Robert T. Tally Jr.
Robert T. Tally Jr. is an assistant professor of English at Texas State University, where he teaches American and world literature, literary theory, and criticism.
Tally is the author of Kurt Vonnegut and the American Novel: A Postmodern Iconography (Continuum, 2011) and Melville, Mapping and Globalization: Literary Cartography in the American Baroque Writer (Continuum, 2009). Tally's next monograph, Spatiality, part of Routledge's New Critical Idiom series, is scheduled for publication in December 2012.
Tally is the translator of Bertrand Westphal's Geocriticism: Real and Fictional Spaces (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), and the editor of Geocritical Explorations: Space, Place, and Mapping in Literary and Cultural Studies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
Tally is currently completing a book, tentatively titled Utopia in the Age of Globalization: Space, Representation, and the World-System, and he is editing a collection of essays on Kurt Vonnegut in Salem Press's Critical Insights series. Tally has also edited the volume on Edgar Allan Poe in the Bloom's Classic Critical Views series (Chelsea House, 2008) and published numerous essays on Melville, Poe, Vonnegut, American Studies, critical theory, fantasy, utopia, and globalization. Tally currently serves as the secretary/treasurer of the Poe Studies Association, the vice president of The Kurt Vonnegut Society, and he is a member of the editorial board of Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice.
Dr. Tally majored in philosophy at Duke University, and later earned his J.D. at Duke Law School. In between, he earned his M.A. in literature and Ph.D. in cultural & critical studies through the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh.
Contact:
Dr. Robert T. Tally Jr.
Department of English
Texas State University
San Marcos, TX 78666
USA
Email: robert.tally@txstate.edu
Tally is the author of Kurt Vonnegut and the American Novel: A Postmodern Iconography (Continuum, 2011) and Melville, Mapping and Globalization: Literary Cartography in the American Baroque Writer (Continuum, 2009). Tally's next monograph, Spatiality, part of Routledge's New Critical Idiom series, is scheduled for publication in December 2012.
Tally is the translator of Bertrand Westphal's Geocriticism: Real and Fictional Spaces (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), and the editor of Geocritical Explorations: Space, Place, and Mapping in Literary and Cultural Studies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
Tally is currently completing a book, tentatively titled Utopia in the Age of Globalization: Space, Representation, and the World-System, and he is editing a collection of essays on Kurt Vonnegut in Salem Press's Critical Insights series. Tally has also edited the volume on Edgar Allan Poe in the Bloom's Classic Critical Views series (Chelsea House, 2008) and published numerous essays on Melville, Poe, Vonnegut, American Studies, critical theory, fantasy, utopia, and globalization. Tally currently serves as the secretary/treasurer of the Poe Studies Association, the vice president of The Kurt Vonnegut Society, and he is a member of the editorial board of Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice.
Dr. Tally majored in philosophy at Duke University, and later earned his J.D. at Duke Law School. In between, he earned his M.A. in literature and Ph.D. in cultural & critical studies through the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh.
Contact:
Dr. Robert T. Tally Jr.
Department of English
Texas State University
San Marcos, TX 78666
USA
Email: robert.tally@txstate.edu
