Henry Veggian
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Department of English and Comparative Literature
422 Greenlaw Hall, CB#3520
Chapel Hill, N. C. 27599
cell: 201-658-5896/office 919-962-4027
[email protected]
EDUCATION
2006
1996
1994
Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh
MA Montclair State University
BA
Montclair State University
English
English
English/Philosophy
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
2006-
2003-2005
2003-2004
1998-2003
1996-1998
Lecturer, Department of English and Comparative Literature,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;
Graduate Faculty, The Graduate School, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill (2009- )
Faculty Advisor, UNC Honors College (2011-2012)
Visiting Scholar, Department of English, Columbia University
Andrew Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Department of English,
University of Pittsburgh
Teaching Fellow, Department of English, University of Pittsburgh,
Assistant Editor and Translator No Peace Without Justice: A Quarterly
of the United Nations NGO. United Nations
PRINCIPAL AREAS OF EXPERTISE
The American Novel, Contemporary Literature, Modern Poetry, Nature Writing,
Postmodernism, Critical Theory and Philosophy, Literary History
HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2005
2004
2004
2002
2002
1996
Cultural Studies Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh
Andrew Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh
Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Pittsburgh
Chambers-Anderson Research Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh
Co-Winner, Film Studies Writing Award, University of Pittsburgh
Mary Bondon Graduate Award, Montclair State University
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PUBLICATIONS IN MODERN AMERICAN / ANGLOPHONE LITERATURES
Manuscripts in Progress
Understanding Don Delillo. U South Carolina P. (Under Contract)
Edited Volumes in Progress
New and Recent Essays on Steinbeck’s East of Eden. Rodopi P. (Under Contract)
Book Series
Executive Editor (2011- )
Dialogue Series, Rodopi P.
http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?SerieId=DIALOGUE
Published Articles/Book Chapters
“Anachronisms of Authority: Authorship and Exchange Value in David Foster
Wallace’s The Pale King.” boundary 2. Duke UP (in press) 25 pp.
“Secret Ink and Ultraviolet Light: Faulkner, Marlowe and the Code Sequence of
The Big Sleep.’ Picturing Faulkner: William Faulkner and the Visual Arts. ed. Randall
Wilhelm. Knoxville: U Tennessee P, 2011. (in press) 23 pp.
“A Period of Perceptive Reading:” Leon Howard’s Herman Melville and
John Steinbeck’s East of Eden. Steinbeck Quarterly (Essay, 25pp. under review)
“Bio-Politics and the Institution of Literature: An Essay on East of Eden and its
Time.” New and Recent Essays on Steinbeck’s East of Eden. ed. Henry Veggian and
Michael J. Meyer. Rodopi P (in press). 28 pp.
“Introduction.” New and Recent Essays on Steinbeck’s East of Eden. ed. Henry
Veggian and Michael J. Meyer. Rodopi P (in press). 10 pp.
“Displacements and Encampments: John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.” The
Grapes of Wrath: A Re-Consideration. ed. Michael Meyer. Dialogue Series 6.
Kenilworth, NJ: Rodopi P, 2009: 351-374.
“Thomas Pynchon: Against the Day.” boundary 2 34:2 (Spring 2008): 197-215.
“From Philology to Formalism: Edith Rickert, John Matthews Manly, and
the Literary/Reformist Beginnings of U.S. Cryptology.” Reader: An
Interdisciplinary Journal. 54 (Spring 2006): 67-89.
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Book Reviews
Sollors, Werner. “Ethnic Modernism.” American Studies. 50:1/2 (Spring/Summer
2010): 118-120.
“Poyner, Jane, et al. J.M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual.” Modern
Fiction Studies. 54:4 (Winter 2008): 922-925.
Published Conference Proceedings
“Giuseppe Garibaldi and Henry Adams.” Proceedings of the AIHA Conference,
Annapolis, Md. November 4-6, 2004. AIHA. 18 pp.
PUBLICATIONS IN THE HISTORY AND LITERATURE OF AMERICAN SCIENCE
Completed Book Manuscripts
Welcome to Bowfin Country. Chapel Hill: UNC P (Under Review) 300 pp.
Essays/Book Chapters
“Bizarre, Long-Lost Creatures’: Notes on Contemporary Writings about Ancient
Fishes.” Isle: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment (Essay, 23
pp, Under Review).
Manuscripts in Progress (Essays)
“Ethnology, Biology, Cuisine: Curious Bowfin Recipes Collected by Dr. Robert E.
Coker.”
“The Mystery of Marangahockes: The Place of John White’s late 16th century
Bowfin Painting in the History of American Scientific Art”
“The Case of C.S. Rafinesque: Louis Agassiz, David Starr Jordan and the
Republican Scientific Ideal in Post-Civil War American Science”
PUBLICATIONS IN MODERN ITALIAN LITERATURES
Essays/Book Chapters
“Their naked souls’: Modern Italian Internment Narrative and Mario Duliani’s
The City Without Women.” Literature of Concentration Camps. Ed. Colman Hogan.
Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. 77-91.
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Book Reviews
“The Cambridge Companion to Primo Levi.” Quaderni d’Italianistica:
The Journal of Italian Studies. 30:1 (2009): 211-214.
“Taormina, Salvatore. Il cuore oltre l’Oceano.” Quaderni d’Italianistica:
The Journal of Italian Studies. 28:1 (2007): 178-181.
“Petacco, Arrigo. A Tragedy Revealed: The Story of Italians from
Istria, Dalmatia, and Venezia-Giulia, 1943-1956.” Quaderni
d’Italianistica: The Journal of Italian Studies. 27:2 (2006): 184-186.
“Reflexivity. Critical Themes in the Italian Cultural Tradition: Essays by
Members of the Department of Italian at University College London.” Quaderni
d’Italianistica: The Journal of Italian Studies. 21:2 (2000): 173-176.
Digital Publications
“The Istrian Paradox: African-American, Mittel-European, and Italian Readings
of Mann’s Death in Venice.” Critical Quarterly.com. Web. 10 Nov. 2003.
Journalism (in Italian)
“Helen Barolini racconta la visita di Garibaldi a Hastings-on-Hudson.”
America Oggi. New York. February 19, 2006: 20.
"Puglia tra l’accaio.” America Oggi. New York: May 14, 2000.
Translations: Novels
Pellegrino, Anna Maria. Diary of a Rapist. New York: Vivisphere, 2000
[149 pp.].
Translations: Non Fiction
Lenci. Autobiography of the Dollmaker. (unpublished ms., privately commissioned
by the dollmaker’s descendants).
Translations: Scholarly Essays
Fiorito, Luca. “Hoxie’s Spirit of the Age: The Methodological Legacy of the First
Institutionalist.” Storia del Pensiero Economico. 33 (1997).
Manuscripts in Progress (Essays)
“Pasolini Irredenta: Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Il Sogno di una Cosa.”
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TEACHING: COURSES DESIGNED AND TAUGHT
American Literature
The American Novel 1900-2000
Introduction to American Literature
Contemporary Literature
American Literary Traditions
Literature and the Contemporary
Critical Theory
Introduction to Literary Criticism
Introduction to Critical Readings
Composition and Rhetoric
Freshman Writing II: Writing in the Disciplines
Freshman Writing I
Basic Writing
General Writing
Written Professional Communication
Freshman Composition
Young Writer’s Institute of the Western
Pennsylvania Writing Project
Film Studies
Introduction to Film
UNC Chapel Hill
UNC Chapel Hill
UNC Chapel Hill
University of Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh
UNC Chapel Hill
University of Pittsburgh
UNC Chapel Hill
UNC Chapel Hill
UNC Chapel Hill
University of Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh
Montclair State University
University of Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh
DISSERTATION COMMITTEES
Scott Dill. Area: post-WWII American Fiction (Reader, 2009- 2011; Chair, 2012 -).
Department of English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
UNDERGRADUATE ADVISING
Bryce Butner: Modern American Sporting Literature (Faculty Advisor to undergraduate
English major developing and teaching an undergraduate course at UNC under
auspices of the UNC Honors College, 2011-2012; course taught during Spring 2012
semester: http://honorscarolina.unc.edu/current-students/curriculum/c-start/spring2012-courses-2/)
EDITORIAL WORK
Executive Series Editor: Dialogue (Rodopi P).
Co-Editor, New and Recent Essays on Steinbeck’s East of Eden. ed. Henry Veggian
and Michael J. Meyer. Rodopi P (in press).
Reader. boundary 2: An International Journal of Literature and Culture (2011-)
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EDITORIAL WORK (cont.)
Reader. Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science and Technology Reviewed
scholarly essays in 20th century American Literature (2011-)
Reader. Studies in American Fiction. Reviewed scholarly essays in 20th century
American Literature (2009-)
Reader. Reader: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Reviewed and responded to
submissions to the journal. (2002-03)
Editorial Assistant. Landy, Marcia. Italian Cinema. New York: Cambridge UP,
2000. Researcher, bibliographer, and proofreader
Reader. Ways of Reading. 6th ed. ed. David Bartholomae and Anthony Petrosky.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999. Evaluated previous edition and new
assignment sequences.
Editor and bibliographer. Afzal-Khan, Fawzia and Stone, Carole. "Gender, Race
and Narrative Structure: A Reappraisal of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness."
Conradiana. 29 (1997).
INVITED LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Pasolini, Ideology, and Biopolitics.” Midwest Modern Language Association
Conference. St. Louis, MO. November 2009.
“Anatomy of Institutional Intelligence: Notes on The 9/11 Commission Report.”
American Literature Association Conference, Boston, MA. May 2005.
“Heresies and Exceptions: Institutional Humanism and Intelligence Reform”
Owning It: Theory/Anti-Theory/After Theory. CUNY Graduate Center. March
2005.
“Giuseppe Garibaldi and Henry Adams.” American-Italian Historical
Association Conference, Annapolis, Md. November 2004.
“History and Anarchy: Giuseppe Garibaldi and Henry Adams.” College of
Staten Island (CUNY), New York. March 2004.
“Steinbeck on Film” (Four Lectures). Events sponsored by an NEH Grant and the
Friends of the Carnegie Library, in coordination with the nationwide Steinbeck
Centennial Series. Carnegie Museum of Art Cinema, Pittsburgh, PA. October
2002.
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“Giallo/Nero: Mario Bava and the Italian Mystery Cinema of the 1960’s.”
University of Pittsburgh Department of Film Studies. March 2001.
“Thoughts Turned Only Toward Hunger: Arthur Miller’s A View from the
Bridge and Albert Innaurato’s Gemini.” MELUS 2000: Multi-Ethnic Literatures
and the Idea of Social Justice. Tulane University, New Orleans. March 2000.
“On the Lack of Common Sense.” Conference on the History and Cultural
Identity of the Giuliano-Dalmatian Community in North America. Columbus
Centre, Vancouver, B.C., November 1999.
“Implied Literacies: Teaching Italo Calvino’s Six Memos for the Next Millennium.”
University of Pittsburgh Colloquium on Literacy and Pedagogy. November 1998.
“Faded Coins: Nino Ricci’s Book of Saints.” Conference on Canadian Minority
Literatures at the University of Montreal. March 1998.
SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY
Lecturer’s Advisory Committee. Appointed by Department Chair to review and
propose reform for contracted full-time, fixed-term University faculty. (UNC
Chapel Hill 2008, re-elected 2009).
Reader. Honors Thesis Committee in American Literature (Department of
English, UNC Chapel Hill 2007).
Reader. Hollis Award Committee for excellence in undergraduate writing in the
field of English Studies (UNC Chapel Hill 2007).
Faculty Advisor, Carolina Fishing Club. Advising the student organization on
environmental obligations and community service; editing club website and
faculty advisor to club newsletter (UNC Chapel Hill 2007 - present).
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
Co-Chair. “Violent Migrations” Panel. Midwest Modern Language Association
Conference. St. Louis, MO (November 2009)
Local Co-Organizer: Northeastern Modern Language Association (NEMLA)
Conference in Pittsburgh (2004). Organized reception at the Warhol Museum.
Teaching Mentor, Committee for Evaluation and Advancement of Teaching
(Department of English, University of Pittsburgh, 1999-2000).
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SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY
Member, Policy Council Personnel Committee, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City
Schools. Provided feedback and evaluation of candidates for teaching positions
in early childhood education (2010-2011).
LANGUAGES
Italian (Fluent in Reading, Speaking and Writing)
Spanish (Reading)