Kevin Dettmar

Kevin Dettmar splits his research and teaching between British & Irish modernism, especially James Joyce, and contemporary popular music. A literary, music, and cultural critic, he has written for academic anthologies as well as popular publications like The Atlantic Monthly and The Chronicle of Higher Education.

He is the co-editor for Oxford University Press book series Modernist Literature & Culture, and general editor of the Longman Anthology of British Literature.

Professor Dettmar taught at Loyola Marymount University, Clemson University, Columbia University, and Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, before coming to Pomona in 2008.

Gang of Four's "Entertainment!" 33 1/3 Series. London, New York: Bloomsbury, 2014.

Think Rock (Prentice-Hall, 2011)

Editor, Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan (Cambridge University Press, 2009)

Is Rock Dead? (Routledge, 2006)

The Illicit Joyce of Postmodernism: Reading Against the Grain (University of Wisconsin Press, 1996)

Co-Editor with M. Wollaeger, Modernist Literature & Culture book series (Oxford University Press, 2007- )

Twentieth Century Editor, The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature (D.S. Katstan, gen. ed., Oxford University Press, 2006)

Co-Editor with D. Bradshaw, The Blackwell Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture (Blackwell, 2006)

Co-Editor with W. Richey and contributor, Reading Rock & Roll: Authenticity, Appropriation, Aesthetics(Columbia University Press, 1999)

Twentieth-Century Section Co-Editor with J. Wicke, General co-editor with D. Damrosch, beginning with 3/e, Longman Anthology of British Literature (Addison Wesley – Longman Publishers, 1998. Second ed., 2002. Third ed., 2006)