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Bruce A. Harvey
Associate Professor of English
Associate Director of SEAS

School of Environment, Arts and Society

Florida International University
Biscayne Bay Campus, ACI 320
305-919-5254
harveyb@fiu.edu

Summer A 2012 Office Hours: by appointment

Education:

Ohio University, Honors College--B.A. English

Stanford University--Ph.D. English

Teaching & Research Interests:

American Literature and Culture (pre-Civil War)

Literary and Cultural Studies Theory

Cross-Cultural Geographical/Contact Zones

Affect and Cultural History

Major Publication:

American Geographics: U.S. National Narratives and the Representation of the Non-European World, 1830-1865 (Stanford University Press, 2001)

Recent Essays:

“Being Blue in Hawai’i: Politics, Affect, and the Last Queen of Hawai’i,” in Journal of Transnational American Studies (Jan. 2012)

“Melville, Deep Time, and the World in Ruin, Or, Digging Towards Eternity,” in Juterczenka & Mackenthun, eds., The Fuzzy Logic of Encounter: New Perspectives on Cultural Contact (Waxmann, 2009)

“Science and the Earth,” in Kelley, ed., A Companion to Herman Melville (Blackwell, 2006)

Work-in-Progress:

After Elvis after Cook: From Anthropology to Pop Culture—3 Essays on Affect, Transference, and the Meaning of Elsewhere

The Muse of Melancholy in the New World: A Cultural History of Mourning in the Land of Promise