JON R. HEGGLUND
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Central Connecticut State University
1615 Stanley Street
New Britain, CT 06050
(860) 832-2749

http://www.english.ccsu.edu/hegglund
hegglundj@ccsu.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D. 1998. English, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Visiting Scholar. 1996. Department of Geography, Royal Holloway College, University of London.

M.A. 1993. English (High Pass on qualifying examination), University of California, Santa Barbara.

B.A. 1990. English, University of California, Santa Barbara.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Beginning Fall 2002. Assistant Professor, Department of English, Washington State University
1998-2002. Assistant Professor, Department of English, Central Connecticut State University
1997-98. Instructor, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara

PUBLICATIONS

"Ulysses and the Rhetoric of Cartography." Under review.

“Abstracting Africa: British Popular Cartography and the ‘Dark Continent’ 1870-1940”  On-line Exhibit. (Newberry Library website, forthcoming).

"Empire’s Second Take: Projecting America in Stanley and Livingstone." In Nineteenth-Century Geographies: Anglo-American Tactics of Space, Eds. Helena Michie and Ronald R. Thomas (Rutgers UP, 2002).

"Defending the Realm: Domestic Space and Mass Cultural Contamination in Howards End and An Englishman's Home." English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 40.4 (September 1997): 398-423.

Review of Writing the Urban Jungle: Reading Empire in London from Doyle to Eliot, by Joseph McLaughlin.  Journal of English and Germanic Philology (forthcoming).

Review of Mayhem and Murder: Narrative and Moral Problems in the Detective Story, by Heta Pyrhonen. Modernism/Modernity 8.2 (April 2001): 364-6.

Review of Victorian Urban Settings: Essays on the Nineteenth-Century City and its Contexts, eds. Debra Mancoff and D.J. Trela. "New Books in Nineteenth-Century Studies" website.

Review of Imaginary Maps: Three Stories, by Mahasweta Devi. Studies in Short Fiction 34.1 (Winter 1997): 126-7.

CURRENT PROJECTS

"Islands and Interiors: Modernist Fictions and British Cartographies" (book-length MS)

PANELS CHAIRED

"Countercultural Geographies," Modern Language Association Convention, New Orleans, December 2001.

Seminar Organizer and Leader, "Modernism and Geography," New Modernisms III Conference, Houston, October 2001.

"'Space-filled, Reflecting the Seasons: The Writing of Place in the Connecticut River Valley." Northeastern Modern Language Association, Hartford, CT, April 2001.

PAPERS PRESENTED

"Describing England: Howards End and Modernist Chorography," Modern Language Association Convention, New Orleans, December 2001.

"Cartography as Cultural Contact in Brian Friel's Translations."  American Comparative Literature Association, Boulder, CO, April 2001.

"Narrative Projections: From Map to Film in 'Wandering Rocks.'"  New Modernisms II, Philadelphia, October 2000.

"The Film Noir Bachelor Pad: Domestic Masculinity in Kiss Me Deadly." Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, April 2000.

"The Anglophilic Image: Anglo-Americanism and Hollywood in the ’30s." Northeastern Modern Language Association, Pittsburgh, April 1999

"Leonard Bast, the Unhomely Clerk." Pacific Coast Conference of British Studies, Santa Cruz, CA, March 1999.

"Maps on Film: The Politics of the Imperial Afterimage." Nineteenth-Century Geographies Conference, Rice University, Houston, March 1998.

"Capital Fictions: Place and Space in London, 1885-1925." Invited Presentation to the Social and Cultural Geography Group, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom, March 1996.

"‘London's Creeping’: Ebenezer Howard, E.M. Forster, and the Passage to Suburbia." The Nineteenth-Century City: Local Texts, Global Contexts, Annual Conference of Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, April 1995.

"(Dis)Locating the East End: The Imaginative Geography of Urban Imperialism." Rethinking Britain Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, October 1994.

"Dinosaur Dialectics: Benjamin, Commodity Spectacle, and Jurassic Park." Popular Culture Association, Chicago, March 1994.

COURSES TAUGHT

Assistant Professor, Department of English, Central Connecticut State University:

Modern British Novel
Modern British Poetry
Modern British Literature in its Global Contexts
Afterimages of Empire: Contemporary British Film and Culture
Narrative in Literature and Film
The Language of Film
Detection and Espionage in Fiction and Film
British Literature from 1800 to the Present
Introduction to Fiction
Freshman Composition

Instructor, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara:

Writing ‘England’: Home, City, Country, and Colony in 20th-Century British Fiction
Introduction to Literary Study
Productions of Paradise: Interpreting Place in Santa Barbara (Introduction to Research Writing)
Academic Writing
Introduction to College Writing

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

British and Anglophone Literature and Culture, 1880-present
Transnational Modernisms
Theory and History of Cartography
Cultures of Imperialism, Colonialism and Globalization
Narrative Theories of Fiction and Film
Film Noir and Detective Fiction

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Modern Language Association
Northeastern Modern Language Association
Modernist Studies Association
American Comparative Literature Association
Popular Culture Association

REFERENCES

Maurizia Boscagli, Department of English, University of California at Santa Barbara
Enda Duffy, Department of English, University of California at Santa Barbara
Ronald R. Thomas, Department of English, Trinity College, CT
Stuart Barnett, Department of English, Central Connecticut State University
James Akerman, Director, Smith Center for the History of Cartography, Newberry Library
Felix Driver, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London

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