Jason Tougaw

About Professor Tougaw

Jason Tougaw’s memoir The One You Get: Portrait of a Family Organism [dzancbooks.org] (Dzanc) is the winner of the Dzanc Nonfiction Prize. His book The Elusive Brain: Literary Experiments in The Age of Neuroscience [amazon.com] (Yale University Press) was named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2018 by Choice magazine. He is also the author of Strange Cases: The Medical Case History and the British Novel (Routledge). He is also editor, with Nancy K. Miller, of Extremities: Trauma, Testimony, and Community (University of Illinois Press). His essays have appeared in OUT magazine, DV8, Largehearted Boy, Literary Hub, and Electric Literature. He writes a monthly column for Psychology Today [psychologytoday.com].

Publications

Books

• The Elusive Brain: Literary Experiments in Twenty-First Century Neuromania (Yale UP)

• The One You Get: Portrait of a Family Organism (in progress, represented by Carrie Howland, Donadio & Olson)

• Fields of Reading, Motives for Writing 9th edition, co-edited with Comley et al. (Bedford/St. Martin’s 2009).

• Strange Cases: The Medical Case History and the British Novel (Routledge 2006).

• Extremities: Trauma, Testimony, and Community, co-edited with Nancy K. Miller; introduction co-written with Miller (University of Illinois Press 2002).

Articles

• "Somatics in Practice: My Therapist and I Compare Notes [psychologytoday.com]." Pyschology Today. (2019).

• “Where Is Consciousness in the Modern Novel?” The Scofield  2.2 (Spring 2017). 172 -79.

• “The Self is a Moving Target: The Neuroscience of Siri Hustvedt’s Artists.” Zones of Focused Ambiguity in Siri Hustvedt’s Works: Interdisciplinary Essays, eds. De Gruyter, 2016. 113-32.

• “Touching Brains.” Modern Fiction Studies, special issue entitled Neuroscience and Modern Fiction, ed. Stephen Burn. 61.2 (Summer 2015): 335 – 358.

• “Brain Memoirs, Neuroscience, and the Self: A Review Article.” Literature and Medicine 30.1 (Spring 2012): 171 – 192.

• “We are Still Vulnerable: Todd Haynes’s Safe in 2011.” Women’s Studies Quarterly. 39: 1 & 2 (Spring/Summer 2011): 43 – 47.

• “Dream Bloggers Invent the University.” Computers & Composition 26 (2009): 251 – 268.

Creative Nonfiction & Essays

• “Memoir Mixtape.” DV8 Magazine 11 (Winter 2018): 14-15.

• “The Elusve Brain,” [psychologytoday.com] a regular column for Psychology Today (June – present). 16 articles to date.

• “Embracing Neurodiversity.” [blog.yalebooks.com] Yale University Press Blog. (August 2018).

• “Christopher Isherwood Taught Me to Live Unapologetically.” Literary Hub (May 15, 2018). https://lithub.com/christopher-isherwood-taught-me-to-live-unapologetically/ [lithub.com]

• “An English Beat. ”Out Magazine (November 2017).  https://www.out.com/art-books/2017/11/10/english-beat [out.com]

• “12 Great Books about the Human Brain.” Electric Literature (October 9, 2017). https://electricliterature.com/12-great-books-about-the-human-brain-842011da9157 [electricliterature.com]

• “My First Time: On Sex and Writing.” The Quivering Pen (September 18, 2017). http://davidabramsbooks.blogspot.com/2017/09/my-first-time-jason-tougaw.html [davidabramsbooks.blogspot.com]

• “Book Notes.” Largehearted Boy (September 13, 2017). http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2017/09/book_notes_jaso_11.html [largeheartedboy.com]

• “What We Gained in the Fire.” Electra Street: A Journal of the Arts & Humanities. 2 (2015): 63 – 7.

•  “Aplysia californica.” In From Boys to Men: Gay Men Write about Growing Up, eds. Ted Gideonse and Robert Williams. (Carroll & Graf, September 2006). [invited contributor]

• “Dreamy and Forgetful: Marcel Dzama’s The Lotus Eaters.” Quarterly Bulletin of Centre d’Art Santa Monica (Barcelona, Spain). Spring 2005.