Background
Jeffrey DeShell was born on February 16, 1959, in Pueblo, Colorado. He is a son of Joseph and Frances (Patterson) DeShell.
Jeffrey DeShell
Boulder, CO 80309, USA
The University of Colorado Boulder where Jeffrey DeShell received a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master of Arts degree.
Buffalo, NY 14260, USA
The State University of New York at Buffalo where Jeffrey DeShell received a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
Buffalo, NY 14260, USA
The State University of New York at Buffalo where Jeffrey DeShell received a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
Boulder, CO 80309, USA
The University of Colorado Boulder where Jeffrey DeShell received a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master of Arts degree.
(The Peculiarity of Literature argues that Poe's fiction, ...)
The Peculiarity of Literature argues that Poe's fiction, and literature in general, is ultimately peculiar, that is, it remains outside the jurisdiction of any critical gaze. Unfortunately most critical readings of Poe ignore this resistance to interpretation and work to incorporate his fiction as examples of theories and concepts that have little or nothing to do with literature and writing.
https://www.amazon.com/Peculiarity-Literature-Allegorical-Approach-Fiction/dp/0838636667/?tag=2022091-20
1997
(This is a controversial new novel by one of our most impo...)
This is a controversial new novel by one of our most important, innovative, and uncompromising authors reenvision Herman Melville's Pierre in 1999 Los Angeles. An orphaned child of privilege, Peter enjoys a snug existence full of things--to eat, to wear, and to play with. But his world is rocked when he meets a young Palestinian woman, Reham, who claims to be Peter's half-sister.
https://www.amazon.com/PETER-HISTORICAL-ROMANCE-Jeffrey-Deshell/dp/0970316526/?tag=2022091-20
2006
https://www.amazon.com/Trouble-Being-Born-DeShell-Paperback/dp/B01181GR8S/?tag=2022091-20
2008
(Arthouse is an audacious transformation in prose of fourt...)
Arthouse is an audacious transformation in prose of fourteen modernist films. From film to film, Jeffrey DeShell follows a forty-something failed film studies academic—The Professor. While The Professor is reinvented with each new chapter (or film), what remains is DeShell’s inventive deconstruction and representation of modern cinema.
https://www.amazon.com/Arthouse-Novel-Jeffrey-DeShell/dp/1573661619/?tag=2022091-20
2011
(In his newest novel, Jeffrey DeShell draws on the musical...)
In his newest novel, Jeffrey DeShell draws on the musical innovations of Arnold Schoenberg—by turns traditional, serial, and atonal—to inform his grammar and language. Moving progressively through specific Schoenberg compositions, DeShell complicates the surface of his text into lyrical derivatives, all the while drawing us into a murder mystery like no other as Detective Francisca Fruscella pursues both the killer and her own complicated personal history.
https://www.amazon.com/Expectation-Francesca-Fruscella-Jeffrey-DeShell/dp/1573661759/?tag=2022091-20
2013
(Masses and Motets is a tale composed of four basic interw...)
Masses and Motets is a tale composed of four basic interwoven threads, corresponding to the four-part choral writing of Pierre de la Rue’s service music.
https://www.amazon.com/Masses-Motets-Francesca-Fruscella-Mystery/dp/1573660736/?tag=2022091-20
2019
Jeffrey DeShell was born on February 16, 1959, in Pueblo, Colorado. He is a son of Joseph and Frances (Patterson) DeShell.
Jeffrey DeShell studied at the University of Colorado Boulder where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1981 and a Master of Arts degree in 1985. He also studied at the State University of New York at Buffalo and received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1989.
Jeffrey DeShell started his career in 1982 when he became a graduate instructor at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He held the same position at the University at Buffalo from 1985 to 1989. In 1989 he became a visiting assistant professor of English at Illinois State University. He held this pos until 1992. DeShell also was a Fulbright Teaching Fellow in Budapest and taught in Northern Cyprus, the American Midwest and the Milton Avery Graduate School for the Arts at Bard College. In 1992 he started to work as an assistant professor of literature at Illinois Benedictine College. He held this post until 1995. He also worked as a visiting assistant professor at Allegheny College. In 2000, he took up a post of an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. In 2007 he was promoted to Associate Professor and in 2012 he became a professor.
Jeffrey DeShell published his first novel, In Heaven Everything Is Fine, in 1991. DeShell published his famous book The Peculiarity of Literature: An Allegorical Approach to Poe's Fiction in 1997. He also edited the collection Chick- Lit: On the Edge: New Women’s Fiction Anthology together with Chris Mazza. His latest book, Masses and Motets: A Francesca Fruscella Mystery, was published in 2019.
(The Peculiarity of Literature argues that Poe's fiction, ...)
1997(In his newest novel, Jeffrey DeShell draws on the musical...)
2013(This is a controversial new novel by one of our most impo...)
2006(Masses and Motets is a tale composed of four basic interw...)
2019(Arthouse is an audacious transformation in prose of fourt...)
2011Jeffrey DeShell is married to the novelist Elisabeth Sheffield and has two sons.
