Associate Professor of English
Office
Moreland 240B
Phone
541-737-1633
Email
ndavison@oregonstate.edu
Education
Ph.D. University of Maryland 1993
M.F.A. Columbia University 1984
B.A. University of Maryland 1982
Areas of specialization
Modernist Literature, James Joyce, Literature of the Irish
Renaissance, Jewish Cultural Studies, Contemporary American Poetry,
Creative Writing.
Selected publications
Books
James Joyce, Ulysses and the Construction of
Jewish Identity; Culture, Biography, and "The Jew" in Modernist
Europe, Cambridge University Press
(1996) Paperback edition, Cambridge 1998.
Articles
"Why Bloom is Not Frum, or Jewishness and Postcolonialism
in Ulysses," in James Joyce Quarterly, Vol. 39,
no.4 (Summer 2002).
"'The Jew' as Homme/Femme Fatale: Jewish (art)ifice,
Trilby, and Dreyfus," in Jewish Social Studies,
Vol. 8, nos. 2/3 (Winter/Spring 2002).
"'Still an idea behind it': Trieste, Jewishness, and Zionism in
Ulysses," in James Joyce Quarterly, vol. 38, nos.
3 & 4, (Spring/Summer 2001).
"'We are not a doctor for the body': Catholicism, the Female
Grotesque, and Flann O'Brien's The Hard Life" in
Literature and Psychology, (Fall 1999).
"Representations of "Irishness" in The Untilled Field:
Deconstructing Ideological Ethnicity," in Textual
Practice, vol. 12, no. 2, (Fall 1998).
"'Cyclops', Sinn Fein, and 'the Jew,'" Journal of Modern
Literature, vol. 19, no. 2, (Fall 1995).
"Inside the Sho'ah: Narrative, Documentation, and Schwarz-Bart's
The Last of the Just," Clio (Spring, 1995).
"Joyce's Homosocial Reckoning: Italo Svevo, Aesthetics and A
Portrait of the "Artist as a Young Man," in Modern Language
Studies. (Summer 1994).
"Joyce's Matriculation Examination," in James Joyce
Quarterly. (Spring 1993).