Faculty Member, English
Assistant Professor
About
Prof Todd completed his MA and PhD in American literature and film at Michigan State University, and now works as an Assistant Professor of English at Defiance College. Prior to his time at Michigan State University, Todd worked as a reporter, copy writer, and librarian. He earned his BA (English and History) at Taylor University and was born and raised West Virginia.
Todd is writing a book provisionally titled, Mourning, and the Day After, in which he argues for postmodern subjectivity as essentially riven by mourning. The book will trace the ethical limits of the subject—its presumption of beneficence, its diversity—and its metaphysical cousins (community, city, nation, and Humanism) and argue for a postmodern subjectivity that is essentially communal.
Todd's strengths lie in the area of 20th century American and British Commonwealth literature/film and literary theory. Todd most recently published,"Pacifism as Ideological Complicity in The Big Lebowski," in Reconstruction 7.3 (Summer 2007) and "A Mortal Agency: Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two Birds," in The Journal of Modern Literature 31.2 (Winter 2008).
Todd is currently (Summer 2008) revising an article on posthumanism in Spielberg's A.I., and hopes to work on his “The Disabled Hero: The Ethics of the Wound in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings” with whatever time remains.
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Contact Information
http://tcomer.faculty.defiance.edu/index2.html
419-783-2348
