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Pamela Gay

Thomas Glave

Maria Gillan

Praseeda Gopinath

Mary Haupt

Scott Henkel

Nancy Henry

Leslie Heywood

Joseph. A. Keith

Kelly Kinney

Monika Mehta

Richard McLain

Robert Micklus

Jean-Pierre Mileur

Richard P. Pindell

Liz Rosenberg

Michael D. Sharp

Juliet Shields

William V. Spanos

Jennifer Stoever-Ackerman

Susan Strehle

Albert Tricomi

Elizabeth Tucker

John Vernon

Alvin Vos

Andrew Walking

Gayle Whittier

Lisa Yun

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Joseph Church

(Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 1986)

Associate Professor, English Department

tel.: (607) 777-2534
fax.: (607) 777-2408

e-mail: jchurch @binghamton.edu

 


State University of New York • Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000

Areas of Interest

  • 19th Century American Literature
  • Literature, Philosophy, and Psychology

Books and Recent Articles

  • “Excellent People’: Naturalism, Egotism, and the Teaching of Crane’s Maggie.” In American Literary Naturalism (2007)
  • "A Problem of Conception and Creation in Hawthorne's 'The Artist of the Beautiful'" in The Nathaniel Hawthorne Review
  • "An Abuse of Art in Chopin's The Awakening" in American Literary Realism
  • " 'To Make Venus Vanish': Misogyny as Motive in Poe's 'Murders in the Rue Morgue'" in American Transcendental Quarterly
  • Transcendent Daughters in Jewett's Country of the Pointed Firs
  • "In Black and White: The Reader's Part in Chesnutt's 'Gray Wolf's Ha'nt" in American Transcendental Quarterly
  • "Reading, Writing, and the Risk of Entanglement in Crane's 'Octopush,'" in Studies in Short Fiction
  • "Romantic Flight in Jewett's 'White Heron'" Studies in American Fiction

Recent Courses Taught

  • 19c American Transcendentalism and Asian Religions
  • Visions of Reality in 19c American Literature
  • Hawthorne and Twain
  • Existential Issues
  • American Literature to 1920
  • 19th Century American Fiction
  • Literature & Psychology
  • Transcendentalism

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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