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Steven G. Kellman

スチーヴン・ジー・ケルマン

Sutīben Jī Keruman

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1947-11-15 （Brooklyn, New York）
Nationality
American
Languages
English
Residence History
Brooklyn, New York → San Antonio, Texas

Career

Occupations
literary critic, professor of comparative literature
Active Years
1967-2024
Affiliations
University of Texas at San Antonio
Memberships
Texas Institute of Letters, National Book Critics Circle, Founding president of Gemini Ink
Nominations
Finalist for the Kukula Award 2023

Education

Harpur College at Binghamton University
Year of Graduation: 1967
Country: United States
University of California, Berkeley
Comparative Literature
Degree: M.A.
Period: 1967-1969
Year of Graduation: 1969
Country: United States
University of California, Berkeley
Comparative Literature
Degree: Ph.D.
Period: 1969-1972
Year of Graduation: 1972
Country: United States

Awards

H. L. Mencken Award
1986
Work: weekly column for the San Antonio Light
Result: winner
Association of Alternative Newsweeklies arts criticism award
2006
Organization: Association of Alternative Newsweeklies
Result: first place
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing
2007
Organization: National Book Critics Circle
Result: winner
New York Society Library Award for Biography
2005
Work: Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth
Organization: New York Society Library
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth

2005 Biography

Biography of the author of Call It Sleep.

Literature and lifeRedemption

The Translingual Imagination

2000 Criticism

Explores writers who write in more than one language.

TranslingualismTranslation

The Self-Begetting Novel

1980 Criticism

Examines metafiction where protagonist writes the novel.

Metafiction

Bibliography

  • The Self-Begetting Novel (1980)
  • Loving Reading: Erotics of the Text (1985)
  • Approaches to Teaching Camus’s The Plague (1985, editor)
  • The Plague: Fiction and Resistance (1993)
  • Perspectives on Raging Bull (1994, editor)
  • Into "The Tunnel": Readings of Gass’s Novel (1998, co-editor)
  • Leslie Fiedler and American Culture (1999, co-editor)
  • The Translingual Imagination (2000)
  • Torpid Smoke: The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (2000, co-editor)
  • Magill’s Literary Annual (2001–, co-editor)
  • Underwords: Perspectives on Don DeLillo’s Underworld (2002, co-editor)
  • Switching Languages: Translingual Writers Reflect on Their Craft (2003, editor)
  • Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth (2005)
  • Magill’s Survey of American Literature, rev. ed. (2007, editor)
  • Magill’s Survey of World Literature, rev. ed. (2009, editor)
  • M. E. Ravage, An American in the Making (2009, editor)
  • Critical Insights: Albert Camus (2011, editor)
  • American Suite: A Literary History of the United States (2018)
  • The Restless Ilan Stavans: Outsider on the Inside (2019)
  • Nimble Tongues: Studies in Literary Translingualism (2020)
  • Rambling Prose: Essays (2020)
  • The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translingualism (2021, co-editor)
  • Complete Poems Wendy Barker (2025, editor)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Critical essaysAnalysis of translingual literature
Recurring Motifs
Translingual writersMetafictionErotics of reading

Legacy

Prominent American literary critic known for work on translingualism and biography. Professor at University of Texas at San Antonio.