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Professor Paul Giles

Professor Paul Giles

BA Oxf. DPhil Oxf.
Challis Chair of English

+61 2 9114 1979
Room S356, John Woolley Building (A20)



Research Areas

  • American literature and culture
  • Theory and practice of transnationalism

Current Research Projects

  • Antipodean America: Australasia, Colonialism, and the Constitution of U.S. Literature
  • The aesthetics of temporality in literature, film and music

Professional Associations

  • Editorial Advisory Boards: American Literary History, Journal of American Studies, Modern Language Quarterly, Religion and the Arts, Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations
  • Overseas Representative, MLA Delegate Assembly, 2010-2013
  • Associate Member, Faculty of English, University of Oxford, and supernumary fellow of Linacre College, Oxford
  • Director of the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford 2003-2008
  • President, International American Studies Association 2005-2007

Selected Publications

Books
  • The Global Remapping of American Literature (Princeton University Press, December 2010)
  • Transnationalism in Practice: Essays on American Studies, Literature and Religion (Edinburgh University Press, July 2010)
  • Atlantic Republic: The American Tradition in English Literature (Oxford University Press, 2006)
  • Virtual Americas: Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary (Duke University Press, 2002)
  • Transatlantic Insurrections: British Culture and the Formation of American Literature, 1730-1860 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001)
  • American Catholic Arts and Fictions: Culture, Ideology, Aesthetics (Cambridge Studies in American Literature), (Cambridge University Press, 1992, paperback re-issue 2008)
  • Hart Crane : The Contexts of "The Bridge", (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture), (Cambridge University Press, 1986, paperback re-issue 2009)
Other publications
  • “The Novel after the Great War,” in Oxford History of the Novel in English, volume 6: The American Novel, 1870-1940, ed, Michael Elliott and Priscilla Wald (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
  • “Antipodean American Geography: Washington Irving’s ‘Globular’ Narratives,” in Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century American Literature, ed. Russ Castronovo (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
  • “Globalization,” in Blackwell’s Companion to American Literary Studies, ed. Robert S. Levine and Caroline Levander (Blackwell’s, forthcoming)
  • “Transatlantic Currents and the Invention of the American Novel,” in The Cambridge History of the American Novel, ed. Leonard Cassuto, Benjamin Reiss, and Clare Eby (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)
  • “Convergences: IASA in 2007. President’s Report, Lisbon, September 21, 2007.” In Trans/American, Trans/Oceanic, Trans/Lation: Issues in International American Studies, ed. Susana Araujo, Joao Ferreira, Marta Pacheco Pinto (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010), 15-26.
  • “Douglass’s Black Atlantic: Britain, Europe, Egypt,” in The Cambridge Companion to Frederick Douglass, ed. Maurice Lee “(Cambridge University Press, 2009), 132-45.
  • Planetary American Literature: Jonathan Franzen and Dave Eggers,” International Literary Quarterly, No. 8 (November 2008), online.
  • "Antipodean American Literature: Franklin, Twain, and the Sphere of Subalternity," American Literary History, 20, No.1 (2008), 22-50.
  • “Narratives of Traversal: Jamaica Kincaid and the Erasure of the Postcolonial Subject,” in Recharting the Black Atlantic: Modern Cultures, Local Communities, Global Connections, ed. Annalisa Oboe and Anna Scacchi (Routledge), (2008), 365-77.
  • “Augustan American Literature: An Aesthetics of Extravagance,” in Proceedings of the International Association of University Professors in English Conference 2007, ed. Marianne Thormahlen (Lund University Press), (2008), 59-71.
  • “Enlightenment Historiography and Cultural Civil Wars: Samuel Johnson and Richard Price,” in The Atlantic Enlightenment, ed. Susan Manning and Frank D. Cogliano (Ashgate), (2008), 19-35.
  • "Sentimental Posthumanism: David Foster Wallace," Twentieth-Century Literature, 53, No. 3 (Fall 2007), 327-44.
  • “La deterritorializzazione della letteratura e cultura degli Stati Uniti” (translation of “The Deterritorialization of American Literature”), trans. Cinzia Schiavini, Acoma: Rivista Internazionale Di Studi Nordamericani, no. 34, (2007), 83-95.
  • "Medieval American Literature: Emerson, Longfellow, and the Longue Duree," REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature, 23 (2007), 113-32.
  • "'Like a Black Bell': On the Poetry of Henry Carlile," Oregon Literary Review, 2, No.2 (Summer/Fall 2007), online.
  • "The Deterritorialization of American Literature," in Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature, ed. Wai Chee Dimock and Lawrence Buell (Princeton University Press), (2007), 39-61.
  • "Historicizing the Transnational: Robert Coover, Kathy Acker, and the Rewriting of British Cultural History, 1970-1997," Journal of American Studies, 41, No.2 (2007), 3-30.

For a full list of Professor Giles's publications prior to 2006, please click here.

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