Dr. Paul Kintzele
Dr. Paul Kintzele
Associate Professor of English - Associate DeanEnglishBiography
Dr. Kintzele's articles include those published in the Journal of Modern Literature, Modern Drama, and the Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry. In 2013, Dr. Kintzele won a University of Houston-Downtown Organized Research and Creative Activity (ORCA) grant that supported archival work at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin on the work of English novelist John Fowles
Degrees Earned
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2002
Courses Taught
ENG 1301 - Composition I: Writing about the Bill of Rights
ENG 2305 - Time Travel in Literature and Film
ENG 2314 - British Literature after 1800
ENG 3306 - Introduction to Literary Theory
ENG 3311 - Studies in Poetry
ENG 3377 - 20th Century British Literature and Culture: The Modern British Novel
ENG 3377 - 20th Century British Literature and Culture: Modern Irish Literature
ENG 4313 - Psychology Through Literature
ENG 6313 - British Literature Seminar: Islands
Experience Qualifications
Summary of Qualifications:
Dr. Paul Kintzele has a Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania. He is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Houston-Downtown, where he specializes in the study of modernist and postmodernist literature. He also maintains an active interest in critical theory, especially psychoanalysis. His articles include those published in the Journal of Modern Literature, Modern Drama, and the Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry. In 2013, Dr. Kintzele won a University of Houston-Downtown Organized Research and Creative Activity (ORCA) grant that supported archival work at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin on the work of English novelist John Fowles. With nearly twenty years of experience teaching at the university level, Dr. Kintzele is well qualified to teach English courses at all levels.
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Research Interests
British and Irish Modernism, Postmodernism, Postcolonial Literature, Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis.
Publications
" 'The Urb It Orbs': James Joyce and Internationalism." Intertexts 16.2 (Fall 2012): 55-78.
"Gender in Winterson's Sexing the Cherry." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 12.3 (September 2010).
"Voyaging Out: The Woolfs and Internationalism." Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry 5.12 (Spring 2010): 41-52.
"Sacrifice, Inhibition, and Oedipal Fantasy in Krapp's Last Tape." Modern Drama 52.2 (Summer 2009): 207-19.
"Mourning and Echolalia." Review of The Purest of Bastards: Works of Mourning, Art, and Affirmation in the Thought of Jacques Derrida, by David Farrell Krell. Journal of Modern Literature 27.4 (Summer 2004): 133-35.
"Pim's Progress: The Trouble with Language in Beckett's How It Is." Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui 12 (Winter 2002): 297-310.
"Lord Jim: Conrad's Fable of Judgment." Journal of Modern Literature 25.2 (Winter 2001-02): 69-79.