Robert T. Tally Jr.
Robert T. Tally Jr. is an associate professor of English at Texas State University, where he teaches American and world literature, literary theory, and criticism.
Tally is the author of six books, Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism (Pluto, 2014), Poe and the Subversion of American Literature: Satire, Fantasy, Critique (Bloomsbury, 2014), Spatiality (Routledge, 2013), Utopia in the Age of Globalization: Space, Representation, and the World-System (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), Kurt Vonnegut and the American Novel: A Postmodern Iconography (Bloomsbury, 2011), and Melville, Mapping and Globalization: Literary Cartography in the American Baroque Writer (Continuum, 2009).
Tally is the editor of four collections of essays: Literary Cartographies: Spatiality, Representation, and Narrative (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), Geocritical Explorations: Space, Place, and Mapping in Literary and Cultural Studies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and Kurt Vonnegut: Critical Insights (Salem, 2013). A fifth collection, co-edited with Christine M. Battista and tentatively titled Ecocriticism and Geocriticism: Overlapping Territories in Environment and Spatial Literary Studies, is currently in the works.
Tally is the editor of Spatial Literary Studies, a special issue of Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 14.3 (2014) and Spatial Literary Studies II: Problematics of Place, a special section of Reconstruction 14.4 (2014). The translator of Bertrand Westphal's Geocriticism: Real and Fictional Spaces (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), Tally is the general editor of Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies, a Palgrave Macmillan book series.
In addition to his work on literary cartography and spatiality studies, Tally regularly teaches courses and writes about U.S. and world literature, as well as literary criticism and theory. With Peter C. Kunze, Tally co-edited Kurt Vonnegut and Humor, a special issue of Studies in American Humor, New Series 3.26 (2012). Tally has also edited a volume on Edgar Allan Poe in the Bloom's Classic Critical Views series (Chelsea House, 2008), published essays on individual authors (including Melville, Poe, Irving, Hawthorne, Hawthorne, Twain, Tolkien, Vonnegut, and Neil Gaiman), and written widely on postnational American Studies, critical theory, fantasy, utopia, and globalization.
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 and critical studies through the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Contact:
Dr. Robert T. Tally Jr.
Department of English
Texas State University
601 University Drive
San Marcos, TX 78666
USA
Email: robert.tally@txstate.edu
Tally is the author of six books, Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism (Pluto, 2014), Poe and the Subversion of American Literature: Satire, Fantasy, Critique (Bloomsbury, 2014), Spatiality (Routledge, 2013), Utopia in the Age of Globalization: Space, Representation, and the World-System (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), Kurt Vonnegut and the American Novel: A Postmodern Iconography (Bloomsbury, 2011), and Melville, Mapping and Globalization: Literary Cartography in the American Baroque Writer (Continuum, 2009).
Tally is the editor of four collections of essays: Literary Cartographies: Spatiality, Representation, and Narrative (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), Geocritical Explorations: Space, Place, and Mapping in Literary and Cultural Studies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and Kurt Vonnegut: Critical Insights (Salem, 2013). A fifth collection, co-edited with Christine M. Battista and tentatively titled Ecocriticism and Geocriticism: Overlapping Territories in Environment and Spatial Literary Studies, is currently in the works.
Tally is the editor of Spatial Literary Studies, a special issue of Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 14.3 (2014) and Spatial Literary Studies II: Problematics of Place, a special section of Reconstruction 14.4 (2014). The translator of Bertrand Westphal's Geocriticism: Real and Fictional Spaces (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), Tally is the general editor of Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies, a Palgrave Macmillan book series.
In addition to his work on literary cartography and spatiality studies, Tally regularly teaches courses and writes about U.S. and world literature, as well as literary criticism and theory. With Peter C. Kunze, Tally co-edited Kurt Vonnegut and Humor, a special issue of Studies in American Humor, New Series 3.26 (2012). Tally has also edited a volume on Edgar Allan Poe in the Bloom's Classic Critical Views series (Chelsea House, 2008), published essays on individual authors (including Melville, Poe, Irving, Hawthorne, Hawthorne, Twain, Tolkien, Vonnegut, and Neil Gaiman), and written widely on postnational American Studies, critical theory, fantasy, utopia, and globalization.
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 and critical studies through the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh.
Click here for Curriculum Vitae.
Contact:
Dr. Robert T. Tally Jr.
Department of English
Texas State University
601 University Drive
San Marcos, TX 78666
USA
Email: robert.tally@txstate.edu
