Sandra Zagarell
Donald R. Longman Professor (1979)



Rice 126
Spring 2008 Office Hours: Th 3:30-4:30, F noon-1:30 & by appointment



(440) 775-8585



Sandra.Zagarell@oberlin.edu



B.A., City College of New York, 1965
M.A., Columbia University, 1967
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1976


19th- and 20th-century American literature and culture; Victorian literature; children's literature; feminist literary theory; gay, lesbian, and bisexual theory; cultural studies.


Selected publications: Senior Editor, The Heath Anthology of American Literature, 4th edition. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001).

"Old Women and Old Houses: New England Regionalism and the Specter of Modernity in Jewett's Strangers and Wayfarers, American Literary Realism 2002, Spring, 34 (3): 189-90; 251-65.

"Strenuous Artistry: Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons." In The Cambridge Companion to American Women's Writing, ed. Dale Bauer and Philip Gould (N.Y. and London: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 384-307.

Editor, author of critical introduction, "A New England Nun" and Other Stories By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. Penguin, 2000.

Editor (with Paul Lauter), Literature section, Encyclopedia of New England Culture (forthcoming, Yale University Press).

"Troubling Regionalism: Native, Cosmopolitan, Jewett's Deephaven ALH 1998 Winter; 10 (4): 639-63.

"Crosscurrents: Registers of Nordicism, Community and Culture in Jewett's Country of the Pointed Firs." Yale Journal of Criticism. Fall, 1997 (10, 2): 355-70.

"Country's Portrayal of Community and the Exclusion of Difference." In New Essays on The Country of the Pointed Firs, ed. June Howard. Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Mary Clavers (Caroline Kirkland), A New Home--Who'll Follow? Or, Glimpses of Western Life. Rutgers University Press American Women Writers Series. Annotated edition with critical introduction. 1990.

"Narrative of Community: The Identification of a Genre." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 1988 Spring; 13 (3): 498-528.

The Morgesons and Other Writings, Published and Unpublished, by Elizabeth Stoddard. Ed., with critical introduction, with Lawrence Buell. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984

"Reenvisioning America: Melville's Benito Cereno." ESQ: Journal of the American Renaissance. 1984 Winter; 30 (4): 245-59.

Work in Progress: Modeling the Nation through Narratives of Community: Essays in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. A study of the appeals made by this hitherto unrecognized strain of prose narrative and the cultural work to which it is dedicated.


Courses, Spring 2008:

ENGL 353 (12367), American Literature 1825-65: "To Write Like an American," MWF 11:00-11:50
ENGL 357 (13966), Transatlantic Cross-Currents: 19th-Century British & American Literature, MWF 2:30-3:20
ENGL 400-02 (11769), Senior Tutorial, M 7:00-10:00 pm

Courses, Fall 2007:

ENGL 257 (7299), Late 19th-Century American Literature: The Re-Making of "America", MW 7:30-8:45 pm, King 241


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