Daniel Worden, Ph.D.
EducationPh.D., M.A. Brandeis University; B.A. Texas Christian University
Research Interests20th-Century American Literature and Culture
Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Avant-Garde
Western American Literature
Comics and Graphic Novels
Gender and Masculinity Studies
Critical Theory
History of Literary Criticism
Theory of the Novel
Fellowships and GrantsDorot Foundation Fellowship. The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Summer 2009.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Short-Term Fellowship. The Huntington Library, Summer 2006.
Scholar in Residence. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center in American Modernism, 2005-2006.
Selected Publications“Masculinity for the Million: Gender in Dime Novel Westerns.” Arizona Quarterly 63:3 (Autumn 2007): 35-60.
“‘I Like to be Like a Man’: Female Masculinity in O Pioneers! and My Ántonia.” In Violence, the Arts, and Willa Cather. Edited by Merrill Skaggs and Joseph Urgo. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007. 273-281.
"The Shameful Art: McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Comics, and the Politics of Affect." Modern Fiction Studies 52:4 (Winter 2006): 891-917.
“Neoliberalism and the Western: HBO’s Deadwood as National Allegory.” The Canadian Review of American Studies (Forthcoming).
“Birth in the Briar Patch: Charles W. Chesnutt and the Problem of Racial Identity.” The Southern Literary Journal (Forthcoming).
Current Projects
Masculinity & Modernism: Self-Fashioning in American Literature (Book Manuscript)
“Literary Cultures of the American Southwest” (Article)
“On Modernism’s Ruins: Architecture in Chris Ware’s ‘Building Stories’ and Lost Buildings” (Article)
Course Taught at UCCSENGL 300 - Literary Criticism in Theory and Practice
ENGL 339 - Survey of American Literature II
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