• Ph D, English, Tulane University, 2000
• MA, English, University of Virginia, 1988
• BA, English, Cornell University, 1987

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• Dudley, John. Review of The Selected Literary Letters of Paul Laurence Dunbar, Cynthia C. Murillo and Jennifer M. Nader, eds. , 85-89. Vol. 17, Iss. 1 Studies in American Naturalism , 2023.
• Dudley, John. Review of Donald Pizer, Frank Norris and American Naturalism, 225-228. Vol. 14, Iss. 2 Studies in American Naturalism , 2019.
• Dudley, John. "Crime, Science, Realism". In A History of American Crime Fiction, editors Chris Raczkowski. Cambridge University Press, 2017. (DOI: 10.1017/9781316442975)
• Dudley, John. "Western Folk Traditions: from Colonization to Mark Twain and the San Francisco Circle". In Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American West, editors Stephen Frye. Cambridge University Press, 2016. (DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781316155097)
• Dudley, John. "Naturalism and African American Culture". Vol. 1, Iss. 7 Studies in American Naturalism, 2013.
• Dudley, John. "McCarthy’s Heroes: Revising Masculinity". In The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy, editors Stephen Frye, 175-187. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. (DOI: 10.1017/CCO9781139087438)
• Dudley, John. “Land of Oblivion: Abjection, Broken Bodies, and the Western Narrative in Deadwood". In Dirty Words in Deadwood: Literature and the Postwestern, editors Melody Graulich and Nicolas Witschi, 72-103. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2013.
• Dudley, John. Realism and Naturalism. Oxford Bibliographies Online, 2012.
• Dudley, John. “African American Writers and Naturalism” . In The Oxford Handbook to American Literary Naturalism, editors Keith Newlin, 257-273.. New York, NY: Oxford UP, 2011.
• Dudley, John. “Naturalist Fiction.” . In Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century American Fiction , editors Patrick O’Donnell, David W. Madden, and Justus Nieland, 733-738. London: Blackwell, 2011.
• Dudley, John. "Westerns". In Research Guide to American Literature: Realism and Regionalism, 1865–1914, 67-73. Columbia, South Carolina: Bruccoli, Clark, Layman, 2010.
• Dudley, John. “Expanding the Naturalist Canon in an ‘Experimental’ Classroom.” , 2-7. Iss. 3.1-2 ALN: The American Literary Naturalism Newsletter, 2009.
• Dudley, John. A Man’s Game: Masculinity and the Anti-Aesthetics of American Literary Naturalism... Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 2004.

• Richard and Sharon Cutler Faculty Award in Liberal Arts , College of Arts and Sciences, University of South Dakota, 2011
• Bush Foundation Travel Grant, Center for Teaching and Learning, 2008

• Dudley, John, Roundtable Discussion. Presented at the Symposium: American Literary Naturalism and the Visual/Digital, Cork, Ireland. (October 14, 2022)
• Dudley, John, Panel Chair, Cormac McCarthy Society. Presented at the American Literature Association Conference, Chicago, IL. (May 27, 2022)
• Dudley, John, Cormac McCarthy in Context: A Roundtable Discussion. Presented at the American Literature Association Conference, Boston, MA. (July 08, 2021)
• Dudley, John, Naturalism and African American Literature. Presented at the Dakota Wesleyan University Martin Luther King Day Invited Lecture (January 19, 2021)
• Dudley, John, "Seen and Unseen: Science, Technology, and Determinism in African American Literature.". Presented at the American Literature Association, San Francisco, CA. (May 27, 2018)
• Dudley, John, “The Science of Crime in Theodore Dreiser’s Fiction” . Presented at the American Literature Association, San Francisco, California. (May 27, 2016)
• Dudley, John, “‘Death is the Mother of Beauty’: Naturalism, Humanism, and the Sublime in Denis Johnson’s Angels.”. Presented at the American Literature Association, Boston, MA. (May 21, 2015)
• Dudley, John, “New Directions in McCarthy Studies, A Roundtable Discussion with Contributors to The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy” . Presented at the American Literature Association, Boston, Massachusetts. (May 24, 2013)
• Dudley, John, “Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Blues: The Sport of the Gods and the Antinomies of Racial Identity” . Presented at the American Literature Association, Boston, Massachusetts. (May 24, 2013)
• Dudley, John, “Roundtable: New Directions in American Literary Naturalism” . Presented at the American Literature Association, Boston, Massachusetts. (May 26, 2011)
• Dudley, John, “Second Lining as Suffering and Solidarity: Absence and Authenticity in David Simon’s Post-Katrina New Orleans” . Presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, New Orleans, Louisiana. (March 13, 2011)
• Dudley, John, Presented at the American Literature Association, San Francisco, California. (May 29, 2010)
• Dudley, John, “The ‘Natural’ Blues and the City: Eugenics and Racial Uplift in Sutton Griggs, Pauline Hopkins, and Paul Laurence Dunbar.”. Presented at the American Literature Association, San Francisco, California. (May 27, 2010)
• Dudley, John, “Unspeakable and Unforgiven: Abjection and Sentimentality in The Popular Western” . Presented at the Western Literature Association, Spearfish, South Dakota. (October 02, 2009)
• Dudley, John, Presented at the American Literature Association, Boston, Massachusetts. (May 21, 2009)
• Dudley, John, “‘A border that has encroached on everything’: Abjection and the Poetics of Violence in Cormac McCarthy’s Western Narratives,”. Presented at the Western Literature Association, Boulder, Colorado. (October 03, 2008)