David Evans

Selected Publications

• Understanding James, Understanding Modernism. Editor. 2017 (Bloomsbury Press)
• America and Violence. Special issue of the Canadian Review of American Studies. Co-editor. 2008."Robert Frost and the Great Depression." Robert Frost in Context. Ed. Mark Richardson, 2014. (U. of Cambridge P.)
• "True West and Lying Marks: The Englishman's Boy, Blood Meridian, and the Paradox of the Revisionist Western." Texas Studies in Language and Literature. 55.4 (2013).
• "'The Chains of Not Choosing': Free Will and Faith in William James and David Foster Wallace." A Companion to David Foster Wallace Studies. Ed. Marshall Boswell and Stephen Burn. 2013 (Palgrave MacMillan).
  
• "CUT! ... Flannery O'Connor's Apotemnophiliac Allegories." American Literature 81.2 (2009). 305-331.
• William Faulkner, William James, and the American Pragmatic Tradition. 2008 (Louisiana State University Press).
• "Alien Corn: The War of the Worlds, Independence Day, and the Limits of the Global Imagination," Dalhousie Review (2001).
• "Guiding Metaphors: the Path from William James to Robert Frost," Arizona Quarterly (2000).
• "Teaching Faulkner Pragmatically," Teaching Faulkner: Approaches and Contexts, Methods and Strategies, ed. Stephen Hahn and Robert W. Hamblin (UP of Mississippi, 2000).
• "Taking the Place of Nature: ‘The Bear’ and the Incarnation of America," Faulkner and the Natural World, ed. Donald Kartiganer and Ann Abadie (UP of Mississippi, 1999).

Awards

• Visiting Fellow, the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, Spring 2006
  
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Calgary Institute for the Humanities (1997)
• NVSA Carol Lansbury Award (1997)
• Catherine Moynahan Prize (1992, 1995)
• Doctoral Fellowship, Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture (1987)
• SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship (1986-88)