Professor206-543-4076rabrams@uw.eduPDL B-427Office Hours: MW 5:30 PM-6:30 PMFields of Interest American Culture Literature Philosophy Space/Place Visual Culture Background and ExperienceSummaryB.A., Dartmouth College, 1965Ph.D., Indiana University, 1973Areas of Specialization American literature and culture Selected Scholarly Publications/Current Research In addition to my book on how landscape remains the precariously inscribed site of shifting belief structures during the American Renaissance--a study which ranges from Hawthorne's fiction to Frederick Douglass's autobiographies, and which also explores mid-nineteenth-century visual culture-- I've published numerous articles on American literature and culture in such journals as ELH, Nineteenth-Century Literature, American Literature, Texas Studies and Literature and Language, Arizona Quarterly, and Philological Quarterly. My research interests include cultural constructions of landscape in the antebellum US, nineteenth-century American visual culture, the American Renaissance, American post-Romanticism, psychoanalysis, Gothicism, cartography and architecture. Research Publications, Book Chapters Robert Abrams. “Borders.” American History through Literature, 1820-1870. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006), pp. 154-162. Publications, Books Robert Abrams. Landscape and Ideology in American Renaissance Literature: Topographies of Skepticism. Cambridge University Press. 2004. Publications, Essays and Articles Robert Abrams. “Critiquing Colonial American Geography: Hawthorne’s Landscape of Bewilderment.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 36 (Winter 1994), 357-379. Robert Abrams. “Image, Object, and Perception in Thoreau’s Landscapes: The Development of Anti-Geography.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 46 (September 1991), 245-262. Research Advised: Undergraduate Honors Theses Nola Peshkin: Flowing with milk and honey: how the fertile powers of women and nature create patriarchal fear and the desire for control and commodification Ricky Spaulding:Really Really Real: Reality in Performance and the Hyperreal in the Plays of Annie Baker Hannah Bauermeister Degrees of Loneliness in 20th Century America Research Advised: Graduate Dissertations Manganaro, Anthony. The Mirrors of Naturalism: Stephen Crane's Pragmatic Determinism. 2017. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Bashaw, Ashley. Mapping the Vagina: Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Scientific Specularity. 2016. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Calavitta, John Paul. California: State of Light. 2015. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Holmberg, David Thomas. Prying, Peeping, Peering: The Voyeuristic Gaze in Late-Nineteenth-Century American Literary Naturalism. 2012. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Courses Taught Winter 2020 ENGL 250 A: American Literature ENGL 281 C: Intermediate Expository Writing Spring 2019 ENGL 281 E: Intermediate Expository Writing ENGL 496 A: Major Conference for Honors Winter 2019 ENGL 281 C: Intermediate Expository Writing ENGL 494 A: Honors Seminar Autumn 2018 ENGL 281 C: Intermediate Expository Writing ENGL 353 B: American Literature: Later Nineteenth Century ENGL 532 A: Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Is there an American Focal Center? Community, Dissonance, and Myths of Nationhood in the 19th Century U.S. Summer 2018 Full-term ENGL 281 C: Intermediate Expository Writing Spring 2018 ENGL 281 E: Intermediate Expository Writing ENGL 352 A: American Literature: The Early Nation Winter 2018 ENGL 250 A: American Literature ENGL 281 C: Intermediate Expository Writing Autumn 2017 ENGL 281 C: Intermediate Expository Writing ENGL 353 C: American Literature: Later Nineteenth Century ENGL 498 C: Senior Seminar ENGL 532 A: Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Transgression in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture: The Importance of the Inappropriate Summer 2017 Full-term ENGL 281 C: Intermediate Expository Writing Spring 2017 ENGL 281 E: Intermediate Expository Writing ENGL 352 B: American Literature: The Early Nation Winter 2017 ENGL 250 A: American Literature ENGL 281 E: Intermediate Expository Writing Autumn 2016 ENGL 281 C: Intermediate Expository Writing ENGL 353 C: American Literature: Later Nineteenth Century ENGL 532 A: Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Alternative Spaces, Shifting Landscapes: Perception, Orientation and Literary Form in Nineteenth-Century America Summer 2016 Full-term ENGL 281 C: Intermediate Expository Writing Spring 2016 ENGL 281 E: Intermediate Expository Writing ENGL 352 B: American Literature: The Early Nation: American Literature: The Early Nation Winter 2016 ENGL 250 A: American Literature Autumn 2015 ENGL 281 C: Intermediate Expository Writing ENGL 353 B: American Literature: Later Nineteenth Century ENGL 353 C: American Literature: Later Nineteenth Century ENGL 532 A: Nineteenth-Century American Literature: 19th c. US Lit: Myths of Community, Realities of Dissonance Spring 2015 ENGL 281 F: Intermediate Expository Writing ENGL 352 B: American Literature: The Early Nation Winter 2015 ENGL 250 A: American Literature ENGL 281 F: Intermediate Expository Writing Autumn 2014 ENGL 281 C: Intermediate Expository Writing ENGL 452 A: Topics In American Literature: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Art of Transgression ENGL 452 B: Topics In American Literature ENGL 532 A: Nineteenth-Century American Literature: The Role of Transgression in 19thc. American Lit Summer 2014 Full-term ENGL 281 D: Intermediate Expository Writing Spring 2014 ENGL 281 D: Intermediate Expository Writing ENGL 352 A: American Literature: The Early Nation Winter 2014 ENGL 532 A: Nineteenth-Century American Literature: 19th c. American Lit Autumn 2013 ENGL 281 C: Intermediate Expository Writing News Related News In Memoriam / Professor Robert Bruce Stanton Oct 19, 2018 Emerging Directions and Continuing Traditions in the English Department May 6, 2015 Share: Print PDF
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