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Professor Bain’s research
and teaching interests include 20th-century British literature and its
contexts, literature and culture in Britain and London since WWII,
literary modernism in transnational perspective (as well as its British
and American varieties), and the political, theoretical, and aesthetic
dimensions of globalization. Most broadly, he enjoys working with
students on discerning what 20th-century media—literature, film, music,
the visual arts, etc.—can tell us about the strange and brutal panorama
of wars, human rights, migrations, national and imperial rise and fall,
and social practices that shapes everyday life in modern times. He is
working on a book tentatively called Making the Heart of the World,
which examines how a group of British and American writers, between
1919 and 1940, tried to tell convincing stories about patriotism and
cultural interaction amid crises of imperialism and the coming of total
war. “Shocks Americana!: George Schuyler Serializes Black
Internationalism,” forthcoming in American Literary History, looks at
these issues as they emerge in African-American newspaper fiction
during the 1930s war between fascist Italy and the independent nation
of Ethiopia. His article “International Settlements: Ishiguro,
Shanghai, Humanitarianism,” forthcoming in the journal NOVEL, is a
test-run for a projected book-length examination of how fiction and
film since the Cold War have dealt with the images and politics of
humanitarian and human-rights crises. Professor Bain received his Ph.D.
and M.A. from Rutgers University (2004; 1999), and his B.A. from Duke
University (1994). From 2004 to 2007 he was Assistant Professor of
English at the California Polytechnic State University."
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