Hilary J. Thompson

Book

“Novel Creatures: Animal Life and the New Millennium." (forthcoming with Routledge, March 2018)

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

“Before After: Amitav Ghosh’s Pre-1856 Cosmopolis as Post-9/11 Lost Object.” The City Since 9/11: Literature, Film, Television. Ed. Keith Wilhite. London: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016. 161-75.

“The Shadow Lines as Outline for a Planetary Oblique Archaeology.” Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines: A Critical Anthology. Ed. Sandip Ain. Delhi, India: Worldview, 2011. 204-223.

“The Colonial City as Inverted Laboratory in Baumgartner’s Bombay and The Calcutta Chromosome.” Journal of Narrative Theory 39.3 (Fall 2009): 347-368.

“Time and Its Countermeasures: Modern Messianisms in Woolf, Benjamin, and Agamben.” Modernism and Theory: A Critical Debate. Ed. Stephen Ross. New York: Routledge, 2009. 86-98.

“Encrypted Ancestries: Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day and Its Uncanny Inheritances.” The Asian Gothic: Essays on Literature, Film and Anime. Ed. Andrew Hock Soon Ng. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 73-87.

“Virginia Woolf and Michele Montrelay’s Unconscious Signifier.” Virginia Woolf Miscellany 52 (Fall 1998): 5-6.

Works in Progress

“Ghosh in The Great Game: The Shadow Lines as Post-1857 and Post-9/11 Reading.” Approaches to Teaching Amitav Ghosh. Ed. Gaurav Desai and John C. Hawley. Modern Language Association of America Publications. (accepted for publication and forthcoming)

Panels Organized

2013 “Islands of Contention” (co-chair)
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Conference
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, April 4-7, 2013

2012 “Discontemporaries: Turning Over/Overturning the Present” (co-chair)
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Conference
Brown University, Providence, RI, March 29-April 1, 2012

Papers Presented

2013 “Outposts of the Millennium: Experimental Islands in Yann Martel and J.G. Ballard”
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Conference
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, April 4-7, 2013

2013 “Before After: Amitav Ghosh’s Pre-1856 Cosmopolis as Post-9/11 Lost Object”
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Annual Convention
Boston, MA, March 21-23, 2013

2013 “Beyond Mere Humanity? The Artist as Animal”
Stonecoast MFA Creative Writing Residency Literary Theory Workshop
University of Southern Maine, Freeport, ME, January 4-14, 2013

2012 “Crossed Objects Part 2: Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy”
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Conference
Brown University, Providence, RI, March 29-April 1, 2012

2009 “Floating Premises: Potential Politics of Identity and Sovereignty in Sea of Poppies”
Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention
Philadelphia, PA, December 27-30, 2009

2009 “The Mark-Worlds of Modernism in Benjamin, Uexkull, and Woolf”
Modernist Studies Association (MSA) Annual Convention
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, November 5-8, 2009

2009 “Anita Desai’s and Amitav Ghosh’s Strains of World Citizenship”
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Conference
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, March 26-29, 2009

2009 “The Inheritance of Dust: The Dystopic Polis from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala to Anita and Kiran Desai”
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Annual Convention
Boston, MA, February 26-March 1, 2009

2008 “Splitting Milk: Modernist Dead Metaphor Meets Prophetic Malapropism in R. K. Narayan’s Waiting for the Mahatma”|
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Annual Convention
Buffalo, NY, April 10-13, 2008

2007 “The Coming Species: The Life of the Special in Philip K. Dick, Mark Haddon, and Kazuo Ishiguro”
Logics of the Living Conference
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, October 12-14, 2007

2007 “Dog Got Your Tongue? Or Curious Cures for Mysterious Malaises”
National Popular Culture/American Culture Assoc. (PCA/ACA) Joint Conference
Boston, MA, April 4-7, 2007

2007 “From Necropolis to Polis: Endocryptic Citizenship in Anita Desai’s Baumgartner’s Bombay”
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Annual Convention
Baltimore, MD, March 1-4, 2007

2003 “Not Helping Being: Empathy, Ontology, and Allegory in The Remains of the Day”
Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) Annual Convention
Chicago, IL, November 7-9, 2003

2001 “Thud: The Phonic Icon in Mrs. Dalloway”
Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) Annual Convention
Cleveland, OH, November 1-3, 2001

1997 “Bypassing the Bar: Joyce and Structuralism’s Greatest Taboo”
North American James Joyce Conference: Historical Joyce/Hysterical Joyce
Toronto, Canada, June 11-16, 1997