Colleen R. Lamos
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Department of English 29
Pinedale St., #7
Rice University Houston,
Texas 77006
Houston, Texas
77005-1892 (713)
529-1483
(713) 348-2627 email: lamos@rice.edu
fax: (713) 285-5991
Ph.D. University
of Pennsylvania, Department of English, 1989.
B.A. State
University of New York at Binghamton, 1978.
Books
Deviant Modernism: Sexual and Textual Errancy in T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, and
Marcel Proust. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. 1998.
Colleen
Lamos and Christine van Boheemen-Saaf, Masculinities in Joyce: Postcolonial
Constructions (European Joyce Studies), Rodopi Press, Amsterdam (2001).
"Elegiac Love: Homoeroticism in T. S.
Eliot's Early Poetry." In T. S.
Eliot: Essays on Gender, Sexuality, and Desire. Eds. Cassandra Laity and Nancy K. Gish. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming.
"Male Subjectivation: James Joyce's `A
Painful Case' and Judith Butler's The Psychic Life of Power." In Joycean Masculinities. Eds. Colleen Lamos and Christine van
Boheemen. Under review by Cambridge
University Press.
"Lesbian." In Encyclopedia of Lesbianism, ed. Bonnie Zimmerman. New York: Garland Publishing Co., 2000. 453-4.
"The Double Life of 'Eumaeus.'" In "Ulysses": Engendered
Perspectives, ed. Kimberley Devlin and Marilyn Reizbaum. Columbia: University of South Carolina
Press, 1999. 242-253.
"The Ethics of Queer Theory." In Critical Ethics: Text, Theory and
Responsibility, ed. Dominic Rainsford.
New York and London: St. Martin's Press, 1999. 141-150.
"'A Faint Glimmer of Lesbianism' in
Joyce." In Quare Joyce, ed.
Joseph Valente. Ann Arbor: University
of Michigan Press, 1998. 185-200.
"Anti-Oedipal Joyce." In Images of Joyce: Proceedings of the Twelfth International James Joyce Conference, eds. Clive Hart, et al. 2 Vols. London: Colin
Smythe, 1998. 1:544-57.
"Sexuality versus Gender: A Kind of
Mistake?" In Cross Purposes: Lesbian Studies, Feminist Studies, and the
Limits of Alliance, ed. Dana Heller.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. 85-94.
"James Joyce and the English
Vice." Novel: A Forum on
Fiction 29, no. 1 (1995): 19-31.
"Opening Questions." Feminist Economics 1, no. 2 (summer
1995): 59-62.
"Taking On the Phallus." In Lesbian Erotics: Practices and
Critiques, ed. Karla Jay. New York:
New York University Press, 1995.
101-24.
"Signatures of the Invisible: Homosexual
Secrecy and Knowledge in Ulysses."
James Joyce Quarterly 31, no. 2 (spring 1994): 337-55. Reprinted as "Homosexual Tinges in
Ulysses." File: A Literary Journal
3, no. 1 (March 1994): 33-40.
"The Postmodern Lesbian Position: On Our
Backs." In The Lesbian
Postmodern, ed. Laura Doan. New
York: Columbia University Press, 1994.
85-103.
"Cheating on the Father: James Joyce and
Gender Justice." In Joyce in
Context, ed. Vincent Cheng and Timothy Martin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 90-100.
"Playing to Win: Georges Bataille, Barbara
Herrnstein Smith, and the Question of Value." Pretext 10 (1989): 185-200 [Released 1991].
"Feminist Byword: Lesbian." National Women's Studies Association
Journal 3, no. 2 (1991): 278-80.
Review of Libidinal Currents: Sexuality and
the Shaping of Modernism, by Joseph Allen Boone. Novel: A Forum on
Fiction 32, no. 3 (1999): 446-48..
Review of Male Matters, by Calvin
Thomas. James Joyce Literary Supplement
12, no. 1(spring 1998): 20.
"The Birth of a Not-So-Queer
Discipline." Review of Professions
of Desire: Lesbian and Gay Studies in Literature, ed. George E. Haggerty
and Bonnie Zimmerman. The Lesbian
Review of Books 1, no. 3 (spring 1995): 10-11.
Reviews of Sexual Dissidence: Augustine to
Wilde, Freud to Foucault, by Jonathan Dollimore;, ed. Julia Epstein and
Kristina Straub; Body Guards: The Cultural Politics of Gender Ambiguity
Sexual Suspects: Eighteenth-Century Players and Sexual Ideology, by
Kristina Straub. Signs 19, no. 3
(spring 1994): 826-30.
Reviews of Lesbian Texts and Contests: Radical
Revisions, ed. Karla Jay and Joanne Glasgow; and The Safe Sea of Women:
Lesbian Fiction 1969-1989, by Bonnie Zimmerman. Contemporary Literature 34, no. 2 (fall 1993): 304-12.
Review of Hidden from History: Reclaiming the
Gay and Lesbian Past, ed. Martin Duberman et al. Lesbian and Gay Studies Newsletter 18, no. 1 (March 1991): 31-34.
Selected Papers
"'I'm Not a Lesbian, I Just Loved Thelma': Lesbian Disavowal
in Barnes and Woolf." Modernist
Studies Association, Philadelphia, PA, October 2000.
"Joyce and Lyotard." Seventeenth International James Joyce Symposium, London, UK, June 2000.
"Elegiac Homoeroticism in T. S. Eliot's
Early Poetry." Modern Language
Association Convention, Chicago, Il., December 1999.
"Joyce and Rushdie: Errancy in Midnight's
Children." James Joyce
Conference, Charleston, S.C., June 1999.
"On
Not Naming Names: Woolf's Refusal of Homosexuality." Virginia Woolf Conference, Wilmington, D.E.,
June 1999.
"Duffy's Subjectivation: James Joyce's ‘A
Painful Case’ and Judith Butler's The Psychic Life of Power." Sixteenth International James Joyce
Symposium, Rome, Italy, June 1998.
"Modernist
Deviance: The Case of Joyce."
University of Amsterdam, June 1998.
"Angela's Ashes and Irish National
Identity." American Conference for
Irish Studies, Columbia, S.C., February 1998.
"Molly Bloom as a Motherless
Daughter." Joyce Conference,
University of Toronto, Canada, June 1997.
"Beyond Redemption: Irish Nationalism, Queer
Nationalism." American Conference
for Irish Studies, Albany, N.Y., April 1997.
"T. S. Eliot and Literary Authority:
Paternal Citations, Maternal Intertexts," T. S. Eliot Society Conference,
St. Louis, Mo., September 1996.
"The Ethics of Queer Theory." Conference on Literature and Ethics,
University of Wales, Aberystwyth, July 1996.
"'Settling Matters between Mother and Me':
Modernist Matricidal Fantasies."
Fifteenth International James Joyce Conference, Zurich, Switzerland,
June 1996.
"The Love of the Father: James Joyce and
Flagellation." University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 1995.
"Queering the Canon." Conference on the Practice of Cultural
Analysis, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 1995.
"Joyce and the English Vice." James Joyce Conference, Brown University,
Providence, R.I., June 1995.
"What Is a Lesbian Text? The Example of Modern British Women
Writers." Northeast Modern
Language Association, Boston, Mass., April 1995.
"Sexual Ambiguity in the Novels of Elizabeth
Bowen." American Conference for
Irish Studies, Charleston, S.C., March 1995.
Also chair of panel, "Modernism and Irish Women."
"American Studies, Gay Studies." JFK Institute, Free University of Berlin,
Germany, June 1994.
"Eumaean Perversion." Fourteenth International James Joyce Symposium, Seville, Spain, June 1994. Also chair of panel, "Joyce and Female Literary Authority."
"Written on the
Body: Jeanette Winterson's Postlesbian Fiction." Northeast Modern Language
Association, Pittsburgh, Pa., March 1994.
"Does the Irish Woman Poet Have a Homeland?
The Case of Eavan Boland." Modern
Language Association, Toronto, Canada, December 1993.
"'The End of Poetry for Ladies': James Joyce
and T. S. Eliot." California Joyce Conference, Irvine, Calif., June
1993. Also chair of panel, "Sexual
Politics in Joyce."
"Mary Ellen Bute's Finnegans Wake." Northeast Modern Language Association,
Philadelphia, Pa., March 1993.
"Taking on the Phallus." Unnatural Acts Conference, University of
California, Riverside, Calif., February 1993.
"Homosexual Tinges in Ulysses." American Conference for Irish Studies,
University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Okla., February 1993.
"'I Just Loved Thelma': Sexual Denial in
Barnes's Ladies Almanack."
Djuna Barnes Centennial Conference, University of Maryland, College
Park, Md., October 1992. Also chair of
panel, "Sexual/Textual Denial in Djuna Barnes."
"'Greeker than the Greeks': Homosexuality in Ulysses." Thirteenth International James Joyce
Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, June 1992.
"On Our Backs: Taking On the
Phallus." Modern Language
Association Convention, San Francisco, Calif., December 1991.
"Literary Studies: What's Gender Got to Do
with It?" University of the
Saarland, Saarbrácken, Germany, May 1991.
"Anti-Oedipal Ulysses: Joyce and
Deleuze." Twelfth International James
Joyce Symposium, Monte Carlo, Monaco, June 1990.
"Intertextual Joyce: R. B. Kershner's Joyce,
Bakhtin, and Popular Culture."
Twelfth International James Joyce Symposium, Monte Carlo, Monaco, June
1990.
"Textual Amnesia and the Poetry of T. S. Eliot
and Adrienne Rich." Northeast
Modern Language Association, Toronto, Canada, March 1990.
"Feminist Bywords: Lesbian." Modern Language Association, Washington,
D.C., December 1989.
"Cheating on the Law of the Father: Lacanian
Interpretations of Ulysses."
James Joyce Conference, Philadelphia, Pa., June 1989.
"'The
Perfect Lie': Proust, Sexuality, and Modernism." Northeast Modern Language Association, Wilmington, Del., March
1989.
"Profiting from Loss: Barbara Herrnstein
Smith's Contingencies of Value."
Society for Critical Exchange, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, March
1989.
"(Per)versions of Justice: Lyotard's Just
Gaming and the United States Supreme Court Decision in Hardwick v.
Bowers." International Congress of
Americanists, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 1988.
"The Politics of Testimony in Feminist
Discourse." Northeast Modern
Language Association, Providence, R.I., March 1988.
"T. S. Eliot and the 'Woman'
Problem." University of Amsterdam,
The Netherlands, November 1987.
Honors
and Awards
Fellowship, Center for Cultural Studies, Rice
University, 1993 and 1999.
Crompton-Noll Essay Award (co-winner) of the Lesbian
and Gay Caucus of the Modern Language Association, 1992.
Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, 1987-88.
Fellowship to the School of Criticism and Theory,
1987.
Teaching
Appointments
Associate Professor of English, Rice University,
1995-present
Assistant Professor of English, Rice University,
1989-95
Exchange Professor, University of the Saarland,
Germany, 1991
Assistant Professor of English, Ohio State
University, 1988-89
Courses Taught (at Rice University)
Joyce and Modernism: English 599
Proust and Literary Theory: English 499
Psychoanalytic Theory: English 598
Finnegans Wake: English 512
Fin-de-Siècle Literary Culture: English 412
Queer Theory: English 498
Lacan and Literary Theory: English 500
Foucault and Deleuze: English 512
Foucault, Deleuze, and Lyotard: English 599
Poststructuralism and Feminist Theory: English 512
Contemporary
Issues in Literary Theory: English 499
Twentieth-Century
Irish Literature: English 457
Joyce and Woolf: English 411
Sex,
Gender, and Modernism: English 380
Twentieth-Century
British Fiction: English 346
British
and American Modernism: English 412
Twentieth-Century
American Poetry: English 387
Ezra
Pound and American Modernism: English 411
Pragmatism:
English 402
British
Literature from 1800 to Present: English 252
American
Fiction from 1910 to 1940: English 383 and 583
University Service (at Rice University)
Study of Women and Gender Steering Committee, 2000-present
University Council, 1992-96. Chair of Committee on Committees, 1994-96.
Admissions Committee, 1997-98.
English Department Graduate Committee, 1990-91, 1997-2000
English Department Undergraduate Committee, 1989-90, 1991-96.
Feminist Reading Group Coordinator, 1990-92, 1996-98.
Inquiries (Queer Theory) Study Group Coordinator, 1998-present.
English Department Library Liaison, 1996-97, 98-present.
English Department Speaker's Committee, 1996-97.
President's Council on Minority Affairs, 1994-95.
Commission on Women, 1994-95.
Committee on Salary Equity, 1994-95.
Fringe Benefits Committee, 1991-94.
Professional
Activities
Conference Coordinator of the Third Annual Conference
of the Modernist Studies Association, Rice University, October 2001.
Reader for Cambridge University Press, New York
University Press, Signs, James Joyce Quarterly, and National Women's Studies
Association Journal.
Director of Symposium on Perversions, the Center
for Cultural Studies, Rice University, April 1993.
Chair of panel on Queer Modernism at the New
Modernisms Conference, Modernist Studies Association, State College, PA, 1999.
Chair of numerous panels at national and international James Joyce
Foundation symposia.
Chair of panel on Modernism and Irish Women
Writers at American Conference for Irish Studies (1995).
Chair of panels on Feminist Theory (1991),
American Women Writers (1990), and Henry James (1989), at the Northeast Modern
Language Association.
Languages
French (reading); Dutch (speaking
and reading); German (reading)