Stephen Hock joined the Department of English in 2005. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005; the MA in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory again from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997; and his BA in Comparative Literature from Haverford College in 1996. His interests include Twentieth-century and contemporary American Literature; Modernism and Postmodernism; and Film. While at Haverford, he has taught courses in “Adaptation and Film”; “The American 1950s: Conformity Culture and Its Discontents”; and “Literary Cybercultures.”

Publications
Book
Jeremy Braddock and Stephen Hock, editors. Directed by Allen Smithee. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 2001; introductory essay, with Jeremy Braddock, “The Specter of Illegitimacy in an Age of Disillusion and Crisis,” 3-27.
Articles
“‘Stories Told Sideways Out of the Big Mouth’: John Dos Passos’s Bazinian Camera
Eye,” Literature/Film Quarterly 33.1 (2005): 20-27.
“This Is Too Big for One Old Name: Hitchcock and Smithee in the Signature Centrifuge,” Directed by Allen Smithee (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001) 175-205.
Conference Presentations
“Co-Mix Re-Mixed, or, The Strange Case of Mr. Chabon,” International Association of Word and Image Studies Conference, University of Pennsylvania, September 2005
“Thomas Pynchon and the Myth of the ‘Non-Repeatable Act,’” Infinite Impressions: Literature and the Promiscuity of Text Conference, McGill University, March 2004
“Kathy Acker's Rhythm Method,” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, February 2004
“After the Game Is Not before the Game: Games, Gender, and Repetition in The Tin Drum and Run Lola Run,” Literature/Film Association Conference, Dickinson College, October 2002
“This Is Too Big for One Old Name: Hitchcock and Smithee in the Signature Centrifuge,” Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Washington D.C., May 2001; Specters of Legitimacy: A Retrospective and Conference on the Films of Allen Smithee, University of Pennsylvania, September 1997
“‘Stories Told Sideways Out of the Big Mouth’: Dos Passos, Bazin, and the Camera Eye,” Modernist Studies Association Conference, University of Pennsylvania, October 2000
“‘Die furchtbaren Dinge’: The Sublime in Wiene’s Das Cabinett des Dr. Caligari,” Intersections 1997 Conference, University of Pennsylvania, March 1997
Events Organized
Panel Organizer and Chair, “American Violence, American Consumption,” NEMLA, Pittsburgh, March 2004
Co-organizer, Seminar in Comparative Cinema Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2000-2001
Conference Organizing Committee, Specters of Legitimacy: A Retrospective and Conference on the Films of Allen Smithee, University of Pennsylvania, September 1997