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Recent Publications
Books · Melville, Mapping and Globalization: Literary Cartography in the American Baroque Writer. New York: Continuum, 2009. · Edgar Allan Poe. Bloom’s Classic Critical Views. Eds. Harold Bloom and Robert T. Tally Jr. New York: Chelsea House, 2008. Essays · “Radical Alternatives: The Persistence of Utopia in the Postmodern.” New Essays on the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Ed. Alfred Drake. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2009. 109-121. · “Whale as a Dish: Culinary Rhetoric and the Discourse of Power in Moby-Dick.” Culinary Aesthetics and Practices in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Eds. Marie Drews and Monika Elbert. New York: Palgrave, 2009. · “Reading the Original: Alienation, Writing, and Labor in ‘Bartleby, the Scrivener’.” Bloom’s Literary Themes: Alienation. Eds. Harold Bloom and Blake Hobby. New York: Chelsea House, 2009. · “The Whale in the World.” Academic Exchange Quarterly. 12.1 (Spring 2008): 174-177. · “Reason and Revolution Redux: Antonio Negri’s Political Descartes.” Theory & Event. 11.2 (2008). · “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. 163-179. · “‘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). 181-198. · “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). · “Anti-Ishmael: Novel Beginnings in Moby-Dick.” LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory. 18.1 (Spring 2007): 1-19. · “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. · “‘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.
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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 4334: American Romanticism 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 2340: World Literature after 1600 Eng 2330: World Literature before 1600 Eng1310/1320: College Writing I & II
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Dr. Robert T. Tally Jr.
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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. |
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Department of English Texas State University San Marcos, TX 78666 Phone: 512-245-3016 Fax: 512-245-8546 Email: robert.tally@txstate.edu |
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Scholarly Interests Literary Criticism and Theory American Literature Theory and History of the Novel World Literature
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