Staff Profile:Dr David Brauner

Name:

Dr David Brauner

Job Title:

Reader

Responsibilities:

Within the department I convene modules in:

• Contemporary American Fiction
• Post-War Ethnic Fiction
• Holocaust Fiction
• Writing America: Self, Religion, Race

I also contribute to the following modules:

• Writing America: Romances of Nationhood
• Writing America: Self, Race, Region
• Modernity, Crisis & Narrative Fiction
• Women's Writing 2
• Revisioning Shakespeare
• Languages of Literature

Areas of Interest:

My primary research interests are post-war Jewish literature and contemporary American fiction. I have also developed research interests in those areas in which I teach, particularly Holocaust fiction and contemporary women's writing. I continue to have a strong interest in contemporary fictionalisations of biblical stories.

Research groups / Centres:

I am a member of the Modern Studies Centre.

Publications:

• Contemporary American Fiction (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2010)
• 'Jewish American Fiction', in Blackwell Companion to Twentieth-Century
  United States Fiction, ed. David Seed. Blackwell, 2009, pp. 96-108.
  
• '"The days after' and "the ordinary run of hours": Counternarratives and Double Vision in Don DeLillo's Falling Man', Review of International American Studies 3.3-4.1 (Winter 2008/Spring 2009), pp. 72-81
• Philip Roth (Manchester University Press, 2007), 243pp.
• 'Fifty Ways to See Your Lover: Vision and Revision in the Fiction of Amy Bloom', in Anglophone Jewish Literature, ed. Axel Stähler. Routledge, 2007, pp. 108-120.
• '"Will the Real King David Please Stand Up?": Unauthorized Versions of the King David Narrative in Three Post-War Jewish Novels', in Religion and the Novel, eds. T.Woodman & M. Knight. Ashgate, 2006, pp. 105-120.
• 'Bellow at your elbow, Roth breathing down your neck: Gender and Ethnicity in Linda Grant and Bernice Rubens', in 'In the Open': Jewish Women Writers and British Culture, ed. Claire Tylee.
• University of Delaware Press, 2006, pp. 96-109.

I have also published:

• Post-War Jewish Fiction: Ambivalence, Self-Explanation, Transatlantic Connections
• (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2001), 222pp.
• 'Getting Your Retaliation in First: Narrative and Counter-Narrative in Portnoy's Complaint', in Philip Roth, ed. Derek Parker Royal. Greenwood Press, 2005, pp. 43-57.
• 'Brilliant Jewish Boys, Gifted Jewish Girls: The Child Prodigy in Bernice Rubens and Rebecca Goldstein', in Jewish Women's Writing of the 1990s and Beyond in Great Britain and the United States, eds. Ulrike Hattemer & Bernhard Reitz. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2004, pp. 217-226.

'American Anti-Pastoral: Incontinence and Impurity in Philip Roth's American Pastoral and The Human Stain', Studies in American-Jewish Literature 23, 2004, pp. 67-76.

• 'Arguing With Himself: The Criticism of Leslie Fiedler', Jewish Quarterly 190 (Summer 2003), 53-57.
• '"Speak Again": The Politics of Rewriting in A Thousand Acres', Modern Language Review 96 (3), 2001, 654-66.
• 'Breaking the Silences: Jewish-American Women Writing the Holocaust', The Yearbook of English Studies 31, 2001, 24-38.
• 'The Gentile Who Mistook Himself For a Jew', EnterText 1 (1), 2000, 55-82.
• 'Masturbation and its Discontents; or Serious Relief: Freudian Comedy in Portnoy's Complaint', The Critical Review 40, 2000, 75-90.
• 'Fiction as Self-Accusation: Philip Roth and the Jewish Other', Studies in American-Jewish Literature 17, 1998, 8-16.
• 'Three Solemn Buffoons: Comedy as Alibi in Saul Bellow', Saul Bellow Journal 13 (1), 1995, 8-16.