Guy Reynolds
337D Andrews Hall
Lincoln, NE 68588-0333
(402)472-0249 (office)
After an early career in the U.K. (graduate studies at Cambridge; teaching at the University of Kent) I came to UNL as a Professor in 2003. I direct the Cather Project – a team of scholars dedicated to editing Cather’s texts, running seminars and other events, and producing Cather Studies. I am the general editor of the Cather Scholarly Edition, a multi-volume, MLA-vetted series of annotated texts.
Here is a site for the Willa Cather Archive at UNL, the major online resource for the study of her work and life: http://cather.unl.edu/.
As well as my work on Cather, I have wide teaching and research interests in American literature. My recent work focuses on the international and transatlantic dimensions of post-war writing. Apostles of Modernity: American Writers in the Age of Development (2008) is a close study of internationalism and writing, a contribution to the study of literature in an accelerating era of globalization and, perhaps, ‘Americanization.’ The book features a swathe of figures, from Malcolm X to Paul Bowles to Pearl Buck to Don DeLillo, and focuses on the fiction and reportage produced by Americans in a decolonized and ‘post-European’ world.
A number of my essays and lectures, on Cather and other Americans, are available online via the UNL ‘Digital Commons' online repository. 2008-9 additions include presentations on Richard Wright and globalism (http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/englishtalks/5/); on Hemingway, the British Empire and the Mau Mau 'emergency' (http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/englishtalks/4/); and on Michael Ondaatje, Dave Eggers and civil conflict (http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/englishtalks/3/). I've also added a digital version of my 2001 essay on The Great Gatsby, originally published as the Introduction to the Wordsworth edition of that novel: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/englishfacpubs/56/
Degrees and institutions granting the degree
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MA, PhD, University of Cambridge
Professional Areas of Specialty
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Willa Cather; modernism; American literary history; digital humanities; post-war fiction; US and Anglophone literary internationalism. I also teach regularly in these areas, at graduate and undergraduate level.
Selected Publications and Projects
- Willa Cather in Context: Progress, Race, Empire (1996).
- Twentieth-Century American Women’s Fiction (1999).
- Ed., The Great Gatsby (Wordsworth edition available only in UK: 2001)
- Ed., Willa Cather: Critical Assessments, 4 Volumes (2003)
- Ed., Cather Studies 7: Willa Cather as Cultural Icon (2007)
- Apostles of Modernity: American Writers in the Age of Development (2008)
Guy Reynolds: March 3rd 2009.
