Robert Tally

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Robert T. Tally Jr. (born 1969) is an associate professor of English at Texas State University. His research and teaching focuses on the relations among space, narrative, and representation, particularly in U.S. and comparative literature, and he is a leading figure in the emerging scholarly fields of geocriticism,[1] literary geography,[2] and the spatial humanities.[3] Tally is the editor of "Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies," a Palgrave Macmillan book series established in 2013. The translator of Bertrand Westphal's Geocriticism: Real and Fictional Spaces[4] and the editor of Geocritical Explorations,[5] Tally is also the author of books on Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, and Kurt Vonnegut, as well as numerous essays on American and world literature, literary criticism, and theory. In a recent interview, Tally mentioned two other projects: "a study of the geopolitical aesthetic of Tolkien’s world, as well as a book on Fredric Jameson and the project of dialectical criticism."[6]

Tally received his M.A. in literature and Ph.D. in critical and cultural studies from the University of Pittsburgh, a J.D. from the Duke University School of Law, and an A.B. (philosophy) from Duke University.

Books

  • Spatiality. The New Critical Idiom. London: Routledge, 2013.
  • Geocritical Explorations: Space, Place and Mapping in Literary and Cultural Studies (editor). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
  • Utopia in the Age of Globalization: Space, Representation, and the World System. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
  • Poe and the Subversion of American Literature: Satire, Fantasy, Critique. New York: Bloomsbury, 2014.
  • Kurt Vonnegut (editor). Critical Insights. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2013.
  • Kurt Vonnegut and the American Novel: A Postmodern Iconography. London: Continuum, 2011.
  • Melville, Mapping and Globalization: Literary Cartography in the American Baroque Writer. London: Continuum, 2009.

References

  1. ↑ "Professor pioneers geocritical approach for studying literature," by Billi London-Gray, Texas State University Blog (October 19, 2010)
  2. ↑ Robert T. Tally Jr., featured speaker at the University of South Florida's "Re-Conceptualizing Cartography" graduate conference, April 13, 2012
  3. ↑ Spatiality, The New Critical Idiom series, Routledge, 2012.
  4. ↑ Geocriticism: Real and Imagined Spaces, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
  5. ↑ Geocritical Explorations, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
  6. ↑ "Space and Literature: An Interview with Robert T. Tally Jr. (English version).

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