{"id":1958,"date":"2019-06-07T13:27:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/englishprofiles\/?page_id=1958"},"modified":"2019-06-07T13:29:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:29:22","slug":"korine-powers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/englishprofiles\/korine-powers\/","title":{"rendered":"Korine Powers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>My work concentrates on violence and masculinity in post-war American film and fiction. I am particularly interested in the interrelationship and discussion of generic masculine icons\u2014the cowboy, the detective, the psychopath\u2014in popular American texts. How do these figures intertwine popular film and the novel? How do their backwards-gazing narratives (whether to the 1890s or the 1980s) inform America\u2019s cultural memory of the past? How has the post-war pop psychology boom fundamentally incorporated violent mental illness into the American generic hero? What, if anything, separates the popular cowboy from the popular psychopath in modern media? My exploration of the generic portrayal of masculinity is inspired in part by historical critics like Richard Slotkin, and more largely by gender and race theorists, mostly notably Sedgwick, Butler, Halberstam, hooks, and West.<\/p>\n

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Education <\/strong>
\nPh.D. in English and American Literature, Boston University, expected 2021
\nM.A. in English and American Literature, Boston University, 2018
\nB.A., University of Richmond<\/p>\n

Publications<\/strong>
\n\u201cThe Man with Five Names: Hombre <\/em>on Race and the Cinematic Western.\u201d \u201cIf It Sounds like Writing\u201d: Critical Essays on Elmore Leonard<\/em>, ed. Charles Rzepka. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell. Forthcoming 2020.
\n\u201cHannibal Lecter as Avenging War Orphan.\u201d Twentieth-Century Literature<\/em>, Special Issue, Forthcoming Spring 2020.
\nOn Beckett <\/em>Review Essay. The Beckett Circle<\/em> (Spring 2019).<\/p>\n

Selected Presentations <\/strong>
\nPanel Organizer, \u201cMadness in American Civilization.\u201d Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Boston, Massachusetts, 5-8 March, 2020.
\nCo-Moderator, \u201cNSFW <\/em>Talkback.\u201d Lucy Kirkwood\u2019s NSFW<\/em>, Charlestown Working Theater, 3 November, 2018.
\n\u201cDragon Age: Inquisition <\/em>and the Limits of the Avatar.\u201d #NoFilter: Unmasking Digital Engagement and Real World Influence, Boston University, 21 June, 2018.
\n\u201cHannibal Lecter as Avenger and War Orphan,\u201d Human Body and World War II Conference, University of Oxford, UK, 23 March 2018.<\/p>\n

Courses Taught<\/strong>
\nWriting 120: Freshman Writing Seminar: Madness and American Culture, Fall 2019
\nEnglish 121: Reading World Literature, Spring 2018
\nEnglish 120: The Western: Text and Screen, Fall 2017
\nWriting 150: Freshman Research Seminar: The American Serial Killer, Spring 2017
\nWriting 100: Freshman Writing Seminar: The American Serial Killer, Fall 2016<\/p>\n

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