Leonard Wilcox
Programme Coordinator
Qualifications
PhD (University of California, Irvine)
Room
517, History building
Contact Details
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext. 6239
leonard.wilcox@canterbury.ac.nz
Postal address
American Studies Programme
School of Humanities
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch 8140
New Zealand
Research Interests
- Modernism/Postmodernism
- Contemporary American Culture
- The 1930s
Background
I am the author of V.F. Calverton: Radical in the American Grain (Temple, 1992), and editor of Reading Shepard: Critical Essays on the plays of Sam Shepard (Macmillan 1993). I've published articles in the areas American intellectual history, American fiction and drama, and postmodern culture.
Recent Publications
“Writing Into the Future: Don DeLillo, Terrorism, and The Names.” Writing Into the Future: Studies in the American Novel. Eds Anne-Marie Evans and Elizabeth Boyle. Cambridge Scholarly Publishing, 2010: 40-56
Douglas Wright, Leonard Wilcox (photography John Savage) Black Milk. Nelson: Craig Potton Publishers, 2009
"Hard-Boiled L.A. in New Zealand: American Studies 223/326, ‘Figuring Los Angeles: From Modernism to Postmodernism’," Australasian Journal of American Studies, 25.2, December 2006: 78-84.
"Dancing Dissent: Douglas Wright’s Black Milk," Landfall 212, Spring, 2006:145-151.
"Terrorism and Art: Don DeLillo's Mao II and Jean Baudrillard's The Spirit of Terrorism." Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature. 39.2, June 2006: 89-105.
"Don DeLillo's Libra: History as Text, History as Trauma." Rethinking History, Vol 9, No.2/3, June-September 2005: 337-353.
"Don DeLillo’s Underworld: American Nationhood and the Troubling Remainder" in From Z to A: Žižek at the Antipodes, Lawrence Simmons, Heather Worth and Maureen Malloy (eds), Palmerston North: Dunmore Press, 2005: 199-214.
Review of The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard. Ed. Matthew Roudané. Theatre Survey: The Journal for the American Society for Theatre Research, v45n01, 2004:80-83.
"Baudrillard, DeLillo’s White Noise, and the End of Heroic Narrative," in Don DeLillo's White Noise, Modern Critical Editions, Harold Bloom (ed.) Chelsea House 2003.
"Baudrillard, September 11, and the Haunting Abyss of Reversal," Postmodern Culture, vol 14, no 2 September, 2003.
"Don DeLillo's Underworld and the Return of the Real," Contemporary Literature vol. 43, no. 1 (Spring, 2002), 120-137.