Alfred Bendixen Explained
Alfred Bendixen is the founder and Executive Director of the American Literature Association and a lecturer in the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University.
Bendixen gained a Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina in 1979, with a thesis on "Americans in Europe before 1865 : a study of the travel book".[1] He held posts at Barnard College (1979-1988) and California State University, Los Angeles (1988-2005) before moving to Texas A&M University, where he served as the Associate Department Head of English (2007-2009) and a Professor of English (2006 - 2013).[2] He now serves as a lecturer in the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University,[3] having previously been a lecturer in English at the same university.[4]
His research has centered on the recovery of 19th century literature and neglected genres, including the ghost story, detective fiction, science fiction, and travel writing.
Selected publications
- Haunted women : the best supernatural tales by American women writers (1985, F. Ungar,)
- Edith Wharton: New Critical Essays (1992, Garland,, with Annette Zilversmit)
- The Whole Family, new edition and introduction to this 12-author 1908 novel (2001, Duke UP,)
- The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing (2009, Cambridge UP,, with Judith Hamera)
- A Companion to the American Short Story (2010, Wiley-Blackwell,, with James Nagel)
- A Companion to the American Novel (2012, Wiley-Blackwell,)
- The Cambridge History of American Poetry (2014, Cambridge UP,, co-edited with Stephen Burt)
- The Centrality of Crime Fiction in American Literary Culture (2017, Routledge:), co-edited with Olivia Carr Edenfield
External links
- Web site: Alfred Bendixen . Faculty . Department of English, Texas A&M University . 17 January 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140201103742/http://www.english.tamu.edu/people/abendixen?destination=user%2F52 . 1 February 2014 . dead .
Notes and References
- Book: Catalog record. Worldcat. 40159208. 17 January 2014.
- Web site: Alfred Bendixen . Faculty . Department of English, Texas A&M University . 17 January 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140201103742/http://www.english.tamu.edu/people/abendixen?destination=user%2F52 . 1 February 2014 . dead .
- Web site: Alfred Bendixen . Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies . Princeton University . 25 March 2024 . en.
- Web site: Alfred Bendixen . Department of English . Princeton University . 25 March 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200318040328/https://english.princeton.edu/people/alfred-bendixen-0 . 18 March 2020.