Abbreviated C.V.
LEONARD DIEPEVEEN
Emeritus George Munro Chair in Literature and Rhetoric, Dalhousie University
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
EDUCATION
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: M.A. English 1983, Ph.D. English 1987
Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan: B.A. English 1981
PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH
Books
Modernist Fraud: Hoax, Parody, Deception. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
The Difficulties of Modernism. New York: Routledge, 2003.
Changing Voices: The Modern Quoting Poem. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993.
Books: Edited
Tender Buttons, by Gertrude Stein. Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2018.
Mock Modernism: An Anthology of Parodies, Travesties, Frauds; 1910-1935. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.
Books: Co-authored
Shiny Things: Reflective Surfaces and Their Mixed Meanings. Intellect Books and University of Chicago, forthcoming, 2021. Co-authored by Timothy van Laar.
Artworld Prestige: Arguing Cultural Value. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Co-authored by Timothy van Laar.
Art with a Difference: Looking at Difficult and Unfamiliar Art. Mountain View, California: Mayfield (now owned by McGraw-Hill), 2001. Co-authored by Timothy van Laar.
Active Sights: Art as Social Action. Mountain View, California: Mayfield (now owned by McGraw-Hill), 1998. Co-authored by Timothy van Laar.
Refereed Articles and Book Chapters
“T. S. Eliot, Fraud.” T.S. Eliot Studies Annual. Clemson University Press, 2021.
“Parody and pastiche.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Oxford University Press. Article published May 2020. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.1106.
“Cubist Fashion in the Newspapers.” Journal of Modern Periodical Studies. 11:2 (2020). 235-47.
“The Visual Arts.” In A Companion to Modernist Poetry. Ed. David Chinitz and Gail McDonald. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. 34-46.
“Modern Proliferation, Modernist Trust.” In Incredible Modernisms. Ed. John Attridge and Rod Rosenquist. Farnham, England, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. 21-36.
“’Taking Literature Seriously:’ Essays to 1927.” In The Blackwell Companion to T.S. Eliot. Ed. David Chinitz. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. 263-274.
“The Newspaper Response to Tender Buttons, and What It Might Mean.” In Transatlantic Print Culture, 1880-1940, ed. Ann Ardis and Patrick Collier. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 199-214.
“Learning from Philistines: Suspicion, Refusing to Read, and the Rise of Dubious Modernism.” In New Directions in American Reception Study. Ed. James Machor and Philip Goldstein. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 156-78.
“When Did Modernism Begin? Formulating Boundaries in the Modern Anthology.” English Studies in Canada 30:1 (March 2004): 137-156.
“‘I Can Have More Than Enough Power to Satisfy Me:’ T.S. Eliot’s Construction of His Audience.” In Marketing Modernisms, ed. Stephen Watt and Kevin J.H. Dettmar. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. 37-60.
Plenary and Invited Lectures
“Academic Integrity and Freedom.” University of Guelph, October 24, 2019. Talk given on the occasion of receiving the Jay Newman Award for Academic Integrity.
“T.S. Eliot, Fraud.” T.S. Eliot Memorial Lecture. International T.S. Eliot Society Annual Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, September 27-29, 2019. Plenary Lecture.
“Gertrude Stein, Cubism, and American Newspapers.” American Genius Lecture Series. University of Oklahoma, September 26, 2014. Invited lecture.
“Borrowed Pleasures.” Plenary Lecture, Graduate Student Conference on Debt: Money/Narrative/Belief,” Dalhousie University, August 17-19, 2012. Plenary Lecture.
“Modernism’s Frauds: Performing Sincerity, Inferring Intent.” University of Rennes, France. February 17, 2011. Invited lecture.
“Rethinking the ‘Shameless Puffery’ of Modernist Charlatans.” Newcastle University, United Kingdom, May 7, 2008. Invited lecture.
“Foucault’s Nightmare: Anxious Responses to Difficulty in Twentieth-Century Art and Literature.” Invited lecture for series “Cyclops: Vision and Visuality into the 21st Century.” University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, January 25, 2001.
“Signs of Pleasure: The Intentions of the Neo-pretty.” Opening Lecture for art exhibition “Pleasure in Art,” Electron Art Center, Breda, The Netherlands May 26, 2006. Co-authored by Professor Timothy van Laar, University of Illinois.