Terry Harpold
Associate Professor
Terry Harpold (PhD, Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, University of Pennsylvania) taught at the Georgia Institute of Technology before joining the UF faculty in 2000. His research interests and teaching include narrative and material operations of digital and print media; psychoanalytic theory; science and literature; and the scientific romance (primarily Jules Verne). Nominated in 2002 and 2005 for an award for teaching excellence in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, he was a winner of the award in 2007.
Recent essays and reviews by Professor Harpold have appeared in journals such as Bulletin de la Société Jules Verne, Game Studies, ImageTexT, IRIS, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Revue Jules Verne, Science Fiction Studies, and South Atlantic Review; and in edited collections such as Playing the Past: History and Nostalgia in Video Games (Vanderbilt University Press, 2008), The Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory (Routledge, 2005), Glossalalia (Edinburgh University Press, 2003), and The New Media Reader (MIT Press, 2003). He is a member of the editorial boards of Game Studies, ImageTexT and Postmodern Culture, a founding member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Verniana: Jules Verne Studies / Etudes Jules Verne, and a Trustee of the Board of Directors of the North American Jules Verne Society.
His current article projects include essays on: expressive typography in the works of American science fiction author Alfred Bester; the critical reception of Jules Verne in Britain and the United States in the early 20th century; “aeronautic horror” fiction of the first decades of heavier-than-air flight (Doyle, Renard, Verne, Wells, and others); and the method of a polyserial reading apparatus devised by Orville W. Owen, a late 19th century American Baconian.
His book Ex-Foliations: Reading Machines and the Upgrade Path, on textual operations of print and digital media, will be published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2008. He is currently working on two other book projects: Aren’t Apricots Peaches?, on the “hysterical science” of Charles Hoy Fort, an early 20th-century chronicler of occult phenomena; and Des Leçons d’abîme, on intertextual “relays” in the fiction of Jules Verne.
Contact
- office: Turlington Hall 4361
- voice: (352) 392-6650, ext. 282
- fax: (352) 392-0860
- email: <tharpold@english.ufl.edu>