Department of English, University of Iowa,
308 English Philosophy Building, Iowa City, IA 52242
Phone: 319-335-1260; Fax: 319-335-2535
E-mail: harilaos-stecopoulos@uiowa.edu
1999 Ph.D., English Literature, University of Virginia
2013- Editor, The Iowa Review
2013 Visiting Scholar, English Department, University of Michigan
2008- Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Iowa
2002-2008 Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Iowa
1999-2002 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Iowa
1996-1999 Lecturer, Writing Program, UC Santa Barbara
1991-1996 Teaching Assistant, Department of English, University of Virginia
Ida Beam Visiting Professor Grant for Professor Wai Chee Dimock, October, 2013
Plenary Lecturer, Futures of American Studies Institute , Dartmouth College, June 2010
Drake Lectureship, Hendrix College, 2010
University of Iowa Arts and Humanities Initiative Award, 2010
University of Iowa International Programs Travel Grant (2005, 2008, 2010)
University of Iowa Career Development Award, 2009
Judge, Best Southern Novel Competition, Oxford American Magazine , 2009

University of Iowa Arts and Humanities Initiative Award, 2006
Summer Fellowship, University of Iowa, 2005
Old Gold Fellowship, University of Iowa, 2003
Dissertation Fellowship, University of Virginia, 1995
DuPont Fellowship, University of Virginia, 1991-1993
American Studies Association
Modern Language Association
Semester and Year
Fall 2013
COURSES TAUGHT
Number and Title
8:450/The Global Novel
8:088/The American Novel After 1900
Summer 2013 8:059/Am. Short Story
Spring 2013
Fall 2012
Flexible Load Assignment
8:088/Selected American Authors
8:197/ Am. Drama After 1900
Spring 2012
Fall 2011
8:458/William Faulkner
8: 057/American Novella
8:196/Am. Novel After 1945
45: 250/Cold War Culture
8:197/Am. Drama Since 1900
Summer 2011 165:829/London Performance Studies
Spring 2011 8:005/Introduction to the English Major
Fall 2010
8:057/Am. Novel Before 1900
8:29/Celebrity in America
8:88/Selected American Authors
45:140/U.S. Subcultures
Summer 2010 8:088/Selected American Authors
Spring 2010 8:196/Am. Novel Since 1945
Fall 2009
8:197/Am. Drama Since 1945
Career Development Award
Summer 2009 8:088/Selected American Authors
8:059/American Short Story
Spring 2009
Fall 2008
8:135/Topics in Am. Lit
8:113/Lit. of the Americas
8: 197/Am. Drama Since 1900
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21
16
24
16
25
29
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38
28
24
25
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29
26
8
25
8
179
Students
Enrolled
13
24
15
25
26

8: 201/Intro to Grad. Studies
8: 459/Am. Lit. Seminar
Summer 2008 8: 059/Am. Short Story
Spring 2008
Winter 2008
8: 196/Am. Novel Since 1945
8: 197/Am. Drama Since 1945
8: 170/Literary Genres
Fall 2007
Spring 2007
Fall 2006
Spring 2006
Fall 2005
8: 154/American Regional Literatures
8: 74/Selected American Authors
8: 201/Introduction to Grad. Studies
8: 74/Selected American Authors
8: 221/Modern American Novel
8: 139/Topics in American Literature
8: 197/U.S. Drama After 1945
8:74/Selected American Authors
8: 196/American Novel Since 1945
8: 154/American Regional Literatures
Summer 2005 8: 136/Popular Literature
Spring 2005 8:197/U.S. Drama After 1945
Fall 2004
Spring 2004
8:230/Transnational America
Flexible Load Assignment
8:197/U.S. Drama After 1945
Fall 2003
Spring 2003
8:330/Modes of Criticism
8:37/Reading Plays
8: 118/American Regional Literature
8:74/Selected American Authors
Fall 2002
8:98/Honors Proseminar
8:196/U.S. Novel After 1945
8:37/Reading Plays
Name
Gabe Downs
Ross Salinas
Christine Norquest
Katherine Bishop
Eric Johnson (Am. St.)
Joanna Davis
Topic
Midwest Lit.
Historical Novel
Sound and Lit.
Imperial Culture
Ethnic Music
Ethnic Lit.
Name
Catherine Garnett
Tim Robbins
Allison Janger (Am. St.)
Lacey Worth
Years
2013-
2013-
2012-
2012-
Eloisa Valuenzela (Am.St.) 2012-
Nick Yanes (Am. St.) 2012-
Outcome
Ph.D expected, 2014
Ph.D. expected, 2014
Ph.D. expected, 2014
Ph.D. expected, 2014
Ph.D., 2012
Ph.D., 2010
Outcome
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Patrick Oray (Am.St.)
Wanda Raiford
Craig Carey
Nicole Gainyard
Sarah Fay Mcarthy
Matt Lavin
Stephanie Blaylock
2012-
2011-
2011-
2009-
2011-
2010-
2009-
Marta Holliday
Tom Keegan
Heidi Lavine
Heidi Bean
2008-
2006-
2005-
2005-
Pat Naick (Am.St.)
Everett Hamner 2006-
2006-
Erica Still
Keith Wilhite
2004-
2004-
2003- Amy Spellacy
Ph.D. 2013
Ph.D. 2013
Ph.D. 2013
Ph.D. 2013
Ph.D. 2012
Ph.D. 2012
Ph.D. 2011
Ph.D. 2011
Ph.D. 2010
Ph.D. 2010
Ph.D. 2010
Ph.D., 2008
Ph.D., 2008
Ph.D., 2007
Ph.D., 2007
Ph.D., 2007
Name
Sarah Walker
Kyle Keough (CCL)
Tim Robbins
Year
2013
2013
2013
Catherine Garnett
Kara Fagan (Am. St.)
2012
2012
Lacey Worth 2011
Eloisa Valuenzela (Am. St.) 2011
Allison Janger (Am. St.)
Nick Yanes (Am. St.)
Sara Shreve (Am. St.)
Christine Norquest
Ross Salinas
Sarah Fay
Craig Carey
Katherine Bishop
2011
2011
2011
2010
2010
2010
2010
2010
Wanda Raiford
Matt Lavin
2010
2009
Erica Bazemore
Gabriel Downs
Travis Johnson
Eve Rosenbaum
Joanna Davis
Amit Baishya
Everett Hamner
Tom Keegan
Heidi Lavine
Doug Dowland
Heidi Bean
Justin St. Clair
Pat Naick (Am. St.)
2009
2008
2007
2008
2007
2007
2006
2006
2005
2005
2005
2004
2004
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Passed
Passed
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Passed
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Name
Natalie Deam
Candice Wuehle
Margaret Satow
Joshua Kennedy
Maggie McGovern
Carolyn Chase
Ross Binder
Isaiah Fishman
Melissa Singer
Year
2012-2013
2007-8
2007-8
2005-6
2004-05
2004-05
2003-04
2002-03
Outcome
High Honors
Honors
Honors
Honors
Honors
Honors
2003-04
Honors
Honors
High Honors
Reconstructing the World: Southern Fictions and U.S. Imperialisms, 1898-1976 . Ithaca: Cornell
UP, 2008. 203 pages.
Reviewed in Choice , American Quarterly , Modernism/Modernity, Modern Fiction Studies,
Journal of American History, Journal of Southern History, American Literary History
Co-editor (with Michael Uebel). Race and the Subject of Masculinities . Durham: Duke UP, 1997.
385 pages.
Special Issues
Editor.“The New Southern Studies and the New Modernist Studies.” Philological Quarterly
(Fall-Winter 2011 [2012]). 231 pages.
“Regionalism and the American Modernist Novel.” The Cambridge Companion to the American
Modernist Novel . Ed. Joshua Miller (New York: Cambridge UP.) Forthcoming.
“Henry James, Propagandist.”
Henry James Today . Ed. John Rowe (Cambridge: Cambridge
Scholars Press). Forthcoming.
“South to the World: William Faulkner and the American Century.” William Faulkner in Context .
Ed. John Matthews (New York: Cambridge UP). Forthcoming.
“Indian Knives and Color Lines: Mark Twain, Pauline Hopkins, and the Jim Crow Raj.”
The
Oxford Handbook to Southern Literature . Eds. Fred Hobson and Barbara Ladd (New York:
Oxford UP). Forthcoming.
“William Faulkner and the Problem of Cold War Modernism.” Faulkner’s Geographies
, ed. Jay
Watson (Oxford: University of Mississippi Press). Forthcoming.

“Empire.”
Critical Terms for Southern Studies . Eds. Jennifer Rae Greeson and Scott Romine
(Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press). Forthcoming.
“Introduction: The New Southern Studies and the New Modernist Studies.”
Philological
Quarterly (Winter 2011 [2012]): 125-138.
“Telling America’s Story to the World.” American Quarterly 
63 (2011): 1025-1037.
“Melodrama of the Movement: Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun .” From Bourgeois to
Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performances . Ed. Vershawn Ashanti Young. Detroit: Wayne State
UP, 2011. 209-231.
“Leslie Fiedler’s Medieval America.” (with Kathy Lavezzo). American Literary History . 22. 4
(2010): 867-887.
“Western Hemispheric Drama and Performance.” The Blackwell Concise Companion to
American Studies. Ed. John Rowe. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. 234-251.
“Up From Empire: James Weldon Johnson, Latin America, and the Jim Crow South.” Our
Americas: Political and Cultural Imaginings of the Americas . Eds. Sandhya Shukla and Heidi
Tinsman. Durham: Duke UP, 2007. 34-62.
“Putting an Old Africa On Our Map: British Imperial Legacies and Contemporary U.S.
Culture.” Exceptional State: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism . Eds. Ashley
Dawson and Malini Schueller. Durham: Duke UP, 2007. 221-247.
“Plantation America.” American Quarterly 57 (2005): 1201-1210.
"Locating the Global South: Faulkner and Wright in Postwar Asia.” Prospects: An American
Studies Annual 28 (2003): 465-496.
“The World According to Normal Bean: Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Popular Culture.”
Race and the
Subject of Masculinities . Eds. Harilaos Stecopoulos and Michael Uebel. Durham: Duke UP, 1997.
183-205.
Review of Shadowing the White Man’s Burden: U.S. Imperialism and the Problem of the Color
Line by Gretchen Murphy. The American Historical Review.
Vol. 116, No. 3 (June 2011): 824-
825.
Review of A History of the Book in America, vol. 5: The Enduring Book: Print Culture in
Postwar America . Ed. David Paul Nord, Joan Shelley Rubin, and Michael Schudson. The
Journal of American History . Vol. 97, No. 4 (March 2011): 1158-1159.
Review of Resisting History by Barbara Ladd. Modern Fiction Studies 56. 2 (Spring 2010): 427-
430.
“Arthur Miller’s The Crucible .” The Encyclopedia of New England. Eds. Burt Feintuch and
David H. Watters. New Haven; Yale UP, 2005. 1168-1169.

Review of Writing America by Geoff Ward. European Journal of American Culture 23 (2004):
63-64.
Review of Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism by John Carlos Rowe. Journal of the Midwest
Modern Language Association Spring 35 (2002): 108-110.
Review of Producing American Races by Patricia McKee and Learning to Be White by
Thandeka. Mississippi Quarterly Spring (2002): 271-275.
“Stuart Hall.” European Cultural Theorists . Ed. Paul Hansom. Detroit: Gale, 2001. 199-208.
Freedom’s Canon: Literature, Propaganda, Internationalism (book-length work)
“The Novel as a Function of American Diplomacy; or, Ralph Ellison’s Cultural Cold War.” USC
Humanities Associates ' Lectures in American Cultures . University of Southern California, Los
Angeles. 25 April 2013.
“William Faulkner and the Problem of Cold War Modernism” Invited Panelist. 50 th Anniversary
Faulkner Conference. University of Mississippi. 17 July 2012.
“William Faulkner, Ambassador: The Man of Letters as a Man of Diplomacy.” Keynote Address,
Faulkner’s Geographies Conference, University of Mississippi. 14 July 2011. (Canceled due to a family emergency.)
“State Multiculturalism.” Plenary Lecture, Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth
College. 22 June 2010.
“Tarzan and the 1960s.” Drake Lectureship, Hendrix College. 4 March 2010.
“Telling America’s Story: Literary Studies and U.S. Propaganda.” Center for American Studies and Research, American University of Beirut. 6 January 2010.
“The Poetics of U.S. Public Diplomacy.” English Department, CUNY-Graduate Center. 13 Nov.
2009.
“Leslie Fiedler’s Medieval America.” (with Kathy Lavezzo). American Medievalism
Symposium. University of Illinois. 12 Oct. 2008.
“The Imperial Playlist.” Plenary Session. “American Studies and Imperial Designs.” Purdue
University. 14 Sept. 2008.
“`Take Your Geography and Trace It’: W.E.B. Du Bois and the South.” Floating Friday Speaker
Series. American Studies Department, University of Iowa. 28 Sept. 2007.

“Displacing the South: Regionalism and Globalism in the American Century." English
Department, University of Minnesota, 1 Dec. 2000.
Organizer and Chair, “The C.I.A. and American Studies: A Roundtable.” ASA Convention,
Washington, D.C., 24 Nov. 2013.
“Henry James, Propagandist.” MLA Convention, Boston, 6 Jan. 2013
“Mark Twain and the State Department.” MLA Convention, Boston, 4 Jan. 2013.
“An Old African Hand”: Langston Hughes, the Cold War, and the Globalization of African
American Culture” ASA Convention, San Juan, 17 Nov. 2012.
“The CCF, African Literature, and Global Modernism” Modernist Studies Association
Convention, Las Vegas, 19 October 2012 .
Chair, “Remapping U.S. Drama and Performance: From Vieux Carre to the Whiskey A Go Go and Beyond.” Modern Language Association, Los Angeles, 8 January 2011.
“Thomas Wentworth Higginson and the Uses of Southern Exceptionalism.” “American Studies
After Southern Exceptionalism.” American Studies Association Conference, San Antonio, 18
Nov. 2010.
“Response: Obama in History.” “Race After Obama.” American Studies Association,
Washington, D.C., 7 Nov. 2009.
“William Faulkner and Soft Power.” “Why Faulkner Now?” Modern Language Association, San
Francisco, 28 Dec. 2008.
“Edward Said in Harlem.” “Reconsidering
Orientalism
.” American Studies Association
Conference, Albuquerque, 18 Oct. 2008.
“William Faulkner’s Obsession with Racist Violence.” Addiction and Obsession Conference,
Kingston University, Kingston-Upon-Thames, United Kingdom, 14 July 2008.
“The Imperial Origins of Fingerprinting: Mark Twain, the British Raj, and Pudd’nhead Wilson.
”
MLA Convention. Chicago. 29 Dec. 2007.
Convenor and Respondent. “The New Southern Studies and the New Modernist Studies: A
Roundtable.” Modernist Studies Association Conference. Long Beach. 2 Nov. 2007.
“The International Writing Program and U.S. Cultural Diplomacy,” The Writer and the World:
40th Anniversary Celebration of the International Writing Program. University of Iowa, Iowa
City,12 Oct. 2007.
“Members of the Whole World: Carson McCullers’s Military Fictions.” MLA Convention.
Philadelphia, 28 Dec. 2006.

“`A Hot Time at Santiago’: James Weldon Johnson, Popular Music, and U.S. Expansion.” ASA
Convention. Oakland, 14 Oct. 2006.
“The Empire Rag.” Intellectuals and the Nation-State Conference. University College, Dublin,
Ireland, 1 Dec. 2005.
“Up From Empire: James Weldon Johnson, Gunboat Diplomacy, and the Jim Crow South.” MLA
Convention. Philadelphia, 30 Dec. 2004.
“James Baldwin and the New York Intellectuals: Rereading Another Country .” MMLA
Convention.
Chicago, 3 Nov. 2003.
“Putting Africa on Our Map: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the Victorian Imperial Imaginary.”
ASA Convention. Hartford, 16 Oct. 2003.
“Flannery O’Connor’s “The Artificial Nigger.” Panelist with James Alan Macpherson and Bill T.
Jones. University of Iowa, Iowa City, 9 Oct. 2003.
“Cosmopolitanism, Imperialism, and the New Negro.” MMLA Convention. Minneapolis, 7 Nov.
2002.
"Finding Mississippi in Japan: William Faulkner and the Cold War Construction of Southern
Whiteness.” ASA Convention. Washington, D.C., 9 Nov. 2001.
"Finding Mississippi in Japan: William Faulkner and the Global Politics of Southern
Regionalism." ALA Convention. Cambridge, Mass., 24 May 2001.
"Always Reaching Beyond: Stephen Spielberg, the Clinton Administration, and Neoliberal
Propaganda." ASA Convention. Detroit, 13 Oct. 2000.
Reader: Midwest Modern Language Association Journal, Philological Quarterly, African
American Review, Vanderbilt University Press, University of Georgia Press, Routledge,
University of Virginia Press, University of Sydney English Department (external dissertation reader)
External Departmental Reviewer: Oberlin College English Department (2014)
External Tenure Reviewer: University of New Mexico (2013), UC-Davis (2013)
Advisory Board, Literature of Propaganda Anthology, Gale Publishing (2012-)
2013-14 Faculty Supervisor, General Education in Literature Program

2013-14 Member, Nonfiction Faculty Search Committee
2013 Arranged Ida Beam Distinguished Visiting Professorship for Wai Chee Dimock, Yale
University
2012 Co-chaired Tenure Review of Assistant Professor Lena Hill
2012 Arranged visit of Professor Ashley Dawson, CUNY
2012 Graduate Student Placement Committee
2011 Chaired Pre-Tenure Review of Assistant Professor Lena Hill
2011 Arranged visit of Professor Russ Castronovo, Wisconsin
2011 Arranged visit of Professor Sara Blair, Michigan
2010 Director of Graduate Finances, English Department
2010 Graduate Program Steering Committee, English Department
2007-2010 Executive Council, Department of English
2008-2009 Co-chair, 20th Century U.S. Literature Hiring Committee
2007-2008 Instructor, Introduction to Graduate Studies
2007-2008 Graduate Steering Committee
2006-2007 General Education T.A. Advising
2005-2006 Member, African-American Literature Hiring Committee
(Hired Lena Hill, Michael Hill, and Miriam Thaggert)
2004-2005 Member, African Diasporic Literatures Hiring Committee
(Hired Marie Kruger)
2004 Initiated and organized graduate student mock job talks
2003-2004 Member, African Diasporic Literatures Hiring Committee
2002-2003 Graduate Student Placement Committee
2010- Executive Committee
2010 Committee to Draft Search Proposals (Provost’s Initiative)
2013-14 Member, Writers’ Workshop Fiction Search Committee
2011-12 Member, Writers’ Workshop Poetry Search Committee
2009-2012 Member, Faculty Assembly
2010 Internal Reviewer, Communications Department, University of Iowa
2008-2011 Member, Faculty Senate
2007-2010 Faculty Mentor, Samara Yuldesheva, Open Society Institute Fellow