Professor of English
Chair, English and Foreign Languages
Contact information
Office: N-423
Phone: 773-298-3235
Email: hathcock@sxu.edu
| Educational History | |
| BA MA Ph.D. |
North Carolina State University (1976) North Carolina State University (1980) Penn State University (1986) |
| Teaching and Research Interests | |
| My research has tended toward the North American current of cultural studies so my teaching has as well. I look for relationships and connections between texts (literature, film, photography, etc), relations of influence, competition, or symbiosis. How did a particular work come into being, what conditions contributed to its creation? What effects does it elicit? How is it linked with other works, in the same or different media? While my graduate training concentrated on twentieth-century American literature, my interests have broadened into the realm of American Studies, a field encouraging interdisciplinary perspectives and approaches. In recent years I have taught courses in American culture of the 1950s, in representations of the Civil War, and an Honors Program seminar focused on the image of the priest in American culture. | |
| Recent publications/presentations | |
| "'A Spy in the Enemy's Country': Black Like Me as Cold
War Narrative." American Studies
44:3 (Fall 2003) 99-119. "'Standardizing Catastrophe': Randall Jarrell and the Bomb" in Jarrell, Bishop, Lowell & Co. Ed. Suzanne Ferguson (University of Tennessee Press, 2003), 113-125. Mid-America American Studies Association Conference at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, April 15-16, 2005: "Containment in the Cold War South: Representative Acts." Film and History Conference—War in Film, Television, and History, November 11-14, 2004, at Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas: "Marginalizing the Civil War: Ang Lee’s Ride With the Devil." |
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