Dr. Stephen Brauer
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Profile
Professor Brauer’s scholarship focuses on American literature and culture. He teaches a variety of courses in English and American Studies, including ones on American Modernism, crime fiction, and sports and sports culture.
He is the author of Criminality and the Modern: Contingency and Agency in Twentieth-Century America (2022, paperback 2024), a monograph focused on the representation of criminality in American culture as influenced by the rise of the social sciences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He has published articles on Fitzgerald, Faulkner, detective fiction, and higher-education pedagogy in the 21st century. Professor Brauer is currently at work on a manuscript on the last 100 years of American sports writing and sports broadcasting that considers the varying ways that writers and broadcasters imagine and tell the story of the game.
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Selected Publications
BooksCriminality and the Modern: Contingency and Agency in Twentieth-Century America (Lexington Books, Hardcover 2022, Paperback 2024).Journal Articles
“Critical Educators and Active Citizens: Pedagogy and Critical Praxis,” American Literature 89 (2) June 2017: 379-395.
“Locating the ‘Real’ China,” AMPS Proceedings Series 2: The Mediated City: 50 Years in the Global Village, (Proceedings from the Conference on The Mediated City – Los Angeles 2014), ed. Dr. Graham Cairns, October 2014: 17-27. Available at: http://architecturemps.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Amps-Proceedings-Series-2.pdf
“Transforming Not Them But Us,” American Studies Journal, May 9, 2014 http://amsjournal.wordpress.com/2014/05/09/mark-edmundsons-why-teach-forum-stephen-brauer/
“Jay Gatsby and the Prohibition Gangster as Businessman,” The Fitzgerald Review 2 (2003): 51-71.
“Sheltering Temple: Class Transgression in Faulkner’s Sanctuary,” The CEA Critic 65 (3) Spring/Summer 2003: 50-64.
"An Aesthetics of Crime," American Quarterly 53 (3), September 2001: 535-547.
Book Chapters“Detective Fiction, Cultural Categories, and the Politics of Criticism,” Murder 101: Essays on the Teaching of Detective Fiction, ed. Edward Rielly. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009.
“What Makes Him Great?: The Great Gatsby and the New Historicism,” Approaches to Teaching The Great Gatsby, eds. Jackson Bryer and Nancy Van Arsdale. NY: MLA Press, 2009.
“‘Men Is What We Are:’ Fight Club, Style, and the Authentic Masculine,” Modern and Postmodern Cutting Edge Films, ed. Anthony Hughes. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008.