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Jonathan P. Eburne is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English at Penn State. He is author of
Surrealism and the Art of Crime and editor (with Judith Roof) of
The Year¿s Work in the Oddball Archive.
Benjamin Schreier is Associate Professor of English and Jewish Studies and Lea P. and Malvin E. Bank Early Career Professor of Jewish Studies at Penn State University. He is author of
The Power of Negative Thinking: Cynicism and the History of Modern American Literature and
The Impossible Jew: Identity and the Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Working in and on Nerds, Wonks, and Neo-Cons, this Year and to Come / Jonathan P. Eburne and Benjamin Schreier
1. Wonk Masculinity / Dennis Allen
2. Surface Worship, Super-Public Intellectuals, and the Suspiciously Common Reader / William J. Maxwell
3. Stratigraphic Form: Science Fictions of the Present / Warren Liu
4. Obsession, Pathology, and Justice: Nerds, Bodies, Winsor McCay, and the 1893 Chicago Fair / Nathan L. Grant
5. The Neoconservative Imagination / Jennifer Glaser
6. Conservative and Internationalist: George S. Schuyler's Pulp Fiction and The Imperialism of The Oppressed / Sara Marzioli
7. The Turing Test and Other Love Songs / Brian Glavey
8. Sex and the Single Nerd: The Schizo Saga of Genes, Genius, and Finally Getting Some / Judith Roof
9. Nerds in Capes: Courtly Love and the Erotics of Medievalism / Jamie Taylor
10. Comic Book Kid/ Scott T. Smith
11. Walking Simulators, #GamerGate, and the Gender of Wandering / Melissa Kagen
12. The Fan as Public Intellectual in "RaceFail '09" / Siobhan Carroll
13. Autism, Nerds, and Insecurity / Chloe Silverman
Afterword: Professors Without Chairs / Aaron S. Lecklider
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About the author
Jonathan P. Eburne is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English at Penn State. He is author of
Surrealism and the Art of Crime and editor (with Judith Roof) of
The Year's Work in the Oddball Archive.
Benjamin Schreier is Associate Professor of English and Jewish Studies and Lea P. and Malvin E. Bank Early Career Professor of Jewish Studies at Penn State University. He is author of
The Power of Negative Thinking: Cynicism and the History of Modern American Literature and
The Impossible Jew: Identity and the Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History.
