Faculty & Staff
James Dempsey
Publications
Research Monographs
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“The Radical and the Aesthete: Randolph Bourne, Scofield Thayer, and The Dial,” in Revues modernists, revues engageés, from Presses Universitaires de Rennes (France), 2011. This paper was also published as a monograph.
Review Papers
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“The Dial Context: Scofield Thayer’s and E.E. Cummings Textual Relations.” Given at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, University of Louisville, Kentucky, February 25, 2011.
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“The Dial as ‘Intellectual Sewer’: A Defining Difference of Opinion,” given by proxy at Modernism, Cultural Exchange and Transnationality: The Second Conference of the AHRC Modernist Magazines Project, Sussex, U.K., 2009.
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"Mortality's Intimacy: Robert Cormier's Frenchtown Summer". The Worcester Review, Vol. XXIX, Numbers 1 & 2, 2008.
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"The Radical and the Aesthete: Randolph Bourne, Scofield Thayer, and The Dial." Given at the Programme du Colloque International "Revues Modernists et politique dans les annees 1900 a 1939," June 6, 2008 Le Mans, France.
Books (including edited volumes and textbooks)
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Zakary's Zombies: A Fairy Tale, Aracne Editrice.
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Forthcoming: Tortured Excellence: The Life of Scofield Thayer.
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The Court Poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Facing-Page translation in Modern English, Edwin Mellen Press.
Presentations
Conference Presentations
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"Dirty Minds and Literary Lynchings: How Scofield Thayer and The Dial Outsmarted the Smuthounds". Given for the Literary Institution-Building panel at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900 at the University of Louisville, Feb. 24, 2012.
Other Presentations
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February 18, 2011, Chaucer reading at the d-Alzon Library Reading Series at Assumption College, Worcester, MA.
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November 1, 2009, Chaucer reading at The Autumn Oracles at Del Rossi’s, Dublin, NH.
Other
Other Publications or Works
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“Lost E.E. Cummings Poem Discovered”, The Awl, June, 2011.
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“Mariolatry,” Measure, Vol. IV, Issue 2, 2009.
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"In Little Tinkering There's Happiness," Central Mass Magazine, March, 2008.
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"Blue Plate Special," Diner: a Literary Journal, Vol. , 2007. Interview accompanied by a selection of translations from Chaucer.
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Editor, The Slug (newsletter for journalists), Sept. 1997-April 2001.
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"After Vincente Aleixandre: 'The Eagles'". The Little Apple, Number 8, 1978.
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"After Vincente Aleixandre: 'Sonnet: To Fray Luis de Leon', and 'Adolescence'". The Little Apple, Number 7, 1978.
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"Homage to Henriette Roland Holst". The Little Apple, Number 6, 1978.