Jonathan Berliner, PhD
Jonathan Berliner
Los Angeles, California
Education
PhD English, University of Chicago, 2008
Publications
Book
William Faulkner and the Materials of Writing
Cambridge University Press, 2023
Previews Available: Amazon, Google, & Cambridge
Selected Articles
“Faulkner’s Material Texts”
Fifteen Eighty Four: Academic Perspectives From
Cambridge University Press, 2024
“From Ivory to Foolscap:
Faulkner’s Romance of Writing Materials”
Mississippi Quarterly, 2017/2018
“Borrowed Books:
Material Texts in The Sound and the Fury”
Faulkner Journal, 2016
“Hamlin Garland and the Landscapes of the American Populists”
American Literary Realism, 2015
“Fire Big Bird? Is That Part of Starve the Beast?”
New York Times, 2012
“Written in the Birch Bark:
The Worldmaking of Simon Pokagon”
PMLA, 2010
“Jack London’s Socialistic Social Darwinism,”
American Literary Realism, 2008
Reprinted in Short Story Criticism, 2010
Honors and Awards
Instructor of Merit
California EOPS Program, 2018
Outstanding Instructor of the Year
Mount St. Mary’s University, 2016
Mayers Fellowship
Huntington Library, 2012
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship
University of Southern California, 2008
Walter Blair Dissertation Fellowship
University of Chicago, 2005
Full Tuition Grant and Stipend
University of Chicago, 2000
Selected Courses Taught
Los Angeles Valley College
College Reading and Composition I
College Reading and Composition II
English Bridge
Mount St. Mary's University
Introduction to the Humanities
American Literature, Beginnings to 1914
American Literature, 1914 to Present
Ethnic Literatures of America
English Literature, Beowulf to 1500
English Literature, 1500 to 1700
Introduction to Liberal Arts
Liberal Arts: Senior Seminar
Literary Focus: Poetry
Great Works in World Literature
Twentieth-Century British and European Literature
University of California, Irvine
American Literary Modernism
Arugument and Research
Claremont Graduate University
American Renaissance
American Literature and Economics
African American Writing, 1865-1920
Philosophy and Theory from Plato the Present Day
University of Southern California
American Literature, 1865-1920
American Literature, 1920 to Present
Contemporary American Literature
Native American Literature
Literatures of California
University of Chicago
Twentieth-Century American Literature
Readings in World Literature: Autobiography
Readings in World Literature: Epic Worlds
Peer Review Reader
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 2023
Twentieth-Century Literature, 2017–2021
Journal of Science Fiction, 2016
Huntington Library Quarterly, 2012
Configurations: Literature, Science, Technology, 2011
University Service
Co-Founder, Native American Studies Workshop
University of Southern California
Founder, Twentieth Century US Cultures Workshop
University of Chicago
