 Associate Professor of EnglishAssociate Chair for Creative Writing Office: Hellems 101F Telephone: 303-492-8952 E-mail: Jeffrey.Deshell@colorado.edu |
Research and teaching interests
Creative writing (fiction); 19th- and 20th-century American literature; 20th-century European literature; critical theory; philosophy and literature; aesthetics; postmodernism
Education
Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1989
M.A. , University of Colorado at Boulder, 1985
B.A., University of Colorado at Boulder, 1981
Publications
Books
The Trouble with Being Born: A Novel. Fiction Collective Two, 2007
Peter: An (A)Historical Romance. Starcherone Books, 2005
S & M. Fiction Collective Two, 1997
The Peculiarity of Literature: An Allegorical Approach to Poe's Fiction. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press (Associated University Presses), 1997
Co-ed. and introductory essay, Chick-Lit II: No Chick Vics. Fiction Collective Two, 1996.
Co-ed. and introductory essay, Chick-Lit I: Postfeminist Fiction. Fiction Collective Two, 1995.
In Heaven Everything is Fine. Fiction Collective Two, 1991.
Critical essays and writing on art
“Notes, queries on Marco Breuer’s Notes, Queries." Von Lintel Gallery, November 2005. Rpt. English Language Notes 44.2 (Fall 2006)
"Between the Winding Sheets: Carole Maso's The American Woman in the Chinese Hat." The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Fall 1997
Fiction anthologized in
Square One; Neuromantic Fiction:The Black Ice Anthology; Fiction International; In the Slipstream: An FC2 Reader; Transgressions: The Iowa Anthology of Experimental Fiction; Smashing Icons ; An Illuminated History of the Future
Fiction published in
Blatant Artifice; Between C & D; The Moral Kiosk; Between C & D; Nobodaddies; The Iowa Review; Black Mountain II Review
Selected honors and awards
Fulbright Senior Lecturing Fellowship to Hungary, 1999-2000
Current projects
Sanctuary (novel)
"Jeder Engel ist Shrecklich: Dana Hoey's Terrible Pictures" (article)