Prof.
Stephen Bernstein
Department of English
University of Michigan - Flint
Vita
EMPLOYMENT
| 2003- | Professor of English, University of Michigan - Flint |
| 2002-08, 2011- | Chair, Department of English, University of Michigan - Flint |
| 1996-2003 | Associate Professor of English, University of Michigan - Flint |
| 1990-96 | Assistant Professor of English, University of Michigan - Flint |
| 1985-89 | Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
EDUCATION
| 1990 | Ph.D., English, University of Wisconsin |
| 1985 | M.A., English, University of Wisconsin |
| 1982 |
B.A.,
English, Indiana University, Bloomington |
PUBLICATIONS
Book
Alasdair Gray.
Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell
University Press, 1999.
Articles
and Book Chapters
"Alasdair Gray" and "James Kelman" entries.
The Encyclopedia of
Twentieth-Century Fiction. Ed. Brian Shaffer. London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
"'Nature seem'd to lose her course': Crisis Historiography and Historiographic Crisis in Charlotte Smith's The Emigrants." Clio's Daughters: British Women Making History, 1790-1899. Ed. Lynette Felber. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2007. 29-42.
"Alasdair Gray and Post-millenial Writing." The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature. Ed. Berthold Schoene. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press: 2007. 167-74.
"Politics,
Modernity, and Domesticity: The Gothicism of Conrad's The Secret Agent."
Clio 32
(2003): 285-301.
"Doing as Things Do With You:
Alasdair Gray's Minor Novels."
Alasdair Gray: Critical Appreciations and a Bibliography. Ed. Phil Moores. London: British Library, 2002. 147-164.
"Emily
Jane Bronte," "Don DeLillo,"
"Charles Dickens," "Gothicism," and
"Alasdair Gray" entries.
Encyclopedia
of Literature and Science. Ed. Pamela Gossin. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,
2002. 54, 103, 106, 175-76, 177.
"James Kelman."
Review
of Contemporary Fiction 20.3 (Fall 2000): 42-80.
"Modernist
Spatial Nostalgia: Forster, Conrad, Woolf."
Virginia
Woolf: Texts and Contexts. Selected Papers from the
Fifth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf. Ed. Beth Rigel Daugherty and Eileen Barrett. New York: Pace University Press, 1996. 40-44.
"Conrad
and Postmodernism: Under Western Eyes." The
Conradian 20.1-2 (1995): 31-56.
"Auster's Sublime Closure: The Locked Room."
Beyond the Red Notebook: Essays on Paul Auster. Ed. Dennis Barone. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 1995. 88-106.
"'Scottish
Enough': The
London Novels of Alasdair Gray."
Review of Contemporary Fiction
15.2 (1995): 170-74.
"Conrad
and Rousseau: A Note on Under Western Eyes." The
Journal of Modern Literature 19.1 (1994): 161-63.
"Libra and the Historical Sublime."
Postmodern
Culture 4 (1994)
"Form
and Ideology in the Gothic Novel."
Essays
in Literature 18 (1991): 151-65.
"Oliver
Twisted: Narrative and Doubling in Dickens's Second Novel."
Victorian Newsletter 79 (Spring 1991):
27-34.
"Comprehension,
Composition, and Closure in Elizabeth Madox Roberts's The Time of
Reviews
Kieron Smith, Boy by James Kelman.
Review of Contemporary Fiction
28.3 (Fall 2008).
Old Men in Love: John Tunnock's Posthumous Papers by Alasdair Gray. Review of Contemporary Fiction 28.1 (Spring 2008): 178-79.
The Closed Circle by Jonathan
Coe. Review of Contemporary Fiction. 26.3 (Fall 2006): 151.
Arthur & George by Julian Barnes.
Review of Contemporary
Fiction. 26.1 (Spring 2006): 146.
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.
Review of Contemporary Fiction.
25.1 (Spring 2005): 139.
The Ends of Our Tethers: 13 Sorry Stories by Alasdair Gray. Review of Contemporary Fiction. 24.2 (Summer 2004): 127-28.
Pandora's Handbag: Adventures in the Book World by Elizabeth Young. Review of Contemporary Fiction. 22.3 (Fall 2002): 173.
Nightmare on Main Street: Angels, Sadomasochism, and the Culture of Gothic by Mark Edmundson.
Clio. 28
(1999): 219-27.
Night Train by
Martin Amis.
Review of Contemporary
Fiction. 18.2 (Summer 1998):
231.
Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure by
Paul Auster.
Review of Contemporary Fiction. 18.1 (Spring 1998): 228.
The Gothic Sublime by
Vijay Mishra. Clio. 25 (1996): 333-38.
Editorial
2006-2011
Editorial Advisory Board Member, International Journal of Scottish Literature
1998-2007 Book Review Editor, Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History
Editorial Advisory Board Member, Literature and Science: An
Encyclopedia. Ed.
Pamela Gossin.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.
Co-editor, with Glen Scott Allen, special
Don DeLillo article cluster in Postmodern Culture,
January, 1994.
PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
"Letters Home: Alice Munro's Scottish Genealogy." "Diasporic
Scotlands" Session of the Scottish Literature Discussion Group, Modern Language
Association Convention, San Francisco. 30 December 2008.
"Glasgow the Invisible: Urban Obscurity in Gray, Torrington, and Kelman." "Internationalizing Scottish Literature" Special Session, Modern Language
Association Convention, Philadelphia, 29 December 2006.
"Visible
Tears, Invisible Tears: The Visual Supplement in Alasdair Gray's
Fiction." Open to
View: Popular Fiction and Visual Narrative ( Association for Research In Popular
Fictions Annual Conference), John Moores University, Liverpool, UK. 19
November 2005.
"Glasgow the Invisible: Urban Obscurity in Gray, Torrington, and Kelman." North Eastern Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Cambridge, MA, 1 April 2005.
"Talking about the Weather: Crisis Historiography and Historiographic Crisis in The Emigrants." International Conference on Romanticism. Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI. 15 November 2003.
"Visible
Tears, Invisible Tears: The Visual Supplement in Alasdair Gray's
Fiction."
South Central Modern Language Association
Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, 2 November 2002.
"History's
Stormy End?: Charlotte Smith's The
Emigrants."
North American Conference on British Studies, Pasadena, CA, 13 October
2000.
"'Nature
seem'd to
lose her course': Crisis Historiography and Historiographic Crisis in Charlotte Smith's The
Emigrants."
1799: Endings and Beginnings Conference, University of Bristol, Bristol,
England, 13 November 1999.
"Interpreting
Poetry."
National Poetry Month Event.
Borders Books, Music & Cafe, Flint, MI, 29 April 1999.
Organizer and Chair, "Alasdair Gray: Word, Image, Nation."
Special Session, Modern Language Association
Convention, Toronto, 28 December 1997.
"A
Second Look at the Classics" Book Discussion Group Speaker for John
Keats's "Ode to
a Nightingale." Borders Books, Music & Cafe, Flint,
MI, 13 May 1997.
"A
Second Look at the Classics" Book Discussion Group Speaker for
Virginia Woolf's To
the Lighthouse. Borders Books, Music
& Cafe, Flint, MI, 14 January 1997.
"Bronte,
Dante, and the Romantic Scene of
"Modernist
Spatial Nostalgia: Forster, Conrad, Woolf." Fifth
Annual Virginia Woolf Conference, Otterbein College,
Westerville, OH, 16 June 1995.
"Frankenstein."
"Reading With Your Eyes Closed: A
Lecture/Discussion Series on Horror Fiction."
Flint Public Library, Flint, MI, 18 October
1994.
"The Difficulty of Generic Modeling:
Charlotte Smith's The Emigrants."
The American Conference on Romanticism, Pennsylvania
State University, University Park, PA, 15 October 1994.
Organizer and Chair, "The Pynchon Effect: Postmodern Intertextualities."
Special Session, Modern Language Association
Convention, New York City, 30 December 1992.
"The
Gothicism of Beckett's Murphy."
Legacy of the Gothic Special Session, Midwest
Modern Language Association Convention, St. Louis, 6 November 1992.
"Putting
Some Bite Back Into Dracula." University of Michigan - Flint Theatre
Enrichment Series Lecture, 18 October 1992.
"Spatial
Nostalgia in Forster and Conrad."
Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters Annual Meetings, Central
Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI, 7 March 1992.