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Thomas SchaubProfessor |
Degrees and InstitutionsPhD, University of Iowa Research InterestsAmerican Literature and Culture, Contemporary American Fiction and Culture, New Historicism, and Cultural Studies. Selected PublicationsPynchon: The Voice of Ambiguity (U Illinois 1981), American Fiction in the Cold War (U Wisconsin P 1991), essays on American authors, including Cooper, Williams, Wright, Ellison, Robinson, among others. Current ProjectsCurrently, at work on two book projects: the first is a volume in the MLA series, Approaches to Teaching The Crying of Lot 49 and Other Works by Thomas Pynchon; the second is a book on US literature and culture of dissent in Vietnam era. I continue as Editor of the journal, Contemporary Literature, published four times yearly. Personal StatementAt the undergraduate level, I teach courses in major figures of 20th century American literature, but also focus upon the relationships of literature to historical--political, social, cultural--context, which is a fundamental focus of my graduate teaching. At the graduate level, I am more concerned to identify the various theoretical foundations for such concerns. |
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