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Jonathan Elmer
Jonathan Elmer (Email; phone: 812-855-3421)
Chair, Department of English
Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1990
My research attempts to demonstrate
that literature is good to think with, that the figurative imagination provides uniquely supple and condensed treatments of a host of historical, psychological, political, and conceptual problems. I am an antebellum Americanist by training—my first book was on Edgar Allan Poe and mass culture in America —but my research and teaching over the past decade has increasingly focused on colonial and early national eras, and on writers of the anglophone Atlantic world from Aphra Behn to Thomas Jefferson to Herman Melville.
My book On Lingering and Being Last: Fictions of Race and Sovereignty in the New World will be published in 2008.
Click here for more information regarding Professor Elmer's work in American Literature.
RECENT COURSES
L751: Race and Sovereignty in the Anglophone Atlantic, 1650-1850.
L680: Romantic Atlantics (with Mary Favret)
L653: 19thC American Literature
L651: Early American Writing
L371: Critical Practices
L354: The 1930's
L351: American Literature 1800-1865
L350: Early American Literature and Culture
E303: Literatures in English, 1800-1900 (with Andrew Miller)
L141: "Play!"
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
On Lingering and Being Last: Race and Sovereignty in the New World. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008.
Reading at the Social Limit: Affect, Mass Culture, and Edgar Allan Poe (1995).
Essays in American Literature, boundary 2, Cultural Critique, and diacritics, on figures ranging from Thomas Jefferson to Richard Wright, Jacques Lacan to Hannibal Lechter.
SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS
Fellowships or Grants from: Mellon Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, Centre for Science Development of South Africa. |
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