Betsy J. Erkkilä

1980-1994 Professor of English, Graduate Faculty Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, and American Civilization

Leigh Holladay Edwards "Blood Relations: The Cultural Work of Miscegenation in Nineteenth-Century American Literature"

Cheryl Blanche Butler "The Art of the Black Essay: From Meditation to Transcendency"

Josh Bellin "The Demon of the Continent: American Literature, Indian Conversion and the Dynamics of Cultural Exchange"

Karen Chandler "Wages of Innocence, Wages of Sin: Melodramatic Fictions of Love, Class, and Race in Modern America, 1890-1940"

Nicole King "C.L.R. James and the Formulations of Caribbean Cultural Identity"

Eric Wertheimer "Imagined Empires: Incas, Aztecs and the Columbian Trope in American Literature, 1771-1876"

Jay Grossman "Emerson, Whitman and the Politics of Representation"

Teresa A. Goddu "The Haunted Text: Form and History in the American Gothic"

Katherine Kinney "Friendly Fire: American Identity and the Literature of the Vietnam War"

Department of English