Martin Kevorkian
Abstract
Reading the Bloody “Face of Nature”: The Persecution of Religion in Hawthorne’s Marble Faun
Appearance

Martin is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford in 1990, and his PhD from UCLA in 2000.

His current book manuscript, Color Monitors, examines logics of sacrifice in racialized American representations of computer expertise. The first chapter of the book has been published in essay form as "Computers with Color Monitors: Disembodied Black Screen Images, 1988-96," American Quarterly, 51:2 (1999) 283-310.
"http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_quarterly/v051/51.2kevorkian.html" (This article is available online for subscribers to project MUSE).

Other publications have also been informed by the work of both Michel Serres and René Girard:

"'Within the domain of Chaos': Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lucretian Physics, and Martial Logic," Studies in the Novel, 31:2 (1999) 178-201; and

"A Pulpit of Envy: Girardian Elements in Emerson's Last Supper," Renascence 52:1 (1999) 89-104 [this essay appears in a special Girard issue, including Girard on "The First Stone," and Girardian readings of Bede, Chaucer, Luther, and Marvell].

(both available online for subscribers to Chadwyck-Healey's Literature Online, to Gale Group's Expanded Academic ASAP plus, or to EBSCO's MasterFILE or Academic Search Premier Publications)