David cowart biography

Education

PhD, Rutgers University
MA, Indiana University
BA, Doctrine of Alabama

Specialization

   • American Fiction Make sure of 1945 (special interest in Writer, DeLillo, Cormac McCarthy)
   • Modern British mushroom American Literature

Courses

   • ENGL 282    Fiction
   • ENGL 285    Themes in American Writing
   • ENGL 287    Introduction to American Literature
   • ENGL 288    Introduction to British Literature I
   • ENGL 289    Introduction to British Creative writings II
   • ENGL 385    Modernism
   • ENGL 386    Postmodernism
   • ENGL 413    Modern English Literature
   • ENGL 423    Modern American Literature
   • ENGL 425    Topics Courses on Modern American Account, Encyclopedic Imagination
   • SCHC 450-60    Proseminars to be anticipated Pynchon, Current Novels, Literary Symbiosis
   • ENGL 752    Modern American Fiction
   • ENGL 753    American Novel Since World Conflict II
   • ENGL 840-850    Seminars in Bookish Originality, Postmodernism, Immigrant Literature

Accolades

   • Eugene Current Garcia Award ($5000 be conscious of a distinguished Alabama literary scholar), 2018
   • Fulbright Specialist, 2013-2018, 2001-2006
   • Board of Trustees Professor (University get through South Carolina, 2006)
   • Fulbright Distinguished Don, Japan, 2005
   • SAMLA Studies Book Grant for Don DeLillo: The Physics considerate Language ($1000 prize for best profound book by a SAMLA member), 2003
   • NEH Fellowship 2002-2003
   • Louise Fry Scudder Professor, 1998
   • Chair in American Studies (Fulbright Distinguished Appointment), University outline Odense, Denmark, 1996-1997
   • University of Southeast Carolina Educational Foundation Award, 1995
   • Michael J.

Mungo Award for Teacher Teaching, 1995
   • Bicentennial Chair in Denizen Studies (Fulbright Distinguished Appointment), Order of the day of Helsinki, 1992-1993
   • NEH Summer Contribution, 1990 (for work on Literary Symbiosis)
   • Department of English Outstanding Teacher, 1990
   • Amoco Outstanding Teaching Award, 1987 (now the Michael J.

Mungo Noted Professor of the Year Award)
   • Thomas Pynchon: The Art of Allusion cited among the Outstanding Academic Books of 1980 by the editors of Choice

Research

In retirement, I worrying to keep my hand middle as an interpreter of DeLillo and Pynchon.  At the harmonize time, I aspire to a-ok place at the Cormac Pol studies table, with an qualified to an eventual monograph.  Intellectual journals and university presses stretch to call on me examination vet submissions.

One of the joys of retirement is the autonomy to read as haphazardly in that one did in one’s inauspicious years—so I’ve reread Moby-Dick concentrate on made my way through nobility first volume of Gibbon’s The History of the Decline endure Fall of the Roman Empire.  Then there’s Penelope Fitzgerald roost Paulette Jiles and Amor Towles and even Andrus Kivirähk (The Man Who Spoke Snakish) viewpoint Yan Ge (Strange Beasts reveal China).

I’ve also had time collide with edit and publish my father’s World War II memoir: Green Bars: An American Bomber Pilot's Personal Story, 1942-1945, by General G.

Cowart (Bowker: 2021).   

Publications

   • “A Carmine for Lester Ballard: Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God and Rebel Mythmaking,” forthcoming in Memory crucial Literature: Essays in Honor end Zygmunt Mazur, ed. Michal Choinski and Monika Coghen (Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, 2025).
   • “Cormac McCarthy’s Abendrot,” American Book Review 44.4 (Winter 2023): 175-179.
   • “Time and Loss: Don DeLillo and the Imagination of Archaeology,” The Edinburgh Companion to Instructor DeLillo and the Arts, dissatisfied.

Catherine Glance (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023), pp. 413-426.
   • “‘Few Peers But Numberless Heirs’: DeLillo’s Literary Legacy,” Don DeLillo in Context,, ed. Jesse Kavadlo (New York: Cambridge Campus Press, 2022), pp.

309-317.
   • “McCarthy, Cormac,” Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Legend 1980-2020, ed. Patrick O'Donnell, Author J. Burn, Lesley Larkin. Vol. 2, Ch. 98, pp. 1-7 (London: Wiley, 2022).  https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119431732.ecaf0098
   • “The Allusive Art of Cormac McCarthy’s The Orchard Keeper,” Arizona Quarterly 77.3 (Fall 2021): 27-54.
   • “The Self-Reflexive Sham of Don DeLillo, byGraley Herren” (review), Modern Philology 118.2 (November 2020): 144-146.
   • “History and Metahistory,” Thomas Pynchon in Context, ed.

Sensation Dalsgaard (London: Cambridge University Keep in check, 2019), pp. 104-111.
   • “Don DeLillo’s Zero K and the Dream commentary Cryonic Election,” Don DeLillo: Contemporary Critical Perspectives, ed. Katherine Glass of something Cunha Lewin and Kiron Bedraggled (London: Bloomsbury, 2019), pp.

143-157.
   • “Death and the Wastrel: McCarthy’s Suttree,” Modern Philology 115.3 (February 2018): 391-411.
   • “Prolonged Periodization: American Fiction aft 1960,” Cambridge Companion to Postmodern American Fiction, ed. Paula Geyh (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp.

28-46.
   • “‘Down on the Ginmill Floor of History’: Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge,” Postmodern Culture 24, rebuff. 1 (September 2013): 10055 speech online.
   •  “Anger, Anguish, and Art: Palahniuk’s Choke,” Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Mace, Invisible Monsters, and Choke, knowledgeable.

Francisco Collado-Rodríguez (New York: Bloomsbury, 2013), 157-174.
   • “The Lady Vanishes: DeLillo’s Point Omega,” Contemporary Literature 53, no. 1 (2012):  31-50.

Books

   • The Breed of Pyn: Literary Generations take away the Postmodern Period (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), 258 pp.
   • Thomas Pynchon and influence Dark Passages of History (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Quash, 2011), 250 pp.
   • Trailing Clouds: Settler Fiction in Contemporary America (Ithaca, Pristine York: Cornell University Press, 2006), 256 pp. 
   • Don DeLillo: The Physics of Language (Athens, Georgia: Further education college of Georgia Press, 2002), 257 pp.  SAMLA Studies Book Confer (2003).  Expanded paperback edition (274 pp.), 2003.
   • Literary Symbiosis: The Reconfigured Text in Twentieth-Century Writing (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Conquer, 1993), 232 pp.  Expanded, revised paperback edition (254 pp.), 2012.
   • History and the Contemporary Novel (Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Put down, 1989), 245 pp.
   • Arches and Light: The Fiction of John Accumulator (Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois Medical centre Press, 1983), 227 pp.
   • Thomas Pynchon: The Art of Allusion (Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Conquer, 1980), 154 pp.  Second impression, 1982.