Dr. Joe Conway
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR & DIRECTOR OF GRADUATE STUDIES, ENGLISHContact
1310 Ben Graves Drive
Morton Hall
Room 265
Huntsville, AL 35899
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256.824.2380
joseph.conway@uah.edu
Biography
Education
- Ph.D., American Literature, Washington University, 2008
- B.A., English and Philosophy, Villanova College, 2000
Expertise
- Early American Literature Pop Culture Economics in Literature & Culture
Recent Publications
"“See I Know How to Grab It”: Capturing Money in the Neoliberal Heist Film." LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory 34.4 (2023): 279-300.
"From Disincorporation to Rematerialization: Breaking Bad and the Life of Cash." Canadian Review of American Studies 51.3 (2021): 196-212.
"Currencies of Control: Black Mirror, In Time, and the Monetary Policies of Dystopia." CR: The New Centennial Review 19.1 (2019): 229-254.
"‘To banter the age': Sir William Phips and the Wonders of the Modern World," Early American Literature 52.2 (2017).
"After Politics/After Television: Comedy Vérité and the Running Gag of Government," Studies in American Humor 2.2 (2016): 182-207
"Conversion Experiences: Money and Other Strange Gods in The Female America," Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 45.4 (2016): 671-683.
"Words Are for the Birds: ‘Non-Reasoning Creatures Capable of Speech' in the Writings of Schreber and Poe," in Mocking Bird Technologies: Essays on the Comparative and Global Poetics of Bird Mimicry, eds. Christopher GoGwilt and Melanie Holm. Fordham University Press, 2018.
"Hawthorne's Backwoods Puritan: ‘Sir William Phips and the Democratic Clown Tradition," The Nathaniel Hawthorne Review (Fall 2013): 36-59. Winner of Hawthorne Review's "Essay of the Year" for 2013.
"Making Beautiful Money: Currency Connoisseurship in Nineteenth-Century America," Nineteenth-Century Contexts 34.5 (2012): 427-443.
"Failing Criticism: An Essay on The Recognitions," in The Arch Never Sleeps: William Gaddis in Context. McFarland, 2009.
