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Publications by Jesse Kavadlo

Research paper thumbnail of How Do You Solve a Problem Like Palahniuk? Transgressive Fiction Meets Defensive Criticism

Orbit: A Journal of American Literature, 2020

Review essay of: Francisco Collado-Rodriguez (ed), Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club, Invisible Monst... more Review essay of:
Francisco Collado-Rodriguez (ed), Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Choke
Douglas Keesey, Understanding Chuck Palahniuk
David McCracken, Chuck Palahniuk, Parodist: Postmodern Irony in Six Transgressive Novels

Research paper thumbnail of Draw Your Own Confusions: Cultivating Ambient Awareness in the Literature Classroom Literature Classroom

New Jersey English Journal , 2020

While students strive to avoid ambiguity, exploring it can lead to understanding challenging text... more While students strive to avoid ambiguity, exploring it can lead to understanding challenging texts. Rather than beginning in-class discussions by learning what students think, we can use what social media theorists refer to as “ambient awareness” to start at a more advanced stage to cultivate student confusion for pedagogical purposes.

Research paper thumbnail of Search Powered by RebelMouse RECENT FEATURES REVIEWS NEWS MUSIC FILM BOOKS TV COMICS GAMES CULTURE  BOOKS Unlike Virgil, De Villiers Has a Sense of Humor About 'Hell and Damnation'

PopMatters, 2019

This book review/essay/interview examines some of the cultural origins and literary iterations of... more This book review/essay/interview examines some of the cultural origins and literary iterations of hell.

Research paper thumbnail of Blundering Blindly in the Corridors of Imagination: An Interview with Paul Auster

Forget everything you think you know about Paul Auster: with the release of his New York Trilogy ... more Forget everything you think you know about Paul Auster: with the release of his New York Trilogy manuscripts, the award-winning author talks typewriters, telephones, and why he doesn't think of himself as a novelist.

Research paper thumbnail of The End of Endings: How 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' and Don DeLillo's 'Zero K' Explain the Current State of Storytelling

Somehow, without realizing it, for both DeLillo and Rowling, death, the end of the world, and end... more Somehow, without realizing it, for both DeLillo and Rowling, death, the end of the world, and endings themselves are best emblematized by a dysfunctional father/son relationship.

Research paper thumbnail of The End of Endings; or, Why Won't Anyone Stay Dead?

What does it mean, ontologically and narratively, when the seeming finality of death disappears f... more What does it mean, ontologically and narratively, when the seeming finality of death disappears from our stories? What does it mean when our stories and our characters, unlike our lives, refuse to come to an end?

Research paper thumbnail of The Fiction of Self-destruction: Chuck Palahniuk, Closet Moralist

Research paper thumbnail of 9/11 Did Not Take Place: Apocalypse and Amnesia in Film and The Road

Research paper thumbnail of Paperless papers: Errors and expectations in the electronic era

Preparing Teachers to Teach Writing Using Technology, Sep 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Chuck Palahniuk's Edible Complex

Research paper thumbnail of The Message is the Medium: Electronically Helping Writing Tutors Help Electronically

Praxis: A Writing Center Journal, May 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Subversion: Teaching a Blue Novel in a Red State

Academic Exchange Quarterly, 2006

Research paper thumbnail of Tutoring Taboo: A Reconsideration of Style in the Writing Center

Refiguring Prose Style: Possibilities for Writing Pedagogy, 2005

Research paper thumbnail of X-istential X-Men: Jews, Superheroes, and the Literature of Struggle

X-Men and Philosophy, 2009

Research paper thumbnail of With Us or Against Us: Chuck Palahniuk's 9/11

Research paper thumbnail of Proust, Bakhtin, and the Dialogic Albertine: Voice and Fragmentation in The Captive

Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of We Have to Go Back: Lost After 9/11

Looking for Lost: Critical Essays on the Enigmatic …, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of The Terms of the Contract: Rock and Roll and the Narrative of Self-Destruction in Don DeLillo, Neal Pollack, and Kurt Cobain

Studies in Popular Culture30, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Magic Words: Students Learning and Teaching Writing in First Year Seminar

Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education, Jan 2012

Research paper thumbnail of Preventing Plagiarism, Promoting Honor: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Online Discussions

Currents in Teaching and Learning, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of How Do You Solve a Problem Like Palahniuk? Transgressive Fiction Meets Defensive Criticism

Orbit: A Journal of American Literature, 2020

Review essay of: Francisco Collado-Rodriguez (ed), Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club, Invisible Monst... more Review essay of:
Francisco Collado-Rodriguez (ed), Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Choke
Douglas Keesey, Understanding Chuck Palahniuk
David McCracken, Chuck Palahniuk, Parodist: Postmodern Irony in Six Transgressive Novels

Research paper thumbnail of Draw Your Own Confusions: Cultivating Ambient Awareness in the Literature Classroom Literature Classroom

New Jersey English Journal , 2020

While students strive to avoid ambiguity, exploring it can lead to understanding challenging text... more While students strive to avoid ambiguity, exploring it can lead to understanding challenging texts. Rather than beginning in-class discussions by learning what students think, we can use what social media theorists refer to as “ambient awareness” to start at a more advanced stage to cultivate student confusion for pedagogical purposes.

Research paper thumbnail of Search Powered by RebelMouse RECENT FEATURES REVIEWS NEWS MUSIC FILM BOOKS TV COMICS GAMES CULTURE  BOOKS Unlike Virgil, De Villiers Has a Sense of Humor About 'Hell and Damnation'

PopMatters, 2019

This book review/essay/interview examines some of the cultural origins and literary iterations of... more This book review/essay/interview examines some of the cultural origins and literary iterations of hell.

Research paper thumbnail of Blundering Blindly in the Corridors of Imagination: An Interview with Paul Auster

Forget everything you think you know about Paul Auster: with the release of his New York Trilogy ... more Forget everything you think you know about Paul Auster: with the release of his New York Trilogy manuscripts, the award-winning author talks typewriters, telephones, and why he doesn't think of himself as a novelist.

Research paper thumbnail of The End of Endings: How 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' and Don DeLillo's 'Zero K' Explain the Current State of Storytelling

Somehow, without realizing it, for both DeLillo and Rowling, death, the end of the world, and end... more Somehow, without realizing it, for both DeLillo and Rowling, death, the end of the world, and endings themselves are best emblematized by a dysfunctional father/son relationship.

Research paper thumbnail of The End of Endings; or, Why Won't Anyone Stay Dead?

What does it mean, ontologically and narratively, when the seeming finality of death disappears f... more What does it mean, ontologically and narratively, when the seeming finality of death disappears from our stories? What does it mean when our stories and our characters, unlike our lives, refuse to come to an end?

Research paper thumbnail of The Fiction of Self-destruction: Chuck Palahniuk, Closet Moralist

Research paper thumbnail of 9/11 Did Not Take Place: Apocalypse and Amnesia in Film and The Road

Research paper thumbnail of Paperless papers: Errors and expectations in the electronic era

Preparing Teachers to Teach Writing Using Technology, Sep 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Chuck Palahniuk's Edible Complex

Research paper thumbnail of The Message is the Medium: Electronically Helping Writing Tutors Help Electronically

Praxis: A Writing Center Journal, May 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Subversion: Teaching a Blue Novel in a Red State

Academic Exchange Quarterly, 2006

Research paper thumbnail of Tutoring Taboo: A Reconsideration of Style in the Writing Center

Refiguring Prose Style: Possibilities for Writing Pedagogy, 2005

Research paper thumbnail of X-istential X-Men: Jews, Superheroes, and the Literature of Struggle

X-Men and Philosophy, 2009

Research paper thumbnail of With Us or Against Us: Chuck Palahniuk's 9/11

Research paper thumbnail of Proust, Bakhtin, and the Dialogic Albertine: Voice and Fragmentation in The Captive

Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of We Have to Go Back: Lost After 9/11

Looking for Lost: Critical Essays on the Enigmatic …, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of The Terms of the Contract: Rock and Roll and the Narrative of Self-Destruction in Don DeLillo, Neal Pollack, and Kurt Cobain

Studies in Popular Culture30, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Magic Words: Students Learning and Teaching Writing in First Year Seminar

Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education, Jan 2012

Research paper thumbnail of Preventing Plagiarism, Promoting Honor: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Online Discussions

Currents in Teaching and Learning, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of American Popular Culture in the Era of Terror: Falling Skies, Dark Knights Rising, and Collapsing Cultures

Bringing together disparate and popular genres of the 21st century, American Popular Culture in t... more Bringing together disparate and popular genres of the 21st century, American Popular Culture in the Era of Terror: Falling Skies, Dark Knights Rising, and Collapsing Cultures argues that popular culture has been preoccupied by fantasies and narratives dominated by the anxiety —and, strangely, the wish fulfillment—that comes from the breakdowns of morality, family, law and order, and storytelling itself. From aging superheroes to young adult dystopias, heroic killers to lustrous vampires, the figures of our fiction, film, and television again and again reveal and revel in the imagery of terror. Kavadlo's single-author, thesis-driven book makes the case that many of the novels and films about September 11, 2001, have been about much more than terrorism alone, while popular stories that may not seem related to September 11 are deeply connected to it.

The book examines New York novels written in response to September 11 along with the anti-heroes of television and the resurgence of zombies and vampires in film and fiction to draw a correlation between Kavadlo's "Era of Terror" and the events of September 11, 2001. Geared toward college students, graduate students, and academics interested in popular culture, the book connects multiple topics to appeal to a wide audience.

Features
Provides an interesting new framework in which to examine popular culture
Examines films, television shows, and primary texts such as novels for evidence of cultural anxiety and a preoccupation with terror
Offers insightful and original interpretations of primary texts
Suggests possible conclusions about cultural anxiety regarding breakdowns of tradition and authority

Research paper thumbnail of Michael Chabon’s America: Magical Words, Secret Worlds, and Sacred Spaces

Author Michel Chabon is acutely attuned to life in contemporary America, providing insight into t... more Author Michel Chabon is acutely attuned to life in contemporary America, providing insight into the history of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries in novels such as The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), Wonder Boys (1995), and Telegraph Avenue (2012). The Pulitzer prize–winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Chabon follows in the footsteps of past stylists, writing across multiple genres that include young-adult literature, essays, and screenplays. Despite his broad success, however, Chabon’s work has not been adequately examined from a critical perspective.

Michael Chabon’s America: Magical Words, Secret Worlds, and Sacred Spaces is the first scholarly collection of essays analyzing the work of the acclaimed author. This book demonstrates how Chabon uses a broad range of styles and genres, including detective and comic book fiction, to define the American experience. These essays assess and analyze Chabon’s complete oeuvre, demonstrating his deep connection to the contemporary world and his place as a literary force.

Providing a context for understanding the author’s work from cultural, historical, and stylistic perspectives, Michael Chabon’s America is a valuable study of a celebrated author whose work deserves close examination.

Research paper thumbnail of Don DeLillo: Balance at the Edge of Belief

New Yok: Peter Lang, 2004

Don DeLillo - winner of the National Book Award, the William Dean Howells Medal, and the Jerusale... more Don DeLillo - winner of the National Book Award, the William Dean Howells Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize - is one of the most important novelists of the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries. While his work can be understood and taught as prescient and postmodern examples of millennial culture, this book argues that DeLillo’s recent novels - White Noise, Libra, Mao II, Underworld, and The Body Artist - are more concerned with spiritual crisis. Although DeLillo’s worlds are rife with rejection of belief and littered with faithfulness, estrangement, and desperation, his novels provide a balancing moral corrective against the conditions they describe. Speaking the vernacular of contemporary America, DeLillo explores the mysteries of what it means to be human.

Research paper thumbnail of Michael Chabon and Pops Culture

Review of Michael Chabon's book, Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces

Research paper thumbnail of Qualified Hope: A Postmodern Politics of Time (review)

Mfs-modern Fiction Studies, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of Balance and belief in Don DeLillo's recent fiction

Research paper thumbnail of Praxis, Volume 10, No. 2: Writing Centers at the Crossroads

This latest issue of Praxis comes on the heels of the University of Texas at Austin Undergraduate... more This latest issue of Praxis comes on the heels of the University of Texas at Austin Undergraduate Writing Center's 20th Anniversary and Symposium. This weekend-long event featured nearly thirty individual and panel presentations from writing center practitioners discussing the changing future of writing centers-technologically, theoretically, pedagogically, administratively, and globally. And although we did not issue a formal call for themed submission this issue, the focus articles and columns here all reflect that changes for writing centers are certainly on the horizon; figuring the ways to merge traditions of the past with practices for the future place writing centers in the U.S. and abroad at a crossroads.