Dr. Jeff Solomon

Associate Professor, Literature

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Degrees

  • Ph.D., University of Southern California, English Literature, 2008
  • Graduate Certificate in Gender Studies, University of Southern California, 2008
  • M.A., University of Southern California, English Literature, 2002
  • M.F.A., University of California-Irvine, English (Fiction), 1993
  • B.A., University of Pennsylvania, cum laude in English, with distinction, 1989

Degrees

  • Ph.D., University of Southern California, English Literature, 2008
  • Graduate Certificate in Gender Studies, University of Southern California, 2008
  • M.A., University of Southern California, English Literature, 2002
  • M.F.A., University of California-Irvine, English (Fiction), 1993
  • B.A., University of Pennsylvania, cum laude in English, with distinction, 1989

Areas of Interest

  • American Literature 1865-present
  • Gender and Sexuality Studies
  • Visual Narratives
  • Creative Writing

Courses Taught at Wake Forest

  • English 302 Invert, Pervert, Bull Dagger, Queen: U.S. Queer Fiction in the 20th Century 
  • English 302 Joan Didion and Edmund White: Personal/History
  • English 340 Girls Gone Wild: A Century of Misbehavior 
  • English 325 Visual Narratives: Image, Sequence, Story, Desire
  • English 150 Sexual Revolution!: Gender and Sexuality in the United States, 1950-1980 
  • WGS 321 Introduction to Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Selected Publications

Book

So Famous and So Gay: The Fabulous Potency of Truman Capote and Gertrude Stein. University of Minnesota Press, 2017.

Articles

  • “Gertrude Stein, Opium Queen: Notes on an Unlikely Embrace,” Journal of Lesbian Studies 17.1 (2013): 7-24.
  • “Capote and the Trillings: Homophobia and Literary Culture at Mid-Century,” Twentieth-Century Literature 54.2 (2009): 129-165. Winner of the Andrew J. Kappel Prize for Best Article of the Year.
  • “Young, Effeminate, and Strange: Early Photographic Portraits of Truman Capote.” Studies in Gender and Sexuality 6.3 (2005): 293-326.

Book Chapters

  • “Broadly Queer and Specifically Gay: The Celebrity and Career of Gertrude Stein.” In Literary Careers in the Modern Era, eds. Guy Davidson and Nicola Evans. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015: 77-95.
  • “Down South in Peckerwood: Auntie Mame and Anti-Mom,” The Queer South on Screen, edited by Tison Pugh. Forthcoming.

Short Stories

  • “Best Friend,” short story, Best Gay Stories 2009. Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2010: 15-23.
  • “The Third Breast of Hilda Von Why,” short story, SPECS 1 (2008): 27–34. Nominated for Pushcart Prize, 2009.
  • “A Boy Abroad,” short story, The Loudest Voice. CA: Figueroa Press (2010): 111-119.