{"id":209685,"date":"2026-03-20T15:47:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T19:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/?p=209685"},"modified":"2026-03-20T15:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T19:48:17","slug":"english-professor-jeffrey-gonzalez-publishes-an-article-on-9-11-representations-in-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/2026\/03\/20\/english-professor-jeffrey-gonzalez-publishes-an-article-on-9-11-representations-in-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"English professor Jeffrey Gonzalez publishes an article on 9\/11 representations in fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/profilepages\/view_profile.php?username=gonzalezje\">Jeffrey Gonzalez<\/a>, an associate professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/\">English<\/a>, has published an article in the peer-reviewed journal &#8220;Studies in American Fiction.&#8221; His essay, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.montclair.edu\/pub\/1\/article\/984790\">Falling Women and Empty Skies: Returning to 9\/11 in Fiction by Daniel Alarcon, Claire Vaye Watkins, and Ottessa Moshfegh<\/a>,&#8221; analyzes the unusual decision made by each author to feature 9\/11 content on their very last page while otherwise not addressing the tragedy. The article places these three works within the broader history of 9\/11 representation in fiction and covers debates about the ethics of covering the terror attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffrey Gonzalez, an associate professor of English, has published an article in the peer-reviewed journal &#8220;Studies in American Fiction.&#8221; His essay, &#8220;Falling Women and Empty Skies: Returning to 9\/11 in Fiction by Daniel Alarcon, Claire Vaye Watkins, and Ottessa Moshfegh,&#8221; analyzes the unusual decision made by each author to feature 9\/11 content on their very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":209687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3,25,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-57_english-department","category-faculty-news","category-faculty-publications","category-news-and-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209686,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209685\/revisions\/209686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}