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Dr. Yacavone (Assistant Professor) has advanced degrees from Oxford University and University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He received his Ph.D. from University of Warwick in 2014. He has taught full-time at Soochow University, Shanghai International Studies University, and (currently) XJTLU. He has published articles on American writers such as Melville and Emerson as well as on movies, cinema, and popular culture, notably American Westerns and Japanese popular cinema. His book, Negative, Nonsensical and Non-Conformist, is available for free here: https://www.fulcrum.org/ebooks/37720g36v/download?locale=en.
Research interests
American Literature; Drama; Cinema; literary theory and film theory; Japanese Studies; Medieval Literature
Experience
Associate Professor, Shanghai International Studies University 2019-2023
Assoc. Prof., Soochow University, 2014-2017
Teaching
LIT 201 Literature of the Enlightenment
LIT 103 Literature and Film
LIT 207 Modern British Fiction on Page and Screen
LIT211 Romanticism: Nature, Mind, and Society
Awards and honours
Sir John Rhys Prize, 2002
National Social Science Fund Translation Grant (as co-investigator), 2024
Education/Academic qualification
Ph.D. University of Warwick, 2014
M.A. Univ. of Massachusetts-Amherst 2010
M.Phil. Oxford University, 2003
Research areas
- American Literature
- Film Studies
- Drama
- Shakespeare
- literary theory
- Japanese Studies
- Medieval Literature
Person Types
- Staff
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The History of Chinese Literary Criticism (National Social Science Fund Academic Translation Program)
Yacavone, P. (CoI) & Chen, Q. (PI)
29/06/24 → 30/06/26
Project: Governmental Research Project
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Allusion, Intertext, and Ethnic Flattening in Groucho Marx and Carmen Miranda’s Copacabana”
Yacavone, P., Aug 2025, In: Journal of Film and Video. 77, 3, p. 5-19 14 p., 1934-6018.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Branded to Kill
Yacavone, P., Jul 2025, In: Senses of Cinema. 114Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Negative, Nonsensical, and Non-conformist: The Films of Suzuki Seijun: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies volume 99
Yacavone, P., 12 Apr 2023, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 416 p.Research output: Book/Report/Edited volume › Book › peer-review
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Sex, Race, and Wyatt Earp: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying about My Darling Clementine and Love Chihuahua
Yacavone, P., Jun 2022, In: Film and History. 52, 1, p. 4-17 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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"Free from the Blessings of Civilization": Native Americans in Stagecoach (1939) and Other John Ford Westerns
Yacavone, P., 1 Jun 2018, In: Film and History. 48, 1, p. 32-44 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
3 Citations (Scopus)
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Allusion, Intertext, and Ethnic Flattening in Groucho Marx and Carmen Miranda’s Copacabana
Yacavone, P. (Speaker)
1 Jul 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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William James: What Makes a Life Significant?
Peter Yacavone (Speaker)
21 May 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Thoreau's "Walking" : The Preservation of Wildness
Yacavone, P. (Speaker)
8 May 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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'Dishonesty and Prediction in 1 Henry IV’
Peter Yacavone (Speaker)
22 Jun 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Why the Europeans Critics Were Right about Kurosawa’s Rashōmon and the American Critics Weren’t
Yacavone, P. (Speaker)
23 Feb 2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation at conference/workshop/seminar