Year's Work in Nerds, Wonks, and Neocons

Jonathan P. Eburne is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English at Penn State. He is author of Surrealism and the Art of Crime and editor (with Judith Roof) of The Year's Work in the Oddball Archive.Benjamin Schreier is Associate Professor of English and Jewish Studies and Lea P. and Malvin E. Bank Early Career Professor of Jewish Studies at Penn State University. He is author of The Power of Negative Thinking: Cynicism and the History of Modern American Literature and The Impossible Jew: Identity and the Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History.

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Working in and on Nerds, Wonks, and Neo-Cons, this Year and to Come / Jonathan P. Eburne and Benjamin Schreier1. Wonk Masculinity / Dennis Allen2. Surface Worship, Super-Public Intellectuals, and the Suspiciously Common Reader / William J. Maxwell3. Stratigraphic Form: Science Fictions of the Present / Warren Liu4. Obsession, Pathology, and Justice: Nerds, Bodies, Winsor McCay, and the 1893 Chicago Fair / Nathan L. Grant5. The Neoconservative Imagination / Jennifer Glaser6. Conservative and Internationalist: George S. Schuyler's Pulp Fiction and The Imperialism of The Oppressed / Sara Marzioli7. The Turing Test and Other Love Songs / Brian Glavey8. Sex and the Single Nerd: The Schizo Saga of Genes, Genius, and Finally Getting Some / Judith Roof9. Nerds in Capes: Courtly Love and the Erotics of Medievalism / Jamie Taylor10. Comic Book Kid/ Scott T. Smith11. Walking Simulators, #GamerGate, and the Gender of Wandering / Melissa Kagen12. The Fan as Public Intellectual in "RaceFail '09" / Siobhan Carroll13. Autism, Nerds, and Insecurity / Chloe SilvermanAfterword: Professors Without Chairs / Aaron S. LeckliderIndex