Rate My Professor Vincent King

King's academic interests focus on humanities and American literature, with particular attention to postmodernism, Southern literature, and major authors such as Thomas Pynchon, William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, Ezra Pound, Robert Penn Warren, and others. His scholarly output includes numerous articles, such as "Robert Penn Warren, the Reader, and the Reconciliation of Opposites in 'The Ballad of Billie Potts,' 'Brother to Dragons,' and 'Audubon'" in The Southern Literary Journal (1997); "Giving Destruction a Name and a Face: Thomas Pynchon's 'Mortality and Mercy in Vienna'" in Studies in Short Fiction (1998); "The Wages of Pulp: The Use and Abuse of Fiction in William Faulkner's The Wild Palms" (1998); "Hopeful Grief: The Prospect of a Postmodernist Feminism in Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina" in The Southern Literary Journal (2000); "Toward a New Southern Poetry: Folk Art and the Post-Christian Vision of Tony Crunk" in Mississippi Quarterly (2000); "'Foolish Talk'Bout Freedom': Simms's Vision of America in the Yemassee" (2003); "William Faulkner: Seeing Through the South (review)" in MFS Modern Fiction Studies (2010); "'What Have You Done. What Have You Failed to Do': Aesthetic and Moral Complacency in Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men"; "Postmodern Palimpsest: Recovering Ezra Pound's Diptych Rome-London"; "Faulkner's Brazen Yoke: Pop Art, Modernism, and the Myth of the Great Divide"; and "Metamorphosis and poetic voice: a reexamination of Ezra Pound's Hugh Selwyn Mauberley". He has also contributed commentary on Michael Chabon's work for the Pulitzer Prize organization.