Wesley King

Publications

• John Huston as Adaptor. Co-edited with Douglas McFarland. New York: SUNY, 2017.
• "Editors' Introduction: Huston as Reader" (with Douglas McFarland). John Huston as Adaptor.
• “O'Connor's Symbolic Motif and the Psychoanalytic Objects of Huston's Wise Blood.” John Huston as Adaptor.  
• "'Proceed with the Execution': Casting, Convention, and the Diminishment of Rose in The African Queen" (with Douglas McFarland). John Huston as Adaptor.
• "The White Symbolic of Emily Dickinson." Emily Dickinson Journal 18.1 (2009): 44-68. Republished in Poetry Criticism. Vol 131. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2012.

Conference Presentations

• “Race and the Psychoanalytic Objects of Melville’s ‘Whiteness of the Whale.’” LACK II Conference. Colorado College. October 2017.
• “Flannery O'Connor's Symbolic Motif and the Psychoanalytic Objects of John Huston’s Wise Blood.” Association of Adaptation Studies. Flagler College. September 2014.
• “Aesthetic Theory, Race, and Melville's Thing of Whiteness." Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies. University of Houston. March 2014.
• “The Logic of the Symbol in John Huston’s Wise Blood.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Raleigh-Durham, NC. November 2012.
• “The Greek and the Turk: Hiram Powers’s Greek Slave and Aesthetic Racialization.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies. University of Kentucky. March 2012.
• “Noir Adaptation of the Southern Grotesque in John Huston's Wise Blood.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Atlanta, GA. November 2011.
• “The American Renaissance and the Koran.” American Comparative Literature Association. Vancouver, BC. March 2011.
• “Douglass’s 1893 ‘Lecture on Haiti,’ National Feeling, and the Aesthetic Transformation of the Political Subject.” Midwest Modern Language Association. Chicago, IL. November 2010
• “Margaret Fuller, Whiteness, and the Anti-Slavery Aesthetic.” C-19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists. Penn State. May 2010.
• “Time in Global Space.” Panel moderator and organizer. American Comparative Literature Association. New Orleans, LA. April 2010.
• “Transformation and Hauntology in Chesnutt’s Conjure Tales.” American Comparative Literature Association. Harvard University. March 2009.
• “Of Marble & Men: Jefferson’s Two Racist Discourses.” The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature in the U.S. Boca Raton, FL. April 2006
• “Emily Dickinson, Literary Masochism, and Whiteness.” American Comparative Literature Association. Princeton University. March 2006.
• “Ahab’s Oedipus and objet a.” American Comparative Literature Association. Penn State. March 2005.
• “Rhetoric of Cruelty.” Panel moderator and co-organizer. South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Virginia Tech. November 2004.
• “Miscegenation and Borders in John Sayles’s Lone Star.” The Society for the Study of Popular Culture in the South. New Orleans, LA. September 2004.
• “Translating Melville’s Whale.” University of Virginia Graduate Conference. March 2004.
• “Mumbo & Monotheism: Ishmael Reed and Sigmund Freud.” American Studies Roundtable. University of Virginia Graduate Conference. March 2003.