HR job title
- Retired Professor
- Contact Info
- 1 979 845 4564
Mcwhirter, David Professor
Positions
- Professor, English, The Texas A&M University System
I specialize in late 19th and 20th century British and American literature and culture, with particular emphases on modernism, gender studies, aesthetics, early cinema, US southern studies, and Henry James.
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Publications
selected publications
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academic article
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Ford, S., & McWhirter, D.
(2014).
"Everybody to their own visioning": Eudora Welty in the Twenty-First Century. Eudora Welty Review.
6(6), 3-7.
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McWhirter, D.
(2013).
Woolf, Eliot, and the Elizabethans: The politics of modernist nostalgia. English Language Notes.
51(1), 231-247.
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McWhirter, D.
(2011).
Bersani's James. Henry James Review.
32(3), 211-217.
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McWhirter, D.
(2009).
Eudora welty goes to the movies: Modernism, regionalism, global media. MFS - Modern Fiction Studies.
55(1), 68-91.
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Mcwhirter, D. B.
(2009).
Fish Stories: Revising Masculine Ritual in Eudora Welty's "The Wide Net". Mississippi Quarterly.
62(1), 35-58.
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McWhirter, D.
(2006).
Photo-negativity: The visual rhetoric of James's and Coburn's New York edition frontispieces. English Language Notes.
44(2), 101-116.
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McWhirter, D. B.
(2005).
Introduction: Towards a New Southern Literary Studies. South Central Review.
22(1), 1-3.
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McWhirter, D. B.
(2004).
Henry James, (Post)Modernist?. Henry James Review.
25(2), 168-194.
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McWhirter, D. B.
(1999).
"Saying the Unsayable": James's Realism in the Late 1890s. The Henry James Review.
20(3), 237-243.
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McWhirter, D.
(1997).
Eudora Welty: "A Real Familiar Stranger". South Central Review.
14(2), 1-1.
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Mcwhirter, D. B.
(1993).
The Novel, the Play, and the Book: Between the Acts and the Tragicomedy of History. ELH: English Literary History.
60(3), 787-812.
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Mcwhirter, D. B.
(1991).
Restaging the Hurt: Henry James and the Artist as Masochist. Texas Studies in Literature and Language.
33(4), 464-491.
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Mcwhirter, D. B.
(1986).
The Rhythm of the Body in Yeats' "Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen". College Literature.
13(1), 44-54.
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Ford, S., & McWhirter, D.
(2014).
"Everybody to their own visioning": Eudora Welty in the Twenty-First Century. Eudora Welty Review.
6(6), 3-7.
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book
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McWhirter, D.
(2014).
Preface
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McWhirter, D.
(2010).
Henry James in Context. Cambridge University Press.
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McWhirter, D.
(1989).
Desire and Love in Henry James A Study of the Late Novels. Cambridge University Press.
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McWhirter, D.
(2014).
Preface
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chapter
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Mcwhirter, D. B.
(2014).
A Future for Henry James. Tuhkanen, M. (Eds.),
Leo Bersani Queer Theory and Beyond.
(pp. 225-248).
SUNY Press.
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Mcwhirter, D. B.
(2013).
Young Henry James: The Outsider. Biasio, A. D., Despotopoulou, A., & Izzo, D. (Eds.),
Transforming Henry James.
(pp. 10-23).
Cambridge Scholars Pub.
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Mcwhirter, D. B.
(2013).
Secret Agents: Welty’s African Americans. Pollack, H. (Eds.),
Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race.
(pp. 114-130).
University of Georgia Press.
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McWhirter, D.
(2010).
‘A provision full of responsibilities’: senses of the past in Henry James's fourth phase. Buelens, G. (Eds.),
Enacting History in Henry James.
(pp. 148-165).
Cambridge University Press.
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Mcwhirter, D. B.
(1996).
What’s Awkward About The Awkward Age?. Newman, R. (Eds.),
Centuries' Ends, Narrative Means.
(pp. 212-221).
Stanford University Press.
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Mcwhirter, D. B.
(1994).
Feminism/Gender/Comedy: Meredith, Woolf, and the Reconfiguration of Comic Distance. Finney, G. (Eds.),
Look Who's Laughing Gender and Comedy.
(pp. 189-204).
Taylor & Francis.
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Mcwhirter, D. B.
(1993).
In the "Other House" of Fiction: Writing, Authority, and Femininity in The Turn of the Screw. Pollak, V. R. (Eds.),
New Essays on 'Daisy Miller' and 'The Turn of the Screw'.
(pp. 121-148).
CUP Archive.
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Mcwhirter, D. B.
(2014).
A Future for Henry James. Tuhkanen, M. (Eds.),
Leo Bersani Queer Theory and Beyond.
(pp. 225-248).
SUNY Press.
editor of
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book
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Matthews, P. R., & McWhirter, D.
(2003).
Aesthetic Subjects
Matthews, P. R. (Eds.),
U of Minnesota Press.
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McWhirter, D. B., & McWhirter, D.
(1998).
Henry James's New York Edition The Construction of Authorship
Mcwhirter, D. B. (Eds.),
Stanford University Press.
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Matthews, P. R., & McWhirter, D.
(2003).
Aesthetic Subjects
Matthews, P. R. (Eds.),
U of Minnesota Press.
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chapter
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Mcwhirter, D. B., & Matthews, P. R.
(2003).
Exile’s Return? Aesthetics Now
U of Minnesota Press.
xii-xxviii.
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Mcwhirter, D. B.
(1998).
"The Whole Chain of Relation and Responsibility": Henry James and the New York Edition
Stanford University Press.
1-19.
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Mcwhirter, D. B., & Matthews, P. R.
(2003).
Exile’s Return? Aesthetics Now
U of Minnesota Press.
xii-xxviii.
Teaching
teaching activities
- ENGL303 Approaches Engl Studies Instructor
- ENGL337 Life & Lit Of Am South Instructor
- ENGL350 20th Cent Lit To Wwii Instructor
- ENGL351 Advanced Film Instructor
- ENGL372 American Poetry Instructor
- ENGL376 Amer Novel Since 1900 Instructor
- ENGL481 Sr Sem: Asian Voices Instructor
- ENGL485 Directed Studies Instructor
- ENGL602 First Year Seminar Instructor
- ENGL645 Tp: Alternative Intimacies Instructor
- ENGL653 Topics 20&21 C Lit&cultur Instructor
- ENGL658 Topics In Film History Instructor
- ENGL685 Directed Studies Instructor
- ENGL691 Research Instructor
- ENGL691 Research: In-ab Instructor
- FILM351 Advanced Film Instructor
- FILM658 Topics In Film History Instructor
Works By Students
chaired theses and dissertations
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Hudder, Clifford Wallace (2018-05). The Capital of Elsewhere: Places, Fictions, Houstons.
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Jeon, Seenhwa (2012-08). Allegories of Modernity, Geographies of Memory.
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Jung, Jeewon (2018-12). Modernist Urban Culture and Cinematic Perception: Contingency, Superficiality, and Fragmentation.
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Jung, Yeonsik (2013-12). The Pathology of Fear: Disease and American Dis-ease at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.
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Kim, Boo Sung (2017-08). Attention and Distraction: Cinematic Perception and Spectatorship in Modernist Texts, 1897-1941.
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Kim, Soo Yeon (2010-05). Ethical Desire: Betrayal in Contemporary British Fiction.
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Lee, Hyangmi (2013-05). "Bumping into a Rememory": Place and History in Postcolonial Writing.
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Lew, Seung (2009-05). Going Paranoid from the Cold War to the Post-Cold War: Conspiracy Fiction of DeLillo, Didion, and Silko.
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Little, Michael Robert (2005-05). Novel affirmations: defending literary culture in the fiction of David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, and Richard Powers.
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Mohammad, Malek Hardan (2010-12). The Discourse of Human Dignity and Techniques of Disempowerment: Giorgio Agamben, J. M. Coetzee, and Kazuo Ishiguro.
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Nozaki, Naoyuki (2012-05). Rethinking Things in Henry James's The Spoils of Poynton.
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Park, Jungsik (2005-05). Storytelling and truthtelling: discursive practices of news-storytelling in Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, and John Hersey.
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Peters, Sarah L. (2009-12). Ambivalent Devotion: Religious Imagination in Contemporary Southern Women's Fiction.
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Yi, Dongshin (2007-05). A genealogy of cyborgothic: aesthetics and ethics in the age of posthumanism.
Background
education and training
- Ph.D. in English, University of Virginia - (Charlottesville, Virginia, United States) 1984
- M.A. in English, University of Virginia - (Charlottesville, Virginia, United States) 1977
- B.A. in English, Yale University - (New Haven, Connecticut, United States) 1972
Contact
first name
- David
has last name
- Mcwhirter
mailing address
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Texas A&M University
English
4227 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4227
USA
Other
- d-mcwhirter@tamu.edu