Professor Christopher Breu
Professor
English
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Office
Stevenson Hall - STV 405
Office Hours
Fall 2020 M, W 2-3pm or by appointment.
Office Phone
Email
- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Research
Biography
I am co-editor of Noir Affect (Fordham 2020), a recent special issue of Symploke on Materialisms and author of Insistence of the Material: Literature in the Age of Biopolitics (Minnesota 2014) and Hard-Boiled Masculinities (Minnesota 2005).
Current Courses
599Research And Dissertation
300Senior Seminar
300Senior Seminar
Teaching Interests & Areas
Cultural and Critical Theory, American Literature 1900 to the Present, American Popular Culture, Literature and Culture in a Global Context, Gender and Sexuality
Research Interests & Areas
Materialism, Biopolitics, Marxism, Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century American Literature, Popular Culture, Cultural and Critical Theory, Gender and Sexuality
Ph D Literature
University of California at Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California
BA English Literature
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois
Janice Neuleib Award for outstanding scholarship in a calendar year
Illinois State University
2018
Invited Visiting Professorship
University of Paderborn
2018
University Outstanding Research Award
2017
Outstanding Graduate Mentor
Department of English, Illinois State University
2016
College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Researcher Award
Illinois State University CAS
2016
College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Researcher Award
Illinois State University CAS
2015
Reading Group Leader, On-line Marx Reading Group
New Center for Research & Practice
2015
Research Sabbatical
Illinois State University
2014
Teaching Award: Outstanding College Teacher Award. College of Arts and Sciences. Illinois State University. 2012.
2012
Teaching Awards: Lambda Chapter of the Sigma Tau Delta Honors Society
Sigma Tau Delta
2011
Journal Article
Subject and Substance: The Limits of Biopolitics and the Status of Critique.” Special Issue: “After Critique.” Ed. Russ Castronovo and David Glimp. English Language Notes (ELN), 51.1 (Spring/Summer 2013): 45-60.
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2017