Gregory Dobbins

Education and Degree(s)

• Ph.D., Duke University (2002)
• B.A., University of California, Berkeley (1994)

Currently Teaching:

• 189 - Seminar in Literary Studies
• 40 - Introductory Topics in Literature

Research Interest(s)

20th-c. Irish and British Literature, Modernism, Postcolonial Theory and Literature, Cultural Studies, Critical Theory, Marxism, 1970s, Noir, Punk Rock, Extreme Metal, Popular Culture (primarily music and sports).

Awards

• Finalist, ASUCD Excellence in Education Award, 2011
• Stern Dissertation Fellowship, Duke University, 2001-2002
• Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, Dublin, Ireland, 2000
• Fullbright Fellowship, Dublin, Ireland, 1997-1998
• Highest Honors in English, University of California, Berkeley, 1994
• Phi Beta Kappa, 1994

Publications

• "Retromania, the Canon, the Refusal to Work and the Present: The Crassical Connection" Social Text Periscope (January 2013). 
• Lazy Idle Schemers: Irish Modernism and the Cultural Politics of Idleness (Field Day Publications of the University of Notre Dame, 2010).
• “Constitutional Laziness: Flann O’Brien and the Politics of Laziness.”
   Novel: A Forum on Fiction 42:1 (Spring 2009), 86-108.
• “‘Never a Day’s Work’: Synge and Irish Modernism.” Cambridge Companion to John Miltington Synge. Ed. P.J. Mathews. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 
• “Connolly, the Archive, and Method.” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 10.1(Jan/Feb 2008): 48-66.
• "Whenever Green is Red: James Connnolly and Postcolonial Theory." Nepantla: Views from South 1.3(2000), 605-648
• "Scenes of Tawdry Tribute: Modernism, Tradition, and Connolly" in P. J. Mathews, ed. New Voices in Irish Criticism (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000), 3-12