T. Scott McMillin
Associate Professor (1992)



Rice 24

On leave Fall 2008



(440) 775-6726



T.S.Mcmillin@oberlin.edu



B.A., University of Michigan, 1983
M.A., Syracuse University, 1989
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1992


19th- & 20th-century American literature; philosophical approaches to literature; nature writing; literary theory.




 

"Overlooking, Rivers, Looking Over," in Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 6.3 (Summer 2006).

“The Meaning of Rivers,” book-length project in progress.

“A Musketaquid-tól a Concord-ig és vissza (Thoreau transzecendentális folyóélménye), trans. Tóta Péter Benedek, Mühely: A Folyó (Fall 2005), 86-90.

“Emerson, Ralph Waldo,” Encyclopedia of New England Culture, eds. Feintuch and Watters, Yale University Press (2005), 982-83.

“Thoreau, Henry David,” Encyclopedia of New England Culture, eds. Feintuch and Watters, Yale University Press (2005), 1031-32.

“Frolic Architecture: Building on Emerson’s Drift,” Thresholds 26 (Spring 2003), 8-13.

Our Preposterous Use of Literature: Emerson & the Nature of Reading, University of Illinois Press (2000).

Re-print of "The Best Read Naturalist? Burroughs, Emerson, & the Nature of the Text," in Sharp Eyes: John Burroughs and American Nature Writing, ed. Charlotte Zoë Walker, Syracuse University Press (2000), 51-63. (First printing: Oneonta, NY: SUNY Press, 1995, 62-75.)

"Reading Between: Time, Text, & the Preposterous," Layers (CD-ROM, Spring 1998).

“Writing Nature's Journal,” Stories in the Land: Explorations of a Watershed (Spring 1998).

“Re: Nature,” Watershed (Spring 1997).

"Extra Vagant Education: Teaching Walden in the Context of Transcendentalism," Approaches to Teaching Thoreau's Walden and Other Works, ed. Richard J. Schneider (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1996), 48-55.

"Consuming Text: Transubstantiation & Ingestion in the Interpretation of Emerson," Criticism (Winter 1996), 85-114.

"Reading Nature Writing," Surfaces Vol. IV (Spring 1994), 4-18.



 

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