David
Banash
Department of English
Western Illinois
University
faculty.wiu.edu/D-Banash
d-banash@wiu.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Professor of English (tenured), Western Illinois University, 2003-present.
Ph.D. English, The University of Iowa, 2003.
M.A. English,
Colorado State University, 1997.
B.A. English and Philosophy,
Saint Ambrose University, 1993.
Contemporary Literature, Film, Popular Culture, Cultural Studies, Media Theory, Narrative Theory, Experimental and Avant-Garde Forms, Aesthetics.
Collage Culture: Readymades, Meaning, and the Age of Consumption. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2013. <http://www.brill.com/products/book/collage-culture>.
Steve Tomasula: The Art and Science of New Media Fiction. New York: Bloomsbury, 2015. <http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/steve-tomasula-the-art-and-science-of-new-media-fiction-9781628923674/>.
Contemporary Collecting: Objects, Practices, and the Fate of Things. (Co-Edited with Kevin Moist). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2013. <https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780810891135>.
“Writing Through the Real: Twentieth-Century Literary Collage.” Director, Rudolf Kuenzli.
“Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and the Cinematic Novels of Don DeLillo and Manuel Muñoz.” Literature/Film Quarterly. 43.1 (2015): 4-17.
“Introduction: The Aesthetics of Trash” (with John Degregorio). Spec. issue of New American Notes Online. 7 (2015): 16 pars. <http://www.nanocrit.com/issues/7-2015>.
“Collage as Practice and Metaphor in Popular Culture.” Cutting Across Media: Appropriation Art, Interventionist Collage, and Copyright Law. Eds. Kembrew McLeod and Rudolf Kuenzli. Durham: Duke UP, 2011. 264-275.
“Secret Dictionaries: The Collages of William Davies King.” Trickhouse 1.2 (Fall 2008): 9 pars. <http://www.trickhouse.org/guestcurator/banash&king.html>.
“Brion Gysin.” Beat Culture: Lifestyle, Icons, and Impact. Ed. William T. Lawlor. New York: ABC-CLIO, 2005. 142.
“From Advertising to the Avant-Garde: Rethinking the Invention of Collage.” Postmodern Culture. 14.2 (2004): 38 pars. <http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/v014/14.2banash.html>.
“The Blair Witch Project: Technology, Repression, and the Evisceration of Mimesis.” Nothing That Is: Millennial Cinema and the Blair Witch Controversies. Eds. Jeffrey Weinstock and Sarah Higley. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2004. 111-24.
“Introduction: The Ironies of Suburban Studies.” The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies. 1.3 (2003): 1-10. (co-authored with Anthony Enns).
“Writers and Radicals: Selections from the ‘Craft, Critique, Culture Conference.’” Iowa Review. 32.1 (2002): 62-63. (co-authored with Anthony Enns).
“Activist Desire, Cultural Criticism, and the Situationist International.” Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture. 1.2 (2002): 33 pars. <http://reconstruction.eserver.org/021/Activist.htm>.
“From an American Family to the Jennicam: Realism and the Promise of TV.” Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life. 57 (2001): 12 pars. <http://bad.eserver.org/issues/2001/57/banash.html>.
“Collage Culture: Nostalgia and Critique” (interview by Rick Poynor). Design Observer. 13 Nov. 2013. 25 pars. <http://observatory.designobserver.com/rickpoynor/feature/collage-culture-nostalgia-and-critique/38187/>.
“In the Cut: The Art of Linder Sterling.” Rev. of Linder. Blum & Poe. 12 Sept.-26 Oct., Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Review of Books. 19 Oct. 2013. 11 pars. <http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/in-the-cut-the-art-of-linder>.
“Word Falling . . . Photo Falling: The History and Practice of Cut-Ups.” Rev. of Forgery by Amira Hanafi; Four Cut-ups, or the Case of the Restored Volume by David Lespiau; Shift Linguals: Cut-Up Narratives from William S. Burroughs to the Present by Edward S. Robinson. American Book Review. 32.6 (2011): 10-11.
“Future Shock, Postmodern Nostalgia, and Uncanny Technologies.” PopMatters. 29 July 2010. 23 pars. <http://www.popmatters.com/pm/column/128828-future-shock-postmodern-nostalgia-and-uncanny-technologies/P0>.
“It's All Too Beautiful: Contemporary Approaches to Beauty.”PopMatters. 30 July 2009. 23 pars. <http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/94917-its-all-too-beautiful/>.
“Collection Obsession: William Davies King's 'Collections of Nothing'" PopMatters. 14 August 2008. 15 August 2008. 18 pars. <http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/58361/william-davies-kings-collections-of-nothing/>.
“Reading Baudrillard.” Rev. of The Vital Illusion, by Jean Baudrillard; Simulacrum America: The U.S.A. and the Popular Media, eds. Elisabeth Kraus and Caroline Auer; Reading Simulacra: Fatal Theories for Postmodernity, by M. W. Smith. Science Fiction Studies. 89.1 (2003): 123-29.
“Hitchcock and the American Dream.” Rev. of Must We Kill the Thing We Love? Emersonian Perfectionism and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock, by William Rothman. Screen (Forthcoming, Fall 2015).
“Unravelling Pages.” Rev. of A Life in Books: The Rise and Fall of Bleu Mobley. An Illustrated Novel, by Walter Lehrer. Eye: The International Review of Graphic Design. 88 (2014): 99.
“Every Era Gets the Monster It Needs, and Ours Is the Era of the Zombie.” Rev. of World War Z. PopMatters. 5 Sept. 2013. 23 pars. <http://www.popmatters.com/feature/173472-every-era-gets-the-monster-it-needs-and-ours-is-the-era-of-the-zombi/>.
“Join the Underground: Loren Glass' History of the Famous / Infamous Grove Press.” Rev. of Counterculture Colophon Counterculture Colophon Grove Press, the Evergreen Review, and the Incorporation of the Avant-Garde by Loren Glass. PopMatters. 28 Apr. 2013. 24 pars. <http://www.popmatters.com/column/170895-join-the-underground-loren-glasss-history-of-grove-press/>.
“Untimely Cinema: 'Our Kind of Movie' The Films of Andy Warhol” Rev. of “Our Kind of Movie”: The Films of Andy Warhol, by Douglas Crimp. PopMatters. 25 June 2012. 19 pars. <http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/159969-our-kind-of-movie-the-films-of-andy-warhol-by-douglas-crimp/>.
“Shock Value: What Men (and Boys) Really Fear.” Rev. of Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror by Jason Zinoman. PopMatters. 5 Aug. 2011. 18 pars. <http://www.popmatters.com/pm/column/145716-shock-value/P0>
“In Search of the Endless Summer: Surf Films.” PopMatters. 15 June 2011. 11 pars. <http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/143682-in-search-of-the-endless-summer-surf-films/>.
“From Copyright to Copia: Marcus Boon's Buddhist Ontology of Copying.” Rev. of In Praise of Copying by Marcus Boon. Postmodern Culture. 20.2 (2011). 12 pars. <http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/toc/pmc.20.1.html>.
“Ferus.” Rev. of Ferus by Roberta Bernstein, Kirk Varnedoe, Gagosian Gallery Staff. PopMatters. 15 Aug. 2009. 16 pars. <http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/109212-ferus-by-roberta-bernstein-kirk-varnedoe/>.
Rev. of The Grid Book by Hannah B. Higgins. PopMatters. 17 Apr. 2009. 20 pars. <http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/72698-the-grid-book-by-hannah-g.-higgins/>.
Rev. of Ryan Seacrest is Famous: Stories by Dave Housley. PopMatters. 22 Jan. 2009. 10 pars. <http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/70362-ryan-seacrest-is-famous-by-dave-housley/>.
“A Natural History of Consumption: The Shopping Carts of Julian Montague.” Rev. of The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification by Julian Montague. Postmodern Culture. 18.2 (2008): 7 pars. <http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/v018/18.2.banash.html>.
“Globalizing William S. Burroughs.” Rev. of Retaking the Universe: William S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization, eds. Davis Schneiderman and Philip Walsh. Postmodern Culture. 16.2 (2006). 7 pars. <http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/v016/16.2banash.html>.
Rev. of Virtual Geographies: Cyberpunk and the Intersection of Postmodernism and Science Fiction, by Sabine Heuser. Paradoxa. 20 (2005): 290-95.
Rev. of Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000, by Delores Hayden. Utopian Studies. 16.2 (2005): 280-83.
Rev. of The Aesthetics of Cultural Studies, ed. Michael Bérubé. Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture. 5.1 (2005). 5 pars. <http://reconstruction.eserver.org/051/banash.shtml>.
Rev. of Jennifer Government: a Novel, by Max Barry. Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture. 4.2 (2005). 3 pars. <http://reconstruction.eserver.org/BReviews/revJennifer.htm>.
Rev. of The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso in Paris, 1957-1963, by Barry Miles. Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture. 2.2 (2002). 5 pars. <http://reconstruction.eserver.org/BReviews/revBeatHotel.htm>.
Rev. of The Dark Fields: a Novel, by Alan Glynn. Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture. 2.2 (2002). 3 pars. <http://reconstruction.eserver.org/BReviews/revDarkFields.htm>.
“Intoxicating Class: Cocaine at the Multiplex.” Rev. of Traffic, dir. Steven Soderbergh; Blow, dir. Ted Demme. Postmodern Culture. 12.1 (2001). 7 pars. <http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/pmc/v012/12.1banash.html>.
“Selling Surveillance: Privacy, Anonymity, and VTV.” Rev. of Survivor, prod. Mark Burnett; Big Brother, CBS 2000. Postmodern Culture. 11.1 (2000). 9 pars. <http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/pmc/v011/11.1.r_banash.html>.
“The Blair Witch Project: Technology, Repression, and the Evisceration of Mimesis.” Rev. of The Blair Witch Project, dir. Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez. Postmodern Culture. 10.1 (1999): 10 pars. <http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/pmc/v010/10.1.r_banash.html>. Reprinted in Nothing That Is: Millennial Cinema and the Blair Witch Controversies. Eds. Jeffrey Weinstock and Sarah Higley. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2004. 111-24.
“The Form of the Cut: Alfred Hitchcock and the Persistence of Psycho.” The American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. Toronto, Canada, 7 Apr. 2013.
“Collage Culture: Readymades, Meaning, and the Age of Consumption.” Dalhousie University. Halifax, Nova Scotia. 19 Feb. 2013.
“Narrative Immersion and the Image-Text: Steve Tomasula and the Art of Reading.” &Now Festival of New Writing in France and in the U.S.A.: Collaborations, Continuities, Evolutions.. Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris. 6 June 2012
“Immersion, Enjoyment, and Violence: Sadism and Narrative Closure in American Psycho.” English Graduate Organization / Liberal Arts and Sciences Graduate Organization Annual Conference. Western Illinois University, Macomb. 22 Oct. 2011.
“Composing for the Body: Narrative, Totality, and the New Media Aesthetics of Steve Tomasula.” English Graduate Organization / Liberal Arts and Sciences Graduate Organization Annual Conference. Western Illinois University, Macomb. 22 Oct. 2011.
“The Persistence of Reading: Steve Tomasula and the New Media Novel.” English Graduate Organization Annual Conference. Western Illinois University, Macomb. 23 Oct. 2010.
“The Sad Heart of Ruth: Gleaning as Exile and the Invention of Home.” The American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. New Orleans, Louisiana, 3 Apr. 2010.
“Postmodern Nostalgia: Collecting Recently Outmoded Technologies” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference. Saint Louis, Missouri 1 Apr. 2010.
“Ekphrastic Desire: Why Writers Make Us See.” University Art Gallery. Western Illinois University, Macomb, 5 Mar. 2010.
“The Line, The Ladder, and the Lamp: The Art of Sarah Sze.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference. New Orleans, Louisiana, 10 Apr. 2009.
“Melancholy Orders and Violent Aesthetics: The Dialectics of Collecting.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference. San Francisco, California, 13 Mar. 2008.
“Unnatural History: Urban Field Guides and Profane Illumination.” English Graduate Organization Annual Conference. Western Illinois University, Macomb. 10 Nov. 2007.
“Ready-made Culture: Newspapers, Advertising, and the Avant-Garde,” Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures Annual Lecture. Western Illinois University, Macomb, 19 Apr. 2006.
“Ant Farm at the Wheel: Readymades, Nostalgia, and Criticism.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference. Atlanta, Georgia, 13 Apr. 2006.
“Writing Through the Real: Collage and the Material World.” Collage as Cultural Practice. The Obermann Humanities Symposium. The University of Iowa, Iowa City. 26 Mar. 2005.
William S. Burroughs and the Beats (session chair). Collage as Cultural Practice. The Obermann Humanities Symposium. The University of Iowa, Iowa City. 26 Mar. 2005.
“When I Am Open: the Anti-Monumental Art of Brion Gysin.” &Now Festival of Contemporary Writing. Notre Dame University, South Bend. 6 Apr. 2004.
“Pay Back the Red You Stole: Critical Art and Postwar Mass Media.” Department of English Faculty Colloquium. Western Illinois University, Macomb. 6 Apr. 2004.
“Writing the Readymade: Literary Collage and the Material Text.” The University of Iowa Center for the Book. The University of Iowa, Iowa City. 11 Nov. 2003.
“Reading Postmodernism: The Corrections, the Novel, and No-Brow Culture.” Craft, Critique, Culture: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Writing in the Academy. The University of Iowa, Iowa City. 6 Feb. 2003.
“Realism, Authenticity, and the Rise of Reality TV.” James F. Jakobsen Graduate Forum. The University of Iowa, Iowa City. 30 Mar. 2001.
Writers on Campus: Inaugural International Video Seminar (panelist). The University of Iowa; Princeton University; The University of East Anglia; The University of Bangor. 7 Feb. 2001.
“Aesthetic Politics and Instrumental Advocacy: Marinetti, Benjamin and the Problems of Sense.” Rethinking the Avant-Garde: Between Politics and Aesthetics. The University of Notre Dame. 15 Apr. 2000.
“Benjamin, the Flâneur, and the Specificity of Desire.” James F. Jakobsen Graduate Forum. The University of Iowa, Iowa City. 12 Apr. 2000.
Review Board. New American Notes Online. <http://www.nanocrit.com/>. 2010-present.
Review Board. Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture. <http://reconstruction.eserver.org/>. 2002-present.
Review Board Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies. <www.uiowa.edu/~ijcs>. 2004-present.
Editor. Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies. 2001-03.
Conference co-founder and co-director. Craft, Critique, Culture: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Writing in the Academy. 2000-02. <www.uiowa.edu/~c3conf>.
Director of Graduate Studies in English, 2015-present.
English Committee. Chair. 2013-2015.
Faculty Advisor. The Mirror and the Lamp. 2013-2015.
English and Journalism Review Committee. Chair. 2012-2013.
Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching Committee. Chair. Fall, 2010.
Faculty Advisor. Liberal Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Organization. 2010-2012.
Director of Graduate Studies in English. 2009-2011.
Faculty Advisor. English Graduate Student Organization. 2009-2012.
American Literature Search Committee. Chair. 2009-2010.
Undergraduate Committee. 2009-2012.
Core Curriculum Revision Committee. Chair. 2009-2010.
Faculty Advisor. The National Society of Collegiate Scholars. 2008-2010.
Speakers Committee. Chair. 2007-2010.
American Fiction Search Committee. 2007-2008.
Modernist Poetry Search Committee. Co-Chair. 2006-2007.
Bachelor of Liberal Arts and Sciences Committee. 2005-2006.
Faculty Council Representative. Collage of Arts and Sciences. 2005-2008.
Executive Committee. Department of English. 2005.
Undergraduate Literature Major Review Committee. Chair. 2004-2007.
Program Review Committee. 2003-2004.
Program Associate. General Education Literature Program. The University of Iowa, 2001-2002.
Professional Development Program Co-Leader. Department of Rhetoric. The University of Iowa. 1998-1999.
Emily Ann Schoon. “Consumer Capitalism and the (Reality) Star: An American Family and the Invention of Contemporary Television.” Thesis. Western Illinois University, 2014.
Regina L. Wilkerson. “Stephen King’s Bad Place: Institutions, Spaces, and Gender in The Shining and 'Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption.'” Thesis. Western Illinois University, 2014.
John DeGregorio. (Co-Director, Chris Morrow). “The Green Lantern Press: A Case Study of Digital-Age Publishing and Community Art Practices.” Thesis. Western Illinois University, 2013.
Kelly Buderweit. “Utopia and the Gothic Design: Twilight, Feminism, and Regressive Narrative Solutions.” Thesis. Western Illinois University, 2012.
Maria DeRose. “Film Form(ing) Politics: Ideology and Form in Winter's Bone and North Country.” Thesis. Western Illinois University, 2012.
Katherine G. Warren. “Moving for Emergence: A Structural and Psychoanalytic Argument for Emergent Narrative in Video Games.” Thesis. Western Illinois University, 2011.
Holly Hanna. “Collective Trauma and Narrative: Working Through Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.” Thesis. Western Illinois University, 2011.
Anne L. Schnarr. “Forms of Terror: Words, Images, and Terrorism in the Novels of Kathy Acker and Don DeLillo.” Thesis. Western Illinois University, 2009.
Bridgette Parsons. “Unifying Contradictions: American Nationalism in the Popular Culture and Literature of the Vietnam War.” Thesis. Western Illinois University, 2008.
Erin E. Moore. “The Dead Speak: A Dialectic Analysis of Shopping Malls and the Postwar American Consumer.” Thesis. Western Illinois University, 2006.
Ellen Donaghy. “The X Factor: Representing Generation X in Popular Culture and Media.” Thesis. Western Illinois University, 2005.
ENG 400G Cinema and the Novel.
ENG 500 Introduction to Graduate Studies.
ENG 530 Forms: New Media and Narrative.
ENG 532 Literature of Place: The Miniature, The Gigantic, and the Postmodern Fantastic.
ENG 536 Critical and Theoretical Movements: Narratology.
ENG 537 Twentieth Century American Fiction.
ENG 610 Seminar: Postmodern Literature, Film, Culture, and Theory.
Farrell Lowers. “Obscene Obsession: A History of the Olympia Press.” Undergraduate Thesis. Western Illinois University, 2010.
Annette Glotfelty. “Celebratory Ekphrasis in the Novels of Don DeLillo.” Undergraduate Thesis. Western Illinois University, 2008.
Bridget Dennehy. “Examining Approaches to Novels Taught in High School.” Undergraduate Thesis. Western Illinois University, 2008.
Laura A. Pfeiffer. “Wallpaper and Five Stringed Guitars: A Cubist Approach to William Carlos Williams'sSpring and All.” Undergraduate Thesis. Western Illinois University, 2008.
ENG 180 College Writing I
ENG 195 Introduction to Literature.
ENG 199 Introduction to Literary Studies.
ENG 201 Introduction to Fiction.
ENG 206 American Literature and Popular Culture.
ENG 238 Introduction to American Literature.
ENG 280 College Writing II
ENG 290 Introduction to Film.
ENG 299 Critical Methods of Reading and Writing.
ENG 334 Twentieth-Century American Literature.
ENG 338 Studies in American Fiction II.
ENG 368 Studies in Literary Theory: Marxism.
ENG 368 Studies in Literary Theory: Narrative.
ENG 376 Professional Development Workshop
ENG 395 Film and Literature.
ENG 389 Film Theory
ENG 400 Cinema and the Novel
ENG 406 Senior Project.
ENG 476 Senior Seminar: Abjection in Contemporary American Fiction and Film.
ENG 476 Senior Seminar: Ideology and Affect in Contemporary Literature and Film
GH 101 General Honors, Mass Culture and Cultural Studies.
ENG 8G1 The Interpretation of Literature.
ENG 8G9 American Lives.
ENG 008:034 Reading Novels: Postmodern Fiction.
ENG 008:084 Topics in Culture and Identity: Suburbia, the Middle Class and Postwar Literature and Film.
RHET 010:001 Introduction to Rhetoric.
RHET 010:002 Introduction to Research and Argument.
RHET 101:003 Accelerated Rhetoric.
Mark Mossman, Chair, Department of English, Western Illinois University. ma-mossman@wiu.edu.
Anthony Enns, Department of English, Dalhousie University. anthony.enns@dal.ca
Marcus Boon. Department of English, York University. mboon@yorku.ca
Davis Schneiderman, Department of English, Lake Forest College. dschneid@lakeforest.edu
Rudolf Kuenzli. Professor. Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature. The University of Iowa. Rudolf-Kuenzli@uiowa.edu