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 Professor office: 232 Tate phone: 573-882-0662 email: quirkt@missouri.edu office hours: TR 11:00-12:00 Research and teaching areas: American literature and culture Tom QuirkTom Quirk is the author of articles on American literature and culture and variety of American authors, including Joyce Carol Oates, Langston Hughes, Willa Cather, Wallace Stevens, Edgar Allan Poe, E.A. Robinson, Ring Lardner, Nathaniel Hawthorne, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and others. He is also the author, editor, or co-editor of several books and monographs, including: Melville's Confidence Man (Missouri, 1982), Romanticism: Critical Essays in American Literature (Garland, 1986), Bergson and American Culture: The Worlds of Willa Cather and Wallace Stevens and Writing the American Classics (both North Carolina, 1990), Coming to Grips with "Huckleberry Finn" (Missouri, 1993), Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches by Mark Twain (Penguin, 1994), American Realism and the Canon: A Collection of Essays (Delaware, 1994), Biographies of Books: The Backgrounds, Genesis, and Composition of Notable American Writings (Missouri, 1996), Mark Twain: A Study of the Short Fiction (Twayne, 1997), The Portable American Realism Reader (Viking/Penguin, 1997), Tales of Soldiers and Civilians and Other Stories by Ambrose Bierce (Penguin, 2000), Nothing Abstract: Investigations in the American Literary Imagination (Missouri, 2001), The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain (Penguin, 2002), and The Portable Mark Twain (Penguin/Putnam 2004). He is the volume editor for Alexander's Bridge in the Willa Cather Scholarly Editions Project (Nebaska, 2007). He is editor of the Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Volume: Huckleberry Finn (Bruccoli, Clark, and Layman, 2008), and he is the co-editor of American History through Literature 3 vols. (Scribners, 2006). He recently completed a book with the title Mark Twain and Human Nature (Missouri, 2007). He is currently co-authoring a book entitled "A Research Guide to American Literature, 1865-1914" (Facts on File, Bruccoli, Clark, Layman). He is the editor of the Mark Twain and His Circle series of scholarly books published by the University of Missouri Press. Education Selected Publications
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