Associate Professor
casmiers@slu.edu
Humanities 119
314.977.3524
EDUCATION
Doctorate,
Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis (1998)
Dr. Casmier’s research unites his interest in race theory
with his background as a newspaper journalist. His current work
explores how African American writers stage the tension between
journalism and fiction in their work through actual imbedded
newspaper stories. His book manuscript (provisionally titled,
Bewitching the Word: The Press, Race and African American
Literature) analyzes how African American novels and narratives
confront what one historian calls the “fictiveness”
of the daily newspaper, its construction of identity and its
support of racial hegemony. While teaching at St. Louis University,
Dr. Casmier has also continued to contribute articles to newspapers
and magazines such as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Ishmael
Reed’s Internet magazine Conch. Dr. Casmier is a reader
for African American Review and Contemporary Literature.
ARTICLES
“The Funky Novels of John Edgar Wideman: Odor and Ideology
in Reuben, Philadelphia Fire and The Cattle Killing.”
Critical Essays on John Edgar Wideman. Eds. Bonnie TuSmith
and Keith Byerman. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press,
2005.
“A Speck of Coal Dust: Vladimir Nabokov’s Pnin
and the Possibilities of Translation.” Nabokov
Studies 8 (2003/2004). Nabokov Studies 8 (2004): 71-86.
“Race, Newspapers and Hegemony in Banjo by Claude McKay.”
Cross Perspectives on African Americans: Celebrating Michel
Fabre. Ed. Claude Julien. Tours, France: Presses Universitaire
François Rabelais (2003): 177-188.
“Resisting the Frame Up -- Philadelphia Fire
and the Liberated Voices of Ramona Africa and Margaret Jones."
Cycnos 19.2 (2002): 1-16.
"Ventriloquism and Ideology in Ken Burn's Jazz."
The Moving Image: Journal of the Association of Moving Image
Archivists [University of Minnesota Press] 2 (2001): 172-176.
"Un terrain d'entente: L'esthétique du jazz et
les trois derniers romans de John Edgar Wideman." Postcolonial
Knitting: the Art of Jacqueline Bardolph. Eds. Richard
Corballis and André Viola. Palmerston North [New Zealand]
& Nice [France]: Massey University/Université de
Nice, 2000. 149-153.
"Why Scatting and Speaking in Tongues are Alike: Jazz
and Glossalalia as Non-mimetic, Postmodernist Expressions of
Afromysticism." With Donald Matthews. Literature and
Theology: An-International Journal of Theory, Criticism and
Culture [Oxford University Press] 13.2 (1999): 166-176.
"Black Narcissus: Representation, Reproduction, Repetition
and Seeing Yourself in V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas
and The Enigma of Arrival." Commonwealth:
Essays and Studies 18.1 (1995): 92 - 105.
Ettema, James S. and David L. Protess with Stephen Casmier.
Uncovering Race: Press Coverage of Racial Issues in Chicago.
The Institute for Modern Communications, Northwestern University,
Research Monographs, juin 1989.
Other Work
“MJ as Peter Pan.” Ishmael Reed's KONCH magazine.
March – April, 2004. (http://www.ishmaelreedpub.com/konch.html)
“Ali and Elvis.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Thursday,
December 27, 2002, B7.
"Reflection on Austria, Haider and James Baldwin."
St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Sunday, February 13, 2000, B3.
"Lester Bowie restructured jazz." St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Friday, November 19, 1999, C19.
“When Some of Our Children Aren’t Safe, No One
is Safe.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Tuesday, April 27,
1999, B13.
Chagall and the Bible. Exhibit Catalogue. Museum of
Art, Fort Lauderdale. February 6-April 12, 1998. Trad.: Roswitha
Zahlner-Casmier, Janice Matthew-Olivetti, Toussaint Olivetti
and Stephen Casmier.
"Interview with Lester Bowie," Eyeball, Vol. 3, St.
Louis, 1993.
Casmier, Stephen, "The Fundamentals of Cool." Interview
with Ahmad Jamal, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sunday, May 30, 1993.
"East of the Sun featuring saxophonist Lin Halliday."
Liner notes. Delmark Records, DE-458, 1992.
"Watering down the 'X.'" Review of the film Malcolm
X, New Orleans Times Picayune, Spring 1992.
"Rising from the Ashes." Review of Philadelphia
Fire by John Edgar Wideman, New Orleans Times-Picayune,
October 21, 1990.
Casmier, Stephen, "Lin Halliday Means It." Interview
with saxophonist Lin Halliday. New City Journal, September 27
- October 3, 1990, p. 23.
"Two distinct voices make sweet harmony." Interview
with Quincy Troupe, New Orleans Times Picayune, Sunday, January
14, 1990.
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