Bruce Michelson

Professor of English
Director of Campus Honors Program

Office Phone: 217-244-0922
Office Fax: 217-333-2563
Office: Honors House 1205 W Oregon
Urbana, IL 61820
Office Hours: For hours and appointments, please call the Honors House, 244-0922

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Courses

CAMPUS HONORS PROGRAM 395/396H: INTERDISCIPLINARY SEMINAR
TOPIC: College and the American Self
[for Chancellor's Scholars]

English 455: The Worlds of Mark Twain

English 101: CHP Introduction to Poetry (Campus Honors section)

Publications

Books

Printer's Devil: Mark Twain and the American Publishing Revolution  (2006)
Literary Wit (2000). Mark Twain on the Loose: A Comic Writer and the American Self (1995). Wilbur's Poetry: Music in a Scattering Time (1991)
Co-author of Teaching with the Norton Anthology of American Literature (multiple editions); author of the Norton Anthology of American Literature web site; Advisory Board of American Passages, video series produced by the Annenberg Foundation and Oregon Public Broadcasting.

Articles

Numerous articles on American authors and interpretive issues, in journals such as American Literature, New England Quarterly, Massachusetts Review, Modern Fiction Studies, the Southern Review, Novel, American Studies, Studies in American Fiction. Also several essays in collections.

Awards

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences awards for excellence in undergraduate advising and undergraduate teaching; Robert Schneider Award for service to the English Department; Fulbright fellowship; Hewlett Foundation fellowship.