Borst, Allan
Visiting Assistant Professor
Humanities 149
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Education

Ph.D., English, 2009 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign M.A., English, 2003 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign B.A., Journalism, with distinction, 2001 The Pennsylvania State University B.A., English, 2001 The Pennsylvania State University

Interests

Twentieth-century and contemporary American literature; Addiction studies; African-American Gothic; the Harlem Renaissance; Marxism; postmodern fiction; globalization studies

Publications

“Managing the Crisis: James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces and the Addict-Subject Confession” Cultural Critique. 75 (Spring 2010): 148-76. “Signifyin(g) Afro-Orientalism: The Jazz-Addict Subculture in Home to Harlem and Nigger Heaven” Modernism / Modernity. 16.4 (November 2009): 685-707. “Gothic Economics: Violence and Miscegenation in Jean Toomer’s ‘Blood-Burning Moon’” Gothic Studies. 10.1 (2008): 14-28. “The New Imperialism, or the Economic Logic of Late Postmodernism” Review of David Harvey’s The New Imperialism. Postmodern Culture 16.2 (2006): 11 paragraphs.