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Joyce Wexler

Professor Emerita


Offices Held:

  • President, Joseph Conrad Society of America, 2020-22
  • First Vice-President of Joseph Conrad Society of North America 2018-20
  • President of the D.H. Lawrence Society of North America 2016-18
  • Chair of English Department 2008-2018
  • Director of University Honors Program 1986-2008

Education

  • PhD, Northwestern University 

Research Interests

  • Twentieth-Century Aesthetic Movements
  • Cultural Studies
  • Publishing History
  • Conrad, Joyce, and Lawrence

Publications/Research Listings

Books:

  • Joseph Conrad and Postcritique: Politics of Hope, Politics of Fear. Co-edited with Jay Parker. Palgrave, 2021.
  • Joseph Conrad and Terrorism Today. Palgrave MacMillan, 2021.
  • Violence Without God: The Rhetorical Despair of Twentieth-Century Writers. Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
  • Who Paid for Modernism: Art, Money, and the Fiction of Conrad, Joyce, Lawrence. University of Arkansas Press, 1997.
  • Laura Riding: A Bibliography. Garland, 1981.
  • Laura Riding’s Pursuit of Truth. Ohio University Press, 1974.

Articles:

  • “Doubling Down on the Politics of Fear, Opening Up the Politics of Hope,” Joseph Conrad and Postcritique: Politics of Hope, Politics of Fear. Ed. Joyce Wexler and Jay Parker, Palgrave, 2021.
  • “How Lawrence Launched His Career in London,” Special Issue: “Lawrence and London,” Journal of D.H. Lawrence Studies 5.2 (2019): 61-82.
  • Under Western Eyes and Terrorism Today,” Conradiana 49.1 (2017): 53-74.
  • “How Lawrence Launched His Career in London,” Special Issue: “Lawrence and London,” Journal of D.H. Lawrence Studies. Forthcoming.
  • Under Western Eyes and Terrorism Today,” Conradiana 49.1. Forthcoming.
  • “Conrad’s Erotic Women,” College Literature 45.3 (2018). 424-448.
  • “Book Publishers.” D.H. Lawrence in Context. Ed. Andrew Harrison. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 37-46.
  • “Beyond Pacifism: Teaching World War I Literature from Left to Right.” Pedagogy 17.3 (2017): 541-547.