Browsing the blog archives for February, 2007
I’m posting the abstract that I submitted for this year’s Stanford-Berkeley Conference, which will be held at Stanford. This paper, when I write it, will become part of my third chapter, on Dave Eggers and McSweeney’s.
How to be a Believer: Comparative Ontologies of Tim F. LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins’ Left Behind (1995) [...]
I finished reading Zadie Smith’s On Beauty this morning for a reading group that I’m helping to run. I have a sort of mixed reaction to the book. On the one hand, it’s perfect for the argument that I am making in the introduction to my dissertation, which begins with a careful reading [...]
Howdy from dissertation-land, folks. Life is going along quite merrily. I’m writing a draft of my introduction and my trendspotting chapter–both are going well, I think–and I’m doing a bunch of other non-academic things: watching TV (since you’re curious: Battlestar Galactica, 24, Heroes, I Love New York); revising the draft of [...]
Lee Konstantinou is a novelist and postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University.
He is the author of the novel Pop Apocalypse.
He is working on a second novel and a study of irony in postwar fiction called Countercultural Capital: The Problem of Irony in Postwar American Literature
Lee Konstantinou