Stephen Hock
Associate Professor of English
Degrees Held
B.A., Haverford College
M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Office Location: 101 Eggleston Commons, Bray Village
Phone: 757-233-8734
Email: shock@vwu.edu
Department/s:
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Stephen Hock received his bachelor's degree at Haverford College with a major in Comparative Literature, and his master's and doctorate in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. At Virginia Wesleyan, his teaching includes courses in first-year composition, the art of comic books, film adaptations of literature, the Great American Novel, American modernism, the postmodern, literary theory, and various topics in American and world literature, as well as the English major's senior thesis workshop. His research focuses on contemporary American literature and culture, with current projects on the graphic memoir Big Black: Stand at Attica and on religion and ethics in Daredevil comic books.
Book Chapters
- “The Freedom of ‘the Endland of the Convergence’ or ‘the Long Soft Life’ in DeLillo’s Zero K.” 聽Figures of Freedom: 聽Representations of Agency in a Time of Crisis, edited by Randy Laist and Brian A. Dixon, Fourth Horseman Press, 2024, pp. 71-90.
- “The Breakfast Club,聽A Nightmare on Elm Street, and聽Riverdale’s ’80s Palimpsest.” 聽The ’80s Resurrected: 聽Essays on the Decade in Popular Culture Then and Now, edited by Randy Laist, McFarland, 2023, pp. 23-36.
- "'Just Junk in a Safeway Cart I'm Pushing Down to the Recycling Center':聽 The Aesthetics of Ecology in聽Michael聽Robbins's Poetry."聽聽Modern Ecopoetry:聽 Reading the Palimpsest of the More-Than-Human World, edited by聽Leonor Mar铆a Mart铆nez Serrano and Cristina M. G谩mez Fern谩ndez, Brill, 2021, pp.聽171-86.
- “Memorializing the Future of Donald Trump in Amy Waldman’s聽The Submission.” 聽Trump Fiction: 聽Essays on Donald Trump in Literature, Film, and Television, edited by Stephen Hock, Lexington Books, 2020, pp. 79-95.
- “The Black Box of Genre in Colson Whitehead’s聽The Intuitionist聽and Charles Yu’s聽How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe.”聽The Poetics of Genre in the Contemporary Novel, edited by Tim Lanzend枚rfer, Lexington Books, 2016, pp. 57-71.
- “Maybe He’d Have to Just Keep Driving, or Pynchon on the Freeway.” 聽Pynchon’s California, edited by Scott McClintock and John Miller, University of Iowa Press, 2014, pp. 201-19.
- “Comix Remix; or, The Strange Case of Mr. Chabon.” 聽Michael聽Chabon’s America: 聽Magical Words, Secret Worlds, and Sacred Spaces, edited by Jesse Kavadlo and Bob Batchelor, Rowman & Littlefield, 2014, pp. 81-96.
- “This Is Too Big for One Old Name: 聽Hitchcock and Smithee in the Signature Centrifuge.” 聽Directed by Allen Smithee, edited by Jeremy Braddock and Stephen Hock, University of Minnesota Press, 2001, pp. 175-205.
Journal Articles
- “‘That's Your Uncle?聽 He’s White!’ ‘Yeah, a Long Time’: 聽Negotiating Whiteness in the聽Rocky/Creed聽Series.” 聽Italian Americana, vol. 35, no. 2, 2017, pp. 145-68.
- “‘A Need to Mourn Abandonment in Advance’ in Nathaniel Mackey’s聽From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate.” 聽Contemporary Literature, vol. 55, no. 3, 2014, pp. 534-58.
- “‘Stories Told Sideways Out of the Big Mouth’: 聽John Dos Passos’s Bazinian Camera Eye.” 聽Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 1, 2005, pp. 20-27.
Edited Collections
- Editor and Introduction. 聽Trump Fiction: 聽Essays on Donald Trump in Literature, Film, and Television.聽 Lexington Books, 2020.
- With Jeremy Braddock, editors and introduction. 聽Directed by Allen Smithee.聽 University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
Creative
- “‘All My Life My Writing Is’: 聽The Auto-Bio-Graph of Smalloysius F.: 聽Being Told by Itself.” 聽The Anthology of Babel, edited by Ed Simon, Punctum Books, 2020, pp. 323-44.
Fall 2024 office hours
Mondays - Thursday 5:00-5:50 p.m.
and by appointment