Vita for Aaron Jaffe

Curriculum Vitae

Aaron Jaffe

August 07, 2018

General Information

University address:	English
College of Arts and Sciences
Williams Building 0405
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida 32306-1580

E-mail address:	ajaffe@fsu.edu

Professional Preparation

2001	Doctor of Philosphy, Indiana University. Major: English. 

1997	Master of Arts, Indiana University. Major: English. 

1993	BA, Colgate University. Major: English. High honors. 

Professional Experience

2016–present	Professor, ENGLISH, Florida State University. 

2012–2016	Full Professor of English, English, University of Louisville. 

2007–2012	Associate Professor of English, University of Louisville. 

2003–2007	Assistant Professor of English, University of Louisville. 

Visiting Professorship(s)

2002–2003	Visiting Lecturer in English, Indiana University. 

2000–2002	Lecturer in English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 

Honors, Awards, and Prizes

Principle Investigator on Department of State Grant for the Study of the United States, Institute on Contemporary American Literature (2016). ($300,000). 
Principle Investigator on Department of State Grant for the Study of the United States, Institute on Contemporary American Literature (2015). ($300,000). 
Arts and Sciences Outstanding Scholarship, Research, and Creative Activity Award in the Humanities, University of Louisville (2012). 
Distinguished University-wide Faculty Award for Research, University of Louisville (2012). 
Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, Germany, 2009-2011 (2011). 
Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, Germany, 2009-2011 (2010). 
Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, Germany, 2009-2011 (2009). 
International Travel Center, International Travel Grant (2005). 
Mellon Fellowship, Harry Ransom Research Center, University of Texas (2005). 
Professional Development Grant, University of Louisville (2005). 
Mellon Fellowship, Harry Ransom Research Center, University of Texas (2004). 
Project Initiation Grant, University of Louisville (2004). 
Research Project Funds, Commonwealth Center for the Humanities and Society (2004). 
Victor A. Olorunsola Endowed Research Award for Young Scholars, University of Louisville (2004). 
Senior Member of the Graduate Faculty, University of Louisville (2003). 
International Travel Grant, University of Louisville (2003). 
Professional Development Grant, University of Louisville (2003). 
Project Completion Grant, University of Louisville (2003). 
Victor A. Olorunsola Endowed Research Award for Young Scholars, University of Louisville (2003). 
Fathman Prize for Junior Scholar in Eliot Studies, T.S. Eliot Society (2002). 
Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, University of Illinois (2001). 
Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, University of Illinois (2000). 
Gaither Prize for best British literature seminar paper – "Am I Not a Brother and a Worker?: British Antislavery (1839-1846) and Humanitarian Ideology,", English Department, Indiana University (1997). 
Graduate Exchange Fellowship for study at the Free University of Berlin (1996). 
Graduate Exchange Fellowship for study at the Free University of Berlin (1995). 
Cum Laude, Colgate University (1993). 
High Honors, Thesis Defense, – "Théophile Gautier, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot: Visions and Revisions of Modernism.", Colgate University (1993). 
Merrill Scholarship for Graduate Study, Colgate University (1993). 

Teaching

Courses Taught

Critical Issues in Literary Studies (ENG3014)
Studies in English (ENG4932)
Currents in Contemporary Literature (LIT4093)
Topics in English (ENG5933)
London, 1914 (London summer course)
Faulkner
Graduate Seminar: Alien Epistemologies
Graduate Seminar: George Orwell
Graduate Seminar: Weird Media
Interpretive Theory
Introduction to Graduate Study in English
Introduction to the English Major
Literary Movements: 1913
Modern American Literature
Special Topics: Alien Epistemologies
British Literature II
Graduate Seminar: Frankfurt and Birmingham Do Los Angeles
Graduate Seminar: Joseph Conrad
Graduate Seminar: Second Modernism
Graduate Seminar: Theory after Cultural Studies
Interpretive Theory
Introduction to Graduate Study in English (3)
Modern British and Irish Literature
Modern Poetry
Modernism
Principles of Composition and Rhetoric (6)
Special Topics: Pulp and Cult
British Literature Survey, II (2)
Graduate Seminar: Cosmopolitanism
Graduate Seminar: Walter Benjamin
Honors Seminar: Intellectuals
Intermediate College Writing
Introduction to Graduate Study in English (3)
Modern British and Irish Literature (3)
Modern British Literature
Modern British Literature
Writing about Literature: Autonomous Selves
Writing about Literature: Modern Allegories
"America Inside Out," Principles of Composition for Non-native Speakers (2)
British Fiction to 1800
Introduction to Fiction (3)
Contemporary American Fiction, 1945-the present
Introduction to Poetry
The British Novel
The Short Story, World War I to the Present (3)
History and Structure of the English Language
Introduction to Literature
Introduction to Literature
Introduction to Poetry
Principles of Composition
Principles of Composition for Non-native Speakers
Professional Writing

Doctoral Committee Chair

Mauk, M. S.,, doctoral student. 

Doctoral Committee Member

Stricklin, R. B., doctoral candidate. 
Mauk, M. S., doctoral student. 
Mears, E. L., doctoral student. 
Michaels, C. B., doctoral student. 
Patterson, L., doctoral student. 

Master's Committee Chair

Mastnick, L., student. 

Master's Committee Member

Cottle, J., student. 
Preston, N. P., student. 

Research and Original Creative Work

Research Fellow, Ransom Humanities Center, University of Texas, 2005. Doctoral Researcher, Bodleian Library, Oxford University, 1999-2000. Conducted full-time dissertation research in Oxford and London. Government Documents Assistant, Main Library, Indiana University, 1994-95, 1996-97. Visiting Graduate Student, Free University of Berlin, 1995-96. Research Assistant for Prof. Cynthia Griffin Wolff, Class of 1922 Professor of Humanities, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993. 

Publications

Invited Journal Articles

Jaffe, A. (2017). Experience to Experiment, Signs to Signals: Towards Vilém Flusser's New World. American Literature as World Literature, 187-208.

Jaffe, A. (2016). Paleolithic Media: Deep Time and Pound's Method. Ezra Pound in the Present: Essays on Pound's Contemporaneity, 45-74.

Jaffe, A. (2016). THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER: Information at the Literary Limit. The Year's Work in the Oddball Archive, 279-306.

Jaffe, A. (2015). Total Unconscious: Jameson, Conrad, and James. Henry James Review, 36:3, 257-266.

Jaffe, A. (2014). Zombie Demographics. The Year's Work at the Zombie Research Center, 89-115.

Jaffe, A., & Comentale, E. (2014). Introduction: The Zombie Research Center FAQ. The Year's Work at the Zombie Research Center, 1-58.

Jaffe, A. (2013). Modern Novelty. Affirmations: of the modern, 1:1, n.p. Retrieved from http://affirmations.arts.unsw.edu.au/index.php?journal=aom&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=7&path%5B%5D=95

Jaffe, A., & Hart, M. (2013). Interview with Tom McCarthy. Contemporary Literature, 5:4, 586-682.

Jaffe, A. (2011). Publishing, Patronage and Censorship. A Handbook of Modernisms, 315-334.

Jaffe, A. (2010). Orlando Pimpernel. Modernist Star Maps, 37-54.

Jaffe, A., & Goldman, J. (2010). General Introduction. Modernist Star Maps, 1-18.

Jaffe, A. (2009). Signs Taken for Wonders: The Symptom of Oprah. Religion and Culture Forum/The Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion/University of Chicago Divinity School, n.p.

Jaffe, A. (2009). Brunswick/Fluxus. The Year's Work in Lebowski Studies, 427-444.

Jaffe, A. (2009). Inventing the Radio Cosmopolitan: Vernacular Modernism at a Standstill. Broadcasting Modernism, 11-31.

Jaffe, A. (2009). Joyce's Afterlives: Why He Didn't Win the Nobel Prize. James Joyce: Visions and Revisions, 189-214.

Jaffe, A. (2009). T.S. Eliot is Boffo!: Celebrity, Obituary, Modernism. A Companion to T. S. Eliot, 423-435.

Jaffe, A. (2009). Varian Fry e le origini del modernismo Americano. Il Novecento USA: Narrazioni e culture letterarie del secolo Americano, 83-98.

Jaffe, A., & Comentale, E. (2009). General Introduction. The Year's Work in Lebowski Studies, 1-37.

Jaffe, A. (2007). The Authenticity of Jargon and Percival Everett's Erasure: A Set with Ten Elements. Percival Everett: Transatlantic Readings, 73-88.

Jaffe, A. (2005). James Bond, Meta-Brand. The Cultural Politics of Ian Fleming and 007, 87-106.

Refereed Journal Articles

Jaffe, A. (2016). Who's Afraid of the Inhuman Woolf? Modernism/Modernity, 23:3, 491-513.

Jaffe, A. (2010). Nothing Risked, Nothing Gained: Richard Powers' Gain and the Horizon of Risk. Transatlantica, 02, n.p. Retrieved from transatlantica.revues.org/4632

Jaffe, A. (2003). Adjectives and the Work of Modernism in an Age of Celebrity. The Yale Journal of Criticism 16:1 (2003) 1-37, 16:1, 1-37.

Jaffe, A. (2003). Modernism is Ordinary. Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism, 4, 156-167.

Jaffe, A. (2000). Seditious Appetites and Creeds: Shadwell's Libertine and Hobbes' Fools. Restoration, 24:2, 55-74.

Refereed Books

Jaffe, A. (2014). The Way Things Go: An Essay on the Matter of Second Modernism. University of Minnesota Press. 

Jaffe, A. (2014). The Year's Work at the Zombie Research Center. Indiana University Press. 

Jaffe, A. (2010). Absolute(ly) Big Lebowski (German translation of The Year's Work in Lebowski Studies. Orange Press. 

Jaffe, A. (2010). Modernist Star Maps. Ashgate. 

Jaffe, A. (2009). Modernism and the Culture of Celebrity (paperback). Cambridge University Press. 

Jaffe, A. (2009). The Year's Work in Lebowski Studies. Indiana University Press. 

Jaffe, A. (2005). Modernism and the Culture of Celebrity. Cambridge University Press. 

Jaffe, A. (2005). Modernism and the Culture of Celebrity. Cambridge University Press. 

Edited Books

Jaffe, A., & Comentale, E. (Eds.). (2014). The Year's Work at the Zombie Research Center. Indiana University Press. 

Jaffe, A., & Comentale, E. (Eds.). (2010). Absolute(ly) Big Lebowski. Orange. 

Jaffe, A., & Goldman, J. (Eds.). (2010). Modernist Star Maps: Celebrity, Modernity, Culture. Ashgate. 

Jaffe, A., & Comentale, E. (Eds.). (2009). The Year's Work in Lebowski Studies. Indiana University Press. 

Invited Book Chapters

Jaffe, A. (2009). Varian Fry e le origini del modernismo Americano. In Sara Antonelli, & Giorgio Mariana (Eds.), Il Novecento USA: Narrazioni e culture letterarie del secolo Americano (pp. 83-98). Carocci. 

Refereed Book Chapters

Jaffe, A. (contract). The Lingering Louche: Absinthe, the Green Demon of Alternative Modernity. Manuscript under contract for publication, Indiana University Press. 

Jaffe, A. (in press). Canto 12. In Richard Parker (Ed.), Readings in the Cantos (20 pages). Clemson University Press. 

Jaffe, A. (2016). Paleolithic Media: Deep Time and Ezra Pound's Methods. In Josephine Park, & Paul Stasi (Eds.), Ezra Pound in the Present: Essays on Pound's Contemporaneity (pp. 45-74). Bloombury. 

Jaffe, A. (2016). THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER: Information at the Literary Limit. In Jonathan Eburne, & Judith Roof (Eds.), The Year's Work in the Oddball Archive (pp. 279-306). Indiana University Press. 

Jaffe, A. (2014). Zombie Demographics. In Aaron Jaffe, & Edward Comentale (Eds.), The Year's Work at the Zombie Research Center (pp. 89-115). Indiana University Press. 

Jaffe, A., & Comentale, E. (2014). Introduction: The Zombie Research Center FAQ. In Aaron Jaffe, & Edward Comentale (Eds.), The Year's Work at the Zombie Research Center (pp. 1-58). Indiana University Press. 

Jaffe, A. (2011). Publishing, Patronage and Censorship. In Peter Brooker, Andrzej Gasiorek, Deborah Parsons, & Andrew Thacker (Eds.), A Handbook of Modernisms (pp. 315-334). Oxford University Press. 

Jaffe, A. (2010). Orlando Pimpernel. In Aaron Jaffe, & Jonathan Goldman (Eds.), Modernist Star Maps (pp. 37-54). Ash gate. 

Jaffe, A., & Goldman, J. (2010). General Introduction: Modernist Star Maps. In Aaron Jaffe, & Jonathan Goldman (Eds.), Modernist Star Maps (pp. 1-18). Ashgate. 

Jaffe, A. (2009). Brunswick/Fluxus. In Aaron Jaffe, & Edward Comentale (Eds.), The Year's Work in Lebowski Studies (pp. 427-444). Indiana University Press. 

Jaffe, A. (2009). Inventing the Radio Cosmopolitan: Vernacular Modernism at a Standstill. In Michael Coyle, Debra Rae Cohen, & Jane Lewty (Eds.), Broadcasting Modernism (pp. 11-31). University of Florida Press. 

Jaffe, A. (2009). Joyce's Afterlives: Why He Didn't Win the Nobel Prize. In Sean Latham (Ed.), James Joyce: Visions and Revisions (pp. 189-214). Irish Academic Press. 

Jaffe, A. (2009). T.S. Eliot is Boffo!: Celebrity, Obituary, Modernism. In David Chinitz (Ed.), A Companion to T. S. Eliot (pp. 423-435). Wiley-Blackwell Press. 

Jaffe, A., & Comentale, E. (2009). "General Introduction: The Year's Work in Lebowski Studies. In Aaron Jaffe, & Edward Comentale (Eds.), The Year's Work in Lebowski Studies (pp. 1-37). Indiana University Press. 

Jaffe, A. (2007). The Authenticity of Jargon and Percival Everett's Erasure: A Set with Ten Elements. In Claire Maniez, & Anne-Laure Tissut (Eds.), Percival Everett: Transatlantic Readings (pp. 73-88). Editions Le Manuscrit, Paris. 

Jaffe, A. (2005). James Bond, Meta-Brand. In Edward Comentale, Clyde Willman, & Stephen Watt (Eds.), The Cultural Politics of Ian Fleming and 007 (pp. 87-106). Indiana University Press. 

Refereed Reviews

Jaffe, A. (2015). Curious Visions of Modernity: Enchantment, Magic, and the Sacred (MIT, 2011). Criticism, 57, 4.

Jaffe, A. (2013). Wyndham Lewis and the Cultures of Modernity. Clio, 42.3, 420-424.

Jaffe, A. (2012). A Short History of Celebrity, Modernism/Modernity. 19.1, 208-209.

Jaffe, A. (2012). The Year's Work in English Studies. XVI: 91.

Jaffe, A. (2010). Modernist Cultural Studies. Clio, 39.3, 416-420.

Jaffe, A. (2010). The Year's Work in English Studies. XVI: 89.

Jaffe, A. (2010). Violent Affect. Symplokē, 18.1-2, 407-409.

Jaffe, A. (2009). The Professional Literary Agent in Britain, 1880-1920. James Joyce Quarterly, 46.2, 309-402.

Jaffe, A. (2009). The Year's Work in English Studies. XV: 88, 867-878.

Jaffe, A. (2008). Troubling Minds: The Cultural Politics of Genius in the United States, 1840-1890. Henry James Review 29.2, 216-218.

Jaffe, A. (2008). The Year's Work in English Studies. XIV: 87, 863-873.

Jaffe, A. (2005). Cultural Production and the British Avant-Garde. Modernism/Modernity 12.3, 529-530.

Jaffe, A. (2002). Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community. Symplokē, 10:1-2, 227-228.

Jaffe, A. (2001). The Avant-Garde in Interwar England. Modernism/ Modernity 8:1, 181-183.

Presentations

Refereed Papers at Conferences

Jaffe, A. (presented 2018, February). Spoilers, Triggers, Black Boxes, Imipolex G. Paper presented at 46th Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, N/A. (Regional)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2017, November). Precariousness: On the Uses and Abuses of Credit and Debit for Life. Paper presented at the meeting of Society for Literature Science and the Arts, Phoenix. (Regional)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2017, October). Poetry as Data Exhaust: The Case of Ben Lerner. Paper presented at the meeting of Association for the Studies of the Arts of the Present, University of California, Berkeley, CA. (Regional)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2017, August). Connecting: From Plastic Man to Pynchon. Paper presented at the meeting of Modernist Studies Association 19, Amsterdam. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2017, August). Get Connected: Modernity as Precarious Connectivity. Paper presented at the meeting of Modernist Studies Association 19, Amsterdam. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2017, July). Precarity: On the Uses and Abuses of Credit and Debit for Affect and Art. Paper presented at the meeting of ACLA, Utrecht. (Regional)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2017, June). Biopolitical Junkyards, Remediation, and Risk. Paper presented at the meeting of Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Atlanta. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2017, February). Towards Flusser's New World. Paper presented at the meeting of The 45th Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, Louisville, KY. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2017, January). Bad Faith about Things. Paper presented at the meeting of MLA, Philadelphia. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2016, November). Cunning, Scale, and Vision of Xenomodernism. Paper presented at the meeting of SLSA, Atlanta. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2016, November). Deep Time Descending. Paper presented at the meeting of MSA, Pasadena, CA. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2016, March). In Other Words, in an Extra(m)oral Sense: Vilém Flusser's Existence Philosophy. Paper presented at the meeting of ACLA, Harvard University. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2015, November). Biopolitical Junkyards, Remediation and Risk: Blood, Sex, and Soil. Paper presented at the meeting of ACLA, Houston. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2015, November). Experimental Paleofuturism. Paper presented at the meeting of MSA, Boston. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2015, October). Being, Online and Off: The Work of H in an Age of D. Paper presented at the meeting of the John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture, Rice University. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2015, June). Woolf's Inhuman Turn. Paper presented at the meeting of Masterclass, University of New South Wales. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2015, March). Biopolitical Deep Time. Paper presented at the meeting of ACLA, Seattle. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2014, November). Who's Afraid of the Inhuman Woolf? Paper presented at the meeting of MSA, Pittsburgh. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2014, June). Experimental Paleofuturism. Paper presented at the meeting of SLSAeu, Turin. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2014, March). Experimental Paleofuturism. Paper presented at the meeting of ACLA, New York. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2013, August). Modernist Paleofuturism and Deep Temporal Drift. Paper presented at the meeting of MSA 15: Conference of the Modernist Studies Association, University of Sussex. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2013, August). Not Things, Non-things and Nothing. Paper presented at the meeting of Modernist Inhumanism, University of Notre Dame London Centre. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2013, April). Modernism's Heteronymous Autonomous. Paper presented at the meeting of ACLA, Toronto. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2013, February). What Was a Book: a Modernist Love Story. Paper presented at the meeting of N/A, Hamilton College. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2013, February). Zombies vs. Professors: The Zombie Turn in Cultural Theory. Paper presented at the meeting of Division of the Arts and Humanities Colloquium, Colgate University. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2012, October). How to do Modernist Things with Lovecraft. Paper presented at the meeting of MSA 14: Conference of the Modernist Studies Association, Las Vegas. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2012, May). Modernist Knowledge at the Post-literary Limit. Paper presented at the meeting of Generation M: Resetting Modernist Time, University of Amsterdam. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2012, April). WE HAVE TO CONTROL IT FOR THEM!: Z-Grams, Horizons and the Zombie turn. Paper presented at the meeting of PROFESSOR vs. ZOMBIES symposium, Louisville, Kentucky. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2011, October). Utopian Search Engines: Computable Knowledge at the Literary Limit. Paper presented at the meeting of MSA, Buffalo, NY. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2011, July). "Ezra Pound, Walter Benjamin, Failed Academics,". Paper presented at the meeting of 24th Ezra Pound International Conference, Institute for English Studies, London. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2011, May). Absolute(ly) Big Lebowski: Cultural Theory and the Dude. Paper presented at the meeting of N/A, Chemnitz, Dresden, Freiburg, Nürnberg, Berlin, Munich, Leipzig, Germany. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2011, April). 3 Post-literary Horizons. Paper presented at the meeting of Post 45, Cleveland, OH. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2011, March). 3 Zombie Horizons. Paper presented at the meeting of Kentucky Philological Association, Kentucky State University. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2011, March). The Sleeper Awakes. Paper presented at the meeting of The Archive of Unreason, American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Vancouver, Canada. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2011, January). Sherlock Holmes, Off the Shelf. Paper presented at the meeting of Modernism and Branding, 126th MLA Annual Convention, Los Angeles. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2011, January). Zompocalypse Now. Paper presented at the meeting of Special Panel, Modernism's Exquisite Corpses, MLA, Seattle, WA. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2010, November). Wellsian Time and Modernist Outliers. Paper presented at the meeting of MSA 12: Conference of the Modernist Studies Association, Victoria, BC. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2010, June). Felt: Beuysian Materials. Paper presented at the meeting of The 6th European Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Riga, Latvia. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2010, May). Lebowski and Method: A Workshop on Cultural Phenomenology. Paper presented at the meeting of Masters Seminar, Università di Torino, Italy. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2010, February). The Unpleasant Profession of Varian Fry: Modernist Poetry, Cultural Value, and Administration. Paper presented at the meeting of English Department Lecture Series, University of Amsterdam. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2010, January). The Unpleasant Profession of Varian Fry: Modernist Poetry, Cultural Value, and Administration. Paper presented at the meeting of W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture, Department of English and American Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2009, November). THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER: Asimov, Ballard and Computable Knowledge at the Post-literary Limit. Paper presented at the meeting of Style in Theory/Styling Theory, University of Malta, Malta. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2009, September). Katherine Mansfield and the Invention of Suburbia. Paper presented at the meeting of Conference of the Katherine Mansfield Society, Menton, France. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2009, June). The Cosmopolitan and the Amorous Event: Ezra Pound, Walking. Paper presented at the meeting of 23rd Annual Ezra Pound International Conference, Rome, Italy. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2009, March). Risky Modernity. Paper presented at the meeting of American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Harvard. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2009, March). The Unpleasant Profession of Varian Fry: Modernism, Cultural Value and the Holocaust. Paper presented at the meeting of Humanities-Controversies-Cultures Lecture Series, University of Louisville. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2009, March). To My Brother George: Louisville, Kentucky and the Minor Literary Anecdote. Paper presented at the meeting of 36th Annual Meeting of the Kentucky Philological Association, Kentucky Wesleyan College: Owensboro, Kentucky. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2008, November). Modernist Risk Management. Paper presented at the meeting of MSA 10: Conference of the Modernist Studies Association, Nashville, TN. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2008, April). Nothing Risked, Nothing Gained: Richard Powers' Gain, J.G. Ballard's Drowned World, and the Horizon of Risk. Paper presented at the meeting of Richard Powers Symposium, Université Paris-IV. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2007, October). Ulrich Beck's Second Modernity. Paper presented at the meeting of Fables of Modernity Symposium, co-organized with Matthew Hart, Los Angeles. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2007, March). Degraded Aristocrats and Celebrity Superheroes: Smuggling the Notable-Extraordinary Across the Great Divide. Paper presented at the meeting of 34th Annual Meeting of the Kentucky Philological Association, Union College, Barbourville, KY. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2007, March). Virginia Woolf: A Star is Born. Paper presented at the meeting of Opening Event. Modernism and Gender Exhibition. Ekstrom Library Rare Books Collection, University of Louisville. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2006, March). The Authenticity of Jargon: Percival Everett and the Names of Expositivity. Paper presented at the meeting of Colloques: Représentations croisées dans l'œuvre de Percival Everett, Université Stendhal, Grenoble, France. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2006, March). The Authenticity of Jargon: Percival Everett and the Names of Expositivity. Paper presented at the meeting of 33nd Annual Meeting of the Kentucky Philological Association, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2005, December). Modernism and Obituary. Paper presented at the meeting of MLA, Washington, DC. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2005, November). The Unpleasant Profession of Varian Fry. Paper presented at the meeting of MSA 7: Conference of the Modernist Studies Association, Loyola University. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2005, September). T.S. Eliot, Celebrity and Obituary. Paper presented at the meeting of Celebrity Culture: An International Conference, University of Paisley, Ayr, Scotland. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2005, April). Affirming the Consequent, Denying the Antecedent: Walter Benjamin and Nonsequitur. Paper presented at the meeting of Narrative: An International Conference, Louisville, KY. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2005, April). Pound with Benjamin. Paper presented at the meeting of Ezra Pound and Education, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2005, April). Walter Benjamin and the Prop-er. Paper presented at the meeting of Rhetoric, Ethics, Politics, University of Ghent. Ghent, Belgium. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2005, March). Radio and Modernism. Paper presented at the meeting of 32nd Annual Meeting of the Kentucky Philological Association, Northern Kentucky University. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2005, January). Phantasmallegoresis: Walter Benjamin and His Props. Paper presented at the meeting of Making Use of Culture Conference: Inaugural Conference of The Cultural Theory Institute, University of Manchester. Manchester, UK. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2004, November). Henry Green's Event Horizon. Paper presented at the meeting of 46th Annual Midwest Modern Language Association, St. Louis, MO. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2003, November). Phallomorphosis: The Editorial Pose of Ezra Pound. Paper presented at the meeting of 45th Annual Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2003, September). Modernism, Cultural Capital, and the Labor Theory of Value. Paper presented at the meeting of Modernism and Marxism Seminar. C. D. Blanton, Chair. MSA 5: Conference of the Modernist Studies Association, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2003, September). Word Coins: Symbolic Economies and Modernist Reputation. Paper presented at the meeting of MSA 5: Conference of the Modernist Studies Association, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2003, June). Brand-Effects, -Placement, -Reality. Paper presented at the meeting of The Founding Conference of The Cultural Studies Association (U.S.), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. (National)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2003, May). The (Brand) Name's Bond: Trademark Effects, Product Placement, and Brand Loyalty in Fleming's 007. Paper presented at the meeting of The Cultural Politics of Ian Fleming and 007, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2002, November). 1910 and/or 1914. Paper presented at the meeting of Modernism and Periodization Seminar. Morag Shiach, Chair. MSA 4: Conference of the Modernist Studies Association, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2002, September). 'Worth Introducing': T.S. Eliot's Prefaces and the Gender Politics of Modernist Promotion. Paper presented at the meeting of The 23rd Annual Meeting of The T.S. Eliot Society, St. Louis, MO. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2002, June). Perching: Notes of an Abbreviated Ontology. Paper presented at the meeting of Institute on Culture and Society, Annual Meeting, Carnegie Mellon University. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2001, November). Edith Sitwell and Wheels: The Woman Anthologist as Modernist Other. Paper presented at the meeting of South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference 2001, Atlanta, GA. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2001, October). Portrait Outrage and Postcards: An ABC of Modernist Portraiture Ideology. Paper presented at the meeting of MSA 3: Conference of the Modernist Studies Association, Rice University, Houston, TX. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 1999, October). The Modernist Celebrity. Paper presented at the meeting of Modernism and Popular Culture Seminar. David Chinitz, Chair. The New Modernisms: Inaugural Conference of the Modernist Studies Association, Penn State University, State College, PA. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 1998, July). Ezra Pound and the Latest Scholarship. Paper presented at the meeting of Center for Pound Studies, Schloß Brunnenburg, Merano, Italy. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 1998, February). The Writer Who Would Be King: Gerhart Hauptmann in the Weimar Republic. Paper presented at the meeting of Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 1995, March). James Joyce's 'After the Race': Postulating the Beginning. Paper presented at the meeting of Ninth Annual Graduate Irish Studies Conference, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN. (International)

Refereed Papers at Symposia

Jaffe, A. (presented 2006, September). Brunswick/Fluxus: Lebowski's Event Horizons. In The Lebowski Cult: an Academic Symposium. Symposium conducted at the meeting of The Lebowski Cult: an Academic Symposium, Louisville, Kentucky. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2006, March). Perching: Notes on a Abbreviated Ontology. In Dissent: An Interdisciplinary Symposium. Symposium conducted at the meeting of Dissent: An Interdisciplinary Symposium, University of Louisville. (International)

Invited Keynote and Plenary Presentations at Conferences

Jaffe, A. (presented 2007, June). The Reputation of the Writer. Keynote presentation at the meeting of The Lawrence Durrell School of Criticism, Corfu, Greece. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2005, May). Ian Fleming, James Bond, and the Brand. Keynote presentation at the meeting of Louisville Phi Beta Kappa. (International)

Invited Presentations at Conferences

Jaffe, A. (presented 2018, February). Bio-exhaust: The Hatred of Ben Lerner. Presentation at the meeting of Winter Theory Institute, Society for Critical Exchange, University of Houston-Victoria. (Regional)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2016, February). Experience and Experiment. Presentation at the meeting of Society for Critical Exchange, Winter Theory Institute, Philadelphia. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2015, June). Inhumanism at the Modernist Limit. Presentation at the meeting of University of New South Wales. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2015, June). Modernist Value and Administration of Risk. Presentation at the meeting of University of Sydney. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2015, April). Who's Afraid of the Inhuman Woolf? Presentation at the meeting of Retropresentism Symposium, Rice University. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2011, April). Modern Novelty. Presentation at the meeting of N/A, Rice University, Houston, TX. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2011, March). The Unpleasant Profession of Varian Fry. Presentation at the meeting of N/A, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2010, June). Tarzan vs Dedalus: Balancing the Modernist Books. Presentation at the meeting of Guest lecture, English Seminar, Wednesday, Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2010, May). Tarzan vs Dedalus: Balancing the Modernist Books. Presentation at the meeting of Guest Lecture, American Studies, Università di Torino, Italy. (International)

Jaffe, A. (presented 2009, December). Roundtable on Modernist Studies and Professionalization. Presentation at the meeting of N/A, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. (International)

Service

Florida State University

FSU Department Service

Member, Evaluation Committee (2016–present).

Member, Graduate Admissions Committee (2016–present).

The Profession

Series Editor for Books

The Year's Work: Studies in Fan Cultures and Theory (2010–present).

Editorial Board Membership(s)

'Wielkie tematy literatury amerykańskiej' (Grand Themes of American Literature) (2018–present).

Journal of Modern Literature (2014–present).

Affirmations of the Modern (2012–present).

Henry James Review (2007–2018).

Chair of a Symposium

Jaffe, A. (Chair). (2015). Paleofuturism Symposium. Symposium conducted at the meeting of N/A, Louisville. 

Service to Professional Associations

Host Organizing Committee, Amsterdam, Modernist Studies Association (2016–2017).

International Relations Chair, Elected Position to the Organization Board, Modernist Studies Association (2012–2015).

Secretary, Kentucky Philological Association (2007–2009).

Member, Conference Program Committee, Modernist Studies Association (2008).

Interviews

Jaffe, A. (2016, June). Contemporary American Literature International Institute. UofL Today with Mark Hebert 93.9 FM [Radio Interview]. 

Jaffe, A. (2008, March). Lebowski Symposium, Episode 15. Lebowski Podcast [Podcast]. Retrieved from http://lebowskipodcast.com/index.php/Episodes/Episode-15-Lebowski-Symposium-and-a-few-ins-and-outs.html.

Jaffe, A. (2006, September). The Big Lebowski. State of Affairs with Julie Kredens, WFPL [Radio Interview]. 

Jaffe, A. (2006, June). Cult of Celebrity. State of Affairs with Julie Kredens, WFPL [Radio Interview]. 

Service to Other Universities

Consultant and Guest Lecturer, Department of State Grant for the Study of the United States (~$300K), Institute on Contemporary American Literature, Seattle University (2017–2018). 

Member, Doctoral Steering Committee, Humanities Department, University of Louisville (2007–2018). 

Chair, Post-45 US Search, University of Louisville, English Department (2015–2016). 

Founder/Initiator, Bingham Faculty Fellows Program, University of Louisville, College of Arts and Sciences (2014–2016). 

Founder/Initiator, Humanities Research Lab, University of Louisville, College of Arts and Sciences (2014–2016). 

Member, Personnel Committee, English Department, University of Louisville (2007–2016). 

Member, Speakers Committee, Twentieth Century Conference Committee, Arts and Sciences, University of Louisville (2004–2016). 

Member, Twentieth Century Conference Committee, Arts and Sciences, University of Louisville, 2003-2016 (2003–2016). 

Chair, Personnel Committee, University of Louisville, English Department (2012–2013). 

Chair, Transnational Search, University of Louisville, English Department (2010–2011). 

Coordinator, Sheehan Invited Lecture and Wittreich Invited Lecture, English Department, University of Louisville (2009–2011). 

Chair, Personnel Committee, University of Louisville, English Department (2008–2009). 

Acting Director, The Commonwealth Center for the Humanities and Society, University of Louisville (2008). 

Coordinator, Wittreich Invited Lecture, English Department, University of Louisville (2007–2008). 

Member, Drama Search Committee, English Department, University of Louisville (2007–2008). 

Member, Chair Review Committee, University of Louisville, English Department (2007–2008). 

Associate Academic Director, US Department of State Study of the United States Institute on Contemporary Literature, Commonwealth Center for the Humanities and Society, University of Louisville (2005–2008). 

Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee, English Department, University of Louisville (2006–2007). 

Member, Drama Search Committee, English Department, University of Louisville (2006–2007). 

Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee, English Department, University of Louisville (2006–2007). 

Senior Honors Thesis Committee, University Honors Program (2006–2007). 

Advisor, English Department Undergraduate (2005–2007). 

Initiator and organizer, !RG, Interpretive Theory Reading Group for Graduate Students and Faculty, University of Louisville (2003–2007). 

Coordinator, Sheehan Invited Lecture and Wittreich Invited Lecture, English Department, University of Louisville (2005–2006). 

Member, Narrative Conference Committee, English Department, University of Louisville (2004–2005). 

Member, Graduate Studies Committee, English Department, University of Louisville (2003–2005). 

Co-initiator and Co-organizer, Thinking Materiality (Epistemology, Language, and Embodiment) Interdisciplinary Lecture Series, Spring 2000, Indiana University (1998–2000). 

Graduate Student Representative, Departmental Search Committee for faculty position (1999). 

Co-initiator and Co-organizer, the Annual English Department Graduate Student/Faculty Forum, Indiana University (1998).