(Spring 2020)
Institute for Core Studies
St John’s University
St Augustine Hall, Room 160
Queens, NY 11439
Cell: (516) 312-4938
farleyd@stjohns.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of Tulsa, Department of English, 2001.
M.A. University of Tulsa, Department of English, 1995.
B.A. Adelphi University, Department of English, 1991.
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
2013- present. Associate Professor, Institute for Writing Studies. St John’s University.
2006-2013. Assistant Professor. Institute for Writing Studies. St John’s University.
2004-2006. Assistant Professor. ASA Institute of Business and Computer Technology.
2003-2004. Visiting Assistant Professor. Baruch College/CUNY, Dept of English
2003. Adjunct Professor. Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, School for University Studies.
2001-2002. Adjunct Professor. University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, Department of English.
2001-2002. Adjunct Instructor. Tulsa Community College, Tulsa, OK, Department of English.
PUBLICATIONS
Book
Modernist Travel Writing: Intellectuals Abroad. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2010.
Located at the intersection of Modernism and Travel Writing Studies, this book shows the importance of travel writing to discussions of late modernist literature by examining the ways in which certain writers (Ezra Pound, E.E. Cummings, Wyndham Lewis, and Rebecca West) employed the techniques and stylistic innovations of modernism in their travel narratives to variously engage the political, social, and cultural landscapes of the interwar years.
Articles
“Angel on the Road: The Travel Writing of Annemarie Schwarzenbach. (In progress)
“Wyndham Lewis’s Blasting and Bombardiering as Satirical Autobiography.” (In progress)
“E.E. Cummings: Intourist in the Unworld.” Spring: The Journal of the E.E. Cummings Society. 1.12 (Fall 2003): 86-106.
“’Damn the Partition!’: Ezra Pound and The Passport Nuisance.” Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship. 30.3 (Winter 2001): 79-90.
“Yeats and World Drama: The Goal of the Irish National Theater,” Yeats Eliot Review. 15.2 (Spring 1998): 12-18.
Book Chapters
“Modernist Travel Writing.” in The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing. Ed. Carl Thompson. New York: Routledge, 2015. pp. 278-87.
“’The Pain of 40 Lashes’: Anton Chekhov’s Sakhalin Island and the Emergence of the Russian Prison System.” Politics, Identity, and Mobility in Travel Writing. Ed. Miguel Cabañas, Jeanne Dubino, Veronica Salles-Reese, and Gary Totten. New York: Routledge, 2015. pp. 13-25.
“Arab American Association of New York.” Entry in The People’s Guide to New York City. Co-author with Alan Aja and Danielle Bullock. (forthcoming)
Book Reviews
Rev. of Backpack Ambassadors: How Youth Travel Integrated Europe, by Richard Ivan Jobs. University of Chicago Press, 2017. In Journeys: The International Journal of Travel Writing. (forthcoming)
Rev. of Excursions into Modernism: Women Writers, Travel, and the Body, by Joyce Kelley. Routledge: 2015. In South Carolina Review. (forthcoming).
Rev. of E.E. Cumming’s Modernism and the Classics: Each Imperishable Stanza, by JA Rosenblitt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. In The Classics Review (forthcoming).
Rev. of Modernist Voyages: Colonial Women Writers in London, 1890-1945, by Anna Snaith. Cambridge University Press, 2014. In Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature. 35. 1 (Spring 2016): 283-86.
Rev. of Travel and Ethics: Theory and Practice. Ed. Corinne Fowler, Charles Forsdick, and Ludmilla Kostova. In Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing. 16.2.
Rev. of Travel Narrative and the Ends of Modernity, by Stacy Burton. In Studies in Travel Writing. 19.1.
Rev. of Tristes Plaisirs: A Critical Reader of the Romantic Grand Tour, by Chloe Chard. In Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing. 15.2.
Rev. of Edward Thomas: Prose Writings, A Selected Edition. Volume 1. Ed. Guy Cuthbertson. Britain and the World: The Journal of the British Scholar Society. 7.1 (March 2014): 166-68.
Rev. of Transnational Russian-American Travel Writing, by Margarita D. Marinova. Studies in Travel Writing. 16.3. (2012).
Rev. of Travel and Modernist Literature: Sacred and Ethical Journeys, by Alexandra Peat. Modernism/modernity. 19.1 (Jan. 2012): 216-18.
Online Publications
“In Bay Ridge, Artists Explore the Immigrant Experience.” Hey Ridge: An Alternative News and Culture Blog About Bay Ridge. December 4th 2019..
“Primary 2018: The Case for Andrew Gounardes.” Hey Ridge: An Alternative News and Culture Blog About Bay Ridge. September 11th d 2018.
“Democrats Finally Debate to Represent Bay Ridge in the State Assembly.” Hey Ridge: An Alternative News and Culture Blog About Bay Ridge. September 9th 2018.
“What Islamophobia Looks Like Today.” Hey Ridge: An Alternative News and Culture Blog About Bay Ridge. May 25th 2018.
“Hundreds March in Bay Ridge in Support of Palestinian Rights.” Hey Ridge: An Alternative News and Culture Blog About Bay Ridge. May 15th, 2018.
“Protestors Challenge the NRA in Dyker Heights.” Hey Ridge: An Alternative News and Culture Blog About Bay Ridge. April 30th, 2018.
“In Bay Ridge, The Civil War in Yemen is Close to Home.” Hey Ridge: An Alternative News and Culture Blog About Bay Ridge. March 21st, 2018.
“The Roles an Islamic Center Plays in Bay Ridge.” Hey Ridge: An Alternative News and Culture Blog About Bay Ridge. January 23rd, 2018.
“Bay Ridge 7-Eleven Spared During Trump’s Immigration Raids.” Hey Ridge: An Alternative News and Culture Blog About Bay Ridge. January 11th, 2018.
“In Bay Ridge, A Vigil for Undocumented Immigrants.” Hey Ridge: An Alternative News and Culture Blog About Bay Ridge. December 27th, 2017.
“Sign of the Belated Times.” Modernism/modernity. Nov 20th, 2017.
“Primary 2017: The Case for Rev. Khader El-Yateem.” Hey Ridge: An Alternative News and Culture Blog About Bay Ridge. September 7th, 2017.
“Scenes from an Alt-Right Protest of Linda Sarsour.” Hey Ridge: An Alternative News and Culture Blog About Bay Ridge. June 1st 2017.
“A Bay Ridge Official’s Attack on Immigrant’s IDs.” Hey Ridge: An Alternative News and Culture Blog About Bay Ridge. December 13th d 2016.
“Let’s Bring Participatory Budgeting to Bay Ridge!” Hey Ridge: An Alternative News and Culture Blog About Bay Ridge. November 2nd, 2016.
“Why the Mayor’s Mental Health Grant to the Arab American Association is Good for Bay Ridge.” Hey Ridge: An Alternative News and Culture Blog About Bay Ridge. October 3rd, 2016.
“No one in the State Assembly Lives in Bay Ridge.” Hey Ridge: An Alternative News and Culture Blog About Bay Ridge. May 24th, 2016.
“The End of the Hookah Bar?” Hey Ridge: An Alternative News and Culture Blog About Bay Ridge. March 22nd 2016.
“The Love-Hate Story of the Irish and Italians in New York.” Hey Ridge: An Alternative News and Culture Blog About Bay Ridge. March 17th, 2016.
“What it Takes to Keep an Independent Bookstore in Bay Ridge Going.” Hey Ridge: An Alternative News and Culture Blog About Bay Ridge. Feb 2nd, 2016.
“Dancing with the Devil in Bay Ridge’s Indie Bookstore.” Hey Ridge: An Alternative News and Culture Blog About Bay Ridge. August 7th, 2015.
Current Project
My current research project takes a broader view of the travel genre. Travel Writing From Defoe to Sebald: Towards an Archeology of Perception, seeks to understand the ways that travel writing has shaped perceptions in specific historical, social, and cultural contexts. In chapters on Daniel Defoe, Jules Verne, Anton Chekhov, Vita Sackville West, Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and W.G. Sebald, I aim to show the various ways in which travel writing has contributed to the politics of visibility.
PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
2018 Paper “’There’s a Place I Want to Go...’Prince and Heterotopias” Prince from Minneapolis. University of Minnesota. April 2018.
2018 Chair, “Papers Please…: Travel Documents and Travel Writing.” Travel Writing Discussion Forum. MLA. January 2018.
2018. Presenter and Moderator. Special Session: “Instigating Insecurity: The Presidential Executive Order and Muslim American Activism.” Paper: “From Muslim bans to ICE Raids: NYC’s Municipal ID Program and Intersectional Local Activism in Trump’s America.” MLA January 2018.
2017. Panelist. “No Ban! No Deportations! Brooklyn Community Forum on Immigration.” ISO. Mayday Space. April 26th 2017.
2012 “Where is the Center? Exploring Common Grounds and Practices between the First-Year Writing Class and the Writing Center.” Northeast Writing Centers Association Conference (NEWCA). St John’s University. Part of a panel organized with Professor Chiara Cillerai and student consultants from the University Writing Center.
2012 “The Pain of 40 Lashes: Anton Chekhov’s Sakhalin Island and the Russian Penal System.” International Society for Travel Writing, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
2012 “’Passport, please…’: Composing Bodies in Freshman Writing and Service Learning.”, Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), St Louis, Missouri.
2011 “Comics in the Classroom? Graphic Novels, Graphic Memoirs, and Higher Education.” Center for Teaching and Learning and University Libraries. Round Table Discussion with Caroline Fuchs and Sophie Bell. St John’s University.
2010 “Bewitched, Bothered, Bewildered: When the Best of Intentions Confront the Ugly Truth, or Inventorying Privilege in Community-Based Writing Center and Academic Service-Learning.” Northeast Writing Centers Association Conference (NEWCA). Boston University. Speaker/Panelist.
2010 “Bridging the Divide Between Community and Academia: College Expectations and the College Experience.” The New York Metro Area Partnership in Service Learning (NYMAPS). Strengthening Service-Learning Connections Across New York City. Bard College. Speaker/Panelist.
2009 “The Stillness Outlasting All Wars: Stasis in Modernist Literature.” The 11th Annual Conference of the Space Between Society. University of Notre Dame.
2009 “Imaging America Campus Compact.” Downstate Regional Meeting. Panel Discussant. New York University.
2009 “Core Faculty Reimagining the First-Year Experience.” The First Annual Spring Symposium of the Institute for Core Studies. St John’s University.
2009 “Academic Service-Learning and First-Year Writing Programs: Striving Towards a Fruitful Fusion.” Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). San Francisco. Half-Day Workshop.
2008 “MySpace/OurSpace: The Use of Blogs in the Writing Classroom.” SUNY Council on Writing: Inevitable Intersections, Writing at the Crossroads of Public and Private Discourses in the 21st Century.
2007 “Sustainability and the Writing Center.” Northeast Writing Center Association (NEWCA). Panel Presentation.
2003 “Truth and Testimony in Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon and A Train of Powder.” Rediscovering Rebecca West: An International Conference. Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY.
2001 “Intellectuals Abroad: Modernist Travel Writing,” Seminar presentation, “Modernist Boundaries and Boundary Crossings,” 3rd Annual Modernist Studies Association Conference. Rice University, Houston.
2001 “Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Mirror for the Modern World.” “Representing Regionalism, Nationalism, and Internationalism in the Space Between, 1914-1945.” University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
1998 “Ezra Pound and ‘The Passport Nuisance’: A Reading of ‘Canto 7.’” The 12th Annual Comparative Literature Symposium. University of Tulsa.
1998 “’The Story I Have to Tell’: History in Richard Murphy’s ‘The Battle of Aughrim.’” American Conference for Irish Studies. Columbia, SC.
1998 Conference Co-Organizer, 12th Annual Comparative Literature Symposium, “The Socio-Material Turn: Excavating Modernism.” University of Tulsa.
1997 “The Sanctity of the Clay in Patrick Kavanagh’s ‘The Great Hunger.’” American Conference for Irish Studies. Chattanooga, TN.
1996 “Yeats and World Drama: The Goal of the Irish National Theater.” American Conference for Irish Studies. Chapel Hill, NC.
1996 11th Annual Comparative Literature Symposium, University of Tulsa, “Constructing the Arts and Sciences: An Experiment in Academic Discourse.” Assistant.
1995 10th Annual Comparative Literature Symposium, University of Tulsa, “Crossing the Boundary: Feminisms Inside and Outside the University.” Assistant.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
2013-present. ICS Personnel and Budget Committee
2013-present. Liberal Arts Faculty Council
2010. Led a cohort of students abroad to Rome as part of the University’s “Freshman Passport” program.
2007. Learning Community, with Professor Marilyn Nemzer, St John’s University.
2006. Organized Roundtable. “The Writing on the Wall: Commenting on Student Papers.” Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL). St John’s University – Staten Island.
2004-2005. Co-coordinator Writing Center, ASA Institute.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE IN THE FIELD
I have reviewed both book manuscripts and journal articles for a number of nationally and internationally peer reviewed journals and presses, including Modernism/modernity, Peter Lang publishers, I Tauris, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Studies in Travel Writing, and Ashgate. I was for four years the Book Review Editor of the James Joyce Quarterly and was an Editorial Assistant for The Jean Rhys Review. I was recently asked to be a part of the MLA Discussion Group on Travel and Travel Studies.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
2013-2016. Trustee, Bay Ridge Historical Society.
2008-2009. I developed an Academic Service-Learning Project that brought together freshman students from St John’s and high school students enrolled in Henry Street Settlement’s “Expanded Horizons” college preparation program.
2009. Summer Writing Workshop: “Writing the College Application Essay.” Expanded Horizons Program. Henry Street Settlement. New York, NY. (Volunteer)
ACADEMIC AWARDS
2010-11 Faculty Recognition Award, St John’s College
2001 Chapman Graduate Scholar Presentation Award.
1999-2000 Graduate Assistant Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Tulsa.
1999-2001 Distinguished Ph.D. Chapman Doctoral Teaching Fellowship, University of Tulsa.
1998-1999 Graduate Assistant Excellence in Teaching Nominee, University of Tulsa.
1997-2000 James Joyce Quarterly Research Fellowship.
TEACHING INTERESTS
Travel and Travel Writing; Global Literatures; Transnational Literatures; Creative Nonfiction; Cultural Studies; First Year Writing.
COURSES TAUGHT
First Year Writing; Survey of British Literature, Honors Writing; Travel Writing and Cultural Studies; Literature in a Global Context; Creative Nonfiction; Modernist Poetry.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND SOCIETIES
International Society for Travel Writing
Modern Language Association
Modernist Studies Association
Space Between Society
Ezra Pound Society