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Peter Hitchcock
Professor, Baruch College. English.
Degrees/Diplomas: Ph.D., The City University of New York.
Campus Affiliation: Baruch College
Research Interests: Literary theory, cultural theory, Marxism, Bakhtin, and working-class fiction; world literature; postcolonialism; film studies; associate director, Center for Place, Culture, and Politics.
Theory Group Field Specialization: Literary History, Criticism, and Theory|Postcolonial Literature and Theory
Chronological Period Specialization: Twentieth-Century Literature
Phone: 212-817-8351
Office Hours: Wednesdays 12PM - 2PM
Email: Hitch58@comcast.net



Books:

The Long Space: Transnationalism and Postcolonial Form. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2010

Imaginary States: Studies in Cultural Transnationalism. Champaign/Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003

Dialogics of the Oppressed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993. Bahktin/ 'Bahktin': New Currents in Bakhtinian Studies. Edited with an introduction. South Atlantic Quarterly (Summer, 1998). Oscillate Wildly: Space, Body, and Spirit of Millennial Materialism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998.
Selected Publications:
  • "Oil in an American Imaginary" New Formations 69 (2010)

  • "The World, The Literary, and the Political" in Cultural Autonomy: Frictions and Connections, Petra Rethmann, Imre Szeman and William D. Coleman, editors. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2010.

  • "Uncanny Marxism; or, Do Androids Dream of Electric Lenin" in Maria Del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren, eds., Popular Ghosts: The Haunted Spaces of Popular Culture. London: Continuum, 2010.

  • "Women, Men, and Exotopy: On the Politics of Scale In Nuruddin Farah's Maps" in Helen Nabasuta Mugambi and Tuzyline Jita Allan, eds. Masculinities in African Literary and Cultural Contexts. Boulder: Lynne Reinner, 2010.

  • "Chronotope of the Shoe (Two)" Edited and Reprinted from Hitchcock, Imaginary States (2003) In Ben Highmore, Ed. The Design Culture Reader London: Routledge, 2009.

  • "Taiwan Fever? Tsai Ming-liang and the Everyday Postnation" in Gina Marchetti and T.S.K.Tan, eds., Chinese Connections. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009.

  • "The Failed State and the State of Failure" Mediations 24:1 (Fall, 2008).

  • "I Can't See, Vertov" in Peggy Ahwesh and Keith Sanborn, eds. Vertov from A to Z New York: Ediciones Calavera, 2007.

  • "Postcolonial Failure and the Politics of Nation" South Atlantic Quarterly 106:4 (Fall, 2007)

  • "Niche Cinema; or Kill Bill with Shaolin Soccer" in Gina Marchetti and Tan See Kam, eds., Hong Kong Film, Hollywood and the New Global Cinema. New York: Routledge, 2007.

  • "Dialética dialógica: Bakhtin, Zizek e o conceito de ideologia" in Carlos Alberto Faraco et al. eds. Vinte ensaios sobre Mikhail Bakhtin. Petrópolis: Editora Vozes, 2006. (In Portuguese)

  • "From Hooligan to Haut-Bourgeois: Refractions of the New Middle Class in Contemporary Chinese Films." Journal of Shanghai University (Social Sciences). 13: 4 (July 15th, 2006). (In Chinese)

  • "The Impossibly Intersubjective and the Logic of the Both" in Silke Horstkotte and Esther Peeren, Eds.,The Shock of the Other: Situating Alterities. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006.

  • "British Working-Class and Socialist Literature," "Pat Barker," "John Berger," "Alan Sillitoe," in M.Keith Booker, ed., Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics. (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2005)

  • "Représentation et travailleurs" in Clive Thomson and André Collinot, Eds., Mikhail Bakhtine et la pensée dialogique (London, Ontario: Mestengo Press, 2005) (In French)

  • "Marxist Theory and Criticism: 1989 and After" in Michael Groden, Martin Kreiswirth, and Imre Szeman, eds., The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism (Second Edition). (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press: 2005)

  • "On Your Side: A Tribute to Edward Said" Politics and Culture 2004:1. Available online at: http://aspen.conncoll.edu/politicsandculture/page.cfm?key=303

  • "Running Time: The Chronotope of the Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner" in Alessandro Raengo and Robert Stam, Eds., A Companion to Literature and Film (New York: Blackwell, 2004.

  • "The Genre of Postcoloniality" New Literary History 34:2 (2003)

  • "Interview on Pannekoek" in Anton Pannekoek, Workers' Councils. Ed. Robert Barsky (Oakland: AK Press, 2003)

  • "What is Prior? Working-Class Masculinity in Pat Barker's Trilogy" Genders (Online Publisher: www.genders.org) Volume 35 (2002)

  • "Slumming" in Maria Carla Sanchez and Linda Schlossberg, eds., Passing: Identity and Interpretation in Sexuality, Race and Religion (New York: New York University Press, 2001)

  • "Mao to the Market" in Xudong Zhang, ed., Whither China? Intellectual Politics in Contemporary China (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001)

  • "Decolonizing (the) English" South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 100:3 (Summer 2001)

  • "'Work has the Smell of Vinegar': Sensing Class in John Berger's Trilogy." Modern Fiction Studies 47:1 (Spring 2001)

  • "Risking the Griot's Eye: Decolonization and Contemporary African Cinema" Social Identities 6:2, (September, 2000)

  • "Grotesknost telesne elektrike" in Metoda Kokole, Vojislav Likar and Peter Weiss, eds. and trans, HistoriÂ…ni Seminar 3 (Ljubljana; Zaloñba ZRC, 2000)

  • "They Must Be Represented?: Problems in Theories of Working-Class Representation" PMLA 115:1 (January, 2000)

  • "Working Class Fiction in Theory and Practice: A Reading of Alan Sillitoe." Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1989.