JIM O'ROURKE, Professor, Ph.D. University of Washington (1985) is currently writing on narrative technique in Jane Austen.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Books

• Retheorizing Shakespeare through Presentist Readings (Routledge, 2012). Nominated by Routledge Press for the Renaissance Society of America's 2013 Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize.
• Sex, Lies and Autobiography: The Ethics of Confession, University of Virginia Press, 2006. Co-recipient of the Jean-Pierre Barricelli prize of the International Conference on Romanticism for Outstanding Book in Romanticism Studies for the year 2006.
• Keats's Odes and Contemporary Criticism, University Press of Florida, 1998.
          --"an eloquently written tour de force"; Linda Dowling (SEL).
          --"an impressively learned book"; Duncan Wu (ECS).
          --"exquisitely intelligent readings"; Jack Stillinger (SiR).

Articles

• "The Revision of Obi; or, Three Finger'd Jack and the Jacobin Repudiation of Sentimentality." Nineteenth-Century Contexts (2006).
• "Racism and Homophobia in The Merchant of Venice." ELH 73, 2003.
• "The 1831 Introduction and Revisions to Frankenstein: Mary Shelley Dictates Her Legacy." Studies in Romanticism 38, 1999.
• "'Rule in Unity' and Otherwise: Love and Sex in Troilus and Cressida." Shakespeare Quarterly43, 1992. Reprinted in Shakespearean Criticism Yearbook 1992. Gale Research Press, 1994
• "'Nothing More Unnatural': Mary Shelley's Revision of Rousseau." ELH (1989): 543-69. Reprinted in The Columbia Critical Guide to Frankenstein, Columbia UP, 2000.

AWARDS

• Teaching Incentive Program Award, 1995.