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B.A., Furman
University
M.A., J.D., West Virginia
University
LL.M., Temple University
Beasley School of Law (expected 2010)
Born in Atlanta and raised
in Marietta, Georgia, Allen Porter Mendenhall holds a B.A. in English from Furman University, M.A. in English from West Virginia University, and J.D. from West Virginia University College of Law. A former adjunct legal associate at the Cato Institute, he's an LL.M. candidate at Temple University Beasley School of Law. His research and writing interests
include Law-and-Literature, Literary Theory and
Criticism, Legal and Literary Hermeneutics, Jurisprudence, Transnational Law, and American Studies. He has studied at the University of
London (Birkbeck College), the Shakespeare Institute of the University
of Birmingham, Centro Universitario Vila Velha, Fundacao Getulio Vargas
(Direito Rio), and the Tokyo campus of Temple University Beasley School
of Law. He has numerous publications to his credit, including essays,
articles, reviews, and poems, and has written on a wide variety of topics--among them,
William Butler Yeats, James Frey, Harper Lee, legal research and
writing, the American prison system, and the Dred Scott decision. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in both popular and scholarly periodicals, including The Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives, Libertarian Papers, The Southern
Literary Messenger, The
International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, The Student
Lawyer, West Virginia History, The Southern Literary Review, The Sigma Tau Delta Review, The Aroostook Review, The West Virginia
Lawyer, The Oregon Commentator, Mises Daily, The West Virginia Record, Brazzil Magazine, Liberty, Tributaries, and The Dominion
Post.
Representative Publications Online:"Haunted by History's Ghostly Gaps: A Literary Critique of the Dred Scott Decision and its Historical Treatments,"
The Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives (forthcoming 2010).
"Farewell, Richard Posner,"
Mises Daily (2009) (available here).
"Of Bees and Boys," The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. 2, No. 3 (2009) (available here). "Moundsville Penitentiary, Model and Symptom of Hyperreality," The International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2009) (available here). "To the Top of the Ladder: A Tribute to the Honorable John F. McCuskey," The West Virginia Lawyer (2008) (available on Westlaw). "Talkin' to Papa: Reflections on Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Monroeville, Alabama," The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. 1, No. 4 (2008) (available here). "To Wyatt Earp," The Aroostook Review, Volume III (2008) (available here). "The Importance of Being Earnest: A Serious Proposal to Modify Legal Research and Writing Departments," Student Lawyer, Vol. 36, No. 6 (2008) (available here, subscription required). "Flipping Places: Japanese in Brazil and Brazilians in Japan," Brazzil Magazine (2008) (available here). "Flash," The Aroostook Review, Volume II (2007) (available here). Reviews:Review of Maureen Konkle's Writing Indian Nations: Native Intellectuals and the Politics of Historiography, 1827-1863 in West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies (2009) (available on Project Muse). Review of Faulkner Studies in Japan (edited by Thomas L. McHaney), The Southern Literary Review (2009) (available here). Review of John Pritchard's Junior Ray, The Southern Literary Review (2009) (available here). |