Michael Heitkemper-Yates

Michael Heitkemper-YatesWykłada literaturę brytyjską i amerykańską na Uniwersytecie w Kobe w Japonii, gdzie prowadzi zajęcia z teorii narracji, współczesnej literatury amerykańskiej, teorii fikcji oraz kompozycji tekstów naukowych. Jego publikacje w książkach i czasopismach naukowych dotyczą narracji graficznych, ironii w narracji, metafikcji, semiotyki parodii, a także Marcela Duchampa, Josepha Cornella, Roberta Coovera i Donalda Barthelme’a. Obecnie pracuje nad książką o poetyce postmodernistycznej ironii w teoriach narracji i w fikcji literackiej.

Kontakt: yates@lit.kobe-u.ac.jp

Wybrane publikacje:

  • “Toward a Narratology of the Graphic: Exploring the Narrativity of the Contemporary Graphic Novel,” Studia Anglica Sedlcensia, Volume 2. Siedlce: Siedlce University Press, 2015. ISBN: 978-83-64884-16-1 [Journal Article] 9/2015 [Forthcoming.]
  • “Multiple Voice / Multiple Choice: Non-Linearity and the Fracturing of Identity in Robert Coover’s Pricksongs & Descants,” in Storytelling: Global Reflections on Narrative, Volume 7. Oxford: IDP, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-84888-380-2 [eBook Chapter] 8/2015 [Forthcoming.]
  • “Conflict Irresolution: Post-Postmodernism and the Legacy of Ironic Subversion.” Eye Magazine 7 (2015). ISSN: 2187-8935 [Journal Article] 5/2015
  • Michael Heitkemper-Yates and Katarzyna Kaczmarczyk, eds. Learning to See: The Meanings, Modes, and Methods of Visual Literacy. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2014. ISBN: 978-1-84888-302-4 [eBook] 10/2014
  • “Irregular Illuminations: Distortions of Meaning & Metaphor in the Collage Narratives of Donald Barthelme,” in Learning to See: The Meanings, Modes, and Methods of Visual Literacy. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2014. ISBN: 978-1-84888-302-4 [eBook Chapter] 10/2014
  • “Parody Upon Parody Upon Parody: Narrative Myth and Mythic Narration in the American Metafiction of the 1960s,” in Transitions and Dissolving Boundaries in the Fantastic. Ed. Christine Lötscher, et al. Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2014. ISBN: 978-3-643-80185-2 [Book Chapter] 8/2014
  • “The Metamythical Mode: High Irony in the Works of Donald Barthelme, Robert Coover, and Ishmael Reed.” Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, 2013. [Ph.D. Dissertation.] 10/2013
  • “Towards a Semiotics of Metafiction: Narrative, Narration, and Postmodern Parody.” GSTF Journal of Law and Social Sciences 2.2 (2013). [Journal Article] 5/2013
  • “Simulacra with a Difference: Parody and the Postmodern Process.” Journal of Teaching and Education 1.4 (2012). [Journal Article] 10/2012
  • “The Trajectory of Ironic Descent: An Analysis of the Antihero in the Works of Dostoyevsky and Camus.” Carson: California State University, 2008. [Published M.A. Thesis.]

Wybrane prezentacje na konferencjach:

  • “Multiple Voice / Multiple Choice: Non-Linearity and the Fracturing of Identity in Robert Coover’s Pricksongs & Descants (1969),” The 7th International Conference on Storytelling. Dubrovnik (Croatia). May 2-4, 2015
  • “Meta-Trash: Collage Narrative and the Drama of Debris in Donald Barthelme’s ‘Brain Damage’,” International Conference on Narrative, 2015. Purdue University, Calumet; Northwestern University; University of Chicago, and University of Illinois, Chicago (USA). Mar. 5-8, 2015
  • „Conflict Irresolution: Post-Postmodernism and the Legacy of Ironic Subversion,” The Fifth Asian Conference on the Arts and Humanities 2014. Osaka International Conference Center, Osaka (Japan). Apr. 3-6, 2014
  • “Orderly Disorder: Metafiction, Collage, and Donald Barthelme’s Potently Parodic Appropriations,” 14th Annual Scottish Association for the Study of America (SASA) International Conference, University of Strathclyde (UK). Mar. 16, 2013
  • “Beyond the Threshold of Experience: Myth, Mode, and Postmodern High Irony,” Transitions and the Dissolving of Boundaries in the Fantastic: Third Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung, Universität Zürich (Switzerland). Sept. 13-16, 2012
  • “Toward a Semiotics of Metafiction: Narrative and Narration in Postmodern Parody,” L3-2012: Second Annual International Conference on Language, Literature, and Linguistics, Global Science & Technology Forum (Singapore). Jul. 9-10, 2012
  • “Irregular Illuminations: Distortions of Meaning & Metaphor in the Collage Narratives of Donald Barthelme,” 6th Global Conference: Visual Literacies, Exploring Critical Issues, Mansfield College, Oxford University (UK). Jul. 3-5, 2012
  • “Non-Linearity and the Fracturing of Identity in Postmodern American Literature,” The Use, Abuse, and Misuse of Identity – Moving Forward 2012: The Ninth Annual College of Arts and Social Sciences International Postgraduate Conference, University of Aberdeen (UK). Jun. 22-25, 2012
  • “Simulacra with a Difference: Parody and the Postmodern Process,” International Journal of Arts and Sciences (IJAS) International Conference for Academic Disciplines, Harvard University (USA). May 27-31, 2012
  • “Post-Narrative/Modern-Narration: Power of Action and the Profound Doubt of Parody,” 1912-2012: A Time to Reason and Compare, An International Conference on Modernism, Universidade do Porto (Portugal). Mar. 1-3, 2012
  • „The Inverted Hero: Narrative Irony and the Modern Protagonist,” The 4th International BAAHE Conference: Facing Present, Past and Future, Hogeschool Universiteit Brussel (Belgium). Dec. 1-3, 2011
  • “The Postmodern Mode: Parody, Myth and High Irony in American Metafiction,” Extremity and Excess: College of Arts and Social Sciences Postgraduate Conference, University of Salford (UK). Sept. 8-9, 2011
  • “Alienation and the Ironic Descent of the Antihero,” Moving Forward: The Eighth Annual College of Arts and Social Sciences International Postgraduate Conference, University of Aberdeen (UK). Jul. 20-21, 2011
  • “Alienation and the Ironic Descent of the Antihero,” Poetry and Melancholia, International Postgraduate Conference, University of Stirling (UK). Jul. 7-9, 2011

Stypendia / nagrody / granty:

  • Edinburgh University Student Association Postgraduate Tutor of the Year Award – Student Nominated Finalist
    University of Edinburgh, UK 4/2013
  • Edinburgh Global Research Scholarship University of Edinburgh, UK 9/2010 – 10/2013
  • California State University, Dominguez Hills, Humanities Thesis of the Year Award – 1st Prize
    California State University, Dominguez Hills, USA 10/2008
  • Outstanding Graduate Thesis of the Year Award California State University, Dominguez Hills, USA 8/2008
  • Academic Research Grant: “Narrative as a Transmedial Construct: Semiotic and Cognitive Contexts”; Funding Provided by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland (Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego) University of Warsaw, Poland, 2014-2016