Associate Dean, Honors College
Associate Professor, English
Contact Information
Email: ahoefer@gmu.edu
Phone: 703.993.2918
Mail Stop: 1F4
Campus: Fairfax
Office: Buchanan Hall D205A
Biography
Anthony Dyer Hoefer currently serves as the Assistant Dean of the Honors College. Among other HNRS courses, he often teaches experiential learning courses, like the section of HNRS 261 and the Industry Challenges section of HNRS 361. He also advises Honors College students pursuing degrees in Business and Economics.
In addition, Dr. Hoefer is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, where he teaches courses on modern and contemporary US literature. His research is in the field U.S. southern studies, but his published work engages graphic novels, detective fiction, Hurricane Katrina, and The Big Lebowski. He is the author of Apocalypse South: Judgment, Cataclysm, and Resistance in the Regional Imaginary (The Ohio State University Press, 2012).
Education
PhD, English, Louisiana State University, 2008
MA, American Studies, University of Alabama, 2003
BA, Government and English, Wofford College, 2000
Publications
Authored books
Apocalypse South: Judgment, Cataclysm, and Resistance in the Regional Imaginary. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2012.
Chapters in edited collections
A Revision of the Record: The Demands of Reading Josh Neufelds A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge.&紳莉莽梯;Comics and the American South, Brannon Costello and Qiana Whitted, editors. University Press of Mississippi. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2012.
Refereed journals
Violence, Spectacular and Slow: Murder, Ecology, and Genre in Biguenets Oyster and Rashs One Foot in Eden. Mississippi Quarterly. Forthcoming.
Quarantining Blackness, Writing Whiteness: The Literary and Memorial Geographies of Sullivans Island, South Carolina.&紳莉莽梯;South Atlantic Review. 82.2 (2017): 36-58.
Theyre Trying to Wash Us Away: Revisiting Faulkners If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem [The Wild Palms] and Wrights Down by the Riverside After the Flood.&紳莉莽梯;Mississippi Quarterly. 63.3-4 (2010): 537-554.
The Slaves That They Are and the Slaves That They Might Become: Bondage and Liberty in Simms The Yemassee.&紳莉莽梯;MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. 34.3-4 (2009): 115-132.
Like Tumbleweeds Blowing Across a Vacant Lot: Landscape, Myth, and Subjectivity in Chandlers The Big Sleep and the Coen Brothers The Big Lebowski.&紳莉莽梯;CLUES: A Journal of Detection. 26:3 (2008): 42-55
The McDonaldization of Macbeth: Shakespeare and Pop Culture in Scotland, PA.&紳莉莽梯;Literature/Film Quarterly. 34:2 (2006): 154-160
Invited non-refereed publications
A Qualitative Consideration of Current Quantitative Souths.&紳莉莽梯;Society for the Study of Southern Literature Newsletter. 49:1 (2015). Web.