Courses
ENGLISH 274: LITERATURE & SOCIETY
TOPIC: SUCCESS WRITING IN AMERICA
English 500: INTRO TO CRITICISM & RESEARCH (With Bob Markley; Summer Session I)
ENGLISH 300: WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE
TOPIC: AMERICAN FICTION AND THE MIDDLE CLASS
ENGLISH 553: SEMINAR IN LATER AMERICAN LITERATURE
TOPIC: AMERICAN LITERATURE STUDIES, 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY FICTION
Specializations
American Literature, particularly 19th- and 20th-Century Fiction; American Criticism; Ethnic Literature.
Publications
Secrets and Sympathy: Forms of Disclosure in Hawthorne 's Novels (1988); Editor of National Imaginaries, American Identities: The Cultural Work of American Iconography (2000), with Larry J. Reynolds; Immigrant Voices: Twenty-Four Narratives on Becoming an American (1999); American Literature, American Culture (1999); and The American Literary History Reader (1995). Founder and editor of the Oxford University Press journal American Literary History.
Work in Progress
A book on the mid-twentieth-century American novel.
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