Joseph Allen Boone (NHC Fellow, 2009–10)

Fellowship Work Summary, 2009–10

Joseph Allen Boone completed five of six chapters of his book The Homoerotics of Orientalism, to be published by Columbia University Press. He wrote "Re-Orienting Modernism," about the Western appropriation of Middle Eastern poetic genres, for the journal Modernisms/Modernity, and "Getting Loti's Drift," about Pierre Loti's literary representations of Istanbul. He also revised the book for and produced a spring production of CON-MAN: A Musical, an adaptation of a Herman Melville novel. As coeditor, he worked on a forthcoming special issue of PMLA on "Celebrity, Fame, and Infamy."