Department of History
Appalachian State University

Information

James A. Winders
Curriculum Vitae (Abridged)

Department of History (828) 262-6019/(919) 401-3963
Appalachian State University Fax: (828) 262-4976 
Boone, NC 28608 
e-mail: windersja@appstate.edu    

Education
           
            Ph.D.  Duke University  1976

            Dissertation:  "The Revolt and the Style of Dada, Beat, and Rock"

            M.A.   Duke University  1973
            B.A.*  University of Richmond  1971 (* with honors in history)

Employment

            Professor, Department of History, Appalachian State University, 1978- present
            Chercheur invité, U.F.R. Langues, Lettres et Sciences Humaines, l'Université                            d'Angers, France, Spring 2000 and Fall 2000
            Lecturer, Department of Continuing Education, Duke University, Spring 1978

Major Field

19th and 20th Century French/Western European Cultural and Intellectual                            History; Cultural Studies

Publications/Books:

Paris Africain:  Rhythms of the African Diaspora. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

European Culture Since 1848: From Modern to Postmodern and Beyond. New York: Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, 2001.

Reading for Difference: Texts on Gender, Race, and Class. (with Melissa E. Barth and Thomas McLaughlin). Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1993.

Gender, Theory, and the Canon. Madison: The University of Wisconsin                                          Press, 1991.
 

Publications/Articles:    
       
“Mobility and Cultural Identity: African Music and Musicians in Late Twentieth-Century Paris,” French Historical Studies  29:3 (June, 2006) : 483-508
           
 “European Culture in the Nineteenth Century," in Blackwell Companion toNineteenth-Century Europe (1789-1914) . ed. Stefan Berger. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2006: 291-303
                       
"Stéphane Mallarmé and French Symbolism," in The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism, Revised Edition. Ed. Michael Groden, Martin Kreiswirth, and Imre Szeman. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005: 622-625

"Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels," in the Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism, Revised Edition. Ed. Michael Groden, Martin Kreiswirth, and Imre Szeman. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005: 625-629

"'Le Français dans la rue':  Caribbean Language, Music, and the African Diaspora," in Musical Migrations: Transnationalism and Cultural Hybridity in Latin/oAmerica. Ed. Frances R. Aparicio and Cándida F. Jáquez. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003: 69-80

"French Long Fiction to the 1850s" Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Second Edition Revised, Vol. 8.Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, Inc., 2000: 3812-3826.

"Writing Like a Man (?): Descartes, Science, and Madness," in Feminist
Interpretations of René Descartes. Ed. Susan R. Bordo. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999: 14-40.

"Papa Wemba: Congo Style, Paris Fashion," Rhythm Music III: 6 (June, 1998): 30-31.

"Jimi Mbaye: Heart of Dakar," Rhythm Music III:6 (June, 1998): 38-39.

"Two Chanteuses  Sing the Afro-European Blues," Rhythm Music III:3 (March, 1998): 52-53.

"Reggae, Rastafarians, and Revolution: Rock Music in the Third World," in Reggae, Rasta, Revolution: Jamaican Music From Ska to Dub. Ed. Chris Potash. New York: Schirmer Books, 1997: 14-20.

"Genre, Gender, and the Postmodern Blues," Consumption, Markets & Culture 1:1 (1997): 31-43.

"African Musicians in Contemporary Paris: Postcolonial Culture in Exile,"Contemporary French Civilization XX: 2 (Summer/Fall, 1996): 220-230.    

"Awilo Longomba" and "Nipa," Rhythm Music VI: 1/2 (January/February, 1997): 33-34.

"Put On the Shoes and Think About the Blues: Sixties Bohemianism and Southern Self-Hatred," Southern Quarterly 34:3 (Spring, 1996): 46-56.

"Individ, You All: Constructions and Deconstructions of Self," in Alternative Identities: The Self in Literature, History, Theory Ed. Linda M. Brooks. New York: Garland Publishing Co., 1995; a volume in the series "Wellesley College Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History and Culture," Ed. William Cain: 41-63.

"'Narratime:' Postmodern Temporality and Narrative," Issues in Integrative Studies 11 (1993): 27-43. 

"Stéphane Mallarmé  and French Symbolism," in The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. Ed. Michael Groden and Martin Kreiswirth. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994: 483-486.

"Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels," in The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. Ed. Michael Groden and Martin Kreiswirth. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994: 486-491.

Five articles: "Louis Althusser," "Samuel Beckett," "Jacques Derrida," "Eugène Ionesco," and "Structuralism" in Historical Dictionary of the Fourth and Fifth French Republics, 1946-1991. Ed. Wayne Northcutt. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992.

Writers, Bodies, Subjects: Conflicts in Postmodern Writing Theories." TheWriting Instructor 11:1 (Fall, 1991): 7-16.

"Jean Baudrillard's Concept of 'The Masses:' The Limits of Postmodern French Cultural Theory." Proceedings of the Western Society for French Historical Studies 18 (1991): 470-477.

"Politics of Gender and Temporality in Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle." Critical Exchange 25 (Spring, 1988): 53-62.

"Poststructuralist Theory, Praxis, and the Intellectual." Contemporary Literature 27: 1 (Spring, 1986):  73-84.

Foucault and Marx: A Critical Articulation of Two Theoretical Traditions."New Orleans Review 11: 3/4 (Fall/Winter, 1984): 134-148.

"French Long Fiction to the 1850's." in Critical Survey of Long Fiction: Foreign Language Series, Volume 5. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Salem Press: 2109-2129.

"Reggae, Rastafarians, and Revolution: Rock Music in the Third World." Journal of Popular Culture 17:1 (Summer, 1983): 61-73.

           
plus twenty-eight essay reviews in Theory and Society, Modernism/Modernity, Magill's Literary Annual , and Magill's History Annual; twelve book reviews in American Historical Review, Contemporary French Civilization, H-France,
Rethinking History, Albion, and European Studies Journal.

Professional Affiliations

           Society for French Historical Studies
           Western Society for French History
           Editor, Consumption, Markets & Culture (published by Routledge)
           Editorial Board Member, disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory (University of Kentucky)

Awards and Grants                       

2006 “100 Scholars Award,” Graduate School, Appalachian State University

2004-2005 National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship

I.G. Greer Distinguished Professor, Appalachian State University Department of History, 2003-2005

2002-2003 Outstanding Scholar Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Appalachian State University

February 2000 Appalachian State University Office of International Programs Faculty Foreign Research Travel Grant for research in Dakar, Senegal

September 1999 University of North Carolina Board of Governors Excellence in Teaching Award