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Kenneth K. Brandt

Liberal arts professor

Education

  • Ph.D., English, Florida State University 
  • M.A., English, Florida State University 
  • B.A., English, University of the South

Credentials

  • Professor, English, 1999–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Editor, 2006–present, The Call: The Magazine of the Jack London Society, Boston, MA
  • Executive coordinator, 2014–present, Jack London Society, Boston, MA
  • Guest editor, Summer 2016, special issue of Studies in American Literary Naturalism, Jack London and Ernest Hemingway
  • Guest editor, Winter 2011, special section in American Literary Realism on Jack London and Into the Wild
  • Advisory Board, Jack London: Twentieth Century Man, documentary film in production, directed by Chris Million

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow, Huntington Library, Summer 2005

Publications and presentations

Books

  • Jack London: Writers and Their Work. Liverpool University Press in association with Northcote House, 2017.
  • Approaches to Teaching the Works of Jack London. Eds. Kenneth Brandt and Jeanne Campbell Reesman. Modern Language Association, 2015.

Articles

  • "Vaster and More Terrible: Jack London’s Gothic Splicing" in Haunting Realities: Naturalist Gothic and American Realism. Eds. Wendy Ryden and Monika Elbert. U of Alabama P, 2017.
  • "Introduction" to The Call of the Wild and White Fang. Knickerbocker Classics, 2017.
  • "'Never Had Much Difficulty': Jack London, George Brett, and the Macmillan Company," The Oxford Handbook of Jack London, Oxford UP, 2017.
  • "The Short, Frantic, Rags-to-Riches Life of Jack London" for Smithsonian.com, Nov. 2016. Also featured on Arts and Letters Daily (https://www.aldaily.com/). Revised and expanded for Smithsonian.com Travel as "The Short, Frantic, Rags-to-Riches Life of Jack London: Jack London State Historic Park, Home to the Rough and Tumble Troublemaker with a Prolific Pen," Dec. 2016.
  • "Introduction" to special issue of Studies in American Naturalism on Jack London and Ernest Hemingway, Summer 2016.
  • "Celebrating Jack London: How the Globetrotting Author's Experience Shaped his World View," Sonoma Index-Tribune, Jan. 21, 2016.
  • "An Evolutionary Approach to The Call of the Wild and White Fang" in Approaches to Teaching the Works of Jack London. Eds. Kenneth Brandt and Jeanne Campbell Reesman. Modern Language Association, 2015.
  • "Preface, Materials, and Introduction" with Jeanne Campbell Reesman in Approaches to Teaching the Works of Jack London. Eds. Kenneth Brandt and Jeanne Campbell Reesman. Modern Language Association, 2015.
  • "Intent and Culpability: A Legal Review of the Shooting in 'The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,'" with Alicia Mischa Renfroe. The Hemingway Review, Spring 2014.
  • "A World Thoroughly Unmade: McCarthy's Conclusion to The Road." The Explicator, Spring 2011.
  • "Love in the Time of Darwinism: Dialectical Approximations in Jack London's Martin Eden" in Critical Insights: Jack London, Salem Press, 2011.
  • Preface and to Special Section on Jack London and Into the Wild.  American Literary Realism, 1870–1910, Spring 2011.
  • "Getting Grundy with Jack London's Over-reporting in The Road." American Literary Naturalism Newsletter, Fall 2010.
  • "London's Fiction Technique and His Use of Schopenhauer as the 'Motif Under the Motif' in 'The Law of Life,'" Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction, Fall 2004.
  • "Saying What He Means: Linguistic Proportion in the Poetry of Charles Bukowski,'" Notes on Contemporary Literature, Sept. 2004.
  • "Repudiating the 'Gladiatorial Theory of Existence': Tom King's Ethical Development in Jack London's 'A Piece of Steak,'" Aethlon: Journal of Sports Literature, Fall 2003.
  • "Using Visual Interpretive Analysis in Teaching Joyce Carol Oates's 'Naked.'" Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction, Spring 2003.
  • "Robinson Jeffers's 'People and a Heron.'" The Explicator, Summer 2003.