Friedman, Alan W.
Professor

Education: Ph.D. U. of Rochester 1966
Office Location: CAL 214
Office Hours: TTh 2:00-3:30
Phone: (512) 471-8376
friedman@mail.utexas.edu

Research Interests:

British and American modernism; The novel; Drama, especially Shakespeare; International programs, faculty governance and academic freedom

Recent Publications

Books Authored:

Party Pieces: Oral Storytelling and Social Performance in Joyce and Beckett. Syracuse UP, 2007.

Fictional Death and The Modernist Enterprise. Cambridge University Press, 1995. Paperback reprint, 2008.

William Faulkner. Frederick Ungar, 1984.

Multivalence: The Moral Quality of Form in the Modern Novel. Louisiana State University Press, 1978.

Lawrence Durrell and The Alexandria Quartet: Art for Love's Sake. University of Oklahoma Press, 1970.
 

Books/Journals Edited:

News of Ulysses.  Texas Studies in Language and Literature (with Charles Rossman, forthcoming).

De-familiarizing Readings: Essays from the Austin Joyce Conference. European Joyce Studies 18.  Editions Rodopi: Amsterdam and New York, 2009 (with Charles Rossman).

Samuel Beckett in Austin and Beyond.  Texas Studies in Language and Literature 51.1 March 2009 (with Charles Rossman) .

Biographical Joyce.  James Joyce Quarterly 45.3-4 Spring/Summer 2008 (with Charles Rossman).

Beckett in Black and Red: Samuel Beckett's Translations for Nancy Cunard's Negro. Louisville, University of Kentucky Press, 2000.

Situating College English: Lessons from an American University. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996 (with Evan Carton).

Beckett Translating/Translating Beckett. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1987 (with Charles Rossman and Diana Sherzer).

Critical Essays on Lawrence Durrell. G.K. Hall, 1987.

Mario Vargas Llosa: Critical Essays. University of Texas Press, 1978. Spanish edition: Alhambra, 1983 (with Charles Rossman).

Texas Studies in Literature and Language 19.4 (Winter 1977). Special issue on Mario Vargas Llosa (with Charles Rossman).

Forms of Modern British Fiction. University of Texas Press, 1975.

Articles:

“Samuel Beckett Meets Buster Keaton: Godeau, Film, and New York.” Texas Studies in Language and Literature 51.1 (March 2009): 41-46.

''Death and Beyond in J.B. Priestley's Johnson over Jordan.'' New Theatre Quarterly 22.1 (February 2006): 76-90.

''Beckett's Musicals.'' Etudes Anglaises (special issue on Samuel Beckett). Ed. Carle Bonafous-Murat and Ciaran Ross. 69.1 (Jan.-March 2006: 47-59. Departmental nominee for UT's Best Research Paper Award, 2006.

''Graham Greene: Letter Writer.'' Writing Among the Ruins: Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh. Exhibition curators: John O. Kirkpatrick and W. Richard Oram. Austin: Harry Ransom Center, 2004. 17 -20.

''Stephen Dedalus's non serviam: Patriarchal and Performative Failure in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.'' Joyce Studies Annual 13 (Summer 2002): 64-85.

''Hugh Kenner at the Harry Ransom Center.'' The Beckett Circle 25.1 (Spring 2002): 19.

''D.H. Lawrence: Pleasure and Death.'' Studies in the Novel 32.2 (Summer 2000): 207-28.

''Party Pieces in Joyce's Dubliners.'' James Joyce Quarterly 36.3 (Spring 1999): 471-84.

''Modernist Attitudes toward Death.'' Death and the Quest for Meaning. Ed. Stephen Strack. Jason Aronson, 1997. 109-33.

''Good Governance.'' Academe 82.4 (July-August 1996): 41-43.

''Standard English at the University of Texas.'' In Situating College English: Lessons from an American University. Eds. Alan W. Friedman and Evan Carton. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996: 3-16.

''The Great War and Ritual.'' War and Literature (Stuttgart) 6.11/12 (1994): 7-15.

''The Status of Graham Greene Studies.'' The Library Chronicle 20.4 (1991): 36-67.

Awards and Honors:

English Department Faculty Service Award, 2008.

“Beckett’s Musicals,” nominated by English Department for Best Essay of the Year award, 2005-6.

Humanities Institute Faculty Fellow, UT, Fall 2003

Thomas Mabry Cranfill Teaching Fellowship in support of Actors from the London Stage, 2004-

Web site, Center for Shakespeare Studies, Honorable Mention, Digital Education Achievement Awards, Student-Focused Applications, 2004

Chad Oliver Teaching Award, Plan II, 2003

Outstanding UT Professor Award, Alpha Lambda Delta and Phi Eta Sigma, honors societies, 2003

Parlin Fellow, Plan II