Harvey Teres
Associate Professor
Ph.D. (English) 1985, University of Chicago
Office: 433 Hall of Languages, 315-443-4891
Email: hmteres@syr.edu
Interests: 20th century American literature and culture, American studies, Jewish-American
fiction,
the academy and the public, theory (Marxist, liberal, pragmatic),
literary anthropology
Thesis Supervisions: David Clippinger (poetry of William Bronk), Tersh Palmer (Appalachia and American Culture), Brian McCord (Grove Press), J.J. Butts (community and social justice in New Deal urban literature)
Awards
Books
Essays & Articles
Reviews
Graduate Courses Taught
Awards
Woodrow Wilson Innovative Teaching Award
Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, Teaching 20th American Literature and Culture at the Beijing Foreign Studies University (Spring 1999).
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Books
Going Public: Linking the Literary Academy and the Common Reader (under consideration, Yale UP).
Renewing the Left: Politics, Imagination, and the New York Intellectuals. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
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Essays &Articles
"The Postwar Critical Climate," History of the Book in America, Vol. 5, (North Carolina: North Carolina University Press [forthcoming]).
"Trilling Today." Explorations [forthcoming].
"The New York Intellectuals" to "The New York Intellectuals," The Encyclopedia of New York State (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2005), p. 1088-1089.
"Partisan Review," Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics (Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press, 2005), pp. 544-545.
"The ‘Holocaust Industry' and Jewish-American Fiction," The Legacy of the Holocaust: Children and the Holocaust (Jagiellonian University Press, 2002), pp. 440-447.
"Remaking Marxist Criticism: T. S. Eliot and the Left." High and Low Moderns: English Literature and Culture, 1889-1939. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. 65-84.
"Lionel Trilling, 1905-1975," Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Vol. 7 (Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 423-438.
"Re-imagining Politics." Twenty Four Ways of Looking at Mary McCarthy." Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996. 61-68.
"Tess Slesinger." American Jewish Women Writers. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1994. 407-414.
"Remaking Marxist Criticism: Partisan Review's Eliotic Leftism, 1934-1936." American Literature (March 1992): 127-153.
"Repression, Recovery, Renewal: The Politics of Expanding the Canon." Modern Philology (August 1991): 63-75.
"Notes toward the Supreme Soviet: Stevens and Doctrinaire Marxism." Wallace Stevens Journal (Fall 1989): 150-167.
"An Interview with Stanley Burnshaw." With Alan Filreis. Wallace Stevens Journal (Fall 1989): 109-121.
"Response to 'Literary Theory in the University: A Survey'." New Literary History (Summer 1983): 446-447.
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Reviews
John McGowan, Democracy's Children: Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics, Modernism/Modernity (November 2003), pp. 785-787.
Michael Kammen, The Lively Arts: Gilbert Seldes and the Transformation of Cultural Criticism in the United States, Modernism/Modernity (January 2001), pp. 191-192.
Edward Alexander, Irving Howe: Socialist, Critic, Jew. The Wilson Quarterly (Winter, 1999): 98.
Michael Denning, The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century. Intellectual History Newsletter (1997): 1-6.
Michael Kammen, The Lively Arts: Gilbert Seldes and the Transformation of Cultural Criticism in the United States. Modernism/Modernity (Winter 1998): 250-251.
Gregory Sumner, Dwight Macdonald and the Politics Circle. Modernism/Modernity (January 1998): 183-185.
Paul R. Gorman, Left Intellectuals and Popular Culture in Twentieth-Century America. The Journal of American History (March 1997): 1435-1436.
Constance Coiner, Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur Studies. Short Fiction (Winter 1997): 131-132.
Julia Dietrich, The Old Left in History and Literature. American Literature (December 1996): 867-868.
Carla Cappetti, Writing Chicago: Modernism, Ethnography, and the Novel; Barbara Foley, Radical Representations: Politics and Form in U.S. Proletarian Fiction, 1929-1941; Walter Kalaidjian, American Culture Between the Wars: Revisionary Modernism and Postmodern Critique. Modernism/Modernity (Winter 1995): 154-162.
Al Filreis, Wallace Stevens and the Actual World and James Longenbach, Wallace Stevens: The Plain Sense of Things. Review, 15 (1993): 73-83.
James Bloom, Left Letters: The Culture Wars of Mike Gold and Joseph Freeman. Journal of American History (June 1993): 322-323.
Lennard Davis and M. Bella Mirabella, Left Politics and the Literary Profession. American Literature (March 1993): 195-196.
Richard Godden, Fictions of Capital: The American Novel From James to Mailer. American Literature (March 1991): 132-134.
Rebecca Zurier, Art for the Masses: A Radical Magazine and its Graphics. Minnesota Review (Spring/Fall 1990): 163-166.
Alvin Gouldner, The Two Marxisms. Chicago Literary Review (Spring 1980).
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Graduate Courses Taught
Going Public: Linking the Literary Academy and the Common Reader
The New Aesthetics
The Public Voice of 20th-Century American Poetry
Marxist Literary Theory
Aesthetics, Politics, and American Public LifePostwar American
Literature and Culture
What Is American Literature?
The New York Intellectuals
American Literary Radicalism: The 1930s
American Literary Radicalism: The 1930s and The 1960s
American Literary Radicalism: the 19th and 20th Centuries
Introduction to Literary Theory
Modern American Poetry
20th-Century American Fiction
Literature of the 1930s
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