David
Banash
Department of English
Western Illinois
University
faculty.wiu.edu/D-Banash
d-banash@wiu.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Associate 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.
“Writing Through the Real: Twentieth-Century Literary Collage.” Director, Rudolf Kuenzli.
Contemporary Literature, Film, Popular Culture, Cultural Studies, Narrative Theory, Media Theory, Experimental and Avant-Garde Forms, Aesthetics.
Collage Culture: Readymades, Meaning, and the Age of Consumption. Rodopi (Forthcoming 2012).
Collections and Collecting: Objects, Practices, and the Fate of Things (Co-Edited with Kevin Moist; currently seeking a publisher)
“Immersion, Enjoyment, and Violence: Sadism and Narrative Closure in Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho and Lunar Park.” (Under Review at Postmodern Culture).
“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 King Davies.” 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>.
“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. (Forthcoming in American Book Review).
“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. 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.
“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 August 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 August 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 January 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.
“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” English Graduate Organization at the 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 to the present.
Editor. Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies. 2001-03. Established a peer-review board; co-wrote CFPs; edited the Suburbia special issue; solicited and edited articles from leading scholars around the world; developed institutional subscriptions and raised funds.
Conference co-founder and co-director. Craft, Critique, Culture: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Writing in the Academy. 2000-02. <www.uiowa.edu/~c3conf>.
Chair. Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching Committee. Western Illinois University. Fall, 2010.
Faculty Advisor, Liberal Arts and Sciences Graduate Organization. 2010-2012.
Director of Graduate Studies in English. Western Illinois University. 2009-2011.
Faculty Advisor, English Graduate Organization. 2009-2012.
Chair Search Committee. Western Illinois University. 2009-2010.
Undergraduate Committee. Western Illinois University. 2009-2012.
Chair. Core Curriculum Revision Committee. Western Illinois University. 2009-2010.
Faculty Advisor The National Society of Collegiate Scholars. Western Illinois University. 2008-2010.
Speakers Committee. Department of English. Western Illinois University. 2007-2010.
American Fiction Search Committee. Department of English. Western Illinois University. 2007-2008.
Co-Chair. Modernist Search Committee. Department of English. Western Illinois University. 2006-2007.
Bachelor of Liberal Arts and Sciences Committee, 2005-2006. On this College of Arts and Sciences committee, I helped write the proposal for a new, interdisciplinary Bachelors degree.
Faculty Council Representative. Collage of Arts and Sciences, Western Illinois University. 2005-08. Represent the department of English to the faculty and Deans of the College of Arts and Sciences.
Executive Committee. Department of English. Western Illinois University. 2005.
Chair. Undergraduate Literature Major Review Committee. Department of English, Western Illinois University. 2004-07. Coordinated the wholesale revision of our undergraduate literature major.
Program Review Committee. Department of English. Western Illinois University. 2003-04. The committee evaluated the curriculum and revised the program goals.
Program Associate. General Education Literature Program. The University of Iowa, 2001-02. Worked with faculty in designing and teaching orientation programs for new TAs.
Professional Development Program Co-Leader. Department of Rhetoric. The University of Iowa. 1998-99. Worked with faculty teaching pedagogy and parxis for new GAs.
Faculty Summer Stipend. Western Illinois University. 2005.
Ballard-Seashore Dissertation Fellowship. 2002-03.
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 Univestiy, 2009.
Bridgette Parsons. “Unifying Contradictions: American Nationalism in the Popular Culture and Literature of the Vietnam War.” Thesis. Western Illinois Universtiy, 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 500 Introduction to Graduate Studies.
ENG 530 Forms: New Media and Narrative.
ENG 536 Critical and Theoretical Movements: Narratology.
ENG 537 Twentieth Century American Fiction.
ENG 610 Seminar: Postmodern Literature, Culture, and Theory.
Farrell Lowers. “Obscene Obsession: A History of the Olympia Press.” Western Illinois University, 2010.
Annette Glotfelty. “Celebratory Ekphrasis in the Novels of Don DeLillo.” Western Illinois University, 2008.
Bridget Dennehy. “Examining Approaches to Novels Taught in High School.” Western Illinois University, 2008.
Laura A. Pfeiffer. “Wall Paper and Five Stringed Guitars: A Cubist Approach to William Carlos Williams's Spring and All.” Western Illinois University, 2008.
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 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 Theory.
ENG 395 Film and Literature.
ENG 406 Senior Project.
ENG 476 Senior Seminar: Abjection in Contemporary American Fiction.
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.
RHET 010:001, Introduction to Rhetoric.
RHET 010:002, Introduction to Research and Argument.
RHET 101:003, Accelerated Rhetoric.
Rudolf Kuenzli. Professor. Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature. The University of Iowa. Rudolf-kuenzli@uiowa.edu.
Mark Mossman, Chair, Department of English, Western Illinois University. MA-Mossman@wiu.edu.
David Boocker. Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Nebraska at Omaha. Formerly Chair of the Department of English, Western Illinois University (2002-2007). dboocker@unomaha.edu.
Adalaide (Dee) Morris. Professor. Department of English. The University of Iowa. Dee-morris@uiowa.edu.
David Wittenberg. Associate Professor. Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature. The University of Iowa. David-wittenberg@uiowa.edu.