Dr. Robert T. Tally Jr.

Recent Publications

· “Whale as a Dish: Culinary Rhetoric and the Discourse of Power in Moby-Dick.” Culinary Rhetoric and Practices in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Eds. Marie Drews and Monika Elbert. (forthcoming 2008).

· “The Whale in the World.” Academic Exchange Quarterly. 12.1 (Spring 2008).

· “‘Spaces that before were blank’: Truth and Narrative Form in Melville’s South Seas Cartography.” Pacific Coast Philology. Special issue: Transoceanic Dialogues. 42.2 (Fall 2007).

· “Reason and Revolution Redux: Antonio Negri’s Political Descartes.” Theory & Event. 11.2 (2008).

· “Radical Alternatives: The Persistence of Utopia in the Postmodern.” New Essays on the Frankfurt School. Ed. Alfred Drake. (forthcoming 2008).

· Edgar Allan Poe. Bloom’s Classic Critical Views. New York: Chelsea House, 2007.

· “The Agony of the Political.” Postmodern Culture. 17.2 (2007).

· “‘Literature Proper’: Genre Problems in an Early American Literature Survey.” Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice. 1.2 (2007).

· “A Postmodern Iconography: Vonnegut and the American Novel.” Reading America: New Perspectives on the American Novel. Eds. Elizabeth Boyle and Anne-Marie Evans. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2008.

· “Anti-Ishmael: Novel Beginnings in Moby-Dick.” LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory. 18.1 (Spring 2007): 1-19.

· Review of Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History. Modern Language Quarterly 68.1 (March 2007): 132-135.

· “The Poetics of Descent: Irreversible Narrative in Poe’s ‘MS. Found in a Bottle’.” Studies in Irreversibility: Texts and Contexts. Ed. Benjamin Schreier. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2007.

· Review of Jonathan Arac, The Emergence of American Literary Narrative, 1820-1860. Nineteenth-Century Prose. 34.1/2 (Spring/Fall 2007): 410-417.

· “‘Believing in America’: The Politics of American Studies in a Postnational Era.” The Americanist: The Warsaw Journal for the Study of the United States. XXIII (2006): 69-81.

Education

J.D., Duke University School of Law, 2001

Ph.D., Literature, University of Pittsburgh, 1999

M.A., Literature, University of Pittsburgh, 1993

A.B., Philosophy, Duke University, 1990

Courses Taught

Eng 5332: Studies in American Literature

Eng 5301: Literary Scholarship

Eng 3343: Edgar Allan Poe

Eng 3341: Studies in World Literature

Eng 3338: The American Novel

Eng 3333: Early American Literature

Eng 3304: Professional Writing

Eng 3301: Critical Theory & Practice

Eng 2359: American Literature before 1865

Eng 2330: World Literature before 1600

Eng1310/1320: College Writing I & II

Dr. Robert T. Tally Jr.

Prior to coming to Texas State, Dr. Tally has taught courses at High Point University, Chatham College, and the University of Pittsburgh. He has also worked for the U.S. House of Representatives, a New York law firm, a Chapel Hill educational publishing company, and a newspaper. In college, he drove a bus for Duke University Transit.