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Jon Hauss teaches American literature and literary theory, with courses on American Moderns, 1960s Postmoderns, Melville, Poe, Lacan, Film Noir, Postwar Paperbacks, and Spaghetti Westerns. He was formerly tenured professor of English at Rhode Island College and for two years Senior Fulbright Scholar at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic. Dr. Hauss was honored at Dominguez Hills with the 2009 Lyle E. Gibson Distinguished Teaching Award. His writing has appeared in听Studies in the Novel,听, Literature and Psychology, Arizona Quarterly,听, English Language Notes, Western Humanities Review, Thought and Action, and anthologies by Open Court and Routledge Press. His prizewinning story 鈥淧lagiarism鈥 appeared in Narrative Magazine in Spring 2017.
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Selected Recent Publications:
鈥淭he Lazy Man鈥檚 Gaze: Big Other in The Big Lebowski.鈥 Philosophy and The Big Lebowski. Chicago: Open Court Press. (Forthcoming)
鈥淧濒补驳颈补谤颈蝉尘.鈥 Narrative Magazine. Winter Story Contest Winner. Spring 2017.
Selected Recent Presentations:
Keynote Address, 鈥淧arody & Paradox,鈥 Enjambed Release Party. CSUDH, Spring 2018.
Undergraduate Courses Taught:
ENG 110 | Composition |
ENG 230 | A Fistful of Fiction |
听 | For a Few Fictions More |
听 | Modernism as Equipment for Living |
ENG 305 | Critical Reading of Literature |
ENG 307 | Practice in Literary Criticism |
ENG 340 | American Literature to 1865 |
ENG 341 | American Literature from 1865 |
ENG 344 | 鈥淩ememory鈥 and African American Literature |
ENG 347 | Literature of Ethnicity & Gender: American Immigrant Novels |
ENG 350 | Advanced Composition |
ENG 477 | Paperback Writers, 1960s & 70s |
ENG 490 | Chants Democratic |
听 | American Gothic |
听 | Edgar Allan Poe |
听 | The Slave鈥檚 Narrative |
听 | Moby-Dick |
听 | Inc.: Writing & Capital circa 1900 |
听 | American Moderns |
听 | The Postmoderns |
ENG 494 | 1930s Working Class Writers |
Graduate Seminars Taught:
ENG 501 | Advanced Studies in Literature |
ENG 545 | Discord: Freud, Marx, Nietzsche & Literary Theory |
ENG 552 | Chants Democratic |
听 | American Gothic |
听 | Edgar Allan Poe & American Empire |
听 | The Slave鈥檚 Narrative |
听 | Melville & 鈥淩uthless Democracy鈥 |
听 | Inc.: Writing & Capital circa 1900 |
ENG 555 | American Moderns |
听 | Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, & American Memory |
听 | The Postmoderns: 1960s |
听 | A Fistful of Fiction |
听 | For a Few Fictions More |