Renowned Literature Scholar to Give Presentation on Bram Stoker’s Dracula

WORCESTER, Mass. – John Paul Riquelme, professor of English at Boston University and internationally renowned scholar of modernist and Irish literature, will give a presentation titled, “The Dark Modernity of Bram Stoker's Dracula” on Thursday, Nov. 29 at 4:30 p.m. in Rehm Library at the College of the Holy Cross. The talk, which is sponsored by the English department and the Dean’s Office, will focus on the connections between gothic literature and modernism in Bram Stoker's Dracula. It is free and open to the public.

Riquleme earned his Ph.D. and M. Phil. from Yale University and his B. A. from Rice University.  A member of the Boston University faculty since 1991, he previously taught at Southern Methodist University. He was recently named the NEH Oscar Wilde Seminar and the Clark Library Research Fellow. A co-chair of Modernism Seminar at the Harvard Humanities Center, his teaching and research interests include 20th-century post-romantic literature, especially Irish writers; humanistic theory and literary criticism, primarily concerning modernity, creativity, aesthetic response, and narrative.

He has published numerous articles and edited many novels including A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (W.W. Norton 2007) by James Joyce and Dracula (Bedford/ St. Martin's Press 2002) by Bram Stoker. Riquleme is currently working on a book titled, "Oscar Wilde’s Aesthetic Politics: Origins of Modernism in 1890s Britain.”