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Tim Engles
Introduction Education & Training Publications

Tim Engles

Professor Emeritus of English Email: tdengles@eiu.edu

INTRODUCTION

Tim Engles has taught numerous courses in multicultural and contemporary American literature. He is the author of White Male Nostalgia in Contemporary North American Literature and co-editor of Approaches to Teaching DeLillo's White Noise and Critical Approaches to Don DeLillo. His current research examines representations of white masculinity in literature and film; previous studies have included social media performances of white identity, depictions of judicial racism in young adult literature, and teaching literature in relation to critical whiteness studies. His scholarship, much of which , has appeared in numerous journals, edited books and reference sources, and he serves on the editorial board of the journal MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States.  

Education & Training

PhD, English, University of Georgia
BA, Journalism, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
BA, English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Publications

Books

The Routledge Companion to Don DeLillo. Co-editor with Katie Muth. (under contract)

Palgrave Macmillan (2018);  by Josef Benson

Co-editor with John N. Duvall. Modern Language Association (2006)

Editor. Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society (2006)

 Co-editor with Hugh Ruppersburg. G.K. Hall (2000)

Recent Articles and Book Chapters

"" Annals of Leisure Research 25.3 (2022)

"Race: White Male Mobility." Edited by Jesse Kavadlo. Cambridge University Press (2022)

"." Critical Insights: Conspiracies. Edited by James Plath. Salem Press (2020)

"'I'm Sure You Must Be Somebody': White Masculinity in Don DeLillo's Americana and White Noise."  Edited by Katherine Da Cunha Lewin and Kiron Ward. Bloomsbury (2019)

"."  Edited by Tammie M. Kennedy, Joyce Irene Middleton and Krista Ratcliffe. Southern Illinois University Press (2017)   

"About Schmidt's Whiteness: The Emotional Landscapes of WASP Masculinity." . Edited by Stephen Middleton, David R. Roediger and Donald M. Shaffer. University Press of Mississippi (2016)

"White Male Nostalgia in Don DeLillo's Underworld." . Edited by Len Platt and Sara Upstone. Cambridge University Press (2015)

"'Proof of the loop': Patterns of Habitual Denial in Tim O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods and Don DeLillo's Libra." . Edited by Robert C. Evans. Salem Press (2015)

“" (Co-author with Fern Kory) Children's Literature Association Quarterly 39.1 (Spring 2014)

"" (Co-author with Fern Kory) English Journal 102.4 (March 2013)

Earlier articles and chapters

Reviews

, by Claudia Sadowski-Smith.  Journal of American Studies 53 (2019)

. American Music 35.4 (2017)

 NABMSA: North American British Music Studies Association Reviews 2.2  (2015)

 by Steven J. Belluscio. American Literature 79.3 (2007)

by Andrew Hoberek. South Atlantic Review 72.4 (2007)

, by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster. MELUS: Multiethnic Literature of the United States 29.2 (2004)

, by Stephen P. Knadler. American Literature 76.1 (2004)

“” Review of American Dream, American Nightmare: Fiction since 1960 by Kathryn Hume and Violence in the Contemporary American Novel by James R. Giles. MFS (Modern Fiction Studies) 47.4 (2001)