CURRICULUM VITAE
Patrick McGee
William A. Read Professor
EDUCATION
Ph.D., 1984, Literature, University of California at Santa Cruz
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS :
1.
Paperspace: Style as Ideology in Joyce's “Ulysses” . Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988.
2.
Telling the Other: The Question of Value in Modern and Postcolonial Writing . Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 1992.
3.
Cinema, Theory and Political Responsibility in Contemporary Culture . Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1997.
4.
Ishmael Reed and the Ends of Race . New York: St. Martin's, 1997.
5.
Joyce beyond Marx: History and Desire in “Ulysses” and “Finnegans Wake.” The Florida James
Joyce Series. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001.
6.
From “Shane” to “Kill Bill”: Rethinking the Western . Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.
7.
Theory and the Common from Marx to Badiou . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
8.
Bad History and the Logics of Blockbuster Cinema: Titanic, Gangs of New York, Australia, and
Inglourious Basterds . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Actually published in December
2011.
ARTICLES :
1.
“Gender and Generation in Faulkner's 'The Bear',” The Faulkner Journal 1 (1985): 46-54.
2.
“Joyce's Nausea: Style and Representation in 'Nausicaa',”
James Joyce Quarterly 24.3 (1987): 305-18.
3.
“ Ulysses as Commodity,” The James Joyce Literary Supplement 1 (1987): 9-10.
4.
“Theory in Pain,”
Genre 20.1 (1987): 66-84.
5.
“Truth and Resistance: Teaching as a Form of Analysis,” College English 49.6 (1987): 667-78.
6.
“Is There a Class for This Text?: The New Ulysses , Jerome McGann, and the Issue of Textual
Authority,” Works and Days 5.2 (1987): 27-44.
7.
“Joyce's Pedagogy: Ulysses and Finnegans Wake as Theory.” Coping with Joyce: Essays from the
Copenhagen Symposium . Ed. Morris Beja and Shari Benstock. Columbus: Ohio State University
Press, 1989. Pp. 206-19.
8.
“Reading Authority: Feminism and Joyce,”
Modern Fiction Studies 35.3 (1989): 421-36.
9.
“Woolf's Other: The University in Her Eye,” Novel 23.3 (1990): 229-46.
10.
“The Error of Theory,”
Studies in the Novel 22.2 (1990): 148-62.
11.
“Texts Between Worlds: African Fiction as Political Allegory.” Decolonizing Tradition: New
Approaches to Twentieth-Century British Literary Canons . Ed. Karen Lawrence. Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 1992. Pp. 239-260.
12.
“The Politics of Modernist Form, or, Who Rules The Waves ?” Modern Fiction Studies 38.3 (1992):
631-650.
13.
“Decolonization and the Curriculum of English.” Race, Identity, and Representation in Education . Ed.
Warren Crichlow and Cameron McCarthy. New York: Routledge, 1993. Pp. 280-288.
14.
“When Is a Man Not a Man? or, The Male Feminist Approaches 'Nausicaa'.” Joyce in the Hibernian
Metropolis: Essays from the 1992 Dublin Symposium . Ed. Morris Beja and David Norris.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1996. Pp. 122-27.
15.
“'Heavenly Bodies': Ulysses and the Ethics of Marxism.” A Companion to James Joyce's “Ulysses”: A
Case Study in Contemporary Criticism . Ed. Margot Norris. New York: St. Martin's, 1998. Pp. 220-
38.
16.
“Masculine States and Feminine Republics:
Finnegans Wake as Historical Document.” Joyce:
Feminism / Post / Colonialism . European Joyce Studies 8.
Ed. Ellen Carol Jones. Amsterdam and
Atlanta: Rodopi, 1998. Pp. 261-87.
17.
“Machines, Empires, and the Wise Virgins: Cultural Revolution in 'Aeolus'.” “Ulysses”: En-Gendered
Perspectives . Ed. Kimberly J. Devlin and Marilyn Reizbaum. Columbia: University of South
Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. 86-99.

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18.
“Terrible Beauties: Messianic Time and the Image of Social Redemption in James Cameron’s
Titanic .”
Postmodern Culture 10.1 (1999): 45 pars.
19.
“Humpty Dumpty and the Despotism of Fact: A Critique of Stephen Howe's
Ireland and Empire .”
Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies 7.2 (2003): 50 pars.
20.
“Errors and Expectations: The Ethics of Desire in
Finnegans Wake .” James Joyce and the Difference of Language . Ed. Laurent Milesi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 161-79.
21. “The Communist Flâneur , or Joyce's Boredom.” Joyce, Benjamin, and Magical Urbanism . European
Joyce Studies 21. Ed. Maurizia Boscagli and Enda Duffy. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011.
REVIEW-ARTICLES :
1.
“Joyce and Postcreation.” Rev. of Genèse de Babel: Joyce et la création , by Claude Jacquet et al. The
James Joyce Literary Supplement 1 (1987): 14-15.
2.
Rev. of Peculiar Language: Literature as Difference from the Renaissance to James Joyce , by Derek
Attridge. James Joyce Quarterly 26.1 (1988): 129-137.
3.
“Three Critics and Twelve Apostles.” Rev. of
Joyce's “Ulysses”: The Larger Perspective , ed. Robert
D. Newman and Weldon Thornton. James Joyce Literary Supplement 2.2 (1988): 2-3.
4.
Rev. of Reauthorizing Joyce , by Vicki Mahaffey, and Joyce and the Law of the Father , by Frances
Restuccia. Genre 22.3 (1989): 315-21.
5.
“Joyce and Poststructuralism.” Rev. of
The French Joyce , by Geert Lernout. James Joyce Literary
Supplement 5.1 (1991): 14-15.
6.
“Feminist Text / Feminist Countertext.” Rev. of
Textualizing the Feminine: On the Limits of Genre , by
Shari Benstock. James Joyce Literary Supplement 6.1 (1992): 8-9.
7.
“Joyce in History.” Rev. of James Joyce's Ireland , by David Pierce. James Joyce Literary Supplement
6.2 (1992): 33-34.
8.
“Joyce Superhero or The Other Penelope.” Rev. of Joyce's Web: The Social Unraveling of Modernism , by Margot Norris. James Joyce Literary Supplement 8.1 (1994): 19-20.
9.
“Exorcising Modernism.” Rev. of The Ghosts of Modernity , by Jean-Michel Rabaté. James Joyce
Literary Supplement 11.2 (1997): 5-7.
10.
“Art for the Sake of a Sale.” Rev. of Art for Art’s Sake and Literary Life: How Politics and Markets
Helped Shape the Ideology & Culture of Aestheticism , by Gene Bell-Villada. James Joyce Literary
Supplement 13.1 (1999): 18-19.
11.
“Common, All Too Common.” Rev. of Who Reads “Ulysses”? The Rhetoric of the Joyce Wars and the
Common Reader , by Julie Sloan Brannon. James Joyce Literary Supplement 18.1 (2004): 6-8.
REPRINTS :
1.
“Gesture: The Letter of the Word.” Critical Essays on James Joyce's “Ulysses” . Ed. Bernard
Benstock. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1989. Pp. 304-26 (from Paperspace ).
2.
“The Politics of Modernist Form, or, Who Rules The Waves ?” Virginia Woolf: An MFS Reader. Ed.
Maren Linett. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
INVITED LECTURES
1.
“ ‘No Dreaming, No Story, Nothing’: Baz Luhrman’s Australia , the Cinematic Common, and
Postcolonial Discourse,” University of Nevada, Las Vegas, November 19, 2009.
2.
“Political Sense and Sensibility: Gramsci to Bourdieu,” University of California, Santa Barbara, April
28, 2006.
3.
“
Kill Bill , or Why Shane Always Comes Back,” MFS 50 th Anniversary Symposium, Purdue University,
October 1, 2004.
4.
“Race and Misogyny in the Writing of Ishmael Reed,” University of Oklahoma, February 20, 1997.
5.
“American Symptom: Decoding Ishmael Reed,” Arizona Quarterly Symposium, University of Arizona,
February 1995.
6.
“Cultural Studies, Curriculum Reform, and Political Responsibility,” Department of English, Louisiana
State University, Alexandria, January 1995.
7.
“History's Echo: Joyce, Spivak, and the Postcolonial Situation,” Department of English, University of
Miami, October 1994.
8.
“Decolonization and the Curriculum of English,” Department of English, Tulane University, April
1993.