and 21st Century British Literature (traditional and hybrid online/in-person)
- The modern Novel
- The Contemporary Novel
- Survey of British Literature, 1800-present
- Introduction to Modern and Postmodern Literature
Topic and Genre Courses
- Historical Fictions (senior capstone seminar, SUNY Brockport)
- James Bond, History and Politics (senior capstone seminar, SUNY Brockport)
- Economy, Crisis and Literature (senior capstone seminar, SUNY Brockport)
- Consuming Literature, Literary Consumption (senior capstone seminar, University of Washington)
- Literature and/as Economics in the Twentieth Century (senior capstone seminar, University of Washington)
- Women writers
- Techniques of the Novel (traditional and hybrid online/in-person
- Introduction to Literature and Culture: Consumerism
Theory, Criticism and Analysis Courses
- Critical Approaches to Literature (SUNY Brockport)
- Introduction to Literary Analysis (SUNY Brockport)
Composition Courses
- Advanced Composition (SUNY Brockport)
- College Composition (first-year, SUNY Brockport)
- Introduction to Expository Writing (first-year, University of Washington)
- Educational Opportunity Program Expository writing (University of Washington)
Research Interests
- Twentieth-century British and transatlantic literature and culture
- Transatlantic modernisms
- Literature and economics
- Consumer culture
- Contemporary British fiction
- Literature and the nation and nationalism
- The novel in the 20th century
Academic Positions
- Associate Professor of English, State University of New York College at Brockport, 2014-present
- Assistant Professor of English, State University of New York College at Brockport, 2007-2014
- Acting Instructor, Dept. of English, University of Washington, 2005-2007
- Teaching Assistant and Research Fellow, Dept. of English, University of Washington, 2000-2004
Scholarship
Monograph
- Modernism and the Marketplace: Literary Culture and Consumer Capitalism in Rhys Woolf, Stein and Nella Larsen. New York: Routledge, 2009.
Articles and Book Chapters
- “The Zero Hour of the Neoliberal Novel.” Forthcoming in Textual Practice as part of the “Neoliberalism and the Novel” special issue (2015) ed. Alissa Karl and Emily Johansen.
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“The Novel in the Economy.” Forcoming in The English Novel 1900-2000: Text and Theory, ed. Christoph Reinfandt. DeGruyter Handbook Series in English and American Studies (2016).
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“Things Break Apart: James Kelman, Ali Smith, and the Neoliberal Novel.” In Reading Capitalist Realism, ed. Leigh Claire La Berge and Alison Shonkweiler. Iowa city: University of Iowa Pres, 2014.
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“‘Bank Talk’, Interpretation and Financial Markets.” “Fictions of Finance” special issue of The Journal of Culture Economy 6.1 (2013), ed. Peter Knight.
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“A Little Fiction is Good for You: Currency Crisis, the Nation State, and Waugh’s African Texts” Modern Fiction Studies 58.2 (Summer 2012): 261-83.
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“Rhys, Keynes, and the Modern(ist) Economic Nation.” Novel: A Forum on Fiction 43.3 (Fall 2010): 424-42.
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“Waiting for Crisis: Casino Royale, Financial Aesthetics and National Narrative Form.” in Criticism, Crisis and Contemporary Narrative: Textual Horizons in an Age of Global Risk. Ed. Paul Crosthwaite, New York: Routeledge, 2011.
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“Modernism’s Risky Business: Gertrude Steiin, Sylvia Beach and American Consumer Capitalism.” American Literature 80 (March 2008): 83-109.
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“Goldfinger’s Gold Standard: Negotiating the economic nation in mid-twentieth century Britain.” The International Journal of Cultural Studies 11 (June 2008): 177-192.
Editorial Projects
- “Neoliberalism and the Novel.” A special journal issue forthcoming in Textual Practice, co- edited with Emily Johansen (2015).
Reviews
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Review of Carey James Mickalites’ Modernism and Market Fantasy, forthcoming in Modern Fiction Studies(2013).
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Review of Robert J. Balfour (Ed.), Culture, Capital and Representation. Review of English Studies 62 (2011): 672-73.
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Review of Jenny McDonnell’s Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Marketplace. KatherineMansfield Studies 3 (2011): 127-29.
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Review of Ronald Berman’s Modernity and Progress: Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Orwell, and Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt’s Narrative Settlements: Geographies of British Women’s Fiction Between the Wars. Studies in the Novel 39 (Winter 2007): 498-501.
Under Preparation
- Novels, Machines and the 20th Century Economic Imaginary (book)
- “The Extra-Capitalist Extreme” (article)
- “Assessing the Neoliberal Student: Higher Ed Policy and Economic Subjectivity” (article)
Professional Affiliations
- Modern Language Association
- Society for Novel Studies
- American Compartive Literature
- Modernist Studies Association
- British Society for Literature and Science
- Society for Literature, Science and the Arts