William Handley Associate Professor of English Contact Information E-mail: handley@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-3733 Office: THH 404E LINKS Curriculum Vitae

Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History

• Associate Professor of English, University of Southern California, 05/01/2002-  
• Assistant Professor of English, University of Southern California, 01/01/1999-01/01/2002  
• Assistant Professor of Literature and of English and American Literature, Harvard University, 01/01/1995-01/01/1999  

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests

Research Specialties

Affiliations with Research Centers, Labs, and Other Institutions

• Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, Moderator, Working Group on Fiction and History

Publications

Book

• Handley, W. R., Lewis, N. (2004). True West: Authenticity and the American West. Lincoln, Nebraska: True West: Authenticity and the American West/University of Nebraska Press.
• Handley, W. R. (2002). Marriage, Violence, and the Nation in the American Literary West. Cambridge, UK: Marriage, Violence, and the Nation in the American Literary West/Cambridge University Press.

Book Chapter

• Handley, W. R. (2009). "The Popular Western". (Vol. 10). pp. 14 pages. Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell Companion to the Modern American Novel, 1900-1950/Blackwell.
• Handley, W. R. (2007). "The Vanishing American (1925)" in "America First: Naming the Nation in U.S. Film". pp. 44-64.. Routledge.
• Handley, W. R. (2004). Freeways in the City of Angels. pp. p. 178-207.. Freeways in the City of Angels/University of Amsterdam Press.
• Handley, W. R. (2004). Willa Cather: "The West Authentic," The West Divided. pp. p. 72-94.. Lincoln, NE: True West: Authenticity and the American West/University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
• Handley, W. R. (2003). Wister's Omniscience and Omissions. pp. p. 39-71.. Lincoln, NE: Reading The Virginian in the New West: Centennial Essays/University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
• Handley, W. R. (1993). The Ethics of Subject Creation in Bakhtin and Lacan. pp. p. 144-162.. Mikhail Bakhtin: Carnival and Other Subjects/Rodopi Press.
• Handley, W. R. (1991). War and the Politics of Narration in Jacob's Room. pp. p. 110-133.. Virginia Woolf and War: Fiction, Reality, and Myth/Syracuse University Press.

Encyclopedia Article

• Handley, W. R. (2004). "Western Fiction" in Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. Vol. 4, 334-343. University of Oxford Press.

Journal Article

• Handley, W. R. (2005). Detecting the Fictions of History in *Watershed*. Callaloo/Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. p. 305-312.
• Handley, W. R. (2004). Belonging(s): Plural Marriage, Gay Marriage, and the Subversion of 'Good Order'. Discourse/Wayne State University Press. pp. p. 85-109.
• Handley, W. R. (2001). Distinctions without Differences: Zane Grey and the Mormon Question. Arizona Quarterly/University of Arizona. Vol. 57, pp. 1, 1-33..
• Handley, W. R. (1995). The House a Ghost Built: Nommo, Allegory, and the Ethics of Reading in Toni Morrison's Beloved. Contemporary Literature/University of Wisconsin Press. Vol. 36, pp. 4, 676-701..
• Handley, W. R. (1994). The Housemaid and the Kitchen Table: Incorporating the Frame in To the Lighthouse. Twentieth Century Literature/Hofstra University. Vol. 40, pp. 1, 15-41..

Honors and Awards

• USC Zumberge Research and Innovation Fund Award, 2000-2001  
• Huntington Library Research Fellowship Recipient, Keck and Mayers Fellowship, 1998  

Service to the Profession

Administrative Appointments

• Director of Graduate Admissions and Recruitment, Department of English, 2007-2009  
• President, Western Literature Association, 2004-2005   

Editorships and Editorial Boards

• Postwestern Horizons, University of Nebraska Press Book Series, 2002-  

Professional Offices

• President, Western Literature Association, 2004-2005