department of english
university of missouri-columbia
American Literature to 1914

Program Description

Roughly one third of MU's English Department specializes in some area of American literature, and many more faculty have secondary interests in the field, providing graduate and undergraduate students alike significant opportunities for work in many areas of American literature, including Early American Literature, Native American Literature, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature, Southern Literature, African-American Literature, and Western Literature.

Course Offerings

Recent upper-level course topics:
[ descriptions ]

• Reading and Writing in Antebellum America
• Colonialism in the U.S. to 1860
• Periodicals and Nineteenth-Century American Literature
• Struggle and Counter-Struggle: Race in the Making of American Literature
[ Faculty in this Area ]

John Evelev
Maureen Konkle
April Langley
Patricia Okker

Thomas Quirk
Alexandra Socarides
Jeffrey R. Williams

Phillis Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Mark Twain

Samuel Clemens, Mark Twain

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last updated: spring 2008
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