PAUL OUTKA, Ph.D., University of Virginia
(2000), specializes in nineteenth-century U.S. literature and culture,
American poetry, and African American literature. His theoretical
interests include critical race theory, trauma studies, aesthetic theory,
the posthuman, and ecocriticism. Professor Outka has published in
Contemporary Literature, The Mickle Street Review, Interdisciplinary
Studies in Literature and the Environment, The Journal of American
Studies and elsewhere. In 2004-05 he was awarded a full-year American
Council of Learned Societies/Andrew W. Mellon Junior Faculty Fellowship to
work on his book project examining the intersection between the
construction of racial identity and natural experience in nineteenth- and
early twentieth-century America.
PUBLICATIONS
- Race and Nature from Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance. Book manuscript, under contract with Palgrave Macmillan as part of series, "Signs of Race." Forthcoming, July 2008.
- "(De)composing Whitman." ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature
and the Environment, 12.1 (2005) 41-60.
- "Whitman and Race ('he's queer, he's unclear, get used to it…')." Journal
of American Studies, 36 (2002) 293-318.
- "Publish or Perish: Food, Hunger, and Self-Construction in Maxine Hong
Kingston's The Woman Warrior." Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary
Criticism, Vol. 114, Gale Group, 2002.
- "Whitmanian Cybernetics." The Mickle Street Review, Summer 2001, No. 14.
- "Publish or Perish: Food, Hunger, and Self-Construction in Maxine Hong
Kingston's The Woman Warrior." Contemporary Literature, 38 (1997)
447-82.
- Entries and bibliographies for "Gender Studies," "Masculinist,"
"Misogyny," "Negritude," and "Women’s Studies." Joseph Childers and Gary
Hentzi, eds. The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural
Criticism. New York: Columbia UP, 1995.
AWARDS
- University of Maine Trustee Professor, 2007.
- American Council of Learned Societies/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship for Junior Faculty, 2004-05.
- University Honors Faculty. University of Maine at Farmington, 2003-07.
- Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship. University of Virginia, 1999-2000.
