James Arnett, PHD

Education

PHD, CUNY: The Graduate Center
MA, University of Illinois
BA, Tulane University

About

James Arnett is a PhD candidate at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center Department of English, completing a dissertation in 2012 entitled "Eliot's Spinoza: Realism, Affect, and Ethics."

Research

Interests: Victorian literature, 20th century British and Anglophone literature; postcolonial theory; affect theory; Marxist and post-Marxist theory; queer theory.

Professional Experience

Selected Conference Papers

* "How to Hear a Squirrel's Heartbeat: Spinoza, Sympathy and Nature," NeMLA conference, New Brunswick, NJ, April 2011

* "Crowds, Proletariat, Multitude: Towards a Spinozist Practice of Reading," American Comparative Literature Association conference, New Orleans, LA, April 2010

* "Striking Abjection, Evacuating Horror: Dynamic Psychic Processes in Dickens's Dombey and Son," British Victorian Studies Association conference, Leicester, UK, September 2008

Publications & Professional Activities

* “Free From the Family: Lessing, Klein, and the Unwanted Child,” Doris Lessing Studies (Winter 2011)

* “Sex Love and Sensuous Activity in the Work of Historical Materialism,” Mediations Journal (forthcoming, Winter, 2012)

* “First as Farce, Then as Tragedy: Cranford and the Internal Periphery of Capitalism,” Literature Interpretation Theory (under consideration)

Honors & Awards

* Robert Gilleece Fellowship, 2006-2011, CUNY Graduate Center

Professional Memberships

* Modern Language Association

Courses Taught/Teaching

ENGL 110      College Writing
ENGL 248      Masterworks of British Literature
ENGL 270      Crime and Detection
ENGL 392      Topics in Literature