Jeffory A. Clymer

PhD, English

Duke University


Office: 1265 POT
Phone: 257-6965
E-mail: jeff.clymer@uky.edu







Areas of Specialty:

  • Transnational Contexts of Literature
  • Economics and Literature
  • Critical Race Theory

Selected Publications:

  • America’s Culture of Terrorism: Violence, Capitalism and the Written Word. The University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
  • "The Market in Male Bodies: Henry James’s The American and Late-Nineteenth-Century Boxing." The Henry James Review 25 (2004).
  • "Martin Delany’s Blake and the Transnational Politics of Property." American Literary History 15 (2003).
  • "Modeling, Diagramming, and Early Twentieth-Century Histories of Invention and Entrepreneurship: Henry Ford, Sherwood Anderson, Samuel Insull." Cambridge Journal of American Studies 36 (2002).
  • "The 1886 Chicago Haymarket Bombing and the Rhetoric of Terrorism in America." Yale Journal of Criticism 15 (2002).
  • "‘This Firm of Men-Killers’: Jack London and the Business of Terrorism." Modern Fiction Studies 45 (1999).
  • "Race and the Protocol of American Citizenship in William Dean Howells’ An Imperative Duty." American Literary Realism 30 (1998).
  • "‘Mr. Nobody from Nowhere’: Rudolph Valentino, Jay Gatsby, and the End of the American Race." Genre 29 (1996).