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Robert T. Tally Jr. is a professor of English at
Texas State University Texas State University (TXST) is a public university, public research university with its main campus in San Marcos, Texas, United States, and another campus in Round Rock, Texas, Round Rock. Since its establishment in 1899, the university has ...
. His research and teaching focuses on the relations among space, narrative, and representation, particularly in U.S. and comparative literature, and he is active in the emerging scholarly fields of geocriticism, literary geography, and the spatial humanities. Tally is the editor of "Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies," a Palgrave Macmillan book series established in 2013. The translator of Bertrand Westphal's ''Geocriticism: Real and Fictional Spaces'' and the editor of ''Geocritical Explorations'', In addition to his numerous essays on literature, criticism, and theory, Tally has written books on
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Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut ( ; November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American author known for his Satire, satirical and darkly humorous novels. His published work includes fourteen novels, three short-story collections, five plays, and five nonfict ...
, and J.R.R. Tolkien's ''
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'', as well as a critical introduction to the work of literary critic and theorist
Fredric Jameson Fredric Ruff Jameson (April 14, 1934 – September 22, 2024) was an American literary critic, philosopher and Marxist political theorist. He was best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends, particularly his analysis of postmode ...
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See "Fredric Jameson's Ruthless Criticism of All That Exists," Pluto Press blog, June 18, 2014. Tally received an M.A. in literature and Ph.D. in critical and cultural studies from the
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, a J.D. from the
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, and an A.B. (philosophy) from
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Books

*''The Fiction of Dread: Dystopia, Monstrosity, and Apocalypse''. New York: Bloomsbury, 2024. *''Representing Middle-earth: Tolkien, Form, and Ideology''. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2024. *''The Critical Situation: Vexed Perspectives in Postmodern Literary Studies''. London: Anthem Press, 2023. *''For a Ruthless Critique of All That Exists: Literature in An Age of Capitalist Realism''. Winchester: Zer0 Books, 2022. *''J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Hobbit': Realizing History Through Fantasy (A Critical Companion)''. New York: Palgrave, 2022. *''Topophrenia: Place, Narrative, and the Spatial Imagination''. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. *''Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism''. London: Pluto Press, 2014. *''Poe and the Subversion of American Literature: Satire, Fantasy, Critique''. New York: Bloomsbury, 2014. *''Spatiality''. The New Critical Idiom. London: Routledge, 2013. *''Utopia in the Age of Globalization: Space, Representation, and the World System''. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. *''Kurt Vonnegut and the American Novel: A Postmodern Iconography''. London: Continuum, 2011. *''Melville, Mapping and Globalization: Literary Cartography in the American Baroque Writer''. London: Continuum, 2009.


Edited collections and special issues

* The Political Unconscious'—40 Years On'' (co-editor with Andrew Cole). Special focus section of ''PMLA'' 137.3 (May 2022). *''Affective Geographies and Narratives of Chinese Diaspora'' (co-editor, with Melody Yunzi Li). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. *''Spatial Literary Studies in China'' (co-editor, with Ying Fang). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. *''Spatial Literary Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Space, Geography, and the Imagination'' (editor). London: Routledge, 2020. *''Teaching Space, Place, and Literature'' (editor). London: Routledge, 2018. *''The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space'' (editor). London: Routledge, 2017. *''Ecocriticism and Geocriticism: Overlapping Territories in Environmental and Spatial Literary Studies'' (co-editor, with Christine M. Battista). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. *''The Geocritical Legacies of Edward W. Said: Spatiality, Critical Humanism, and Comparative Literature'' (editor). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. *''Literary Cartographies: Spatiality, Representation, and Narrative'' (editor). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. *''Spatial Literary Studies'' (editor), special issue of ''Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture'' 14.3 (2014). *''Kurt Vonnegut'' (editor). Critical Insights. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2013. *''Kurt Vonnegut and Humor'' (co-editor, with Peter C. Kunze), special issue of ''Studies in American Humor'' New Series 3, No. 26 (2012). *''Geocritical Explorations: Space, Place and Mapping in Literary and Cultural Studies'' (editor). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.


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Robert Tally
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