| Stacey
Olster's area
of concentration is contemporary literature,
primarily contemporary American fiction. Her first book, Reminiscence
and Re-Creation in Contemporary American Fiction, examines literature
with respect to history and politics. Her second book, The
Trash
Phenomenon, explores
literature in conjunction with popular
culture.
Not surprisingly, her most committed relationship is with her
television set and combination DVD-VCR player. |
Stacey Olster
Professor. Ph.D., University of Michigan; American Literature; Twentieth-Century Fiction; Popular Culture; Film.2080 Humanities
stacey.olster@stonybrook.edu
631-632-9817
Courses:
Fall 2009
- On Leave
Awards:
- Lilly Endowment Faculty Awards Fellowship (1986-87)
- President's Award for Excellence in Teaching (1986-87)
- Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching (1987-88)
- Fulbright Scholar Award (1989-90)
Selected Publications
Books
- Editor. Don DeLillo: Mao II, Underworld and Falling Man. Continuum Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction. London: Continuum (under contract).
- Editor. The Cambridge Companion to John Updike. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- The Trash Phenomenon: Contemporary Literature, Popular Culture, and the Making of the American Century. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003.
- Reminiscence and Re-Creation in Contemporary American Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Articles
- "The Nonfiction Novel." The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction after 1945. Ed. John N. Duvall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (under contact).
- "Frederick Busch -- Chronicler of the Lost and Found." Critique (forthcoming)
- "Trash Fiction." A Companion to Modern United States Fiction. Ed. David Seed. Oxford: Blackwell (forthcoming).
- "The Way We Were(n't): Origins and Empire in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon." American Fiction of the 1990s: Reflections of History and Culture. Ed. Jay Prosser. London: Routledge, 2008. 107-119.
- "White Noise." The Cambridge Companion to Don DeLillo. Ed. John N. Duvall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 79-93.
- "Lot 49 and the Novel of Systems." Approaches to Teaching Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 and Other Works. Ed. Thomas H. Schaub. New York: Modern Language Association, 2008. 66-75.
- "Rabbit Rerun: Updike's Replay of Popular Culture in Rabbit at Rest." Rpt. in John Updike: The Critical Responses to the "Rabbit" Saga. Ed. Jack De Bellis. Critical Responses in Arts and Letters. Westport, CT: Praeger-Greenwood, 2005. 174-86.