Michael Zeitlin

Professor | Undergraduate Literature Coordinator
phone 604 822 4018
Period/Nation Research Area
Education

University of Toronto



BA, MA, PhD


About

Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1988. “Faulkner and Ulysses: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry.”

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Virginia, 1989-90.

My main research interests lie in twentieth-century and contemporary American literature, with a special interest in the fiction of William Faulkner, the history of aviation, modernism, psychoanalysis, and war.

Other work in progress includes essays on Don DeLillo and Cormac McCarthy.


Teaching


Publications

Selected Publications:

Faulkner, Aviation, and Modern War (New York: Bloomsbury, 2022)

“Bodies, Injury, Medicine.”  War and American Literature.  Ed. Jennifer Haytock.  Cambridge UP, 2021.  57-70.

“‘An Entirely New Way of Conducting War at a Distance’: The First World War and the Air War of the Future.”  Remote Warfare: New Cultures of Violence.  Ed. Rebecca Adelman and David Kiernan. UP of Minnesota, 2020. 31-52.

“War, Labor, and Gasoline in ‘Carcassonne.” Faulkner and Money: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 2017. Ed. Jay Watson and James G. Thomas, Jr. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2019. 15-30.

“Faulkner and the Royal Air Force Canada, 1918.” The Faulkner Journal XXX (Spring 2016) [March 2018]: 15-38. Special Issue, “Faulkner and the North.” Ed. Robert Jackson.

“Faulkner, Adorno, and ‘The Radio Phenomenon,’ 1935.” William Faulkner in the Media Ecology. Ed. Julian Murphet and Stefan Solomon. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2015. 115-130.

“The Ultimate War Story: Losing it in Going After Cacciato.” Critical Insights: Tim O’Brien. Ed. Robert C. Evans. Amenia, NY: Grey House Publishing, 2015. 154-168.

“The American Wars: History and Prophecy in Vietnam, the Gulf, and Iraq.” I Sing the Body Politic: History as Prophecy in Contemporary American Literature. Ed. Peter Swirski. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009. 82-11

Pylon and the Rise of European Fascism.” The Faulkner Journal 27 (Spring 2012): 97-114. Special Issue, “Faulkner and the Metropolis.” Ed. Peter Lurie.

Soldier Talk: The Vietnam War in Oral Narrative. Edited by Paul Budra and Michael Zeitlin. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004.

Méconnaissance, Race, and the Real in Faulkner’s Fiction. Etudes Faulknériennes IV. Ed. Michael Zeitlin. Series Editors: André Bleikasten and Nicole Moulinoux. Rennes, France: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2004.

“The Ego Psychologists in Lacan’s Theory.” American Imago: Studies in Psychoanalysis and Culture 54.2 (Summer 1997): 209-232. Special issue, “Lacan’s Christian Science.” Ed. Daniel Boyarin.


Awards

Killam Teaching Prize in the Faculty of Arts, 2008-2009.


Additional Description

I have served three tours in Arts One (2010-12, 2014-16, 2018-20).

In the Department of English, I teach courses in American modernism, literature post-World War II, and contemporary literature.


Michael Zeitlin

Professor | Undergraduate Literature Coordinator
phone 604 822 4018
Period/Nation Research Area
Education

University of Toronto



BA, MA, PhD


About

Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1988. “Faulkner and Ulysses: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry.”

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Virginia, 1989-90.

My main research interests lie in twentieth-century and contemporary American literature, with a special interest in the fiction of William Faulkner, the history of aviation, modernism, psychoanalysis, and war.

Other work in progress includes essays on Don DeLillo and Cormac McCarthy.


Teaching


Publications

Selected Publications:

Faulkner, Aviation, and Modern War (New York: Bloomsbury, 2022)

“Bodies, Injury, Medicine.”  War and American Literature.  Ed. Jennifer Haytock.  Cambridge UP, 2021.  57-70.

“‘An Entirely New Way of Conducting War at a Distance’: The First World War and the Air War of the Future.”  Remote Warfare: New Cultures of Violence.  Ed. Rebecca Adelman and David Kiernan. UP of Minnesota, 2020. 31-52.

“War, Labor, and Gasoline in ‘Carcassonne.” Faulkner and Money: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 2017. Ed. Jay Watson and James G. Thomas, Jr. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2019. 15-30.

“Faulkner and the Royal Air Force Canada, 1918.” The Faulkner Journal XXX (Spring 2016) [March 2018]: 15-38. Special Issue, “Faulkner and the North.” Ed. Robert Jackson.

“Faulkner, Adorno, and ‘The Radio Phenomenon,’ 1935.” William Faulkner in the Media Ecology. Ed. Julian Murphet and Stefan Solomon. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2015. 115-130.

“The Ultimate War Story: Losing it in Going After Cacciato.” Critical Insights: Tim O’Brien. Ed. Robert C. Evans. Amenia, NY: Grey House Publishing, 2015. 154-168.

“The American Wars: History and Prophecy in Vietnam, the Gulf, and Iraq.” I Sing the Body Politic: History as Prophecy in Contemporary American Literature. Ed. Peter Swirski. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009. 82-11

Pylon and the Rise of European Fascism.” The Faulkner Journal 27 (Spring 2012): 97-114. Special Issue, “Faulkner and the Metropolis.” Ed. Peter Lurie.

Soldier Talk: The Vietnam War in Oral Narrative. Edited by Paul Budra and Michael Zeitlin. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004.

Méconnaissance, Race, and the Real in Faulkner’s Fiction. Etudes Faulknériennes IV. Ed. Michael Zeitlin. Series Editors: André Bleikasten and Nicole Moulinoux. Rennes, France: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2004.

“The Ego Psychologists in Lacan’s Theory.” American Imago: Studies in Psychoanalysis and Culture 54.2 (Summer 1997): 209-232. Special issue, “Lacan’s Christian Science.” Ed. Daniel Boyarin.


Awards

Killam Teaching Prize in the Faculty of Arts, 2008-2009.


Additional Description

I have served three tours in Arts One (2010-12, 2014-16, 2018-20).

In the Department of English, I teach courses in American modernism, literature post-World War II, and contemporary literature.


Michael Zeitlin

Professor | Undergraduate Literature Coordinator
phone 604 822 4018
Period/Nation Research Area
Education

University of Toronto



BA, MA, PhD

About keyboard_arrow_down

Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1988. “Faulkner and Ulysses: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry.”

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Virginia, 1989-90.

My main research interests lie in twentieth-century and contemporary American literature, with a special interest in the fiction of William Faulkner, the history of aviation, modernism, psychoanalysis, and war.

Other work in progress includes essays on Don DeLillo and Cormac McCarthy.

Teaching keyboard_arrow_down
Publications keyboard_arrow_down

Selected Publications:

Faulkner, Aviation, and Modern War (New York: Bloomsbury, 2022)

“Bodies, Injury, Medicine.”  War and American Literature.  Ed. Jennifer Haytock.  Cambridge UP, 2021.  57-70.

“‘An Entirely New Way of Conducting War at a Distance’: The First World War and the Air War of the Future.”  Remote Warfare: New Cultures of Violence.  Ed. Rebecca Adelman and David Kiernan. UP of Minnesota, 2020. 31-52.

“War, Labor, and Gasoline in ‘Carcassonne.” Faulkner and Money: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 2017. Ed. Jay Watson and James G. Thomas, Jr. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2019. 15-30.

“Faulkner and the Royal Air Force Canada, 1918.” The Faulkner Journal XXX (Spring 2016) [March 2018]: 15-38. Special Issue, “Faulkner and the North.” Ed. Robert Jackson.

“Faulkner, Adorno, and ‘The Radio Phenomenon,’ 1935.” William Faulkner in the Media Ecology. Ed. Julian Murphet and Stefan Solomon. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2015. 115-130.

“The Ultimate War Story: Losing it in Going After Cacciato.” Critical Insights: Tim O’Brien. Ed. Robert C. Evans. Amenia, NY: Grey House Publishing, 2015. 154-168.

“The American Wars: History and Prophecy in Vietnam, the Gulf, and Iraq.” I Sing the Body Politic: History as Prophecy in Contemporary American Literature. Ed. Peter Swirski. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009. 82-11

Pylon and the Rise of European Fascism.” The Faulkner Journal 27 (Spring 2012): 97-114. Special Issue, “Faulkner and the Metropolis.” Ed. Peter Lurie.

Soldier Talk: The Vietnam War in Oral Narrative. Edited by Paul Budra and Michael Zeitlin. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004.

Méconnaissance, Race, and the Real in Faulkner’s Fiction. Etudes Faulknériennes IV. Ed. Michael Zeitlin. Series Editors: André Bleikasten and Nicole Moulinoux. Rennes, France: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2004.

“The Ego Psychologists in Lacan’s Theory.” American Imago: Studies in Psychoanalysis and Culture 54.2 (Summer 1997): 209-232. Special issue, “Lacan’s Christian Science.” Ed. Daniel Boyarin.

Awards keyboard_arrow_down

Killam Teaching Prize in the Faculty of Arts, 2008-2009.

Additional Description keyboard_arrow_down

I have served three tours in Arts One (2010-12, 2014-16, 2018-20).

In the Department of English, I teach courses in American modernism, literature post-World War II, and contemporary literature.