Peter Joseph Kalliney University of Kentucky 506 Arcadia Park 1215 Patterson Office Tower Lexington KY 40503 Lexington, KY 40506 ph: 859.338.5005 pjkall2@uky.edu ¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾ Teaching & Research Interests British Literature, 1900-Present Literary Theory and Globalization Colonial & Postcolonial Literature Cultural Studies Academic Employment 2014- William J. and Nina B. Tuggle Chair in English, University of Kentucky. 2008-14 Associate Professor of English, University of Kentucky. 2006-8 Assistant Professor of English, University of Kentucky. 2003-6 Assistant Professor of English, University of South Florida St. Petersburg. 2001-3 Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Postdoctoral Fellow, Oberlin College. Education 2001 Ph.D., English Department, University of Michigan. 1993 Master of Arts, Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, University of Pennsylvania. 1991-1992 Junior Year Abroad Program, at King's College, University of London. Publications Books in progress Bandung Generation: Literature, Decolonization, and the Aesthetic Cold War. Editors of Modernist Latitudes series at Columbia UP, Jessica Berman and Paul Saint-Amour, have expressed interest in this project. Anticipated completion: 2020. 2016 Modernism in a Global Context. A critical introduction to the topic of modernism and globalization. Invited contribution to New Modernisms book series, edited by Sean Latham and Gayle Rogers, at Bloomsbury Press. 2013 Commonwealth of Letters: British Literary Culture and the Emergence of Postcolonial Aesthetics. Oxford UP, July 2013. Modernist Literature and Culture series, edited by Kevin Dettmar and Mark Wollaeger. 2007 Cities of Affluence and Anger: A Literary Geography of Modern Englishness, University of Virginia Press. Articles forthcoming "Colonial Intellectuals and the Aesthetic Cold War." Invited contribution to A History of 1930s British Literature, eds. Benjamin Kohlmann and Matthew Taunton. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 2016 "African Fiction in a Global Context." Invited contribution to Oxford History of the Novel in English, volume 11: The Novel in Africa and the Atlantic World. Series editor: Patrick Parrinder; volume editor: Simon Gikandi. 411-426. 2016 "Confessional Fictions: Truth and Reconciliation in the Cold War." Invited contribution to Around 1945: Literature, Citizenship, Rights, ed. Allan Hepburn. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press. 240-261.
2015 "Modernism, African Literature, and the Cold War." MLQ 76.3 (2015): 333-368. 2012 "Jean Rhys: Left Bank Modernist as Postcolonial Writer." Invited contribution to The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms, ed. Mark Wollaeger. 413-432. 2011 "The Novel's West Indian Revolution." Invited contribution to The Cambridge History of the English Novel, ed. Robert Caserio and Clement Hawes. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 740-756. 2009 "East Africa and Globalization in the Classroom." Invited contribution to MLA's Options for Teaching the African Novel, ed. Gaurav Desai. 259-273. 2008 "East African Literature and the Politics of Global Reading." Research in African Literatures 39: 1-23. Reprinted in Literature and Globalization, ed. Liam Connell and Nicky Marsh. Abingdon: Routledge, 2011. 298-314. 2007 "Metropolitan Modernism and its West Indian Interlocutors: 1950s London and the Emergence of Postcolonial Literature." PMLA 122: 89-104. Part of special issue, "Cities," edited by Patricia Yaeger. 2006 Review article, "Reading Maps, Writing Cities." Modernism/modernity 13: 747-54. 2002 "Globalization, Postcoloniality, and the Problem of Literary Studies in The Satanic Verses," Modern Fiction Studies 48: 50-82. Part of special issue, "Postmodernism and the Globalization of English," ed. Michael Bérubé. Reprinted in Postcolonial Literary Studies: The First Thirty Years, ed. Robert Marzec. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2011. 400-428. 2001 "Cities of Affluence: Masculinity, Class, and the Angry Young Men," Modern Fiction Studies 47: 92-117. 1999 "The Empire s Old Clothes: Community Policing in Britain," Dispositio/n 21: 87-102. Part of special issue, "The British New Left and the Rise of Cultural Studies," ed. Grant Farred. Journalism, Reviews, and Encyclopedia Entries 2016 "Makerere Generation." Times Literary Supplement. 8 July. 4000 words. 2013 Book review, Broadcasting Empire: The BBC and the British World (Simon J. Potter), Clio: Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 43.1: 33-37. 2010 Book review, Consuming Traditions: Modernity, Modernism, and the Commodified Authentic (Elizabeth Outka), Modern Fiction Studies 56.2: 442-444. 2009 Book review, Radical Fictions: The English Novel in the 1950s, (Nick Bentley), Modernism/modernity 16.4: 835-837. 2009 Book review, Washed by the Gulf Stream: The Historic and Geographic Relation of Irish and Caribbean Literature, (Maria McGarrity), James Joyce Quarterly. 46.3-4: 622-624. 2005 Encyclopedia of British Literature, Oxford & New York: Oxford UP. Entry on the Angry Young Men. 2001 Book review, The Cultural Turn (Fredric Jameson) and The Origins of Postmodernity (Perry Anderson), Post-Identity 3.1: 95-100. 1999 St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, Snohomish, Washington: St. James Press. Entries on Ford Motor Co. and Babe Ruth. Awards and Fellowships 2017 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. "Bandung Generation: Literature, Decolonization, and the Aesthetic Cold War."
2012-13 Visiting Fellow, John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress, Washington DC. In residence during sabbatical from UK. 2012 American Council of Learned Societies Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Faculty - alternate. 2012 National Humanities Center Fellowship - alternate. 2010 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship, 12 months. "Cultural Institutions of the Transatlantic World, 1930-1970" ($50,400). 2008 NEH Summer Stipend. "Cultural Institutions of the Transatlantic World, 1930-1970" ($5000). 2007 Special Summer Faculty Research Fellowship, University of Kentucky ($8000). 2006 New Researcher Grant (USF). "Metropolitan Modernism and the Rise of Postcolonial Literature: Transatlantic Print Culture in the Twentieth Century" ($7500; declined). 2004 Short list, Rockefeller Fellowship. Center for Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz. 2004 Florida Humanities Council Mini-Grant. Used to fund seven-part lecture series, "The Avant-Garde," at the Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg ($2000). 2003, 04 Faculty International Travel Grant (USF). Competitive grant for travel, used to present at conferences and do research in the UK ($2150) and Canada ($1200). 2001-3 Michigan-Oberlin Academic Partnership Postdoctoral Fellow. Modeled on the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships. Taught one course per semester at Oberlin; remaining time for research. 2002 H.H. Powers Travel Grant, Oberlin College. A competitive grant for travel; used to do research in Tanzania in January, 2003 ($3500). 2000 Finalist, Woodrow Wilson Academic Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities. 1999 Mellon Doctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan. 1995-2001 Rackham Merit Scholar, University of Michigan. A competitive, internal fellowship for minority students. Offers four years of full support. 1998 Rackham Dissertation Fellowship, University of Michigan. A competitive, internal fellowship offering one semester of support. Select Conference Activity and Invited Presentations 2018 "Literary History after the Nation?" Roundtable organizer. Modern Language Association (MLA) annual meeting. January, New York City. 2017 "C.L.R. James and the Aesthetic Cold War." International Society for the Study of Narrative conference. March, Lexington. 2017 "Booker Prize to BBC: Literary Culture and Black British Writing." Forming Black Britain: Aesthetics, Itineraries, Diaspora symposium. University of Maryland, March. (invited) 2017 Roundtable participant, "Making it New: Criticism and Method in a Global Textual Ecosystem." MLA. January, Philadelphia. 2016 Modernist Literary Culture and its Global Contexts symposium, Florida State University, September. (invited) 2016 Keynote address at Presumed Autonomy: Literature and Art in Theory and Practice conference, Stockholm, May. (invited)
2016 Organizer and moderator, "World Forms: How Literature Moves." Roundtable sponsored by 20th- and 21st-Century Anglophone Literature. MLA. Austin, January. 2015 "Raymond Williams, The Politics of Modernism," as part of roundtable on the founding of the Modernist Studies Association (MSA). Boston, November. 2015 "African Literary Institutions and Cold War Diplomacy." The Ohio State University, September. (invited) 2014 "Confession, Testimony, and Rights in the Fiction of J.M. Coetzee, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o." MSA. October, Pittsburgh. 2014 "The Emergence of African Literature and the Cold War." Case Western Reserve University, September. (invited) 2014 "Confessional Fictions: Truth and Reconciliation and the Cold War." "Literature, Citizenship, Rights" colloquium at McGill University, August. (invited) 2014 Seminar organizer, Decolonization, Anti-colonialism, and the Cold War. American Comparative Literature Association conference (ACLA). My paper: "The Emergence of African Literature and the Cold War." New York, March. 2013 Book talk: Commonwealth of Letters. Comparative Modernisms working group, Northwestern University. November. (invited) 2013 "Modernism, African Literature--and the CIA?" Library of Congress, June. (invited) 2013 Peer seminar organizer, with Greg Barnhisel, "Cold War Culture." MSA. August, University of Sussex (UK). 2013 "Imperial Power or Cold War Client State? Britain at Midcentury," MLA. January, Boston. 2012 "African Literature and the Cold War," MSA. October, Las Vegas. 2012 "Truth and Reconciliation Commissions and the Cold War," ACLA. Providence, RI. March. 2011 "Race and the Modernist Anthology: Nancy Cunard, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Ezra Pound." Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas. April. (invited) 2011 Peer seminar participant, "Modernist Sound/Sounding Modernism," MSA. October, Buffalo. 2009 Peer Seminar Organizer, with Marina MacKay, "Mid-Century Modernism," MSA. October, Montreal. 2008 Panel organizer, "Cultural Institutions and Textual Studies." Panel sponsored by MLA Discussion Group for Bibliographic and Textual Studies. December, San Francisco. 2008 Panel organizer, "Across the Color Line: Sexuality and Late Modernism," MSA. My paper: "Nancy Cunard's Negro and the Postcolonial Imaginary." November, Nashville. 2007 "National Bibliography and the BBC." Panel sponsored by MLA Discussion Group for Bibliographic and Textual Studies. December, Chicago. 2007 Panel organizer, "Transnational Cultural Institutions," MSA. My paper: "Modernist Publisher as Postcolonial Clearinghouse: The African Writers Series." November, Long Beach. 2006 MSA roundtable organizer, "Calling the West Indies." Also presented "Nationality, Race, and the Rhys Industry." October, Tulsa. 2005 "Metropolitan Publishers and Postcolonial Writing, 1945-1970." Panel sponsored by MLA Discussion Group for Bibliographic and Textual Studies. December, Washington, D.C.
2005 Peer seminar paper, "The Curious Case of Jean Rhys." MSA, November, Chicago. 2004 "When Was the Global? East African Literature and Transnational Theory." MLA panel "Africa in India, India in Africa," sponsored by Division of Literatures in English other than British and American. December, Philadelphia. 2004 MSA panel organizer, "Provincialism, Cosmopolitanism, and Cultural Dissidence." My paper: "Modernist Institutions and Postcolonial Literature." Also, invited peer seminar participant, "Welfare State Modernism." October, Vancouver (Canada). 2004 "Blasting and Bombardiering: Vorticism and the Art of War." Part of the Avant-Garde series at the Salvador Dalí Museum. September, St. Petersburg. 2003 "Modernist Criticism and Cultural Dissidence." MSA Conference. September, Birmingham (U.K.). 2003 " 'The Age of Hooper': Brideshead Revisited, Modernism, and the Welfare State." Evelyn Waugh Centenary Conference. September, Oxford University (U.K.). 2002 MLA Conference special session organizer, "East African Literature and the Politics of Global Reading." My paper: "Globalization in Reverse: The Gunny Sack and Global Nostalgia." December, New York City. 2002 "The Pastoral as Political: Brideshead Revisited, Modernism, and the Welfare State." MSA Conference, University of Wisconsin, October. Peer seminar participant, "The Modernist City." 2002 " 'Fit Homes for Fit Families': Towards a Racial Geography of the Welfare State." Midwest British Studies Association Conference, The Ohio State University, October. 2001 "Globalization, Postcoloniality, and the Problem of Literary Studies in The Satanic Verses." Globalicities Conference, Comparative Literature Department, Michigan State University, October. 2000 "Mad Goat in the Attic: Rushdie, Thatcherism, and the Politics of Urban Space." Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Birmingham University, England, June. Courses Taught Kentucky British & Irish Novel 1900-1950 British & Irish Novel 1950-Present Text and Context: World War I Text and Context: Cold War Culture British Literature Survey II (1700-Present) Contemporary British Fiction and Minority Discourse Contemporary European Film and Literature Literature across Borders George Orwell British Literature and the Left (English Honors Seminar) Global Literature in English (UK Core) British Critical Theory and Cultural Studies (Graduate Seminar) Black Atlantic (Graduate Seminar) Colonial and Postcolonial Fiction (Graduate Seminar) Global Literature, in Theory (Graduate Seminar) Literary London (Graduate Seminar) Theories of Modernity (Graduate Seminar) Preparing Future Faculty (Graduate) South Florida Introduction to Literary Criticism British Literature 1900-1945 Twentieth-Century Travel Literature Contemporary British Literature
Oberlin Michigan Student Advising Ph.D. Literary London (Senior/Grad Seminar) Transatlantic Culture of the 1950s (Senior/Grad Seminar) The Avant-Garde (Freshman Honors Seminar & Lecture Series) Modern African Fiction (Senior Seminar) British & Irish Modernist Fiction Modern British Fiction and Minority Discourse British Literature 1945-Present East African Literature (Independent Study) College Writing (two sections) English Literature, 1660 to the Present (two discussion sections) From Literature to Film (two discussion sections) Patrick Herald, Ph.D. (supervisor) Benjamin Wilson (supervisor); ABD Rachel Carr (supervisor); ABD Chinwe Morah (supervisor); ABD Nicole Trobaugh (second reader); ABD Deirdre Mikolajcik (third reader); ABD Matt Bryant Cheney (third reader); ABD Laura Barrio-Vilar, Ph.D. (co-supervisor) Aparajita Sengupta, Ph.D. (second reader) Craig Slaven, Ph.D. (third reader) Katherine Osborne, Ph.D. (third reader) Hannah Freeman, Ph.D. (third reader) Julie Cyzewski, Ph.D. (OSU student - outsider examiner) Ian Whittington, Ph.D. (McGill student - outside examiner) MA UG thesis Anna Gatewood (supervisor) Erin Newell (supervisor) Margaret Frymire (second examiner) Abby Schroering (supervisor, Gaines Center thesis) MiKayla Carter (supervisor, Chellgren Center thesis) Professional Service and Experience 2012- Editorial Board member, Modern Fiction Studies. 2000- Manuscript referee for Africa Today, Contemporary Literature, Criticism, James Joyce Quarterly, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, Literature Compass, Modernist Cultures, Modern Fiction Studies, Modernism/modernity, Modernist Cultures, Modern Language Studies, PAMLA, PMLA, Research in African Literatures, Studies in the Novel, Twentieth Century Literature, Oxford UP, Cambridge UP, Columbia UP, Wesleyan UP, U of Virginia P, Palgrave Macmillan, Routledge, and WBGH Mellon Foundation Project. 2015- Executive Committee of MLA Forum on 20th- and 21st-Century Anglophone Literature. 2017 Fellowship referee, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, of the Dutch Research Council, Veni grant program. 2017 International Society for the Study of Narrative conference selection committee. 2011-17 Grant referee (panelist), NEH Fellowship competition (3 times in this span).
2008- External promotion, tenure, and professional development referee: Claremont Graduate University; Columbia University; Connecticut College; Emory University; George Mason University; Georgetown University; Portland State University; Northern Illinois University; Stonehill College; University of Louisville; University of Miami; Virginia Commonwealth University. 2005-9 Executive Committee of MLA Discussion Group for Bibliographic and Textual Studies. 2005 Grant referee, SSHRC, Canada. 1999 Proofreader, Comparative Studies in Society and History. 1998-1999 Steering Committee, CSST (Comparative Study of Social Transformation). Interdisciplinary scholarship group at the University of Michigan. Departmental and University Service & Administration 2012- Associate Chair. 2015- Hajja Razia Sharif Sheikh lecture series committee member. 2016-18 Social Sciences Tenure and Promotion review committee, College of Arts & Sciences (outside member). 2015-2016 Year of Europe co-director (with Jeremy Popkin and Susan Larson), College of Arts and Sciences. 2014 Third-year review committee (Michael Genovese). 2011 Social Theory director search committee member. 2007-14 Job Placement Officer (4 years). 2014 International Studies External Review Committee (UK). 2007-8 African Diaspora Cultural Studies Search Committee. 2006-7 Search Committee, African Diaspora. 2006-15 Graduate Committee. 2005-6 Chair, American Literature Search Committee (USF). 2004 Cole Chair in Philosophy Search Committee (USF). Related Experience 1999-2000 Adult Literacy Tutor, New York City. Volunteered as an adult literacy tutor in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. 1995-1999 Tutor, Student-Athlete Support Program, University of Michigan. 1997-1998 Participant, "Post-Colonial Seminar," University of Michigan Comparative Literature Department. A year-long colloquium of professors and graduate students. References James English, Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania Fisher-Bennett Hall, 3340 Walnut Street, Philadelphia PA 19104-6273 ph.: 215.898.4377 email: jenglish@english.upenn.edu Simon Gikandi, Professor of English, Princeton University 22 McCosh Hall, Princeton NJ 08544 ph.: 609.258.4072 email: sgikandi@princeton.edu Marina MacKay, Fellow of St. Peter's College, Oxford New Inn Hall Street
Oxford, OX1 2DL email: marina.mackay@ell.ox.ac.uk Mark Wollaeger, Professor of English, Vanderbilt University Station B #351654, 2301 Vanderbilt Place, 331 Benson Hall, Nashville TN 37235 ph.: 615.322.7469 email: mark.wollaeger@vanderbilt.edu Jeffory Clymer, Chair and Professor of English, University of Kentucky 1215 Patterson Office Tower, Lexington KY 40506 ph.: 859.257.2901 email: jeff.clymer@uky.edu