Jake Mattox
Assistant Professor of English
Education
Ph.D. Literature University of California, San Diego, 2007
M.A. Literature University of California, San Diego, 2003
B.A. English Pitzer College (Claremont Colleges), 1992
Interests
Multiethnic U.S. literatures
Empire and imperialism
Literatures of the U.S. West
Multiethnic U.S. literatures
Cultural studies
Literary theory
Courses Taught at IU South Bend
Previous:
L202 Literary Interpretation
T190 Beyond Cowboys and Indians: The Myths of the U.S. West
L350 Early American Writing and Culture to 1800: The Captivity Narrative in Colonial America
L351 U.S. Literature 1800-1865
L379 U.S. Ethnic and Minority Literature
L460 Senior Seminar: Sports Matters
L650 Studies in U.S. Literature to 1900: The American Renaissance and Post-Nationalist American Studies
Current (2009-10):
L352 U.S. Literature 1865-1914
L653 U.S. Literature 1800-1900: "You must have confidence": Optimism and Fear in 19th-Century U.S. Culture
W130 Principles of Composition
L207 Women and Literature
Service at IU South Bend
Chair, African American Studies Committee
American Studies Committee
Civil Rights Heritage Center Faculty Advisory Committee
CLAS Trustees' Teaching Award Committee
Campus Ally Network (CAN)
Honors and Awards
2008 Faculty Research Grant
Publications
"In Nicaragua with Martin Delany and the 'Cotton Americans,'" American Literature (forthcoming Sept. 2009)
"Cormac McCarthy," Blackwell Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century American Fiction (forthcoming)
"Kurt Vonnegut," Blackwell Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century American Fiction (forthcoming)
Review of Black Nationalism in the New World by Robert Carr, Mississippi Quarterly, 16.3 (Summer 2003): 445-448
Review of Buffalo Bill's Wild West: Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History by Joy S. Kasson, Western American Literature 38.1 (Spring 2003): 88-90
Selected Papers and Presentations
"But Why Aren't We Reading American Literature in This Class?": Learning to Teach Multi-Ethnic U.S. Literatures," MELUS Annual Conference, April 2009 (Spokane, WA)
"'A Ghastly Pudding': Mobility, Resistance, and Dissolving Bodies in the Fiction of George S. Schuyler," The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, February 2009
“Dis/Claiming Panama: Women's Travel Writing and Antebellum U.S. Visions of America,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, October 2007 (Philadelphia, PA)
"Providential Circulation: Antebellum Science, Manifest Destiny, and National Space,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, October 2005 (Washington, D.C.)
“Popular Science, Popular Literature: The Antebellum Geographies of Matthew Maury,” Western Humanities Alliance Annual Conference, October 2005 (Tucson, AZ)
