David Thoreen, Professor of English
DAVID THOREEN
Professor of English (1995)
Department of English
Chairperson of the Department of English
Phone: 508-767-7583
Email: dthoreen@assumption.edu
B.A., St. John’s University; English, 1985
M.F.A., Bowling Green State University; Creative Writing, Fiction, 1987
Ph.D., S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook; English, 1994
Ph.D. Thesis Title: “Brave New World Democracy: Manifest Destiny in the Fiction of Joan Didion, Robert Stone, and Thomas Pynchon”
Sample of Courses Taught
Undergraduate: Introduction to Literature, Writing Workshop: Poetry, The Modern Short Story, Approaches to Reading and Interpretation, Twentieth-Century American Novel
Sample of Publications
Articles:
- “In which ‘Acts Have Consequences’: Ideas of Moral Order in the Qualified Postmodernism of Pynchon’s Recent Fiction.” American Postmodernity: Essays on the Recent Fiction of Thomas Pynchon. Ed. Ian Copestake. New York: Peter Lang, 2003: 49-70.
- Thoreen, D. “The Fourth Amendment and Other Modern Inconveniences: Undeclared War, Organized Labor, and the Abrogation of Civil Rights in Vineland.” Thomas Pynchon: Reading from the Margins. Ed. Niran Abbas. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2002: 215-33.
- Thoreen, D. “The Narrative Structure of Barry Hannah’s ‘Water Liars.’” Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Cultures 54 (2001): 223-36.
Poetry
- “A Narrative of Adverse Possession.” Confrontation (forthcoming).
- “Immigrant.” The Alembic (Spring 2005): 38-39.
- “So This Is Short Hills.” The Journal 29.1 (Spring-Summer 2005): 74-75.
- “Master of None.” Natural Bridge 13 (Spring 2005): 186.
- “Minnesota.” 9 Dec. 2003. Slate. Ed. Robert Pinsky. Microsoft Network. 2003.
- Thoreen, D. “Even This Is an Advertisement” and “A Tour of the Premises.” The Journal 27.1 (Spring 2003): 40-41.
- Thoreen, D. “There’s No Word Longer Than a Loaded Gun.” Worcester Review 23.2 (2002): 72.
- Thoreen, D. “How to Do It.” Diner 2.2 (Fall-Winter 2002): 52.
Sample of Presentations
- Thoreen, D. “Infernal Machines, Tribal Evil, and Individual Resistance: Tobias Wolff’s ‘In the Garden of the North American Martyrs.’” 2nd Global Conference on Evil and Human Wickedness (Anglo-American College, Prague, Czech Republic, March 2001).
- Thoreen, D. “McKeesian Structural Analysis and Barry Hannah’s ‘Water Liars.’” Language into Light: The Written Word Becomes Cinema (Morgantown, WV, September 1999).
- Thoreen, D. “The President’s Emergency Powers and the Erosion of Civil Rights in Vineland.” Programme for International Pynchon Studies (Antwerp and London, June 1998).
Faculty Development Grant Recipient, 2007
A Sordid Sonnets
Sample of Readings
- Thoreen, D. “Selections from Someplace Else.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Meeting (New Orleans, April 18, 2003).
- Thoreen, D. “A Streetcar and Other Poems.” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference (Louisville, KY, February 28-March 1, 2003).
- Thoreen, D. D’Alzon Arts Series. Emmanuel D’Alzon Library, Assumption College, September 19, 2002.
- Thoreen, D. “Selections from a ms. in progress.” Chenango Valley Writers’ Conference (Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, June 19, 2002).
- Thoreen, D. “At the MLA and Other Poems.” Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference (Albuquerque, NM, February 16, 2002).
- Thoreen, D. The Holy Cross Institute on Writing and Teaching (College of the Holy Cross, July 30, 1997).
