Faculty

American Literature

Some twenty faculty members teach graduate courses and publish in American literature-or, more accurately, in the literatures and literary history of the United States and the theories, practices, products, and institutions of culture in America. The Americanist group offers courses that span American literary periods and genres. Its most exceptional strength lies in the American Renaissance, where varied literary interests and critical methods, represented by the work of Carton, Kevorkian, Scheick, and Winship, complement as they challenge one another.

Students specializing in American literature at the University of Texas will find mentors in whatever aspects of the field they wish to pursue: from New England intellectual history (Kevorkian, Lesser, Scheick) to ethnic studies (Barrish, Carter, Hinojosa-Smith, Lewis, Limon, Newton, Woodard); from bibliography, textual criticism, and the history of the book (Winship) to popular culture (Graham, Kevorkian, Hilfer); from American literary realism (Barrish, Carton) to modernist poetics and fiction (Bremen, Friedman, Slatin, Whitbread); from modern and contemporary American drama (Bruster) to American literature and poststructuralist theory (Barrish, Bremen, Carton, Kevorkian, Lesser, Limon, and Newton).

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