Jason Solinger

The Citadel – MSC 85

Charleston, SC 29409

(843) 577-9995

solingerj1@citadel.edu

 

 

Academic Appointments

The Citadel, Assistant Professor of English, 2004-Present

 

Education

Ph.D., Brown University, English, May 2004

M.A., San Diego State University, English, with distinction, May 1996

B.S., Cornell University, Industrial and Labor Relations, May 1993

The School of Criticism and Theory at Dartmouth College, Summer 1996

London School of Economics and Political Science, Fall 1991

 

Dissertation

Becoming the Gentleman: British Letters and the Gentrification of Ordinary Men, a

     historical account of the formation of modern British masculinity in eighteenth- 

 century conduct books, periodical literature, poetry and fiction.

 

Director: Nancy Armstrong; Readers: Philip Gould and Leonard Tennenhouse

 

Awards and Fellowships

          Citadel Foundation Research Grant, 2005-2006, 2006-2007

          Citadel Foundation Presentation Grant, Spring 2005, Spring 2006

Citadel Foundation New Faculty Research Grant, 2004-2005

          Albert Spaulding Cook Memorial Prize, for an unpublished article-length essay in

     comparative literature, 2003

Howard R. Swearer Dissertation Fellowship, Spring 2003

Untermeyer Fellowship, an endowed fellowship prize for a dissertation treating  

     poetry or poetics, 2001-02

Brown University Fellowship, 1997-98

 

Publications

          “Jane Austen and the Gentrification of Commerce,” forthcoming in NOVEL

“Eighteenth-Century Journalism,” The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature,

      Ed. David Scott Kastan, Oxford UP, 2006

“The Politics of Alexander Pope’s Urbanity,” Genre 36.1-2 (2003):  47-79

“Philip Roth: An Annotated Bibliography of Uncollected Criticism, 1989-1994,”

     Studies in American Jewish Literature 15 (1996): 61-72

 

Presentations

          “Filthy Ideas and Indecent Expressions,” Session Moderator, American Society for

     Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2006

          “Commerce, Land and the Heroes of Domestic Fiction,” American Society for

     Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2006

“Cosmopolitanism and American Republicanism,” Society of Early Americanists,   

     2005

“The Cosmopolitanism of Thomas Paine and the British Apologists,” American

     Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2004

“Alexander Pope and the Book of the World,” Readers and Writers in the

     Eighteenth Century, Princeton, 2003

“An Eighteenth-Century Marriage Crisis: The Rape of the Lock,” South Central  

     MLA, 1999 

“Beyond the Ethnic Box: Philip Roth, D.H. Lawrence and the Panzaic Principle,”

     American Literature Association, 1996

“‘It Listens in Watching’: Gaze, Silence and ‘The Lady of Shalott,’” Pacific MLA,   

     1995

 

Teaching Experience

Expository Writing

Creative Nonfiction

Figures of Madness, from Shakespeare to Morrison

Novels and Nations: The Body Politic in 18th and 19th-Century English Literatures Survey of British Literature, Beowulf-Goldsmith

Survey of British Literature, Blake-Rushdie

Neoclassicism

The Age of Johnson

The Politics of Decorum; a.k.a. Bad Taste in the Eighteenth Century

Literary Criticism and Theory (Graduate)

 

Citadel Committee Appointments and Service Positions

          Co-Director, The Citadel Summer in London, 2005-Present

          Undergraduate Admissions Committee, 2005-Present

Undergraduate Curriculum Advisor, Citadel English Department, 2004-Present

Faculty Advisor, Citadel Mock Trial Team, 2004-Present

 

Affiliations

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Society of Early Americanists

Modern Language Association