John Dudley

John Dudley is Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences and Professor of English at the University of South Dakota. He served as Associate Dean for Academics in the College from 2014 to 2021, and as Chair of the Department of English from 2011 to 2014. He is the author of A Man's Game: Masculinity and the Anti-Aesthetics of American Literary Naturalism, as well as several critical studies of American literary naturalism, African American literature, and Western American literature. His most recent publications include chapters in A History of American Crime Fiction and Cormac McCarthy in Context, both from Cambridge University Press. His current projects include a book-length study of African American literature and culture between 1890 and 1928, with an emphasis on the role of music, technology, and material culture in developing notions of racial identity.

American Literature, Realism and Naturalism, African American Literature and Culture, Gender Studies, Western American Literature

American Literary Naturalism, Western American Literature, African American Literature and Culture

Citations listed below are presented in a standardized, modified format for display purposes only. They do not necessarily reflect the preferred style and conventions of the faculty member or discipline.

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.

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)

Contact Us