Nancy Ann Watanabe

Dr. Nancy Ann Watanabe is the author of "OUT OF TIME's Afrocentric Subtext: Carl Franklin's Postfeminist Techno-scientific Adaptation of Sophocles' KING OEDIPUS," pages 731-54 in QUARTERLY REVIEW OF FILM AND VIDEO Vol. 37, No. 8 (2020); "Toward a Quantum Theory of Cognitive Affect from Poe to Robotic Helpers" pages 97-148 in Artificial Intelligence and Computing Logic (Apple Academic, 2022); "Man-and-wife coupling and need for artificially intelligent heavy vehicle technology in The Long, Long Trailer (Lucille Ball romantic comedy film), pages 161-82 in Autonomous and Connected Heavy Vehicle Technology (Elsevier 2022); "Measuring Social Change (E=mc2): Kafka's Working Women, Camus' Rats, and Heller's Metallic Women" pages 156-76 in Critical Insights: Catch-22 (Salem Press 2021); "Josef K.'s Quest for Happiness: Darwinian Adaptation in Franz Kafka's The Trial" pages 74-89 in Lincoln Humanities Journal, Vol. 9 (Fall 2021); "Darwinian Ideas and Marxian Ideals in Austen, Twain, Yeats, Camus, and Ishiguro" pages 412-25 in Routledge Companion to Literature and Class (2022); "Marxist-Leninist Anti-Capitalist Success: Muted Violence in Augustin Yanez's Edge of the Storm, Juan Rulfo's Pedro Paramo, and Sergio Galindo's Precipice" pages 177-89 in The Routledge Handbook of Violence in Latin American Literature; "Strangers on a Train: Hitchcock's Scientific Portrayal of Capitalist Society" in Quarterly Review of Film and Video (Preprint online 2022); "Intertextual Einsteinian Relativity in Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Eliot's 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" pages 82-106 in Critical Insights: Virginia Woolf (Salem Press, October 31, 2022);

"Water Symbolism in George Sand's Histoire de ma vie and Marianne: Catholic Narratology of Atonement," pages 245-71 in Water Imagery in George Sand's Work (Cambridge Scholars, 2018); African Heartbeat: Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Dynamics (Rowman and Littlefield-Hamilton Books, 2018); "Zora Neale Hurston's Vodun-Christianity Juxtaposition: Theological Hybridity in Their Eyes Were Watching God," pages 237-65 in Zora Neale Hurston, Haiti, and Their Eyes Were Watching God (Northwestern University Press, 2013); "Clarissa's Chamber Revisited: Richardson, Poe, Robbe-Grillet, and Shimada," pages 274-93 in Inhabited by Stories: Critical Essays on Tales Retold (Cambridge Scholars, 2013); "R.K. Narayan's Ultimate Realism: India's Spiritual Rebirth in The English Teacher" and "R.K. Narayan's Historic Slice of Life: Theological Hybridity and East-West Logistics in The Vendor of Sweets," pages 68-92 and 205-31 in A Talent for the Particular: Critical Essays on R.K. Narayan (Worldview Press, 2012); "Italian-American Ethos in the Post-Capra Novel: Peretti's This Present Darkness and Trigiani's The Queen of the Big Time," pages 168-88 in Italian Americana: A Cultural and Historical Review: Special Issue on World War II, Vol. XXX, No. 2 (Summer 2012); "Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, A.D. 932-1002), pages 341-43 in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement (Gale, 2011); "The Contemporary Catholic Bildungsroman: Passionate Conviction in Shusaku Endo's The Samurai and Mary Gordon's Men and Angels," pages 189-206 in Between Human and Divine: The Catholic Vision in Contemporary Literature (The Catholic University of America Press, 2010); "Barrie's Meiji-era London Plays and the East-West Modernism of Yeats and Eliot," pages 213-36 in Origins of English Dramatic Modernism, 1870-1914 (Academic Press, 2010); "Native Vision: Yeats's Tower (The Dreaming of the Bones) and Walcott's Harbor (Dream on Monkey Mountain)," pages 143-65 in W.B. Yeats and Postcolonialism (Locust Hill Press, 2001); Love Eclipsed: Joyce Carol Oates's Faustian Moral Vision (University Press of America, 1998); Beloved Image: The Drama of W.B. Yeats,1865-1939 (University Press of America, 1995); "Constancy in Poetry and Science: Astronomical Symbolism: Yeats, Mallarme, Newton, and Einstein," pages 221-39 in General Literature and Comparative Literature: Proceedings of the International Comparative Literature Association Paris Congress (Peter Lang, 1992); "Classical Versus Clinical: Surrealism in Our Times: Andre Breton, fusion technology," pages 182-95 in New Surrealism: The Liberation of Images in Consciousness (Brandon House, 1992).

Currently, Dr. Watanabe is Research Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Oklahoma.