Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- American Literature
- Critical Race Studies
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Literary and Critical Theory
- Science, Health, and Technology Studies
- The Novel
Areas of Interest
- Early cinema and visual culture
Biography
Jordan Howie is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of English. His dissertation, currently under revision for publication, is titled Disorienting Americans: Infrastructures of Mobility in American Fiction and Film, 1890 to 1930. This work examines the response in a range of American texts to new public spaces created by mobility, arguing that disorientation episodes become a resource for efforts to reconcile realism and the self-possessed individual with an increasingly post-domestic culture.
His current research extends this account of the relationship between material infrastructures and narrative genre as it focuses on how American literature and culture imagines infrastructures of transportation to regulate important forms of social exclusion. Tracing the alignment between infrastructural fantasies and the interpersonal dramas of rejection that often organize narrative structures, the goal of this project is to establish how late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century genre boundaries derive in part from modes of rejection that manage the era’s categories of race, gender, and class.
List of Publications
- “Troubling Recognition: Progress and Indigenous Erasure in Stephen Crane’s Western Fiction.” Studies in American Naturalism (forthcoming)