Dr. Mathias Nilges

Dr. Mathias Nilges

Professor
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Frank McKenna Centre for Leadership
(902) 867-5720
mnilges@stfx.ca

                                                                                                                                                                                  PhD, University of American Samoa (Go Land Crabs!)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Research and Teaching Interests:                                                                                                  20th and 21st century American literature, critical theory, the novel, time, the historical development of literary genres and forms, the politics of literature and culture.

                                                                                                                                                                                  Courses Taught:

  • ENGL 493 Honours Seminar: "1984/85—Two Years That Shook the Literary World” (2011-2012)
  • ENGL 492 Honours Seminar: "The Time Novel" (2016-2017)
  • ENGL 491 Honours Seminar: "Ecofiction and Literary Form" (2010-2011)
  • ENGL 445 Seminar in Contemporary Literary Theory
  • ENGL 398 Utopian and Dystopian Literary Form
  • ENGL 379 African-American Literature
  • ENGL 378 Contemporary American Prose “U.S. Literary History, Postmodernism and Beyond”
  • ENGL 376 Modern American Fiction
  • ENGL 339 Cultural Theory and Popular Culture
  • ENGL 318 Cultural Theory Through Popular Culture
  • ENGL 314 Contemporary Literary Theory
  • ENGL 313 Literary Theory's Histories
  • ENGL 2xx Climate Fiction and Environmental Literature
  • ENGL 295 Contemporary Multiethnic Literatures in the U.S.
  • ENGL 280 Introduction to Multiethnic Literatures in the U.S.
  • ENGL 257 The 21st-Century American Novel
  • ENGL 215 Principles and Practices of Literary Criticism
  • ENGL 201 Science Fiction and Fantasy
  • ENGL 112 Literature and Academic Writing II
  • ENGL 111 Literature and Academic Writing I
  • ENGL 100 Introduction to Literature and Critical Writing

Recent publications

BOOKS

Monographs:

How to Read a Moment: The American Novel and the Crisis of the Present. “FlashPoints” Series, Northwestern University Press, 2021.

Right-Wing Culture in Contemporary Capitalism: Regression and Hope in a Time Without Future. “Critical Theory and the Critique of Society” Series, Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

 

Edited Collections:

William Gibson and the Futures of Contemporary Culture. Co-edited with Mitch R. Murray. “The New American Canon” Series, University of Iowa Press, 2021.

Literature and the Global Contemporary. Co-edited with Sarah Brouillette and Emilio Sauri. “New Comparisons in World Literature” Series, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

The Contemporaneity of Modernism. Co-edited with Michael D’Arcy. “Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature” Series, Routledge, 2015.

Marxism and the Critique of Value. Co-edited with Neil Larsen, Josh Robinson, and Nicholas Brown. MCM’, 2014.

Literary Materialisms. Co-edited with Emilio Sauri. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

 

 

SPECIAL ISSUES

Futures of Literary Criticism. Co-edited with Tim Lanzendörfer. Textual Practice, forthcoming, 2021.

On Autonomy. Comparative Literature and Culture, forthcoming, 2020.

Literary Criticism After Postcritique. Co-edited with Tim Lanzendörfer. American Studies/Amerikastudien 64.1 (2020).

Medium in Question: Politics and Mediation. Co-edited with Matthew Tierney. Postmodern Culture 25.2 (2016).

Dossier: Wertkritik/Value Critique. Co-edited with Neil Larsen et al., Mediations 27.1-2 (2014).

Marxism and Literature Revisited. Co-edited with Emilio Sauri. Mediations 24.2 (2010).

 

 

SELECTED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

“The Regulation School,” in Martin Kreiswirth et al. (eds.) The Johns Hopkins Guide to Critical and Cultural Theory (JHUP, forthcoming).

“‘The Learning of Desire’: Raymond Williams’s Untimely Utopia,” in Paul Stasi (ed.), Raymond Willliams at 100 (2021).

“The Shelf Lives of Futures: William Gibson’s Short Fiction and the Temporality of SF,” forthcoming in Mitch R. Murray and Mathias Nilges (eds.), Periodizing the Future: William Gibson, Genre, and Cultural History (University of Iowa Press, 2021).

“Periodizing Gibson,” with Mitch R. Murray, in Mitch R. Murray and Mathias Nilges (eds.), Periodizing the Future: William Gibson, Genre, and Cultural History (University of Iowa Press, 2021).

“The Novel’s Novelty Now,” in Corinna Norrick-Rühl and Tim Lanzendörfer (eds.) The Novel as Network: Form, Idea, Commodity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).

“Literary Studies After Postcritique: An Introduction,” (with Tim Lanzendörfer), American Studies/Amerikastudien (64.1, 2020).

“Prolegomena: Prospective Realism in a Present Without Future,” Mediations 33.1 (2019).

“William Gibson,” in Sherryl Vint (ed.) Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature. (Oxford University Press, 2019). Online. N. pag.

“The Realism of Speculation: Contemporary Speculative Fiction As Immanent Critique of Finance Capitalism,” CR: The New Centennial Review 19.1 (2019). 37-60.

“The Cultural Regulation of Neoliberal Capitalism,” in Stephen Shapiro and Sharae Deckard (eds.) World Literature, Neoliberalism, and the Culture of Discontent (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). 157-174.

“Value,” in Andrew Pendakis et al. (eds.) Bloomsbury Companion to Marx (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018). 431-437.

“Post-Fordism,” in Jeffrey Di Leo (ed.) Bloomsbury Handbook to Literary and Cultural Theory (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018). 631-633.

“Critical Theory and Literary Theory,” in Beverley Best, Neil Larsen, Chris O’Kane, and Werner Bonefeld (eds.), Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory, 3 vols. (Sage, 2018), 1052-1070.

“Finance Capital and the Time of the Novel or, Money Without Narrative Qualities,” in Ana Falcato (ed.), Philosophy in the Condition of Modernism: Essays on Philosophy, Literature and the Arts, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), 243-262.

“The Dialectics of Presence and Futurity in the Contemporary Latino/a Novel,” in Carlos Gallego and Marcial González (eds.), Dialectical Imaginaries: Materialist Approaches to U.S. Latino/a Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism (University of Michigan Press, 2018), 217-240.

“Fanon’s Presence,” College Literature 45.1 (2018). 46-53.

“Contemporaneity and Contradiction: Uneven Temporal Development in Bridgett M. Davis’s Into the Go-Slow and Okey Ndibe’s Foreign Gods Inc.,” in Sarah Brouillette, Emilio Sauri, and Mathias Nilges (eds.), Global Literatures and the History of the Contemporary (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). 176-201.

“On Refusing to Live in the Moment,” (with Sarah Brouillette and Emilio Sauri), in Sarah Brouillette, Emilio Sauri, and Mathias Nilges (eds.), Global Literatures and the History of the Contemporary (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). xv-xxxviii.

“Fictions of Neoliberalism: Contemporary Realism and the Temporality of Postmodernism’s Ends,” in Rachel Greenwald-Smith and Mitchum Huehls (eds.), Neoliberalism and Contemporary Literary Culture, (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017). 105-121.

“Medium and Mediation,” (with Matthew Tierney), Postmodern Culture 25.2 (2016). 1-12.

“Neoliberalism and the Time of the Novel,” Textual Practice 29.2 (2015). 357-377.

Reprinted in: Emily Johansen and Alissa Karl (eds.) Neoliberalism and the Novel (Routledge: 2016). 161-182.

“The Contemporaneity of Modernism,” (with Michael D’Arcy), in Michael D’Arcy and Mathias Nilges (eds.) The Contemporaneity of Modernism. (Routledge, 2015). 1-14.

“The Presence of Postmodernism in Contemporary American Literature,” American Literary History 27.1 (2015). 186-197.

“Finance Capital and the Time of the Novel or, Money Without Narrative Qualities,” TOPIA 30/31, (2014). 31-46.

“Form(alisms’) Now,” in Emilio Sauri and Mathias Nilges (eds.) Literary Materialisms (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). 169-184.

“Literature and Materialism Revisited,” (with Emilio Sauri), in Emilio Sauri and Mathias Nilges (eds.) Literary Materialisms (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). 1-14.

“Latino/a Literature and Marxist Literary Criticism,” Suzanne Bost and Frances Aparicio (eds.)The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature (Routledge, 2012). 143-152.

“The Aesthetics of Destruction: Contemporary U.S. Cinema and TV Culture,” Jeff Birkenstein, Anna Froula and Karen Randell (eds.) Re-Framing 9/11: Film, Popular Culture and the War on Terror. (Continuum, 2010). 23-34.

“Marxism and Form Now,” Mediations 24.2, (2010). 66-89.

“Marxism and Literature Revisited,” (with Emilio Sauri), Introduction to “Marxism and Literature Revisited,” (co-edited with Emilio Sauri), Mediations 24.2 (2010). 1-11.

“‘We Need the Stars’—Change, Community, and the Absent Father in Octavia Butler’s Parable Novels,” Callaloo 32.4, (2009). 1332-52.

“The Anti-Anti Oedipus: Representing Post-Fordist Subjectivity,” Mediations 23.2 (2008). 27-70.

“Das Ende der Zukunft: Graphic Novels als Spiegel der U.S. Gesellschaft nach dem 11. September 2001,” in Sebastian Domsch (ed.) Amerikanisches Erzählen nach 2000: Eine Bestandsaufnahme. (Edition Text+Kritik, 2008). 145-157.

 

 

BOOK REVIEWS

“David Foster Wallace and ‘The Long Thing’.” The ALH Online Review 9 (2017). N pag.

“Interpretive Fictions of the Cold War.” Review of Sorin Radu Cucu, The Underside of Politics, NOVEL 49.3 (2016). 534-36.

“Forming Nation and World.” Review of Tobias Boes, Formative Fictions, MLN 130.5, (2015). 1262-66.

“How to Change the World: A Politics of the People.” Review of Enrique Dussel, Twenty Theses on Politics. Reviews in Cultural Theory 1.2 (2010). 89-94.

 

 

TRANSLATIONS

“The Ontological Break: Prelude to Another World History.” Translation of “Der Ontologische Bruch,” by Robert Kurz (German to English), Mediations 27.1-2 (2014). 357-373.

“Concerning the Ongoing World Economic Crisis: Questions and Answers.” Translation of “Fragen und Antworten zur aktuellen Weltwirtschaftskrise,” by Robert Kurz (German to English), Mediations 27.1-2 (2014). 331-356.

“Patriarchy and Commodity Society: Gender Without the Body.” Translation of “Das Warenproduzierende Patriarchat,” by Roswitha Scholz (German to English), Mediations 27.1-2 (2014). 123-142.

Reprinted in: Andrew Pendakis et al. (eds), Contemporary Marxist Theory. New York and London: Bloomsbury, 2015.

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