Graduate

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 greatest strengths lie in the Nineteenth Century – where varied literary interests and critical methods, represented by the work of Barrish, Carton, Cvetkovich , Hutchison, Kevorkian, Murphy, and Winship, both complement and challenge one another – and in the Twentieth Century – where creative writers and scholars such as Barrish, Bremen, Carter, Casares, Cox, González, Hinojosa-Smith, Jones, Jordan, Lee, Limón, Perez, Richardson, Wilks, and Woodard represent the full scope of ethnic American literatures: African American, Asian American, Caribbean, Chicana/o, Latina/o, Native American.

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, Bremen, Cox, González, Hinojosa-Smith, Jones, Lee, Perez, Limón, Murphy, Richardson, Wilks, Woodard); from bibliography, textual criticism, and the history of the book (Hutchison, Winship) to popular culture (Bremen, Cvetkovich, Graham, Hilfer, Kevorkian); from American literary realism (Barrish, Carton) to modernist poetics and fiction (Bremen, Friedman, Whitbread); from gender and sexuality studies (Barrish, Cvetkovich, Jones, Lee, Murphy, Perez, Richardson) to twentieth century literatures (Barrish, Bremen, Cox, González, Graham, Hilfer, Jones, Lee, Perez, Richardson, Walker, Wilks); from modern and contemporary American drama (Bruster, Loehlin) to American poetry and poetics (Bremen, Hutchison, Jones, Walker, Whitbread, Wilks) to American literature and critical theory (Barrish, Bremen, Carton, Cvetkovich, González, Hilfer, Kevorkian, Lesser, and Limón).

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