Dr Rod Rosenquist

BA, MA (London) PhD (London)
Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck

Contact details

email: r.rosenquist@bbk.ac.uk

About Dr Rod Rosenquist

Research projects and awards

• Modernism Recalled: Literary Memoirs, the Movement and Middlebrow Culture (book-length project under way: basis of application for research fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, May 2011 )
• Joyce’s Luggage: Celebrity Aura and the Ordinary in 1930s Modernist Memoirs’ (under consideration by Modernism/modernity)
• ‘Charlie Kaufman’s Life-Writing: fiction, autobiography and the screen’ – in progress, planned for Literature/Film Quarterly
• Modernism and Markets volume for ‘Topics in Modernism’ series, Edinburgh University Press (invited by editors, under discussion)
• Honorary Research Fellowship, Birkbeck College, University of London, 2010 - Present
• Overseas Research Student Award, Universities UK, 1999 – 2002
• College Research Studentship, Royal Holloway University of London, 1999 – 2002

Publications

• Books
  • Co-edited with John Attridge, Incredible Modernism: Literature, Trust and Deception (forthcoming: Ashgate, 2012)
  • Modernism, the Market and the Institution of the New (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009)
• Chapters in books
  • 'Trusting Personality: Modernist Memoir and its Audience’ in Incredible Modernism, eds. John Attridge and Rod Rosenquist (forthcoming: Ashgate, 2012)
  • 'Epilogue’ in Incredible Modernism, eds. John Attridge and Rod Rosenquist (forthcoming: Ashgate, 2012)
  • 'Myth, Fact and ‘Literary Belief’: Imagination and Post-Empiricism in C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien’ in Re-Embroidering the Robe: Faith, Myth and Literary Imagination since 1850, eds. Suzanne Bray, Adrienne E. Gavin and Peter Merchant (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2008)
  • All Hail the New Puritans” in Companion to the British Short Story, ed. Andrew Maunder (New York: Facts on File, 2007)
• Journal articles
  • 'Bloom's Digestion of the Economic and Political Situation in James Joyce's ‘Lestrygonians’' in Flashpoint 7  (Summer 2004)
  • 'London, Literature and BLAST:  The Vorticist as Crowd Master' in Flashpoint 6 (Winter 2004)
• Book reviews
  • Richard Lehan, Literary Modernism and Beyond: The Extended Vision and the Realms of the Text (Baton Rouge:  Louisiana State University Press, 2009) in Routledge Annotated Bibliography in English Studies, 2011.
  • Lawrence Rainey, Revisiting the Waste Land (London:  Yale University Press, 2005) in Routledge Annotated Bibliography in English Studies, 2008
  • Leigh Wilson, Modernism (New York: Continuum, 2007) in Routledge Annotated Bibliography in English Studies, 2008.
  • Aaron Jaffe, Modernism and the Culture of Celebrity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) in Routledge Annotated Bibliography in English Studies, 2007
  • Michael Levenson, Modernism and the Fate of Individuality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004) in Routledge Annotated Bibliography in English Studies, 2007
• Creative writing
  • 'T-shirt Sales for the World Tour of Duty’, short fiction, Palooka vol.1 issue 3 (forthcoming 2011)
  • 'Revolver' one-act drama, produced by We Knew Bold Revelers, April 2003

Selected papers

• 'Characters of 1910, Men of 1914: Woolf and Wyndham Lewis as literary historians’ at ‘The December 1910 Centenary Conference’, University of Glasgow, December 2010
• 'Rewriting the Modern:  Literary memoirs and late modernism’ (invited) for London Modernism Seminar, Institute of English Studies, University of London, November 2010
• 'Trusting Artists, Trusting Tales: Modernism, Memoir and Personality’ at Modernist Studies Association Conference #11, Montreal, Quebec, November 2009
• 'Blasting and Bombardiering’ (invited) for Wyndham Lewis Reading Group, Institute of English Studies, University of London, December 2008
• 'Genre & Genius: The Modernist Literary Memoir and Popular Modernism’ at Rethinking Genre, Royal Holloway University of London, June 2008
• Theory, Practice and Assessment in Shared Modules: Combined Humanities at Newbold College’ (invited) at Scholarship and Practice in the Arts and Humanities, Open University, March 2008
• 'Myth leads to Faith:  The Postmodern Theology of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien’ at Faith, Myth and the Literary Imagination, Lille Catholic University, May 2007
• '"What precious offal!": Art, Recycling and Waste in the Career of Henry Miller” at Modernist Studies Association Conference #5, Vancouver BC, October 2004
• 'Vortex: London – The First Blast of a Domestic Avant-Garde” at The City and Literature, Worcester College, Oxford, October 2003