James Lilley
Assistant Professor
Ph. D., Princeton, 2007
Humanities 368
(518) 442-2626
jlilley@albany.edu
Professor Lilley joined the faculty at the University at Albany in 2007. His work traces the genealogy of modern systems of belonging by exploring how the singular is collected into the common in various cultural and political discourses. His current book project examines aesthetic transformations that, during the 18th and 19th century, made community conceivable in terms of a series of peculiar and interrelated common things: genre, feeling, event, voice, and race. He teaches courses in American and British literature and culture, as well as offering more specialized graduate classes that explore the intersections of aesthetics, intellectual history, and set theory.
Selected Books and Articles
“Henry Mackenzie’s Ruined Feelings: Romance, Race, and the Afterlife of Sentimental Exchange,” forthcoming in New Literary History (Autumn 2007).
Cormac McCarthy: New Directions. Editor and Introduction. (U of New Mexico Press, 2002).
“‘What it Means to Say Mexicano’: Patrolling the Borders of Mario Suárez’s Fiction.” Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) 26.2 (2001).
“Of Whales and Men: The Dynamics of Cormac McCarthy’s Environmental Vision.” Southern Quarterly 38.2 (2000): 111-22. Rpt. in The Greening of Literary Scholarship. Ed. Steven Rosendale (Iowa UP, 2002).
“An Interview with Barry Hannah.” Mississippi Review 25.3 (1997).
Recent Courses
SUNY Albany
ENG 337: 19th-century American Literature
ENG 210: Introduction to English Studies
Princeton
ENG 371/COM 373: Contemporary Literary Theory (With Eduardo Cadava)
ENG 327: Jane Austen in Context (With Claudia L. Johnson)
Selected Conference Papers
“‘Tenderness Unutterable’: Julia de Roubigné and the Dialectics of Sentimental Servitude.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Montréal (2006).
“Everyday Gothic.” Co-authored with Professor Jennifer Greeson. Friends of Strawberry Hill Conference on the Gothic, Eton College, Eton, England (2005).
“‘A Gothic Vatican of Greece and Rome’: Strawberry Hill’s Authentic Fakery.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Las Vegas, NV (2005).
“The Taste of the Nation: Transatlantic Aesthetics and the New York Mercantile Library.” Society of Early Americanists Conference, Providence, RI (2003).
“‘The Discipline of the Halter’: Washington Irving, Indian Removal, and the Landscapes of Colonial Violence.” Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C. (2000).
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