Faculty

Joseph Conte

Professor
Office: 501 Clemens Hall
Phone number: 645-2575 x1071
E-mail address: jconte@buffalo.edu
Personal website: buffalo.edu/~jconte/

 

Interests:

Twentieth-century poetry; postmodern fiction; postmodern theory

Courses taught:

Graduate Courses

  • The Politics of the Unpresentable: Acker, DeLillo, Gaddis
  • Studies in the Novel: Postmodern Fiction in the Information Age
  • Literary Theory: The Poetics of Postmodernism
  • Poetic Texture: The Smooth and the Striated
  • Postmodern Fiction: Maximalism and Minimalism
  • The New York Avant-Garde, 1913-1929
  • Postmodern Fiction: Orderly Disorders
  • The Postmodern Long Poem
  • Supervised Teaching
  • Ezra Pound and Wallace Stevens
  • 20th C. American Poetry: Postmodern Movements
  • 20th C. American Poetry: The Objectivists

Undergraduate Courses

  • American Poetry
  • American Renaissance
  • Contemporary Literature
  • Criticism
  • Epic Literature
  • Experimental Fiction
  • Interdisciplinary Modernism
  • Italian American Literature
  • Literary Types: Poetry
  • Major American Writers II
  • Modern American Literature
  • Modern Poetry
  • Multimedia Literature
  • University Honors: Postmodern Fiction

Work in progress:

  • Postmodern Fiction and Transnational Politics

Selected publications:

  • Design and Debris: A Chaotics of Postmodern American Fiction. Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 2002. 272 pages.
  • Unending Design: The Forms of Postmodern Poetry. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. 314 pages.
  • Editor, Dictionary of Literary Biography 165, 169 and 193: American Poets Since World War II (Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Series). Detroit: Gale Research Press, 1996, 1998. 377, 404 and 451 pages.
  • “The Virtual Reader: Cybernetics and Technocracy in William Gibson and Bruce Sterling’s The Difference Engine.” The Holodeck in the Garden: Science and Technology in Contemporary American Fiction. Ed. Peter Freese and Charles B. Harris. Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2004. 28-52.
  • “The Smooth and the Striated: Compositional Texture in the Modern Long Poem.” Modern Language Studies 27.2 (1997): 57-71.
  • “The Uncertain Predictor: Calvino’s Castle of Tarot Cards.” Literature and Science (Rodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature 14). Ed. Donald Bruce and Anthony Purdy. Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Editions Rodopi, 1994. 131-47.
  • “Metaphor and Metonymy in Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds.” The Review of Contemporary Fiction 5.1 (1985): 128-134.