Dr. John Young
John Young
(Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1998)
Studies and teaches 20th-century American and British literatures, focusing especially on issues of material textuality.
His publications include:
Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature (UP of Mississippi, 2006), which was awarded the Scholars Prize at the 2006 Eudora Welty Symposium, as well as articles on Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press, Toni Morrison and Oprah's Book Club, Thomas Pynchon's early publications in The Saturday Evening Post and Esquire, and the missing last paragraph in Nella Larsen's Passing.
Current research projects focus on the draft versions of E.M. Forster's A Passage to India and the paratexts surrounding J.M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello, as part of a larger work tentatively titled Versions of (Post)coloniality.