Title: Lecturer

Department: English

Office: 319 Benson
Phone: (615) 322-2286 (email is better)
Email: josh.epstein@vanderbilt.edu

Degrees

• Ph.D., Vanderbilt, 2008.
  Dissertation Title: "Sublime Noise: Musical Culture and the Modernist Writer" (Wordle file).
• M.A., Vanderbilt, 2004.
  Thesis: "'Painted on Rag': The Tactics of 'Neutral Physiognomy' in Middlemarch" (Wordle file).
• B.A. (summa cum laude, PBK), University of Puget Sound.

Research Area

• Modernism
• Victorian and fin-de-siècle literature
• Cultural studies, media studies, the "new musicology"

Current Courses

• FALL 2008:
  ENGL 116W.05
  ENGL 116W.06
  ENGL 118W.02

Previous Positions

• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Dept. of English, Vanderbilt, 2004-7.
• Teaching Affiliate, Center for Teaching, Vanderbilt, 2006-07.
• Graduate Writing Consultant, Writing Studio, Vanderbilt, 2006-07.
• Secretary, EGSA.
• Tech Coordinator, EGSA.
• Graduate Representative, Expository Writing Committee

Professional Societies

• Modern Language Association
• Modernist Studies Association
• American Association of University Professors
• Junior Member of the Aristocracy of the Sensitive, Considerate, and Plucky

Professional Honors

• George J. Graham, Jr. Dissertation Fellowship, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, 2007-08.
  Robert Manson Myers Graduate Award in English, 2007.
  Summer Research Grant, Vanderbilt College of A&S, 2005.
• Many nice awards, Univ. of Puget Sound, 1999-2003.
• 100% positive feedback rating on eBay, 1999-present.

Publications

• "'Neutral Physiognomy': The Unreadable Faces of Middlemarch," Victorian Literature and Culture 36.1 (2008).
• "The Antheil Era: Noise, Publicity, and Musical Modernism" (in progress)

Miscellaneous

Office Hours: M 10-12, F 1-2, or by appointment.