Erik Dussere Professor Literature
- Degrees
- PhD, Literatures in English, Rutgers University
BA, English, University of Massachusetts - Bio
- Professor Dussere's teaching and research are primarily focused on the literature, film, and culture of 20th- and 21st-century America. He has published two critical studies, Balancing the Books (a study of the way that the novels of Toni Morrison and William Faulkner deal with the legacies of slavery) and America Is Elsewhere (which looks at the tradition of "noir" in post-WWII film and fiction and its relation to consumer culture). His novel The West House was published in 2020.
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Teaching
Fall 2024
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CORE-105 Complex Problems Seminar: Detective Stories
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LIT-381 Topics in Cultural Studies: Watching the Tv Novel
Spring 2025
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LIT-146 Critical Appr to Cinema
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LIT-346 Topics in Film: Cinema in the 80s
Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Selected Publications
- America Is Elsewhere: The Noir Tradition in the Age of Consumer Culture. New York: Oxford, 2014
- Balancing the Books: Faulkner, Morrison, and the Economies of Slavery. New York: Routledge, 2003
- 鈥淥ut of the Past, Into the Supermarket: Consuming Film Noir,鈥 Film Quarterly 60:1
- 聽鈥淪ubversion in the Swamp: Pogo and the Folk in the McCarthy Era,鈥 The Journal of 猫咪社区app Culture 26:1
- 鈥淎ccounting for Slavery: Economic Narratives in Morrison and Faulkner,鈥 Modern Fiction Studies 47:2
- 鈥,鈥 Faulkner Journal 17:1; Winner of the Hinkle Award for Scholarship in the Faulkner Journal 2000-2005
- ,鈥 Salon, July 12, 2000.
Professional Presentations
- 鈥淭he Space of Conspiracy in The Parallax View,鈥 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Chicago, IL, March 2007.
- 聽Presentation and discussion on Fahrenheit 451 for the NEA鈥檚 鈥淏ig Read,鈥 Institute of Museum and Library Services, Washington, DC, October 2006.
- 鈥淐onspiracy of Skin: Chester Himes and the Detective Novel,鈥 Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, DC, December 2005.
- 鈥淧ulp is Beautiful: The Black Panther Meets the Seventies,鈥 猫咪社区app Studies Association Conference, Washington, DC, November 2005; MLA Convention, Philadelphia, PA, December 2004.