Sean Patrick Latham
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Department of English
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Ph.D. Brown University, 2000
A.M. Brown University, 1996
B.A. Swarthmore College, with high honors in the humanities, 1994
Associate Professor (tenured), Department of English, University of Tulsa, 2005-
Editor, James Joyce Quarterly, 2001-.
Co-Director, The Modernist Journals Project, 2003-
Director of Graduate Studies, 2005-
Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Tulsa, 2001-05
Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University, 2000-2001
Project Manager, The Modernist Journals Project, 1998-2001
Teaching Assistant, Department of English, Brown University, 1995-2000
National Endowment for the Humanities Award for Modernist Journals Project (co-award with Robert Scholes).
President-Elect, Modernist Studies Association, 2006.
University Outstanding Teacher Award, University of Tulsa, 2005.
Trustee, International James Joyce Foundation, 2004-2010.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 2004
SCMLA/Mellon Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Fellowship, 2004
College Nominee, University Outstanding Teacher Award, University of Tulsa,
2004.
Oklahoma Humanities Council Scholar Research Grant, 2004.
Faculty Summer Development Grant, Univ. of Tulsa, 2002, 2003, 2004 (deferred
to 2005).
Joukowsky Award (best dissertation), honorable mention, Brown Univ., 2000.
Graduate Council Research Fellowship, 1999-2000.
R. and E. Salomon Dissertation Fellowship, 1999.
Malcolm S. Forbes Center Research Fellowship, 1998, 1999.
Doctoral Exams Completed, with Distinction, 1997.
Malcolm S. Forbes Center Summer Research Assistantship, 1997.
University Research Proctorship, Brown University, 1996.
Phi Beta Kappa Scholarship for Graduate Study, 1994.
Phi Beta Kappa, 1994.
"Am I A Snob?" Modernism and the Novel. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003. Paper and cloth.
Monograph, Editions, and Collections
Dubliners: Longman Cultural Edition. Includes critical essays, contexts, and notes. (New York: Longman, under contract for 2008).
Editor, James Joyce: Visions and Revisions. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, forthcoming 2008.
Joyce's Modernism. Dublin: National Library of Ireland Monograph Series, 2005.
In Progress
The Art of Scandal: Modernism's Open Secrets and Hidden Pleasures (under review)
Essays
“A ‘Renovated Vitality’: Joyce’s Twenty-First-Century Contexts,” Joyce in Context, John McCourt ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2008).
“Cyril Connolly’s Horizon and the End of Modernism,” Modernist Magazines: A Critical and Cultural History, Peter Brooker and Andrew Thacker eds., (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2007).
“‘If you really shock them, how shocked they are’: Jean Rhys, Modernism, and the Open Secrets of the roman à clef.” Texas Studies in Language and Literature. Forthcoming. (34 pp)
“The Art of Scandal: The Nameless Shamelessness of Ulysses,” Scandalous Fictions: The Twentieth-Century Novel in the Public Sphere, Jago Morrison and Susan Watkins eds., (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). 27-47.
“An Impossible Resignation: Faulkner and the Colonial Imagination,” in Richard Moreland ed., A Companion to William Faulkner (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006). 252-268.
“The Rise of Periodical Studies” (co-authored with Robert Scholes), PMLA 121.2 (March 2005): 517-531.
General Introduction to Dana: An Irish Magazine of Independent Thought. The Modernist Journals Project. March 2005
"New Age Scholarship: The Work of Criticism in the Age of Digital Reproduction." New Literary History. 35.3 (Summer 2004): 411-426.
"Hating Joyce Properly." Journal of Modern Literature. 26.1 (Fall 2002), pp. 119-131.
Introduction to Volume 6. The Modernist Journals Project: The New Age Edition. Department of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University. April 2003 (17 pp.).
"The Masses." Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Radical and Reform Writers. Ed., Steven Rosendale. Detroit: Gale Group. Forthcoming, June 2004. (5000 words)
"A Portrait of the Snob: James Joyce and the Anxieties of Cultural Capital." Modern Fiction Studies. 47.4 (2001):775-799.
Introduction to Volume One. The Modernist Journals Project: The New Age Edition. Editor, Volume One. Department of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University. October 1999 (33 manuscript pages). http://www.modjourn.brown.edu/mjp/NAV1/VolOne.html.
"Jim Bond's America." Mississippi Quarterly, Special Faulkner Issue. 51 (1998): 453-464.
Notes, Interviews, etc.
“Reply.” PMLA 121.5 (October 2006): 1743.
"Kenner's Voices." James Joyce Literary Supplement. 18.1 (Spring 2004): 15-16.
"Interview with Sean Latham." Jacob's Ladder: An Anthology Underground. Ed. Tim Miller. Macon, GA: Six Galleries Press, 2004.
Reviews
Rev. of Joyce, “Penelope,” and the Body edited by Richard Brown. Modernism/modernity. Forthcoming
Rev. of The Little Magazine Others and the Rennovation of Modern American Poetry by Suzanne W. Churchill. American Periodicals,Forthcoming.
“Speculative Modernism.” Rev. of Modernism and the Culture of Celebrity by Aaron Jaffe. James Joyce Literary Supplement. 20.2 (Forthcoming Spring 2006).
Rev. of Engaging Modernity: Readings of Irish Politics, Culture and Literature at the Turn of the Century, ed. Michael Böss and Eamon Maher. Irish Studies Review 13.1 (forthcoming 2005).
Rev. of James Joyce, Sexuality and Social Purity by Katherine Mullin. Modernism/Modernity 11.2 (2004): 11-13.
"Rev. of The Difficulties of Modernism by Leonard Diepeveen. Modern Fiction Studies 50.2 (Summer 2004): 516-517 .
"What Bogeyman's Trick is This?" Rev. of Ghostwriting Modernism by Helen Sword. James Joyce Literary Supplement 16.2 (Fall 2002): 19-20.
"Future Present." Rev. of The Future of Modernism, ed. Hugh Witemeyer. James Joyce Literary Supplement 12.2 (1998): 18-19.
Conferences Organized
Organizing Committee, North American James Joyce Conference, University of Texas at Austin, June 2007 (250 est. participants).
Chair, Organizing Committee, Out of the Archives: Modernist Studies Association Conference, University of Tulsa, October 2006 (500 est. participants).
Planning Committee, NEH Comparative Literature Symposium, University of Tulsa , 2005 (50 participants).
Organizer, Post-Industrial Joyce: The North American James Joyce Conference, University of Tulsa, June 2003 (200 participants).
Exhibition Curated
Co-Curator, New Art for the New Age: The Debate Over Drawing from 1910-1914. The University of Tulsa , Grinnell College , Brown University, 2005-2006.
Media Citations/Consultations
Tulsa World, 6 August 2006. “Bludgeoning Scholars into Silence,” article on Joyce Estate and Copyright.
Insider Higher Ed, 14 July 2006, “New Model for Scholarly Publishing.”
The New Yorker, June 2006. Article on Stephen Joyce.
Times Literary Supplement , 10 March 2006. Review of JJQ.
Inside Higher Ed, December 2005, “Radical Change for Tenure.”
Times Literary Supplement , April 29, 2005, article on Joyce
San Francisco Chronicle, June 2004, article on Joyce and Bloomsday
Tulsa World, June 2004, article on Joyce and Bloomsday
Reason Magazine, June 2004, article on Ulysses and its readers.
Providence Journal Bulletin, October 2003, on the Modernist Journals Project partnership
National Public Radio, "Writer's Almanac," August 2003, on anniversary of U.S. ban on Ulysses.
Tulsa World, June 2002, article on TU Joyce conference
Associated Press, feature story on TU Joyce conference, carried on local radio stations.
Irish Times, June 2002, article on sale of Joyce manuscripts.
Media Citations of James Joyce Quarterly
Times Literary Supplement ( London ), 13 March 2006 .
Times Literary Supplement (London), 27 June 2003.
Times Literary Supplement (London), 3 May 2002.
Invited Lectures
National/International:
“Database Modernism.” Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, March 2008.“Nameless Shamelesses.” National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on James Joyce, Trinity College, Dublin, July 2007.
“Joyce’s Modernities.” James Joyce Summer School, University College, Dublin, July 2007.
“A Suspended World: Cyril Connolly’s Horizon and the End of Modernism.” Transatlantic Print Culture Symposium. University of Delaware, April 2007.
“The Art of Scandal: Libel and the Laws of Literature.” Humanities Center at Harvard University, March 2007.
Panelist. The Evaluation of Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion. ADE Seminar West, Blaine, WA, June 2006"Selling Out: Modernism and the Art of Scandal.” Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of California, Santa Barbara. February 2006.
"Vicious Lives." Address to the Trieste James Joyce Summer School, Trieste, Italy, June 2005.
"Ourselves Alone." Closing Roundtable on The State and Fate of the Single Author Study in Modernism. Flair Symposium: The State and Fate of Modernism. Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (Austin, TX, February 2004)
"Disingenuous Freedoms: Modernism and Autonomy." Keynote Address to the Lawrence Durrell Summer School, Corfu, Greece, June 2002. (2003 keynote lecture invitation declined)
"A Little Snob: Joyce in the Marketplace." James Joyce Society, NY, NY, March 2002.
Local:
“Magazine Modernism: The Low Forms of High Culture.” Lecture to open the exhibition “Mind the Gap,” Hogue Gallery, University of Tulsa, September 2006.“The Modernist Journals Project.” Kendall Conversations, University of Tulsa, February 2005.
"Internships in Scholarly Publishing and Research." University of Tulsa Humanities Recruiting Symposium, April 2004.
"Gambling on All or Nothing." OSU-Tulsa Unseen Cinema Series. Tulsa, OK, October 2003.
"Am I a Snob?" GSAE Colloquium. University of Tulsa, February 2003.
"Piecing Together Lumumba." OSU-Tulsa Unseen Cinema Series. Tulsa, OK, November 2002.
“Nameless Suffering.” North American James Joyce Conference (Austin, TX, June 2007).
“Who Owns the Archive?” Roundtable on Modernist Texts as Intellectual Property. Modernist Studies Association (Tulsa, OK, October 2006).
“Undergraduates in the Archive,” Roundtable on Teaching and the Archive. Modernist Studies Association (Tulsa, OK, October 2006).“‘Foetus’: A Portrait of the Artist in Mourning.” International James Joyce Symposium (Budapest , Hungary , June 2006).
“Vicious Lives: Ulysses and the Novel.” Modern Language Association (Washington D.C. , December 2005).
Panel Chair and Organizer, “Joyce’s Secrets.” Modern Language Association (Washington D.C. , 2005).
Panelist, “Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion.” Modern Language Association (Washington D.C. , 2005).
Roundtable, “Modernism Beyond the Little Magazines.” Modernist Studies Association (Chicago, November 2005).
“Pierced by the Lancet of Art: Joyce’s Libelous Fictions.” North American James Joyce Conference (Ithaca , New York , June 2005).
“Impromptu Joyce.” Panel Participant. North American James Joyce Conference (Ithaca , New York , June 2005).
"Sex, Lies, and Novels: Modernism and the roman-à-clef." Narrative Conference (Louisville, April 2005).
Seminar Leader and Organizer, "Generic Modernism." Modernist Studies Association (Vancouver, Canada, October 2004).
"The Art of Scandal: The Nameless Shamelessness of Ulysses." International James Joyce Conference (Dublin, Ireland, June 2004).
"Narrate, Describe, or Navigate? Notes Toward a Theory of Digital Narrative." Narrative Conference (Burlington, April 2004).
"The Kenner Era," Roundtable on Hugh Kenner, Miami James Joyce Conference (Miami, January 2004)
Roundtable Participant, "40 Years of the James Joyce Quarterly." 2003 North American Joyce Conference (Tulsa, June 2003)
"On the Surface Everything is Alright: The Open Secrets of Rhys's Quartet." Narrative Conference (Berkeley, March 2003)
Chair and Respondent, "Rethinking Modernism and Mass Culture." Modernist Studies Association (Madison, October 2003)
"Nameless Shamelesses: Joyce, Rhys, and the Roman à Clef." Modernist Studies Association (Madison, October 2003)
"Reading in Our Wake: The James Joyce Quarterly Electronic Archive." International James Joyce Conference (Trieste, June 2002)
Invited Particpant: "Joyce in Theory" Roundtable. International James Joyce Conference (Trieste, June 2002)
"Narrate or Simulate? Agency and the Everyday in The Sims." MLA (New Orleans, December 2001)
"The Work of Scholarship in the Age of Digital Reproduction." MSA (Houston, October 2001)
"The Cost of Culture: Dorothy Sayers, Margaret Kennedy, and the Gender of Snobbery." MLA (Washington DC; December 2000)
"Re-Inventing the Archive: The Modernist Journals Project and the Digital New Age." MLA (Washington DC; December 2000)
"The Prestige of Prestige": Modernism and the Market for Culture." Modernist Studies Association (UPenn, PA; October, 2000)
Session Chair, "A. R. Orage and The New Age: A Roundtable Discussion." Modernist Studies Association (UPenn, PA; October, 2000)
"Opening the Archive: The Future of Digital Editions." Northeast Modern Language Association (Buffalo, NY; April, 2000)
"The Digital New Age: Producing the Electronic Edition of a Modernist Journal." The New Modernisms Conference (Penn State, PA; October, 1999)
Session Chair, "Policing Modernism." Panel on Twentieth-Century British Literature, Central New York Conference on Language and Literature (SUNY Cortland, NY; October, 1999).
"A Little Snob: James Joyce and the Pursuit of Cultural Distinction." North American James Joyce Conference (College of Charleston, SC; July 1999).
"The Counterfeit Coin of Snobbery." Paris Joyce Conference (Sorbonne, Paris; May 1999).
"'We Are Becoming Important It Seems': James Joyce, Margaret Kennedy, and the Snobbery of Modernism." CNYCLL (SUNY Cortland, NY; October, 1998).
"Denaturalizing the Logic of Slavery: Negotiations of Race and Empire in Absalom, Absalom!" Naturalizations Conference (Tufts, MA; Spring 1997).
The James Joyce Quarterly Web Project. A new project in collarboration with the editoral staff of the JJQ, it will provide Joyce news, calendars, conference announcements, research materials, and eventually an archive of back-issues.
The Modernist Journals Project. A digital thematic research collection focused on early twentieth-century magazines operated as a partnership between Brown University and the University of Tulsa with additional support from Princeton University and the University of Chicago.
The Modernist Studies Association. Founding Web Editor (2000-2004). Information about the association, conference web pages, and various scholarly and pedagogical resources.
http://www.press.jhu.edu/associations/msa
The Annotated Index of Web Pages on Modernism, 1996-2000. A early attempt to provide an annotated and widely used list of on-line resources. The site was closed when the breadth of on-line material became too large to maintain effectively.
Current Research
The Art of Scandal: The Open Secrets and Illicit Pleasures of the Modern Novel
This book argues that modernist writers drew heavily on the disruptive generic conventions of the roman à clef to market an aesthetic lifestyle ostensibly founded on an opposition to the marketplace. By deliberately confusing the boundary between fact and fiction, they sought to market covertly difficult texts to a mass audience. Includes detailed reading of texts by Joyce, Rhys, Lawrence, Freud, and Huxley in chapters on the history of the novel, the regulative function of libel law, the cult of literary celebrity, and the intersection between case studies, ethnography, and the novel .
University of Tulsa
UNDERGRADUATE
AS 1001, “Freshman Experience,” Fall 2002, Fall 2003, Fall 2004
ENGL 2523, "Major British Writers II," 2001, 2002, 2004, 2007
ENGL 2283, “Film Theory,” Spring 2003, 2004
ENGL 3703, “Modern Comparative Fiction,” Spring 2004
ENGL 3833, “Becoming Modern: 1890-1914,” Spring 2002
ENGL 3863/COM 3803, “History/Theory of Multimedia,” Fall 2005
ENGL 4723, “Joyce and Yeats,” Spring 2002, Fall 2005
ENGL 4163, “Film Genres: Science Fiction,” Fall 2002, Spring 2006
ENGL 4863, “Special Topics in Film: Hitchcock and Kubrick,” Fall 2003
ENGL 4973, Senior Seminar: “Periodical Culture,” Fall 2006GRADUATE
ENGL 7063, “Theory II: Theory of the Novel,” Fall 2004
ENGL 7453, “Modern British Fiction I,” Fall 2003
ENGL 8103, “Joyce and Yeats,” Spring 2003, Fall 2005
ENGL 8203, "Modernism and the Marketplace," Fall 2001
ENGL 8203, “Modernism out of the Archive,” Fall 2006
ENGL 8203, "Pro-Seminar: Theories and Methods," Fall 2007
ENGL 8203, “Modernism and Mass Media,” Spring 2008AY 2007-08: 6 dissertation committees (2 as chair); 1 qualifying exam committee; 1 MJP internship
AY 2006-07: 4 dissertation committees; 3 qualifying exam committees (2 as chair); 2 MA directed readings; 1 independent study; 1 Henneke internship; 1 MJP internship; 1 TURC mentorship
AY 2005-06: 4 dissertation committees; 4 qualifying exam committees; 2 independent studies; 1 undergraduate research internship
AY 2004-05: 1 dissertation director; 2 dissertation committees; 1 qualifying exam committee; 1 honors thesis (director); 1 independent study; 1 TURC internship; 2 undergraduate research internships
AY 2003-04: 1 dissertation director; 3 dissertation committees; 1 qualifying exam committee: 1 honors thesis (director); 1 master's thesis (director); 1 independent study
AY 2002-03: 3 dissertation committees; 2 qualifying exam committees; 1 master's thesis (director); 4 TURC internships; 1 honors thesis (director); 1 independent study
Brown University
EL 15 "Twentieth-Century Mythologies," Summer 1997, Fall 1997, Summer 1998.
EL01 "From the Wasteland to Heroin Chic: Modern Tales of Decadence and Decay," Spring 1997.
EL179 "Twentieth-Century British and American Literature," Fall 1996.
EL04 "Technical Subjects: The Writing of Technology," Spring 1996.
EL05 "Advertising Identities," Fall 1995.
(All EL 15's are small introductory literature seminars; EL 1, 4, 5 are writing intensive composition seminars.)
To the Profession
Editor, James Joyce Quarterly, 2001-
Co-Director, Modernist Journals Project, 2002-
MLA Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion, 2004-
Board of Trustees, International James Joyce Foundation, 2004-
Organizing Committee, North American James Joyce Conference, University of Texas at Austin, 2007.
Board of Trustees, Modernist Studies Association, 2000-2004 (web editor), 2006-2009 (president-elect)
Reader/Referee for:
National Endowment for the Humanities
Social Scienes and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Palgrave Macmillan
Blackwell
Penn State University Press
University of Nebraska Press
University Press of Florida
Fairleigh Dickenson University Press
Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature
Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies
Novel: A Forum on Fiction
Tenure and Promotion Referee for:
Texas Tech University
External Dissertation Reader for:
University of Sydney
Editorial Advisory Board, The Modernist Magazines Research Project (Oxford University Press)
Editorial Board, James Joyce Bibliography
Editorial Advisory Board, The Modernist Journals Project, 2001-2002.
Scholar-Editor, The Modernist Journals Project, 1996-2001.
University of Tulsa
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English, 2005-
Faculty Study Group, 2007-
University Outstanding Teacher Committee, 2007-08
Vice-President, Faculty Senate, 2005-06
University Graduate Council, 2005-07
Search Committee, Position in Creative Writing, 2005
Graduate Committee, Department of English, 2004-
Chair, Faculty Senate Steering Committee, 2004-05
Faculty Senate, 2004-08 (two terms)
President, Phi Beta Kappa, Beta of Oklahoma, 2005-2006
University Graduate Council, 2005-
Search Committee, Position in Creative Writing, 2005
Chair, Faculty Senate Steering Committee, 2004-05
Faculty Senator, 2004-
Vice-President, Phi Beta Kappa, Beta of Oklahoma, 2004-2005
Planning Committee, NEH Comparative Literature Symposium, 2005
Faculty Senate Academic Computing Committee, 2003-
Chair and Organizer, 2003 North American Joyce Conference
Summer Chair, Department of English, 2003
Admissions and Recruiting Humanities Symposium Panelist, 2004
First Year Experience Instructor and Advisor, 2002-2005
Film Studies Representative, TU Open House, 2003
Departmental Review Committees:
Holly Laird, 2006
Joseph Kestner, 2005
Grant Jenkins, 2004
James Watson, 2002
Department Interview Committee, Writing Director, 2001, 2002
Mentor for ENGL 1063, 2002, 2003
Panelist, GSAE Forum on Hiring, 2001, 2002
Panelist, GSAE Forum on Academic Publication, 2001
Language Competency Exams in German and Spanish, 2001-2005
Co-Organizer, Junior Faculty Interest Group, 2004
Organizer, Celebration of New Faculty Books, 2004
Faculty Advisor, English Club at TU, 2002—2004
Panelist for A&S Honor’s Seminar, 2003, 2004
Last Updated: 4 June, 2007