Dr. Daniel S. Traber

B.A.  University of Texas at Austin, 1991
M.A. University of Texas at El Paso, 1995
Ph.D. University of Houston, 2000

• American Literature (after 1865)

• American Studies

• Critical, Cultural and Literary Theory

• Cultural Studies and Popular Culture (music; TV; film and media studies; subcultures)

• Identity and Subjectivity (hybridity; performativity; otherness; post-community theory; border studies and transnationalism; whiteness and critical race studies; multiculturalism and pluralism)

• Modernism and Postmodernism (theory and culture)

Whiteness, Otherness, and the Individualism Paradox from Huck to Punk.  New York: Palgrave. Macmillan, 2007

"Locating the Punk Preppy (A Speculative Theory)."  Forthcoming, The Journal of Popular Culture 41.3 (2008).

"Re-centering the Listener in Deconstructive Music."  In press, CR: The New Centennial Review 7.1 (2007): 165-180.

"(Silenced) Transgression in Eudora Welty's The Optimist's Daughter."  Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 48.2 (2007): 184-96.

"Performing the Feminine in A Farewell to Arms." The Hemingway Review 24.2 (2005): 28-40.

"L.A.'s 'White Minority': Punk and the Contradictions of Self-Marginalization." Cultural Critique 48 (2001): 30-64.

"Whiteness and the Rejected Other in The Sun Also Rises." Studies in American Fiction 28.2 (2000): 235-53. Reprinted in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises: A Casebook. Ed. Linda Wagner-Martin. New York: Oxford UP, 2002. 167-85.

"Hegemony and the Politics of Twain's Protagonist/Narrator Division in Huckleberry Finn." South Central Review: The Journal of the South Central MLA 17.2 (2000): 24-46.

"'Ruder Forms Survive,' or Slumming for Subjectivity: Self-Marginalization in Suttree." The Southern Quarterly 37.2 (1999): 33-46.

"Post-Otherness: Subject/Self/Individualism in Weep Not, Child." Commonwealth Novel in English 7 & 8 (1997-1998): 247-64.