J u d a   C h a r l e s   B e n n e t t

The College of New Jersey

P.O. Box 7718

Ewing, New Jersey 08628-0718

(609) 771-2380

bennett@tcnj.edu

 

 

 

 

Education

 

1994 Ph.D. English and American Literature, Washington University

1989 M.A. English and American Literature, Washington University

1988 B.A.  English and Creative Writing, Binghamton University

 

Courses Taught

 

The College of New Jersey, 1997-Present (Rhetoric I and II, Approaches to Literature, American Literature to the Civil War, American Literature since the Civil War, Modern American Literature, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Toni Morrison, Culture and Authenticity, Race and Passing Literature, Multicultural Literature, Global Women Writers, Gay and Lesbian Literature)

 

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 1996-1997 (Minority Literature of the U.S., Gay and Lesbian Studies, Introduction to Literature, The Passing Figure)

 

Washington University, 1990-1996 (Creative Writing, Composition, Race and Literature, Faulkner, The City in American Literature, Southern Literature)

 

Book Publication

 

The Passing Figure: Racial Confusion in Modern American Literature (Peter Lang

Publishing, 1997 in cloth, 1998 reissued in paper)

 

Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. is the North American branch of the Swiss scholarly publisher Peter Lang AG, founded in 1926. The press specializes in monographs, critical editions, textbooks and reference books in the humanities and social sciences.  The Passing Figure is part of the Modern American Literature Series: New Approaches, edited by Yoshinobu Hakutani.  The cloth edition sold out quickly, and I signed a contract for the paper edition less than a year after the first publication in cloth.

 

Published or Forthcoming Essays

 

  • “Langston Hughes on the Open Road: Compulsory Heterosexuality and the Question of Presence” in Uncovering Langston Hughes.  Edited by Maryemma Graham and Cheryl Raga.  University of Missouri Press, (forthcoming).

 

  • Writing into the Prison-Industrial Complex” in Prison Writings.  Edited by Quentin Miller.  McFarland Press, (forthcoming).

 

  • “Carl Phillips” in Contemporary Gay American Poets and Playwrights: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, published by Greenwood Press (2003)

 

  • "Black By Popular Demand:  Autobiography and the Passing Figure."  A/B: Auto/Biography Studies (Winter 2002). 

 

  • "Toni Morrison and the Burden of the Passing Narrative” The African American Review (December 2001). 

 

  • "Multiple Passings and the Double Death of Langston Hughes" Biography (Fall 2000). 

 

Shorter Works

 

  • Biographical Entry on Leonard Peltier for The Heath Anthology of Literature (forthcoming)
  • “David Lester’s Complain, Complain.” in Chronicle of Higher Education, Letter to the Editor (3/12/04).
  • Review:  “Passing: Identity and Interpretation in Sexuality, Race, and Religion” in Biography: An Interdisciplinary Journal.  Volume 26, Number 3 (Summer 2003)
  • Interview:  “Interview with Toni McNaron,” published in Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy [Interview conducted and edited by me for a special volume on “Sexuality,” for which I served as co-editor. (Fall 2002)
  • Encyclopedia Entry: “Race/Racism, Miscegenation, Race-Baiting Literature” in the Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature, published by Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers (forthcoming)
  • Review:  "Review of Feminism Meets Queer Theory" in Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy (Spring 1999)
  • Review:  "Review of Janet Gray's She Wields a Pen" in Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy (Fall 1998)
  • Encyclopedia Entry:  Sexuality and African-American Literature" entry in The Oxford Companion to African American Literature (1997)
  • Review:  "Review of E. Ann Kaplan's Motherhood and Representation" in The Fannie Hurst Newsletter (Summer 1994)
  • Short Essay:  "Who's Passing for What?: The Crying Game and Narratives of Passing" in Visibility:  A Review of African American Culture (Fall 1993)

 

Published Creative Writing (Fiction and Poetry)

 

  • “On Being Notorious” in Court Green (forthcoming)
  • “Throwing Glitter into the Riot: June 27, 1969” in Court Green (forthcoming)
  • “Forgotten Gods: Second Discovery” in Laurel Review (Spring 2007)
  • “All Night His Hand in My Pocket” in Puerto Del Sol (Spring 2006)
  • “My Gravitational Pull” in Puerto Del Sol (Spring 2006)
  • “Baby Gay” in DMQ Review (February 2005)
  •  “Two Gentlemen of the Holding Cup” in Wisconsin Review, Vol. 39, Number 1 (Fall 2004)
  • “Confessions of a Sodomite” in Wisconsin Review, Vol. 39, Number 1 (Fall 2004)
  • “Creation Song for the Lockdown Women” in Penwood Review (Spring 2005)
  • "Tai Chi in the Jungle" in The MacGuffin (Spring 1999)
  • "Shoot Down the Crow" in TCNJ Review (Spring 1999)
  • “Everyone Hits" in U.S.1 (July 29, 1998)
  • "Seven Kevins Together Laughing" in Rosebud (Spring 1998)
  • "Geese Against Georgian Architecture" TCNJ Review (April 1998)
  • “The Writing Slide” " TCNJ Review (April 1998)
  • "This is the Mother Story" in Quarterly West (Spring 1996)
  • "Shayla" in The James White Review (Summer 1988)

 

Editing

 

Transformations:  A Resource for Curriculum Transformation and Scholarship,     

Editor, with Beth Paul (Psychology), Spring 2000 to Fall 2003.