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Our Faculty
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John Auchard Professor |
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Jonathan Auerbach Professor Director, Graduate Placement |
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Ralph Bauer Associate Professor |
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Jackson Bryer Emeritus Professor Distinguished Scholar-Teacher |
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Charles Caramello Professor Dean, Graduate School |
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Vincent Carretta Professor |
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Richard Cross Emeritus Professor |
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Regina Harrison Professor |
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Sheila Jelen Associate Professor |
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Linda Kauffman Professor Distinguished Scholar-Teacher |
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Matthew Kirschenbaum Associate Professor Associate Director, MITH |
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Robert Levine Professor Distinguished Scholar-Teacher; Director, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies |
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Marilee Lindemann Associate Professor Director, LGBT Studies |
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Shirley Wilson Logan Professor Director, Writing Programs; Advisor, Rhetoric Minor; Chair, Campus Writing Board |
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Peter Mallios Associate Professor |
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Zita Nunes Associate Professor Director, Comparative Literature |
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Randy Ontiveros Assistant Professor |
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Barry Pearson Professor |
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Carla Peterson Professor |
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Sangeeta Ray Professor Director, Graduate Studies |
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Martha Nell Smith Professor Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, ADVANCE Professor |
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Mary Helen Washington Professor |
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Edlie Wong Associate Professor |
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David Wyatt Professor |
Faculty Bookshelf
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Professor Robert Levine Editor, The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 1820-1865 W. W. Norton Publishing, 2012 |
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Professor Vincent Carretta Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage University of Georgia Press, 2011 |
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Professor Robert Levine Co-editor with Caroline F. Levander, A Companion to American Literary Studies Wiley-Blackwell, 2011 |
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Professor Jonathan Auerbach Dark Borders: Film Noir and American Citizenship Duke University Press, 2011 |
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Professor Robert Levine co-editor, The Works of James M. Whitfield: "America" and Other Writings by a Nineteenth-Century African American Poet" University of North Carolina Press, 2011 |
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Professor Carla Peterson Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City Yale University Press, 2011 |
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Professor Robert Levine Editor, Clotel, or The President's Daughter, by William Wells Brown Bedford, 2011 |
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Associate Professor Matthew Kirschenbaum Digital Forensics and Born-Digital Content in Cultural Heritage Collections Council on Library and Information Resources, 2010 |
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Professor David Wyatt Author, Secret Histories: Reading Twentieth Century American Literature The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010 |
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Associate Professor Peter Mallios Our Conrad: Constituting American Modernity Stanford University Press, 2010 |
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Professor Robert Levine Editor, The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne Harvard University Press, 2010 |
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Associate Professor Edlie Wong Neither Fugitive Nor Free: Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel New York University Press, 2009 |
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Professor Sangeeta Ray Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: In Other Words Wiley Blackwell, 2009 |
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Associate Professor Ralph Bauer Editor, with Jose Antonio Mazzotti, Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas: Empires, Texts, Identities University of North Carolina Press, 2009 |
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Professor Robert Levine author, Conspiracy and Romance: Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville Cambridge University Press, 2009 |
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Professor Robert Levine Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism North Carolina Press, 2008 |
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Professor Shirley Wilson Logan Liberating Language: Sites of Rhetorical Education in Nineteenth-Century Black America Southern Illinois University Press, 2008 |
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Associate Professor Zita Nunes Cannibal Democracy: Race and Representation in the Literature of the Americas University of Minnesota Press, 2008 |
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Professor Martha Nell Smith Co-editor, Emily Dickinson's Correspondences: A Born-Digital Textual Inquiry The University of Virginia Rotunda Press, 2008 |
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Professor Robert Levine Editor, Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile, by Herman Melville Penguin, 2008 |
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Professor Robert Levine Editor, with Samuel Otter, Frederick Douglass & Hermann Melville: Essays in Relation University of North Carolina Press, 2008 |
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Professor Martha Nell Smith Co-editor, with Mary Loeffelholz, A Companion to Emily Dickinson Wiley-Blackwell, 2008 |
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Professor Robert Levine Editor, with Caroline Levander, Hemispheric American Studies Rutgers University Press, 2008 |
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Associate Professor Matthew Kirschenbaum Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination MIT Press, 2008 |
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Professor Jonathan Auerbach Body Shots: Early Cinema's Incarnations University of California Press, 2007 |
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Professor Robert Levine Editor, The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Seventh Edition: Volume B: 1820-1865 W. W. Norton, 2007 |
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Professor Vincent Carretta Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man Penguin, 2007 |
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Professor Jonathan Auerbach Editor, The Iron Heel, by Jack London Penguin, 2006 |
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Professor Regina Harrison Director, producer, writer, Mined to Death Berkeley Media LLC, 2005 |
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Professor Barry Pearson Jook Right On: Blues Stories and Blues Storytellers University of Tennessee Press, 2005 |
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Professor Robert Levine editor, The House of Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne Norton Critical Edition, 2005 |
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Associate Professor Marilee Lindemann Editor, The Cambridge Companion to Willa Cather Cambridge University Press, 2005 |
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Associate Professor Ralph Bauer An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru
By Titu Cusi Yupanqui University of Colorado Press, 2005 |
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Associate Professor Peter Mallios Editor, The Secret Agent, by Joseph Conrad Modern Library, 2004 |
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Associate Professor Peter Mallios Co-editor, with Carola Kaplan and Andrea White, Conrad in the Twenty-first Century: Contemporary Approaches and Perspectives Routledge, 2004 |
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Professor David Wyatt And the War Came: An Accidental Memoir Terrace Books, 2004 |
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Professor Vincent Carretta Editor, Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth Century University Press of Kentucky, 2003 |
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Associate Professor Ralph Bauer The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Travel, Modernity Cambridge University Press, 2003 |
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Associate Professor Peter Mallios Editor, Victory, by Joseph Conrad Modern Library, 2003 |
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Professor Vincent Carretta Editor, The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings, by Olaudah Equiano Penguin, Revised and Expanded Edition, 2003 |
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Professor Robert Levine editor, Martin R. Delany: A Documentary Reader University of North Carolina Press, 2003 |
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Associate Professor Peter Mallios Editor, Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River, by Joseph Conrad Modern Library, 2002 |
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Professor Regina Harrison Director, producer, writer, Cashing in on Culture: Indigenous Communities and Tourism Berkeley Media LLC, 2002 |
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Associate Professor Peter Mallios Editor, Under Western Eyes Modern Library Classics, 2001 |
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Professor Vincent Carretta Editor, Complete Writings, by Phillis Wheatley Penguin, 2001 |
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Professor Robert Levine Editor, Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp, by Harriet Beecher Stowe Penguin; rpt University of North Carolina Press, 2000 |
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Professor Sangeeta Ray En-Gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives Duke University Press, 2000 |
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Professor Shirley Wilson Logan "We Are Coming": The Persuasive Discourse of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Southern Illinois University Press, 1999 |
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Professor Vincent Carretta Editor, Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery, by Quobna Ottobah Cugoano Penguin, 1999 |
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Associate Professor Marilee Lindemann Willa Cather: Queering America Columbia University Press, 1999 |
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Professor Linda Kauffman Bad Girls and Sick Boys: Fantasies in Contemporary Art and Culture University of California Press, 1998 |
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Professor Martha Nell Smith Co-editor, with Ellen Louise Hart, Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson Paris Press, 1998 |
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Professor Robert Levine Editor, The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville Cambridge University Press, 1998 |
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Associate Professor Marilee Lindemann Editor, O Pioneers! by Willa Cather Oxford University Press, 1997 |
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Professor Robert Levine Martin Delany, Frederick Douglasss, and the Politics of Representative Identity University of North Carolina Press, 1997 |
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Professor Jonathan Auerbach Editor, Northland Stories, by Jack London Penguin, 1997 |
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Professor David Wyatt Five Fires: Race, Catastrophe, and the Shaping of California Addison Wesley, 1997 |
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Professor Jonathan Auerbach Male Call: Becoming Jack London Duke University Press, 1996 |
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Professor Charles Caramello Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and the Biographical Act University of North Carolina Press, 1996 |
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Professor Shirley Wilson Logan Editor, With Pen and Voice: A Critical Anthology of Nineteenth-Century African-American Women Southern Illinois University Press, 1995 |
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Professor Carla Peterson "Doers of the Word": African-American Women Speakers & Writers in the North (1830-1880) Oxford University Press, 1995 |
Upcoming Events
Friday, October 19, 2012
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Urlich Recital Hall (1121 Tawes)
Friday, October 26, 2012
2115 Tawes Hall
Friday, February 8, 2013
2115 Tawes Hall
Friday, April 26, 2013
3132 Tawes Hall
News
January 17, 2012
Read about Vin Carretta at the Massachusetts Historical Society.
October 25, 2011
This symposium promises to help participants redefine and rethink the ways they research, teach, discuss, and conceptualize categories surrounding “world literature" and promises to have wide-ranging impact across the humanities.
September 19, 2011
The department welcomes Sarah Blake, author THE POSTMISTRESS (2010), as Petrou Writer in Residence for 2011-2012.
September 13, 2011
The September 5, 2011, edition of Publisher's Weekly identifies Vincent Carretta's Phyllis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage (University of Georgia Press, 2011) as "a thoroughly readble, fully schoarly life of Wheatley."
March 2, 2011
Olmert's new play, "Moving the Chains: The Darryl Hill Story," appears as a rehearsed staged reading, a co-production of Theatre J and the Lincoln Theatre on Monday, March 21, 2011.
February 28, 2011
Peterson's new book, Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City, comes out this month.
December 20, 2010
Crystal Parikh, Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, will recieve the MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Liteary and Cultural Studies at the upcoming MLA annual meeting for her book, An Ethics of Betrayal: The Politics of Otherness in Emergent U.S. Literatures and Cultures (Fordham University Press, 2009).
December 20, 2010
Kelly Wisecup, Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Texas, received national recognition for her scholarship. The Society of Early Americanists awarded her essay, "Invisible Bullets and Literary Forms of Colonial Promotion," Best Essay in the Field for 2009-2010.
September 28, 2010
David Wyatt's newest book is scheduled to come out October, 2010.
April 29, 2010
Marilee Lindemann honors the retirement of Susan Gubar with a timely essay on the importance of mentoring undergraduates at state universities.
