John Plotz

Title

Professor of English and American Literature

English and American Literature

Expertise

Victorian literature. The novel. Politics and aesthetics.

Degrees

Harvard University, Ph.D.

Harvard University, B.A.

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Contact

Email:	plotz@brandeis.edu
Phone:	781-736-2621
Office:	Rabb, 264

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Awards and Honors

Brandeis University Dean of Arts and Sciences Mentoring Award, 2006-7 (2007)

Modernist Studies Association Best Book of 2006. Awarded to Crowds (edited by Schnapp and Tiews), which includes my essay ¿The Return of the Blob¿ (2007)

Howard Foundation Fellow (2005 - 2006)

Virtually Being There: Edmund Wilsons Suburbs. McGinnis-Ritchie Award for Nonfiction in Southwest Review (2002)

"Notable Essay," Best American Essays (2000)

Courses Taught

ENG	1a	Reading Literature
ENG	5a	Nineteenth-Century Survey
ENG	11a	Introduction to Literary Method
ENG	40b	The Birth of the Short Story: Gods, Ghosts, Lunatics
ENG	57a	Modern British and Irish Fiction
ENG	68a	The Political Novel
ENG	105b	The English Novel, Jane Austen to Thomas Hardy
ENG	135a	Major British Novelists: Emily Bronte, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot
ENG	200a	Methods of Literary Study
ENG	205b	Social Theory and Aesthetic Practice: Victorian Literature and the Emergence of the Social Sciences
ENG	218b	The Modern Novel: Public, Private, and Social
GSAS	302d	Interdisciplinary Dissertation Seminar
SYS	1c	How Do We Know What We Know?

Scholarship

Plotz, John. "Antisocial Fictions: Mill and the Novel." Novel 41. 2 (2009). (forthcoming)

Plotz, John. "Global Hogg." Novel: A Forum on Fiction (2009). (forthcoming)

Plotz, John. "Reading as a Resonant Cavity: John Stuart Mill¿s Mediated Involvement." Feeling Victorian Reading. Ed. Rachel Ablow. Ann Arbor, MI: U. Michigan, 2009 (forthcoming)

Plotz, John. "Chartist Literature." Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. Ed. Kastan, David. Oxford University Press, 2005 (forthcoming)

Plotz, John. "Review of "Friendship's Bonds" by Richard Dellamora." Nineteenth Century Literature (2005). (forthcoming)

Plotz, John. "Europe (in Theory).." Rev. of Europe (in Theory)., by Roberto Dainotto.. Nineteenth Century Gender Studies. vol. 41.

Plotz, John. Portable Property: Victorian Culture on the Move. 1st ed. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009.

Plotz, John. "Nowhere and Everywhere: The End of Portability in William Morris¿s Romances." ELH 74. 4 (2008): 931-956.

Plotz, John. "The Devil's Pet Baits: The Eustace Diamonds and Others." The Secret Life of Things. Ed. Blackwell, Mark. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2008. 329-354.

Plotz, John. "The First Strawberries in India: Cultural Portability in Victorian Greater Britain.." Victorian Studies 49. 4 (2008): 659-684.

Plotz, John. "How Sociology Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Crowd." Crowds. Ed. Schnapp, Jeffrey. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. 203-224.

Plotz, John. "Chartist Literature." Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. 2006.

Plotz, John. "Can the Sofa Speak? A Look at Thing Theory." Criticism 47. 1 (2005): 109-118.

Plotz, John. "Review of "Hatred and Civility" by Christopher Lane." Victorian Studies 47. 2 (2005).

Plotz, John. "Review of "The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature" by Mary Esteve." Novel: A Forum on Fiction (2004).

Plotz, John. "Mall of America: Why We Can't Stop Marching on Washington." Boston Globe Ideas March, 2003.

Plotz, John. "One-Way Traffic: George Lamming and the Portable Empire." After the Imperial Turn. Ed. Burton, Antoinette. Duke University Press, 2003

Plotz, John. "Review Essay: Christopher Herbert's 'Victorian Relativity." Novel: A Forum on Fiction (2003).

Plotz, John. "Review: Victorian Speech by Jospeh Meisel." Clio (2003).

Plotz, John. "Virtually Being There: Edmund Wilson's Suburbs." Southwest Review 87. (2002): 10-28.

Plotz, John. "Discursive Competition in the Victorian Public Sphere: Thomas Carlyle's Chartism." Representations 70. 87-114 (2000).

Plotz, John. The Crowd: British Literature and Public Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

Plotz, John. "Out of Circulation: For and Against Book Collecting." Southwest Review 84. 4 (1999): 462-478.

Plotz,John. "Objects of Abjection: The Systematic and the Anti-Systematic in the Novels of Jean Genet." Twentieth Century Literature 44. 1 (1998): 100-118.

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