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Languages: English and Italian
Citizenship: USA and Italy
Education
Ph.D.
University of Minnesota, English Language and Literature | 1994
M.F.A.
New School University, Creative Writing, Fiction | 2008
M.A.
University of Minnesota, English Language and Literature | 1992
B.A.
University of Texas, with Honors in Humanities | 1987
Appointments
Academic Appointments
2014-present
Full Professor, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy
2008-2014
Associate Professor, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy (On leave for 2012-2013 academic year)
2012-2013
Associate Professor, American University of the Middle East, Kuwait (While on leave from John Cabot University)
2005-2008
Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Maryland University College
2014-present
Full Professor, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy
2008-2014
Associate Professor, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy (On leave for 2012-2013 academic year)
2012-2013
Associate Professor, American University of the Middle East, Kuwait (While on leave from John Cabot University)
2005-2008
Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Maryland University College
Administrative / Service Appointments
2021-2022
Dean of Academic Affairs, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy.
2008-2016
2019-2021
Chair, Department of English Language and Literature, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy.
2010-present
Director, Institute for Creative Writing and Literary Translation, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy
2016-Present
Academic Director, Italy Reads, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy
2009-2016
Founding Director, Italy Reads, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy
2001-2003
Founding Director, Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians, Columbus State University, Columbus, Georgia
2000-2002
Chair, English & Foreign Languages, University of West Florida
1999-2000
Asst. Chair, English & Foreign Languages, University of West Florida
1993-1994
Dissertation Fellow, Department of English, University of Minnesota
1989-1994
Admin. Fellow to Dean, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota
Academic Awards / Honors / Fellowships
2015
Premio Romei, National Award in recognition for founding Italy Reads, Awarded by the Association of Italian High School Principals. Premio Piero Romei, 6a edizione, per l’impegno educativo nei riguardi delle giovani generazioni, 13 marzo 2015, Roma, Associazione nazionale dei derigenti e delle alte professionalità delle scuole.
2009
University of Maryland University College, Stanley J. Drazek Teaching Excellence Award and the UMUC Teaching Recognition Award, Nominee.
2000
Distinguished Teaching Award, University of West Florida, Student Government Association, Nominee.
1990s
This Fine Place So Far From Home: Voices of Academics from the Working Class (Dews/Law: Temple UP, 1994) chosen by Lingua Franca as one of the “best scholarly books of the 1990s.”
1998-1999
Teaching Incentive Program Award, University of West Florida.
1989-1994
Dissertation Fellowship, University of Minnesota Graduate School.
Research Interests
American Literature, Literature and History of the American South, Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams, Walt Whitman, Queer Theory, African-American Literature, LGBT+ studies, Epistolary Studies, Working-Class Studies, Fiction Writing, Literary Theory.
Publications
Dissertation
"Illumination and Night Glare": The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers, a scholarly edition of the
autobiography left incomplete at McCullers's death in 1967.
Books
Dews, Carlos L. Carson McCullers: Interviews. Submitted for consideration to the University of Mississippi Press.
Dews, Carlos L., ed. The Collected Letters of Carson McCullers. New York: HarperCollins, 2024. Boston: In progress. Expected publication date of Spring 2026.
Dews, Carlos L., ed. Carson McCullers: A Centenary Collection. Mobile, Alabama: Negative Capability Press, 2022.
Dews, Carlos. Hush: A Fiction. Mobile, Alabama: Negative Capability Press, 2020.
Dews, Carlos L., ed. Plays, Stories, and Nonfiction Work of Carson McCullers. New York: Library of America, 2017.
Dews, Carlos and S. J. Rozan (writing as Sam Cabot). Skin of the Wolf. New York: Penguin / Blue Rider, 2014.
Dews, Carlos and S. J. Rozan (writing as Sam Cabot). Blood of the Lamb. New York: Penguin/Blue Rider, July 2013.
Dews, Carlos L., ed. The Complete Novels of Carson McCullers. New York: Library of America, 2001.
Dews, Carlos L., and Carolyn Leste Law, eds. Out in the South. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2001.
Dews, Carlos L., ed. "Illumination and Night Glare": The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1999.
Dews, C. L. Barney, and Carolyn Leste Law, eds. This Fine Place So Far From Home: Voices of Academics from the Working Class. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1995.
Series Editor
Dews, Carlos. Series editor for books on Carson McCullers. Mercer UP, Macon, Georgia.
Chapters / Articles / Essays / Interviews / Stories / Poems
Dews, Carlos. “Carson McCullers.” Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature. Oxford University, 2023.
Dews, Carlos. “The Imagination is Truer Than the Reality”: A New Understanding of Carson McCullers’s “Wunderkind.” Invited chapter for collection of essays on Carson McCullers’s short fiction. Edited by Casey Kayser and Alison Graham Bertolini. Macon, Georgia: Mercer UP, 2020.
Dews, Carlos. “My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland (Review).” Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 4, 2020. 4
Dews, Carlos. “Uncles.” Flash fiction. Flash Flood Journal. http://flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/ 15 June 2019.
Dews, Carlos. “Fusako.” Short story. Diodata: Creative Writing from John Cabot University. Issue #1. Summer 2017. 10-15.
Dews, Carlos. “Introduction.” It’s Good Weather for Fudge: Conversing with Carson McCullers. By Sue Walker. Montgomery, AL: New South P, 2017.
Dews, Carlos. “Italy’s New Civil Unions Legislation: An Interview with Prince Jonathan Doria Pamphilij.” The Huffington Post. 13 June 2016.
Dews, Carlos. “’Impromptu Journal of My Heart’: Carson McCullers’s Therapeutic Recordings, April – May 1958.” Invited chapter for collection of essays on Carson McCullers. Carson McCullers in the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Casey Kayser and Alison Graham Bertolini. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Dews, Carlos. “Carson McCullers (1917-1967): ’The Brutal Humiliation of Human Dignity’ in the South.” Georgia Women. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2014. 281- 98.
Dews, Carlos L. and Carolyn Leste Law. "Anti-Intellectualism, Homophobia, and the Working-Class Gay/Lesbian Academic.” Class and the College Classroom. New York: Continuum / Bloomsbury, 2013. Reprint of Dews, Carlos L., and Carolyn Leste Law. "Anti-Intellectualism, Homophobia and the Working Class Gay/Lesbian Academic.” Radical Teacher 53 (Spring 1998): 8-12.
Dews, Carlos. “Presence of Absence.” Exhibition catalog for Irish artist Michelle Rogers. County Mayo, Ireland. August 2010.
Dews, Carlos. “When Racism Masquerades as Something Else.” Editorial. Philadelphia Inquirer. 25 April 2010: n.p. Print. Reprint of “Obama and To Kill a Mockingbird.” Aspenia 45/46. (December 2009): 200-204.
Dews, Carlos. “Obama and To Kill a Mockingbird.” Aspenia 45/46. (December 2009): 200-204.
McKinnie, Betty E. and Carlos Dews. “The Delayed Entrance of Lily Mae Jenkins: Queer Identity and Gender Ambiguity in Carson McCullers’s The Member of the Wedding.” Carson McCullers: Modern Critical Views. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 2009. 87-98. Reprint of “The Delayed Entrance of Lily Mae Jenkins: Queer Identity and Gender Ambiguity in Carson McCullers’s The Member of the Wedding.” Southern Women Playwrights: New Essays in Literary History, Criticism, and Performance. Ed. Linda Rohrer Paige and Robert L. McDonald. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2001.
Dews, Carlos. “Found Poem.” Smyles and Fish. Fall 2008.
Dews, Carlos L. "Carson McCullers." The New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion to Georgia Literature. Ed. Hugh Ruppersburg. Athens: U of Georgia, P, 2007.
Dews, Carlos. Rev. of The Road, by Cormac McCarthy. Smyles and Fish May 2007 .
Dews, Carlos. Rev. of Pluto, Animal Lover, by Laren Stover. Smyles and Fish November 2007 .
Dews, Carlos. “Recoleta.” Short story. Lotus-Eater. Issue #1. October 2014. 24-32. Web. Reprint of “Recoleta” Short story. Scrivener Creative Review. Spring, 2007.
Dews, Carlos. "Recoleta." Short story. Scrivener Creative Review. Spring, 2007.
Dews, Carlos. "The Other Borges: A Fiction." Short story. Conjunctions. Spring 2007.
Dews, Carlos, and James Mayo, ed. “McCullers’s Georgia.” The Oxford American. March 2005.
Dews, Carlos L. "Gender Tragedies: East Texas Cockfighting and Hamlet.” Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines: A Critical Reader. Ed. Diane Freedman and Olivia Frey. Raleigh: Duke UP, 2004. Reprint of “Gender Tragedies: East Texas Cockfighting and Hamlet,” originally published in Journal of Men’s Studies.
Dews, Carlos L. “Pueraria lobata.” Short story. Rebel Yell II. Ed. Jay Quinn. Binghamton, NY: Haworth/Harrington Park, 2002.
Dews, Carlos L. “Carson McCullers.” The History of Southern Women’s Literature. Ed. Carolyn Perry and Mary Louise Weaks. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2002.
Dews, Carlos L. “A Question of Balance,” letter to the editor, New York Times 2 February 2002.
Dews, Carlos L., and Betty McKinnie. “The Delayed Entrance of Lily Mae Jenkins: Queer Identity and Gender Ambiguity in Carson McCullers’s The Member of the Wedding.” Southern Women Playwrights: New Essays in Literary History, Criticism, and Performance. Ed. Linda Rohrer Paige and Robert L. McDonald. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2001.
Dews, Carlos L. “Carson McCullers.” The New Georgia Encyclopedia. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2001.
Brantley, Will, Virginia Spencer Carr, and Carlos L. Dews. “Exotic Birds of a Feather: Carson McCullers and Tennessee Williams.” Transcript of presentation. Edited by Robert Bray. Moderated by Barbara Ewell. The Tennessee Williams Annual Review (Fall 2000): 69-90.
Dews, Carlos L. “Why I Can’t Read Faulkner: Reading and Resisting Southern Masculinity.” Faulkner Journal XV (Fall 1999/Spring 2000): 185-97.
Dews, Carlos L. “Carson McCullers.” Reader’s Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000.
Dews, Carlos L. "Carson McCullers." American National Biography. New York: Oxford UP, 1999.
Dews, Carlos L. “Dr. King Struggled for All People,” letter to the editor, Pensacola News Journal 28 January 1999.
Dews, Carlos L. “Illumination and Night Glare”: Excerpts from Carson McCullers’s Unfinished Autobiography. Cover story. Oxford American 20 (1998): 32-45. Includes excerpts from Illumination and Night Glare and an introduction specifically written for Oxford American, titled “Forever a First Draft.”
Dews, Carlos L., and Carolyn Leste Law. "Anti-Intellectualism, Homophobia and the Working Class Gay/Lesbian Academic.” Radical Teacher 53 (Spring 1998): 8-12.
Dews, Carlos L. "Resisting Henry Ford in the Degree Factory." Communitas X (Fall 1997): 117-25.
Dews, Carlos L. Rev. of This Shining Place, by Simone Poirier-Bures. Creative Nonfiction 8 (1997): 124-25.
Dews, Carlos L. Rev. of Writing Creative Non-fiction: The Literature of Reality, edited by Gay Talese and Barbara Lounsberry. Creative Nonfiction 5 (1996): 114-15.
Dews, Carlos L. "Mentions of Richard Wright in Carson McCullers's Unfinished Autobiography 'Illumination and Night Glare'." Richard Wright Newsletter Spring-Summer (1995): 3-4.
Dews, Carlos L. "Selected Memories," letter to the editor, The New Yorker 6 November 1995.
Dews, C. L. Barney. "Gender Tragedies: East Texas Cockfighting and Hamlet." Journal of Men's Studies February (1994): 253-67.
Dews, C. L. Barney, and Carolyn Leste Law. "The Making of Working-Class Academics: This Fine Place So Far From Home." ERIC, 1993. ED373 350. Paper given at MLA convention, December (1993), full text included in ERIC.
Dews, C. L. Barney, and Martha S. Williams. "Student Musicians' Personality Styles, Stresses, and Coping Patterns." Psychology of Music 17 (1989): 37-47.
Publications in Translation
Dews, Carlos. “Obama e Il buio oltre la siepe.” Aspenia 47. (December 2009): 247- 51. Translation of “Obama and To Kill a Mockingbird.” Aspenia 45/46. (December 2009): 200-204.
McCullers, Carson. Die Autobiographie der Carson McCullers: Illumination and Night Glare. Ed. Carlos L. Dews. Trans. Brigitte Walitzek. Frankfurt: Schoeffling & Co., 2002.
McCullers, Carson. Illuminations et nuits blanches. Ed. Carlos L. Dews. Trans. Jacques Tournier. Paris: 10/18, 2001. 7
McCullers, Carson. Illuminación y fulgor nocturno. Ed. Carlos L. Dews. Trans. Ana Moix and Ana Becciu. Barcelona: Seix Barral, 2001.
McCullers, Carson. [Illumination and Night Glare.] Russian language edition. Ed. Carlos L. Dews. Moscow: KYRK, 2005.
Current Projects
Dews, Carlos. Biographical consultant for documentary film on the life and work of Carson McCullers. Directed by Claudia Muller for ARTE.tv.
Dews, Carlos. Biographical Consultant for feature film on the life and work of Carson McCullers. In preproduction. Screenplay by Sarah Schulman.
Co-Organizer, International Conference, Family Resemblance: Central European Responses to Carson McCullers and the American South, Károli Gáspár University Budapest, Hungary, 2021 (canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic). Hungary, 2021 (canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic)
Dews, Carlos. Truly Yours: A Found Letters Podcast. Under development. Podcast.
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Carson McCullers: The Complete Letters and Comprehensive Digital Resources. Digital Humanities Project.
Brotherman and Sisterwoman: The Friendship of Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers. Monograph.
Carson, Walt, Carlos: A Memoir of Literary Obsession. Monograph.
Hank: An American Family Tragedy. Novel. Dews, Carlos and Steven Estok. Avenue Foch. Treatment for a feature film set in Paris during World War II. Screenplay.
Scholarly Presentations / Lectures / Conference Papers
“‘This Dreadful Sickness Has Left Me So Blank and Weak’: Illness and Disability in the Collected Letters of Carson McCullers.” American Literature Association Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, 24 May 2024.
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Keynote Address. “Friendship Networks in the Collected Letters of Carson McCullers: A Digital Humanities Analysis.” 62nd Annual General Meeting of the American Literature Society of Japan, Sapporo Gakuin University, 21–22 October 2023.
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“The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter: Carson McCullers's Letters and the Search for Healing Love.” Association for Medical Humanities Conference, Material Medicine: Objects, Bodies, and the Haptic, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK, 27 June 2019.
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“Rome/Home,” for session “Grace, Lost & Found: Writers on the Run (An Experiment).” Australasian Associated Writing Programs Conference, Curtin University, Perth, Australia, 28–30 November 2018.
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“Carson and Carlos: Early Explorations Toward a Memoir of a Literary Obsession.” Centre for Stories, Perth, Australia, 27 November 2018.
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“‘I Cannot Possibly Understand Why I Have Not Heard from You’: A Thematic Introduction to the (Love) Letters of Carson McCullers, with Readings from Selected Letters: A Lecture and Discussion.” University of New South Wales, 23 November 2018.
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“‘Impromptu Journal of My Heart’: Carson McCullers’s Therapeutic Recordings, April – May 1958.” Seminar, University of Melbourne, 21 November 2018.
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“Tennessee Williams’s ‘Fugitive Kind’ and the Praxis of (Auto)Biographical Characterization.” Invited Lecture. Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo, Dipartimento di Scienze della Comunicazione, Studi Umanistici e Internazionali: Storia, Culture, Lingue, Letterature, Arti, Media, 23 March 2018.
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“‘My Precious Cousin’: Jordan Massee as Carson McCullers’s Literary Angel” or “Scenes from the Life of a Literary Angel: Textual Sketches for a Drama in Two Acts with Eight Scenes and an Audio-Visual Encore.” Second Annual Jordan Massee Lecture on Southern History and Culture, Sidney Lanier Cottage, Macon, Georgia, 4 March 2018.
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“‘Impromptu Journal of My Heart’: Carson McCullers’s Therapeutic Recordings, April – May 1958, An Introduction, Two Representative Passages, and a Note on Medical/Biographical Ethics.” Conference Paper. Society for the Study of Southern Literature, Boston, 12 March 2016.
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“Are Two Scribes Better than One?” Participant. Panel Discussion. ThrillerFest2013, New York, NY, 13 July 2013. Other participants: S.J. Rozan, Peter James, Catherine Coulter, J.T. Ellison, Douglas Preston, Blake Crouch.
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Keynote Address. Carson McCullers: An Interdisciplinary Conference and 94th Birthday Celebration, Columbus State University, Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians, 18 February 2011.
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“Come si fa un libro: Come un libro tradotto diventa un best seller negli States.” Libri come: Festa del libro e della lettura, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, Italy, 27 March 2010.
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"Carson McCullers: Reading a Life, A Life in Writing." The Big Read, Hometown Perry, Iowa. NEA-sponsored lecture, 2 October 2007.
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“Brotherman and Sisterwoman: Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers.” Tennessee Williams Tribute Conference, Mississippi University for Women, Columbus, Mississippi, 11 September 2004.
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“Fictional Uses of Autobiographical Memory,” Moderator. Southern Women Writers Conference, Berry College, Rome, Georgia, April 1998.
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“Afterword: Out in the South,” for session “Queer Secrets in the South.” Society for the Study of Southern Literature, Orlando, Florida, April 2000.
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“Carson McCullers and the Library of America: What Goes In and What Is Removed: A Roundtable Discussion.” Society for the Study of Southern Literature, Orlando, Florida, April 2000.
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“Queer Theory and Southern Culture,” Respondent to Special Session. South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, Georgia, November 1999.
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“Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers.” Tennessee Williams / New Orleans Literary Festival, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 2000.
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“‘Illumination and Night Glare’: The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers.” Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word, Tennessee Humanities Council, Nashville, Tennessee, October 1999.
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“‘Illumination and Night Glare’: The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers.” Celebration of Books, Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers and Oklahoma State University at Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, October 1999.
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“‘Illumination and Night Glare’: The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers, an Introduction and Reading." American Literature Association Convention, San Diego, California, May 1998.
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“Forever in Her Sister’s Shadow: The Life, Work, and Literary Legacy of Margarita Gachet Smith, Carson McCullers’s ‘Little’ Sister.” Southern Women Writers Conference, Berry College, Rome, Georgia, April 1998.
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“The Gothic and Grotesque,” Session Chair. Society for the Study of Southern Literature, Charleston, South Carolina, April 1998.
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“Thirteen Ways of Looking for a Lesbian: Carson McCullers's Sexuality as a Challenge to Literary Biography.” Queering the South Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, June 1997. Session: “Queering Carson McCullers.”
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“The Necessary Lie: Exaggeration in the Life and Work of Carson McCullers.” American Literature Association Convention, Baltimore, Maryland, May 1997. Session: “Reflections on Carson McCullers.”
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“Anti-Intellectualism, Homophobia and the Working-Class Gay/Lesbian Academic II.” Pedagogy of the Oppressed Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, April 1997. Co-authored with Carolyn Leste Law.
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“Carson McCullers in Nyack,” Keynote Address. Dedication of McCullers's home in Nyack, New York, as a historical site in Rockland County, New York, September 1996.
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“‘Dick and I often discussed the South’: Carson McCullers, Richard Wright, and the Desegregation of Southern Literature.” Southern Women Writers Conference, Berry College, Rome, Georgia, April 1996. Session: "Bridges Across the Color Line."
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“Anti-Intellectualism, Homophobia, and the Working-Class Gay/Lesbian Academic.” Conference on Working Class Lives/Working Class Studies, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio, June 1995. Co-authored with Carolyn Leste Law.
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“This Fine Place So Far From Home: Voices of Academics from the Working Class.” Modern Language Association Convention, Toronto, Ontario, December 1993. Session: “Working-Class Academics: This Fine Place So Far From Home and Liberating Memory.”
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“‘Illumination and Night Glare’ and ‘Illuminations Until Now’: The Unfinished Autobiographical Writings of Carson McCullers.” Fellowship Symposium of Doctoral Dissertation Fellows, Graduate School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, December 1993.
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“Reclaiming the Working-Class Self: Autobiography in This Fine Place So Far From Home.” Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 1993. Session: "Who We Are/Aren't: The Self Narratives of Academia."
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“Lejeune's Autobiographical Pact and Carson McCullers's Autobiographical Fiction: When Does Autobiographical Fiction Become Autobiography?” University of Southern California Conference, New Approaches to Biography: Challenges from Critical Theory, Los Angeles, California, October 1990.
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“Father/Son, Victim/Rescuer, Patient/Healer, Defense/Therapy: Whitman's Unconscious (Ab)Use of the Creative Process.” Retitled: “The Second Individuation Process and Whitman's Early Prose Works.” Fifth Annual Conference, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, The Body and the Body Politic: Interdisciplinary Approaches to 19th-century Self and Society, University of California, Long Beach, California, March 1990.
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“Carson McCullers's Pathological Narcissism.” Texas A & M Conference on Language and Literature, College Station, Texas, March 1989.
Public Presentations and Lectures / Radio Broadcasts / Film Screenings
Dews, Carlos. Truly Yours: A Found Letters Podcast. Under development.
Dews, Carlos. Carlos Dews interview Jenn Shapland. Saints and Sinners Literary Festival. 17 February 2021.
Cotto, Andrew. Bookish: Meet the Author: Carlos Dews. BingeNetworks.tv. Season 1, Episode 12, 2021.
Norwood, Nick. Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians. Weekly We of Me Podcast. Episodes 2, 3, and 4. “Carlos Dews.” 26 June, 3 July, 10 July 2020.
Dews, Carlos, presenter. “Death of the Cockfighters.” BBC World Service Documentary. Produced by Geoff Bird. June 2017.
Radio Interview, “Carson McCullers and Ireland,” The Book Show, RTE Irish Radio, 5 March 2017.
Radio Interview, “Delving Into the Life of Carson McCullers.” Georgia Public Broadcasting, Atlanta, Georgia. 4 February 2017. http://gpbnews.org/post/delving-life-and-work-carson-mccullers
Screening of “Verano,” short film, written by Carlos Dews, directed by Alessandro Ceschi, John Cabot University, 25 January 2017.
National Premiere Screening of “Verano,” short film, written by Carlos Dews, directed by Alessandro Ceschi, 14 January 2017, hosted by Blow-Up, Grottommare, Italy.
Participation in Radio Documentary on Carson McCullers, “Jarvis on McCullers.” BBC Radio 4. Produced by Geoff Bird. 7 February 2016.
Radio Interview, “The Big Read, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird.” Fahrenheit: I libri, la music, le idée. Rai Radio 3. 30 September 2009.
Radio Interview, “Carson McCullers’s The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.” Sonic Theater / The Big Read. Hosted by Jo Reed. XM Satellite Radio. 17 December 2007.
Reading, "Sarah," section of novel in progress. MFA Student Reading. New School University, New York, New York, 27 September 2007.
Lecture, “Brotherman and Sisterwoman: The Friendship of Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers.” Faculty Research Forum, Simon Schwob Memorial Library, Columbus State University, 25 February 2003.
Lecture, “Carson McCullers’s Genealogy.” Muscogee County Genealogical Society Meeting, 12 December 2002.
Book discussion, “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.” Simon Schwob Memorial Library, Columbus State University, 3 October 2002.
Book-signing, “Illumination and Night Glare,” Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Columbus, Georgia, 14 October 2002.
Lecture, “The Poles of Her Life: Columbus, Georgia and Nyack, New York,” 92ndStY, Unterberg Poetry Center, New York, New York, November 2001.
Reading, “A Celebration of Carson McCullers,” 92ndStY, Unterberg Poetry Center, New York, New York, November 2001.
Lecture, “Thirteen Ways of Looking for a Lesbian: Carson McCullers and the Sexuality Question,” Women’s Studies Brown Bag Lecture, University of West Florida, November 2001.
Reading/book-signing, “Out in the South,” Charis Books, Atlanta, Georgia, July 2001.
Reading, “Pueraria lobata,” Writers in the Gallery Series, Fine and Performing Arts Center, University of West Florida, March 2001.
Lecture, “Out in the South / Outing the South: Queer Experience in the Southern United States.” Human Rights Education Forum, University of West Florida, May 2001.
Lecture, “7 Middagh Street: A Work in Progress,” Graduate Biography Writing Seminar, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, Spring 2001.
Lecture, “Finding a Subject Close to Home: Pensacola’s Creative Nonfiction Potential,” West Florida Literary Federation’s Emerald Coast Writers Conference, Pensacola Junior College, Pensacola, Florida, October 2000.
Reading/book-signing, “Illumination and Night Glare,” Barnes and Noble Booksellers, Brooklyn, New York, May 2000.
Reading/book-signing, “Illumination and Night Glare,” Nyack Public Library, Nyack, New York, May 2000.
Reading/book-signing, “Illumination and Night Glare,” Inaugural Speaker, Charleston Literary Roundtable, Southern Literary Heritage, Charleston, South Carolina, December 1999.
Reading/book-signing, “Illumination and Night Glare,” Miami International Bookfair, Miami, Florida, November 1999.
Reading/book-signing, “Illumination and Night Glare,” Charis Books, Atlanta, Georgia, November 1999.
Guest lecture, “Queer Studies / Queer Lives,” Professor Marylou Ruud’s Gender and Diversity Seminar (HIS3990/HIS3990H), University of West Florida, November 1999.
Reading/book-signing, “Illumination and Night Glare,” Southeast Booksellers Association Trade Show, Greensboro, North Carolina, October 1999.
Reading/book-signing, “Illumination and Night Glare,” Lemuria Books, Jackson, Mississippi, October 1999.
Reading/book-signing, “Illumination and Night Glare,” SOHO Gallery, Pensacola, Florida, August 1999.
Lecture/discussion, Artel Gallery, Pensacola, Florida, “Building the Bridge Between Fact and Memory: Research and Creative Non-Fiction,” January 1999.
Lecture/discussion, Catholic High School, Pensacola, Florida, October 1997, "American Literature."
Lecture/discussion, Artel Gallery, Pensacola, April 1997, "Writing from Life: Memory and Paradox."
Panel member, Progressive Forum, sponsored by the University of West Florida College Democrats, University of West Florida, February 1997.
Guest reading, Bookstar Bookstore, New Orleans, Louisiana, at celebration reading of Will Fellows's Farm Boys: Lives of Gay Men from the Rural Midwest. Selections from work in progress "Unsent Letters to the Living and the Dead," January 1997.
Lecture/discussion, Pensacola Public Library, Carson McCullers's The Member of the Wedding, Fall 1996.
Lecture/discussion, Pensacola Public Library, Frank Chin's China Boy, Spring 1996.
Lecture/discussion, Pensacola Public Library, Peter Taylor's A Summons to Memphis, Fall 1995.
Lecture/discussion, Books a Million, John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Fall 1995.
Guest lecture, "Autobiographical Criticism," Professor Terry Prewitt's anthropology course (ANT4990), "Aesthetics and Critical Theory," University of West Florida, Fall 1994.
Interview, BBC radio documentary (Love Me!) on the life and work of Carson McCullers, produced by Noah Richler, BBC Radio Channel 3, aired in Great Britain, August 1995.
Grants / Awards / Fellowships / Advances
Sabbatical Award, John Cabot University, 2025.
Grant in Support of Image Selection and Rights Acquisition for Collection of Carson McCullers’s Letters, Anonymous Donor, 15,000 U.S. dollars.
Sabbatical Award, John Cabot University, 2018-2019. 35,000 euro.
Grant in Support of Publication of Selected Letters of Carson McCullers. BIN Charitable Foundation, Durham, North Carolina. April 2019. 25,000 U.S. dollars.
Advance in Support of Publication of Selected Letters of Carson McCullers. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. December 2018. 40,000 U.S. dollars.
Faculty Development Fund Grant in support of participation in Australasian Associated Writing Programs Conference and Lectures at Australian Universities. 2,185 euro. November 2018.
Faculty Development Fund Grant in support of participation in Carson McCullers centenary celebration, John Cabot University. 700 euro. February 2017.
Faculty Development Fund Grant in support of conference paper presentation, Society for the Study of Southern Literature, John Cabot University. 1,260.13 euro. March 2016.
Faculty Development Fund Grant in support of ongoing research on Carson McCullers, John Cabot University. 1,000 euro. Summer 2015.
Grant from the U.S. Embassy in Rome in support of Italy Reads. Ongoing. Average annual amount 10,000 U.S. dollars.
Grant from U.S. Embassy in Rome in support of the Institute for Creative Writing and Literary Translation. Ongoing. Annual average 5,000 euro.
The Big Read Rome 2009, National Endowment for the Arts, Award amount: 10,000 U.S. dollars. To support The Big Read Rome at John Cabot University during Fall term 2009.
Hobby Fellowship 2005-2006, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Award amount: 2,500 U.S. dollars. To support archival research for Brotherman and Sisterwoman: The Friendship of Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers.
Faculty Small Grant Award, Research and Graduate Studies, University of West Florida, Summer 2002, Award amount: 2,000 U.S. dollars. To support research for Brotherman and Sisterwoman: The Literary Friendship of Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers.
Summer Research Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, University of West Florida, Summer 2001, Award amount: 3,000 U.S. dollars. To support research for 7 Middagh Street: An American Salon.
Small Grant Award, Office of Graduate Studies, University of West Florida, Summer 2000, Award amount: 2,000 U.S. dollars. To support research for book, 7 Middagh Street: An American Salon.
University of West Florida Foundation, Distance Learning Initiative Grant, Summer 1999, Award amount: 6,000 U.S. dollars. In support of web-based course, The Modern Short Story, Summer term 1999.
University of West Florida, Teaching Incentive Program Award, University of West Florida, awarded in 1998-99. 10,000 U.S. dollars annually from 1999 to 2002. Total award: 40,000 U.S. dollars.
University of West Florida Foundation, Distance Learning Initiative Grant, Summer 1998, Award amount: 5,000 U.S. dollars. In support of the development of web-based course, The Modern Short Story.
John C. Pace Summer Enhancement Award, University of West Florida, Summer 1996, Award amount: 5,000 U.S. dollars. In support of critical edition of Carson McCullers's unfinished autobiography, Illumination and Night Glare.
Small Grant Award, Office of Research and Graduate Studies, University of West Florida, Summer 1996, Award amount: 2,000 U.S. dollars. To support archival and interview research for critical edition of Carson McCullers's unfinished autobiography Illumination and Night Glare.
Dissertation Special Grant, University of Minnesota, Graduate School, Winter/Spring 1994, to cover travel expenses related to completion of dissertation project.
Research Project Grant, University of Minnesota, Graduate School, Fall/Winter 1991-92, to cover expenses of book project, This Fine Place So Far From Home, co-edited with Carolyn Leste Law.
AIDS/HIV education grant, OASIS, Ft. Walton Beach, Florida, 2,200 U.S. dollars to conduct HIV workshops on campus sponsored by GLOBAL.
AIDS/HIV education grant, Red Ribbon Charitable Foundation, Gulf Breeze, Florida, 1,100 U.S. dollars to provide AIDS/HIV awareness programming for the University of West Florida Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual community.
Teaching Experience
John Cabot University
Undergraduate Courses
Literature and Psychoanalysis
Literary and Cultural Theory
Foundations for Advanced Literary Studies
Creative Writing and Literature: How to Read Like a Writer
Introduction to Creative Writing
Creative Writing: Fiction Workshop
Introduction to Literature Survey of American Literature
Topics in American Literature: Whitman and Ginsberg
Topics in American Literature: Harper Lee
Topics in American Literature: Carson McCullers
Topics in American Literature: Tennessee Williams
Topics in American Literature: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Topics in American Literature: Toni Morrison
Topics in American Literature: Walt Whitman
Topics in American Literature: A History of African-American Literature
Topics in American Literature: Escape, Desire, and Identity: Queer Drama of the American South.
Composition I
Composition II
Composition III
Literary Theory