Department of English

Jacqueline Zubeck, Ph.D.

Dr. Jackie Zubeck headshot

Associate Professor of English
Ph.D., Rutgers University
M.A., Rutgers University
B.A., Purchase College

jackie.zubeck@mountsaintvincent.edu

Areas of Interest

  • American Literature (Don DeLillo and Flannery O’Connor)
  • Dostoevsky and Russian Culture
  • War stories

Courses

  • FSEM Just War Stories, Major American Writers: “Don DeLillo,” “Pulitzer Prize Winning Authors, Playwrights, and Poets”
  • ENGL 109 Literary Vision
  • ENGL 110 Writing in Context I
  • ENGL 120 Writing in Context II
  • ENGL 243 Grotesques, Hypocrites, & Freak: Flannery O’Connor’s Short Stories
  • ENGL 317 Introduction to Literary Interpretation
  • ENGL 320 World Literature
  • ENGL 334 American Literature
  • ENGL 335 American Literature II
  • ENGL 336 Major American Writers
  • HNRS 370 The Empire Strikes Back
  • HNRS Cultural Analysis Through Literature

Presentations and Conference Papers
“Running Hot and Cold: Don DeLillo’s Zero K and The Word for Snow.” American Literature Association (ALA) Conference. San Francisco, May 2018.

“Locale, Language, and Mystery: Flannery O’Connor & Don DeLillo.”  South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA) Conference, Tulsa, Oklahoma, October 2017.

Presentation in an interdisciplinary panel at the College of Mount Saint Vincent: Race in America: Past, Present, and Future, October 18, 2017. Dr. Zubeck’s talk was titled “Race & Citizenship.”

“The Body Artist: Don DeLillo Conference – Ratner’s Star, Death, America, Race, Post-Underworld” at The New School, New York, NY, May 15, 2017. Watch video

Publications
Don DeLillo After the Millennium: Currents and Currencies. Ed. Jacqueline A. Zubeck. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Press, 2017.
Dr. Zubeck edited this volume, wrote a chapter (“Mourning Becomes Electric: Performance Art in Don DeLillo’s The Body Artist and Falling Man”) and the introduction (“The Word for Currency”), constructed the index, and obtained the copyright permissions. She also gave a short talk on the production of this volume at a book launch, held in April 2018.

Jacqueline A. Zubeck, Editor.  Don DeLillo After the Millennium: Currents and Currencies. Lexington Press. October, 2017.

“Alpha & Omega: ‘Parker’s Back’ and O’Connor’s Farewell to Satire,” Renascence Journal,65.5, Fall 2013

“Back to Page One in Parker’s Back: An Orthodox Examination of O’Connor’s Last Story,” Flannery O’Connor Review, Vol. 8, 2010

“‘The Surge and Pelt of Daily Life’: Rediscovery of the Prosaic in Don DeLillo’s The Names.” Literature, Interpretation, Theory,  Vol. 18, No. 4. pp. 353-376, October-December 2007

“Bakhtin’s Ethics and an Iconographic Standard in Crime and Punishment.” Valerie Z. Nollan, Editor, Bakhtin: Ethics and Mechanics. Northwestern University Press, 2004, pp. 33-55

Drama
Fall 2018: Co-directed and acted in Twelve Angry Jurors, a CMSV Players Production, which also won Student Activity of the Year.

May 2018: Participated in Mount Saint Vincent’s Department of English yearly event: Student Faculty Dramatic Performance. Prof. Layla Merritt (playwright, director, actor), Dr. Len Nalencz (director, actor), and Dr. Zubeck co-produced Twisty Fate, a performance of three one-act plays, performed in the College’s Cahill Theater.  Plays included Layla Merritt’s BabyTeeth (watch the video) and Tourist Without a Camera (watch the video), in which Dr. Zubeck appears as a character, as well as Lynn Nottage’s Poof (watch the video).

Honors and Grants
Won a Fulbright Grant to go to Slovak Republic, and teach American Literature at Comenius University in the capital, Bratislava, for the Spring 2019 semester.