Prof. Myka Tucker-Abramson

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Professional Experience

2020-2022
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow, JFK Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

2017-
Assistant Professor in American Literature, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick__

2016-2017
Lecturer in Contemporary Literature, Culture, and Theory, Department of English, King’s College London

2014-2016
Teaching Fellow, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick

2013-2014
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English, University of Boston

Ph.D.
English, Simon Fraser University, July 2013
(Additional Coursework, City University of New York, 2008)

M.A.
English, Simon Fraser University, May 2007

B.A.
English and Russian Studies, University of King’s College, May 2005
(with honours)

2020-2022
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow, JFK Institute for North
American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

2013-2015
Social Science and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Scholarship / Boston University

2008-2011
Social Science and Humanities Research Council PhD Grant / Simon Fraser University

2006-2007
Social Science and Humanities Research Council Master’s Grant $17 500

On the Road To Collapse: the Road Novel and the Sub/Urban Sensorias of Empire

“Notes Towards a Theory of the Road Novel” Keynote Address at the Institute of Culture and Society, Chicago, IL. 2019
“Four Theses on the Road Novel” at Manchester Seminar Series in American Literature, Manchester University, UK, 2019
“Novel Shocks: Urban Renewal and the Cultural Origins of Neoliberalism” at “The Neoliberal Imaginary Symposium,” University of Birmingham, Birmingham UK, 2018
“Answering the Call: Telephonic Fascism and Faulkner’s Angel of History” Keynote Address at the “Faulkner and Money: The 44^th Annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference,” University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS 2017

2018: “On the Road with Faulkner: Saturating the New South” Petrocultures 2018, Glasgow, UK
2017: “Flamethrowers and the Making of Modern Art,” MLA, Philadelphia, PA
2017: “Summer of Hate and the End of the Road (Novel),” Historical Materialism, London, UK
2016: “The Price of Salt is the City,” Post-45 UK, York UK
2016: “Containment Cultures and Freedom Fighters in the 1950s Novel,” ACLA, Boston, MA
2016: "Sickness and Cities: Octavia Butler, Speculative Fiction, and the Rise of Neoliberalism,” MLA, Austin, TX
2015: “This Wounded City: Riot Time in Samuel Delaney’s Dhalgren,” Neoliberalism and American Literature conference, Dublin, IE
2014: “Slum Shocked: Urban Renewal, Invisible Man, and the Rise of Civil Rights Modernism,” Modernist Studies Association, Pittsburgh PA
2014: “States of Salvation: Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood and the Rise of the New Right,” Society for the Study of Southern Literature, Arlington VA
2014: “Housing Shocks in Harlem: Surrealist Aesthetics and the Politics of Housing in Invisible Man” MELUS, Oklahoma, OK

2018: Novel Shocks: Urban Renewal and the Cultural Origins of Neoliberalism. New York: Fordham University Press.

2019: “Flamethrowers and the Making of Modern Art” in Neoliberalism and American Literature Ed. Stephen Shapiro and Philip Barnard. Hanover: University Press of New England.
2017: “States of Salvation: Wise Blood and the Rise of the Neoliberal Right” PMLA 132.5: 1166-1180.
2017: “Atlas Shrugged’s Shock Therapy.” Modern Fiction Studies 63.1: 73-94.
2015: “Blueprints: Invisible Man and the Housing Act of 1949.” American Studies.54.3: 9-20.
2012: “Struggling Universities: Simon Fraser University and the Crisis of Canadian Public Education” (with Enda Brophy). Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 28: 21-40.
2012: “Is Marlowe a Marxist? The Economic Reformation of Magic in Doctor Faustus.” Rethinking Marxism 24.2: 288-301.
2011: “Migrants and Citizens: The Shifting Ground of Struggle in Canadian Literary Representation” (with Naava Smolash). Studies in Canadian Literature 36.2: 165- 196.
2007: “Banking on a Prize: Multicultural Capitalism and the Canadian Literary Prize

Industry” (with Jennifer Scott). Studies in Canadian Literature 32.1: 5-20.
2007: “The Money Shot: Postmodern Economies of Sex, Guns, and Language in Topdog/Underdog.” Modern Drama 50.1: 77-97 [Reprinted in Reading Modern Drama. Ed. Alan Ackerman. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012].

2019: “Answering the Call: Telephonic Fascism and Faulkner’s Angel of History.” Faulkner and Money.Ed. Jay Watson. Oxford, MS: University of Mississippi Press.
2017: “Chile-Seattle-Cairo 1973 - ?; or, Globalization and Neoliberalism.” Wiley Blackwell Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory Ed. Szeman, Imre, et al. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell: 147-166.
2013: “In Praise of Failure” (with Mark Willson). About Academia. Ed. Jeff Derksen and Sabine Bitter. Vancouver: Line Books, 126-132.
2011: “Spectacle Capitalism: Expo ’86, the Olympics, and Public Education.” Momentarily: Learning from Mega-Events. Ed. Bik Van der Pol, Alissa Firth-Eagland and Urban Subjects. Vancouver: Link Books, 58-63.

2019: “Autonomy or Commitment?” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (forthcoming)
2018: “The Financial Imaginary of the American Middle Class.” Mediations (online).
2018: “Make Literary Criticism Great Again.” Boundary 2 (online).

2019: “Review of The Black Skyscraper.” ALH Online (forthcoming).
2019: “Neoliberalism.” The Johns Hopkins Guide to Critical and Cultural Theory (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press).
2019: “Should Students Demand Refudns? 3 Perspectives on Student Demands in the UCU Strike” (with Illan rua Wall) Novara Media.
2015: “Academics! You’ve got to fight for your right to Job Security” (with Harry Stopes).

The Guardian.
2013: “Review of Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: The Johns Hopkins Guide.” Dalhousie Review 93.1: 141-3.
2011: “From Utopian Institution to Global University: Simon Fraser University and the Crisis of Canadian Public Education.” (with Enda Brophy) Edu-Factory 1: 6-21.