Research Interests for Marianna Torgovnick

Marianna Torgovnick writes on the novel and novel theory, film, postcolonialism, modernism, and the twentieth century more generally, and especially on contemporary American culture. Her work is broadlyn interdisciplinary and has been taught in Art History, Anthropology, and Religion courses as well as English, Literature, and Theory. She has published Closure in the Novel (Princeton, 1981), and The Visual Arts, Pictorialism, and the Novel: James, Lawrence, and Woolf (Princeton, 1985), Gone Primitive: Savage Intellects, Modern Lives (Chicago, 1990), and Crossing Ocean Parkway (Chicago, 1994), for which she won an American Book Award, and Primitive Passions: Men, Women, and the Quest for Ecstasy (Knopf, 1997; paperback Chicago, 1998) and The War Complex: World War II in Our Time, about memories and perceptions of the Second War World in the Twenty First Century. She has also written series of articles for general interest publications. Professor Torgovnick currently directs The Duke in New York Arts and Media Program, taught in New York. She returns to teach America Dreams American Movies to a large enrollment each year. For more information, visit her website www.mariannatorgovnick.com

Keywords:

Novels, Modernism, Anthropology and Literature, Religion and Literature, Women's Studies, Film, American Studies, Media Studies

Current projects:

A fact-based re-imagining of a famous author's wife.

PICNIC IN THE DARK: The Classics at a Time of War

www.mariannatorgovnick.tumblr.com: a blog

Marianna_tor, a Twitter feed

Areas of Interest:

American Literature and Culture
19th-20th Century Novel
British Literature and Culture
Film
Media Studies
Film

Recent Publications

1. Torgovnick, M, Me Thiele, You Tarzan, in Enchanted by Cinema: Wilhelm Thiele between Vienna, Berlin, and Hollywood (May, 2024), pp. 184-198, ISBN 9781805395362 [doi]
2. McLeod, A, Tenderness, D.H. Lawrence Review (2023)
3. Torgovnick, M, Bomb and Climate Change in Fact and Fiction, New American Studies Journal, vol. 73 (December, 2022), Universitatsverlag Gottingen [doi] [abs]
4. Torgovnick, MDM, Crossing Back Books, Family, and Memory without Pain (September, 2021), pp. 138 pages, Fordham University Press, ISBN 9780823297795 [abs]
5. Torgovnick, M, Recipe for Memory, Los Angeles Review of Books (September, 2021), Avidly