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Scholarly Activities

PEGGY MCCORMACK
Professor

Degrees earned
Ph. D., Rice University, 1977
M. A., Rice University, 1974
B. A., University of St. Thomas, 1972

Books

  • Questioning the Master: Gender and Sexuality in Henry James's Writing. Edited with an introduction. University of Delaware Press, 2000.
  • The Rule of Money: Gender, Class and Exchange Economics in the Fiction of Henry James, UMI Research Press, 1990.

Articles

  • “Women in Raging Bull: Scorsese’s Use of Determinist Objective and Subjective Techniques,” in Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
  • “Peter Bogdonavich’s Daisy Miller: A Re-examination.” In Henry James Goes to the Movies. Edited by Susan Griffin. University of Louisville Press, 2001.
  • "The Semiotics of Economic Language in Henry James's Fiction," American Literature 58:4 (1986), 46-59.
  • Co-Editor, with Mark Lussier, "Feminism, Politics, and the Profession": Special Issue of The New Orleans Review, 13:4 (1986). Interviews with Jane Gallop, Carolyn Heilbrun, Annette Kolodny, and Catharine Stimpson.
  • "Sexual Economics in The Awkward Age, " MUSE: University of Mississippi Studies in English, "Special Edition: American Literature," n. s., 5:8 (1985-1986), 246-272; pub. 1988.
  • Contributor, American Authors Before 1800: A Biographical and Critical Dictionary in Three Volumes. Eds. James A. Levernier and Douglas R. Wilmes (Greenwood Press, 1984); see "Philemon Robbins," vol. 3, pp. 1231-32; "John Seccomb," vol. 3, pp. 1287-89.
  • "Eternal Recurrence versus Structure in Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers," co-authored with Mark Lussier, RE: Artes Liberale, 10:1 (1983), 13-23.
  • "The Whodunit as How-To-Do-It in Freshman Composition," co-authored with J. N. Wasserman, The English Language Journal, 13:3 (1982), 125-29.
  • "The Syntax of Quest in Hardy's Jude the Obscure," New Orleans Review, 8:1 (1981), 43-8.

Review articles

  • Review Article: of John Carlos Rowe's The Theoretical Dimension of Henry James, Henry James Review, 9:3 (1989), 215-8.
  • Review Article: of Wayne C. Booth's The Vocation of a Teacher: Rhetorical Occasions 1967-1988; Ved Mehta's Continents of Exile: The Stolen Light; and Robert MacNeil's Wordstruck: A Memoir in America: An Interdisciplinary Journal 161:14 (1989): 325-6.
  • Review Article: of Peter Brooks' The Melodramatic Imagination Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess. In American Literature (October, 1985), 503-505.
  • Review Article: of Norman S. Grabo's The Coincidental Art of Charles Brockden Brown, Studies in the Novel, 15:2 (1983).

Recent Papers Read At Professional Conferences

  • Chairperson, “Film and Literature” Panel, American Literature Association Conference, 2001-present.
  • “About all the Women Philip K. Dick Can Handle: An Examination of Female Characters in Bladerunner,” Popular Culture/American Culture Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, April, 2000.
  • “One True Thing : Book and Film: The Well Will Discriminate Against the Ill,” Modern Language Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois, December, 1999.
  • “Oedipal Wish Fulfillment as Narrative Trajectory: Steven Soderbergh’s King of the Hill,” American Literature Association Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, May, 1999.
  • "Postmodernist Fantasies and Modernist Nightmares: Unexpected Pleasures and Pain in The Piano and Boxing Helena," Conference on Cinema and the Postmodern, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, October, 1995.
  • * "Minimizing Stress: The Function of Narrative Structure on Gender and Class Conflicts in Kate Chopin's Fiction," American Literature Association Conference, Special Panel on Kate Chopin, San Diego, California, May, 1990.

Updated: July 21, 2008