Dr. Adam Jabbur, PhD

Biography

SCHOLARSHIP:

Selected Presentations

• “Exploring the Boundaries of Narrative: Faulkner's Imaginary War.” American Literature Association Conference. Boston, MA. 2015.

• “In These Our Lives: Glasgow’s Answer to William Faulkner.” American Literature Association Conference. Boston, MA. 2013.
• “‘Land of Contrasts,’ Land of Art: Morocco and the Imagination of Edith Wharton.” American Literature Association Conference. Boston, MA. 2009.

RESEARCH:

• Late nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature and culture
• American modernism
• Southern literature
• Aesthetics of the novel
• History of the novel
• Historical studies

PUBLICATIONS AND CREATIVE ACTIVITIES:

Journal Articles

• “Narrative Properties in Toni Morrison’s Beloved.” Colloquy, iss. 37, Mar. 2019, pp. 3-32. 

• “Narrating the Sublime in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and The Unvanquished.” The Southern Quarterly (Special Issue) 48.3 (Spring 2011): 8-33.
• “Tradition and Individual Talent in Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop.” Studies in the Novel 42.4 (Winter 2010): 395-420.
• “‘Land of Contrasts,’ Land of Art: Morocco and the Imagination of Edith Wharton.” Edith Wharton Review 26.2 (Fall 2010): 5-11.

Book Chapters

• “Virginians at a Distance: Willa Cather and Tom Wolfe.” The Literature of Virginia. Ed. Kevin J. Hayes. Cambridge UP, 2015: 348-361.
• “Social Transitions.” Edith Wharton in Context. Ed. Laura Rattray. Cambridge UP, 2012: 262-271.  

MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATIONS:

• The William Faulkner Society
• The Willa Cather Foundation
• Modern Language Association
• The Modernist Studies Association
• Western Literature Association

SERVICE:

• English Department Curriculum Committee, Chair
• CLA Curriculum Committee
• English Department Representative to Cook Library