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John Duvall

Professor, Department of English
Editor, Modern Fiction Studies Office: Heavilon 332B
Office Phone: (765) 494-3760
Office Fax: (765) 494-3780
Email: jduvall@purdue.edu

Specialization: American Literature; 20th Century American Fiction; Modernism and Postmodernism; William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, and Don DeLillo


John N. Duvall is Professor of English and Editor of MFS Modern Fiction Studies. His work focuses on matters of racial and sexual identity in 20th-century American fiction. He has published on such authors as William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, John Barth, Toni Morrison, Ishmael Reed, Don DeLillo, and John Updike. He is the author of Race and White Identity in Southern Fiction (2008), Don DeLillo’s UNDERWORLD (2002), The Identifying Fictions of Toni Morrison: Modernist Authenticity and Postmodern Blackness (2000), and Faulkner's Marginal Couple: Invisible, Outlaw, and Unspeakable Communities (1990). He also has edited four volumes: The Cambridge Companion to Don DeLillo (2008), Approaches to Teaching DeLillo’s WHITE NOISE (2006, with Tim Engles), Productive Postmodernism: Consuming Histories and Cultural Studies (2002); Faulkner and Postmodernism (2002, with Ann J. Abadie). His recent graduate courses include Contemporary American Fiction (ENGL 595), Early Twentieth-Century American Fiction (ENGL 578), and William Faulkner and Toni Morrison (ENGL 678).