Author: bryanwatermannyu

I’m excited to return to NYU Abu Dhabi in January 2026 to teach a two-week, multi-disciplinary course on “Empathy.” Ping me for more details!

Thrilled to announce that Broadview has published a new edition of “the first American novel,” William Hill Brown’s The Power of Sympathy (1789), co-edited by me and Jennifer Harris. I’m available to visit Am lit courses via Zoom to talk about how it and other early American seduction novels can help us understand gender and American politics in the Revolutionary era — and today.

A new essay, “Mediating the Novel in the Age of Warhol,” is coming in volume 8 of The Oxford History of the Novel in English, ed. Cyrus Patell and Deborah Williams, along with a brief essay on DeLillo’s debut novel, Americana.

I had the chance to write about another album for Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 series. This time, they actually held me to a word count (a much shorter one!). I took on Harry Hosono’s Philharmony (1982) in a short essay for The 33 1/3 B-sides: New Essays by 33 1/3 Authors on Beloved and Underrated Albums, out in September 2019.

The first of two new pieces I’ve written on literature in the Age of Warhol is out now, in Marrs and Hager, eds., Timelines of American Literature (JHUP, 2019). Check the whole volume.

I’m on sabbatical during the fall 2018 semester. I am available via email; please allow a slight delay in response for differences in timezone. For immediate assistance with Core Curriculum questions email nyuad.core@nyu.edu

I’ll be in New Haven from 6-9 June for a symposium and workshop on global liberal arts education, sponsored by Yale University and Yale-NUS.

Tune in Sunday nights from 10pm-midnight Gulf time (that’s 1-3pm EDT for friends in New York) for my experiments in constraint-based broadcasting on Jackal Radio.

From 25-29 June I’ll be in Tokyo at the 10th Annual Melville Society Conference presenting on NYUAD Theater Program’s M.D. (Or, The Whale).

from Jan 12-18 at the American College of Greece/DEREE leading a faculty seminar on cities in contemporary world fiction.