Eric Bennett
Professor
Education:
Ph.D. - English, Harvard University
M.F.A. - Fiction, University of Iowa Writer's Workshop
Brief Biography:
Eric Bennett grew up in the Midwest, attended Deep Springs College and Harvard College, and received an MFA in fiction from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. in English from Harvard University.
Area(s) of Expertise:
20th Century American Fiction & Poetry, Modernism and Postmodernism, Cold War history
Selected Publications:
Bennett, E. (2015) In Samuel Cohen (Ed.), Workshops of Empire: Stegner, Engle, and American Creative Writing During the Cold War. Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press
Bennett, E. (2015) In Michael Levine (Ed.), A Big Enough Lie (Novel). Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press/TriQuarterly
Bennett, E. (2014) The Pyramid Scheme. New York, NY: Faber/n+1
Bennett, E. (2013) In Graeme Harper (Ed.), Creative Writing and the Cold War University. London: Wiley-Blackwell
Bennett, E. (2012) A Shaggy Beast from a Baggy Monster. New Writing.(9),
Bennett, E. (2010) Ernest Hemingway & the Discipline of Creative Writing, or, Shark Liver Oil. Modern Fiction Studies.(56),
Selected Presentations:
Bennett, E. Cultural Institutions and Cultural Power. Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada - "Lecture: Writing From the Bottom Up: American Fiction and Political Fatalism in the Age of the MFA" October, 2015
Bennett, E. Liberal Arts and Sciences Education and Core Texts in the European Context. Amsterdam University College, Amsterdam, Netherlands - "Paper: Fascism, Menarche, Calvinism, and Modernist Form: Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" September, 2015
Bennett, E. American Comparative Literature Association. , Seattle, WA - "Paper: Sincerity and Solipsism: the Shallow Neoliberal Latter-Day Monologists of Ostensibly Deep Consciousness" March, 2015
Bennett, E. Symposium on Social Politics and the Cold War. Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME - "Lecture: Containing Bohemia far from Bohemia: Creative Writing Programs in the 1950s." May, 2014
Bennett, E. Associated Writing Programs Special Event. , Seattle, WA - "Guest Speaker: MFA vs. NYC: The Two Cultures of American Fiction" March, 2014
Bennett, E. Beyond the Victorian/Modernist Divide. ERIAC/University of Rouen, Rouen, France - "Paper: What Maisie (and the Other Children) Knew" March, 2014
Bennett, E. American Literature Association Annual Conference . , Boston, MA - "The Demotic David Foster Wallace, Then and Now" May, 2013
Bennett, E. Association for Core Texts and Courses. , Ottawa, Canada - "Paper: Attack from the Inside" April, 2013
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