English Department Faculty

Stacey Olster

Professor. Ph.D., University of Michigan; American Literature; Twentieth-Century Fiction; Popular Culture; Film.

Courses:

• EGL 320: Modern and Contemporary Literature
• EGL 570: Contemporary American Fiction   
  

Awards:

• Lilly Endowment Faculty Awards Fellowship (1986-87)
• President's Award for Excellence in Teaching (1986-87)
• Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching (1987-88) 
• Fulbright Scholar Award (1989-90)

Selected Publications

Books

• Editor.  Don DeLillo: Mao II, Underworld, Falling Man.  Continuum Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction.  London: Continuum, 2011. 
• Editor. The Cambridge Companion to John Updike. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
• The Trash Phenomenon: Contemporary Literature, Popular Culture, and the Making of the American Century. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003.
• Reminiscence and Re-Creation in Contemporary American Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

• New Journalism and the Nonfiction Novel."  The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction After 1945.  Ed. John N. Duvall.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
  
• "Don DeLillo and the Dream Release."  Introduction.  Don DeLillo: Mao II, Underworld, Falling Man.  Ed. Stacey Olster. Continuum Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction.  London: Continuum, 2011.  1-13.
•  "Mao II (1991)," "Underworld (1997)," "Falling Man (2007)."  Don DeLillo: Mao II, Underworld, Falling Man.  Ed. Stacey Olster. Continuum Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction.  London: Continuum, 2011.  15-17, 65-67, 117-19.
• Frederick Busch: Chronicler of the Lost and Found."  Critique 51: Special Issue - "An American Requiem: Elegies for Thirteen Novelists" (2010): 135-39. 
• "Trash Fiction."  A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States  Fiction.  Ed. David Seed.  Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.  195-206.