Steven J. Venturino
	Title:	Adjunct Professor
	E-mail:	sventur@luc.edu

Personal Information

Education:
B.A., UCLA (1985);
M.A. and Ph.D. Loyola University Chicago (1995, 2000)

Teaching and Research Interests:
Literary criticism and theory, Victorian studies, narrative and the novel, Asian studies 

Recent Publications:
"The Notorious Jumping Reader of Calaveras County:  Twain, Blanchot, and a Dialectic of Storytelling."  The Midwest Quarterly 49.4 (2008).

"Placing Tibetan Fiction in a World of Literary Studies:  Jamyang Norbu's The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes." Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change. Eds. Lauran R. Hartley and Patricia Schiaffini-Vendani. Duke UP, 2008.

"Signifying on China: African-American Literary Theory and Tibetan Discourse." Sinographies: Writing China. Eds. Eric Hayot, Steve Yao, and Haun Saussy. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P. 2007.

"Inquiring after Theory in China." boundary 2 33.2 (2006).

"Where is Tibet in World Literature?" World Literature Today 78.1 (2004).

Books:
Editor, Contemporary Tibetan Literary Studies: Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, 2003. Leiden: Brill, 2006.

Works-in-Progress:
"Serial Realism:  Time and the Formal Significance of Installments."

"Three Novels:  A Companion and Guide."