Department of English
207 Lind Hall
207 Church Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Phone: 612-625-3363

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Lind Hall

Lind Hall

Marty Roth

Professor Emeritus

rothx002@umn.edu

Background

  • Education
    • University of Chicago, Department of English, Ph.D., 1965.
    • University of Chicago, Committee on General Studies in Humanities, M.A., 1957.
    • University of California at Los Angeles, 1953-54.
    • California Institute of Technology, 1952-53.
  • Academic Appointments
    • Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota, 2003-
    • Professor, University of Minnesota, 1976-2003.
    • Exchange professor, University of Lund, Sweden, September-November, 1994.
    • Exchange professor, Marie-Curie University, Lublin, Poland, March-April, 1991.
    • Guest lecturer, American Studies seminar, Center for American Studies, University of Rome, April 1-7, 1987.
    • Guest Professor, Amerika-Institut, University of Munich, April-July, l987.
    • Exchange Professor, University of Sussex, 1979-80.

Publications

  • Books
    • Drunk the Night Before: An Anatomy of Intoxication. University of Minnesota Press, July 2005.
    • Foul and Fair Play: Reading Genre in Classic Detective Fiction. University of Georgia Press. 1994, 284 pages.
    • Comedy and America:  The Lost World of Washington Irving. Kennikat Press. 1975, 205 pages.
    • Washington Irving's Contributions to "The Corrector," edition, attribution, and introduction. Mpls.: University of Minnesota Press, 1968, 130 pages.
  • Articles
    • “The Golden Age of Drinking and the Fall Into Addiction.” Janus Head, 7(2), Summer 2004.
    • "Gilman's Arabesque," Mosaic, 2001.
    • "'Anacreon'" and "Drink Poetry; or, the Art of Feeling Very Very Good," Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 42(3), Fall 2000, 314-345.
    • "Twice Two: The Fly and Invasion of the Body Snatchers," Discourse, 22(1), Winter 2000, 103-16.
    • "Peeping Tom and the Medusa Machine," North Dakota Quarterly, 65(1), 1998, 92-105.
    • "Videodrome and the Revenge of Representation," Cineaction, #43, 1997, 58-61.
    • "Carnival, Creativity, and the Sublimation of Drunkenness," Mosaic, 30(2), June 1997, 1-18.
    • "Victorian Highs: Detection, Drugs, and Empire" (forthcoming in the proceedings of a conference on culture and addiction).  German translation: "Viktorianische Höohenrausche: Ermittlungen, Drogen und das Empire," The Reichenbach Journal, # 11 and 11, Winter, 1999, pp. 31-34.
    • "Something Wild: The Fruits of Filmic Intoxication," Dionysos, 1997, 7(1), 23-33.
    • "Remembering Psycho," North Dakota Quarterly, 62(3), Summer, 1994-1995, 161-174.
    • "Symposium" [position paper on Eve Sedgwick] and "Addiction with a Difference" [Review of special edition of Differences, "On Addiction"] Dionysos, 5(3), Winter 1994, 7-9 and 45-48.
    • "Hitchcock's Secret Agency," Camera Obscura, 30, 1994, 35-49.
    • [Review-essay] "Theory Skirmishes," Dionysos, 5(1), Spring, 1993, 39-41.
    • "Homosexual Expression and Homophobic Censorship: the Situation of the Text," in Camp Grounds: Style and Homosexuality edited by David Bergman, University of Massachusetts Press, 1994, 268-281.
    • "'The Blood That Fury Breathed': The Shape of Justice in Aeschylus and Shakespeare." Comparative Literature Studies, 29(2), 1992, 141-156.
    • "The Unquenchable Thirst of Edgar Allan Poe," Dionysos, 3(3), Winter 1992, 3-16
  • Links to unpublished articles