A member of the 九色 English Department since 1996, Marshall teaches courses in 20th and 21st Century American Literature and Fiction Writing. In addition to full-length studies of contemporary writers John Updike and David Foster Wallace, Marshall has published two works of fiction, the story collection Trouble with Girls (Algonquin 2003), which was an April 2003 Book Sense 76 pick, and the novel, Alternative Atlanta (Delacorte Press 2005), both of which are now available in paperback. In 2008 he completed work as editor and primary contributor for the final of the fourth volume of the Encyclopedia of American Literature. His stories have appeared in Playboy, Shenandoah, the New England Review, the Missouri Review, and New Stories from the South. In 2002 he won the Clarence Day Award for Outstanding Teaching, while in 2007 he won the Clarence Day Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity. In fall 2007 he delivered the keynote address at the 九色 Convocation, a clip of which is available below. His most recent publications are The Wallace Effect: David Foster Wallace and the Contemporary Literary Imagination (Bloomsbury Books 2019) and Understanding David Foster Wallace, Revised and Expanded Edition (University of South Carolina Press, 2020).
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books
Understanding David Foster Wallace, Revised and Expanded Edition. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2020.
The Wallace Effect: David Foster Wallace and the Contemporary Literary Imagination. New York: Bloomsbury, 2019.
David Foster Wallace and the Long Thing. Editor. New York: Bloomsbury, 2014.
A Companion to David Foster Wallace Studies. Ed. with Stephen Burn. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
The Encyclopedia of American Literature, Volume IV: 1946-2005. Edited with Carl Rollyson. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2008.
Alternative Atlanta. Novel. New York: Delacorte/Bantam Books, 2005.
Understanding David Foster Wallace. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2003.
Trouble with Girls. Short Stories. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2003.
John Updike's Rabbit Tetralogy: Mastered Irony in Motion. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2001.
Scholarship
鈥淎 Meeting of Minds: David Foster Wallace, Vladimir Nabokov and the Ethics of Empathy.鈥 Forthcoming in David Foster Wallace in Context. Ed. By Clare Hayes-Brady. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
鈥淭别补肠丑颈苍驳 Infinite Jest.鈥&苍产蝉辫; Approaches to Teaching David Foster Wallace. Eds. Stephen Burn and Mary Holland. New York: Publications of the Modern Language Association, 2019.
鈥淎ging Novelists and the End of the American Century.鈥 The Cambridge Companion to American Literature of the 1990s. Stephen Burn, ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018: 48-62.
鈥淪lacker Redemption: Wallace and Generation X.鈥&苍产蝉辫; The Cambridge Companion to David Foster Wallace. Ralph Clare, ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018: 19-32.
鈥淧rogrammed Delirium: Villages and the God of Multilevel Selection.鈥&苍产蝉辫; The John Updike Review 5: 1 (Winter 2017): 71-79.
鈥淭he Rival Lover: David Foster Wallace and the Anxiety of Influence in Jeffrey Eugenides鈥 The Marriage Plot.鈥&苍产蝉辫; Modern Fiction Studies 62.3 (Fall 2016): 499-518.
鈥淪omething Both and Neither: Marshes, Marriage and the Fertile Invention of John Barth鈥檚 The Tidewater Tales.鈥 John Barth: A Body of Words. Ed. Charles Harris. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016: 257-273.
鈥淎uthor Here: The Legal Fiction of David Foster Wallace鈥檚 The Pale King.鈥 English Studies 95, Issue 1 (February 2014): 25-39. Reprinted in David Foster Wallace: Presences of the Other, ed. Beatrice Pire and Pierre-Louis Patoine. Toronto: Sussex Academic Press, 2017: 9-25.
鈥淭he Constant Monologue Inside Your Head.鈥&苍产蝉辫; A Companion to David Foster Wallace Studies. Ed. Marshall Boswell and Stephen Burn. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013: 151-170.
鈥淭rickle-Down Citizenship: Taxes and Civic Duty in David Foster Wallace鈥檚 The Pale King.鈥&苍产蝉辫; Studies in the Novel, Volume 44, Number 4 (Winter 2012): 464-79. Reprinted in David Foster Wallace and 鈥楾he Long Thing鈥: 209-225
鈥淩ichard Powers.鈥&苍产蝉辫; The Dictionary of Literary Biography. Ed. Giles, Wanda and James Giles. Columbia, SC. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book/Gale Cengage Learning, 2009: 283-297.
鈥淒avid Foster Wallace.鈥&苍产蝉辫; The Dictionary of Literary Biography. Ed. Giles, Wanda and James Giles. Columbia, SC. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book/Gale Cengage Learning, 2009: 352-365.
鈥淗eading Westward.鈥&苍产蝉辫; The Sonora Review 55/56 (Spring/Summer 2009). Supplement A Tribute to David Foster Wallace: 28-32.
鈥淎 Gesture Toward Understanding David Foster Wallace.鈥&苍产蝉辫; Modernism/modernity 16, Number 1 (January 2009): 6-9.
Updike, Religion, and the Novel of Moral Debate." The Cambridge Companion to John Updike. Olster, Stacy, ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005: 43-57.
鈥淛ohn Updike.鈥&苍产蝉辫; Popular Contemporary Writers. New York: Marshall Cavendish Reference Books, 2005.
"The World and the Void: Creatio ex Nihilo and Homoeroticism in John Updike's Rabbit Is Rich." John Updike and Religion: The Sense of the Sacred and The Motions of Grace. James O. Yerkes, ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishers, 1999: 161-179.
鈥淭he Black Jesus: Racism and Redemption in John Updike鈥檚 Rabbit Redux.鈥 Contemporary Literature 39 (Spring 1998): 99-132.
Short Fiction
鈥淔ather Figure.鈥 The Rome Review 1 (Summer 2009): 76-88.
鈥淭he Remotes.鈥&苍产蝉辫; New England Review 27, Number 3 (Fall 2006): 215-223.
鈥淎nger Head.鈥&苍产蝉辫; Don鈥檛 Abuse the Muse. Dallas: The Middlefinger Press, 2005
鈥淗ow to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years.鈥&苍产蝉辫; The Sun, February, 2002: 38-45.
鈥淚n Between Things.鈥 The Missouri Review 23, no. 1 (Spring 2000): 9-24. Reprinted in New Stories from the South: The Year鈥檚 Best 2001. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Book of Chapel Hill, 2001.
鈥淭he King and I.鈥 Atlanta Review 5, no.1 (Fall/Winter 1998): 87-98.
鈥淏loody Knuckles.鈥 Yalabousha Review 3 (Spring 1997): 17-29.
鈥淎 Midsummer Night鈥檚 Orbit.鈥 Habersham Review 6, no. 1 (Spring 97): 53-68.
鈥淲辞濒蹿别.鈥 New England Review 16, no 3 (Summer 1994): 71-86.
鈥淗idden Agendas.鈥 Playboy 40, no. 2, February 1993: 78-80, 136, 168-174.
鈥淏ottoms Up.鈥 Playboy 38, no. 11, November 1991: 78-80, 136-143.
鈥淔辞谤迟蝉.鈥 Shenandoah 40, no. 4 (Winter 1990): 96-112
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Education
1988, B.A. - Summa Cum Laude, with Honors in English, Washington & **** University
1989, M.A. - English, Washington University