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Mark Osteen

Professor
Mark Osteen

Professor

Email: mosteen@loyola.edu
Phone: 410-617-2363

Office

Humanities Center 242B
Department of English
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4501 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21210

Education

  • Ph.D., Emory University

Biography

Dr. Mark Osteen is the editor of the Library of America's collection of Don DeLillo's works. Volume I, entitled Don DeLillo: Three Novels of the 1980s. The Names, White Noise, Libra, was published in 2022; the second volume includes two novels of the 1990s, Mao II (1991) and DeLilloā€™s magnum opus, Underworld (1997). The LOA is a nonprofit dedicated to publishing the best in American literature. Getting published by LOA is the informal hallmark of an author's acceptance into the canon, and DeLillo is only the fourth author to be published by LOA while still living (he is now 88 years old). Dr. Osteen compiled a bibliography and a chronology and created the notes for both volumes.

Courses Taught

  • EN 382 Topics in Literature and Film (recent topics: England Swings: the Literature, Film and Culture of England in the 1960s; Shades of Black: Film Noir and Postwar America;  Neurodiversity: Mental Disability in Literature and Film)
  • EN 387 Seminar: Imagining Apocalypse in Contemporary Literature
  • EN 397 Blue Notes: The Literature of Jazz
  • EN 399 Seminar in Literary Topics after 1800:  Neurodiversity

Publications

  • Author: Fake It: Fictions of Forgery. Univ. of Virginia Press, September, 2021.
  • Editor: Don DeLillo: Three Novels of the 1980s: The Names, White Noise, Libra. Library of America, 2022. 
  • Editor:  The Beatles through a Glass Onion: Reconsidering the White Album. Univ. of Michigan Press, 2019. 
  • Guest Co-editor: Caregiving, Kinship and the Making of Stories. Special issue of Journal of Medical Humanities 38.1 (Spring, 2017). Includes his essay ā€œPas de Deuxā€ (25-37). 

Scholarly Essays & Book Chapters:

  • ā€œā€˜Iā€™ll Never Make It Aloneā€™: The Beatlesā€™ ā€˜Oh! Darlingā€™ in its Contexts.ā€ Rock Music Studies. Online; print version forthcoming 2025.

  • ā€œUnhitched: Joan Harrisonā€™s Noir Marriage Plots.ā€ Alfred Hitchcock and Film Noir: The Darker Side. Ed. R. Barton Palmer and Homer B. Pettey. Edinburgh UP, 2024. 90-107.

  • ā€œ(Not) Moving Deathward: The Living and the Undead in DeLilloā€™s Late Works.ā€ Don DeLillo in Context. Ed. Jesse Kavadlo. Cambridge UP, 2022. 217-26.

  • ā€œā€˜Sirensā€™: Jazz Joyce.ā€ Joyce Studies Annual 2022. Ulysses Centenary Issue. 127-45.
  • ā€œā€˜Salient points caused by foot pressureā€™: The Language of Feet in Ulysses.ā€ James Joyce Quarterly 59.4 (Summer 2022): 579-96.
  • ā€œGrow Your Brain! Contemporary Art on the Autism Spectrum.ā€ The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability. Ed. Keri Watson and Timothy W. Hiles. Routledge, 2022. 417-35.

  • ā€œā€˜A Spoonful of Sugarā€™: Watching Movies Autistically.ā€ Autism in Film and Television: On the Island. Ed. Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer. U of Texas P, 2022. 240-54.

  • ā€œVersions of Vertigo: They Wake up Screaming.ā€ Haunted by Vertigo: Hitchcockā€™s Masterpiece Then and Now. Ed. Sidney Gottlieb and Donal Martin. John Libbey/Indiana UP, 2021. 157-75.

  • ā€œBut Is It Art?: Wellesā€™s Cubist Portrait of the Forger in F for Fake.ā€ New Perspectives on Old Masters.ā€ Special issue of South Atlantic Review 85.4 (Winter 2020): 65-96.
  • ā€œā€˜We came for the dirt but stayed for the talkā€™: Don DeLilloā€™s Theatre.ā€ Don DeLillo:Contemporary Critical Perspectives. Ed. Katherine Da Cunha Lewin & Kiron Ward. Bloomsbury, 2018. 79-93.
  • ā€œTurning Us On: Artifice as Authenticity in Sgt. Pepperā€™s Lonely Hearts Club Band.ā€ The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper, and the Summer of Love, ed. Kenneth Womack and Kathryn B. Cox. Lexington Books, 2017. 43-66. 
  • ā€œIrish Haptoglyphics: The Manual and the Tactile in Joyceā€™s Fiction.ā€ Joyce Studies Annual 2017: 3-39. 
  • ā€œAlfred in Wonderland: Hitchcock through the Looking-Glass.ā€ South Atlantic Review 80.3-4 (2016): 194-214. Winner of the SAMLA Essay Prize for 2016-17. 

Creative Nonfiction:

  • "Why I Break Stuff." The Maine Review, Issue 7.3 (September 2021)
  • ā€œC“Ē²Ō±¹“Ē³¦²¹³Ł¾±“Ē²Ō.ā€Ars Medica 15.2 (Fall 2020). Featured essay.  
  • ā€œP²¹²Ō±š.ā€ Kaleidoscope 77 (July, 2018): 8-13. Featured Essay. 
     
  • ā€œA Man Down There.ā€ New Letters 83.2 & 3 (2017): 71-95. Winner of the Dorothy Churchill Cappon Prize in Nonfiction, 2016. 

Awards

  • Dorothy Churchill Cappon Nonfiction Award, from the journal New Letters (2016) 
  • Seventeenth Annual Deans' Symposium Award in recognition of outstanding achievement in research, teaching and service (2014)
  • Nachbahr Award for outstanding scholarly accomplishment in the Humanities (2000) 

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