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William Merrill Decker
Professor
Director, Graduate Programs in English
PhD, The University of Iowa
Areas of Interest & Expertise
- American literature colonial to contemporary
- African American literature and culture
- Literature of travel and migration
- Autobiography
Recent Upper Division & Graduate Courses Taught
- 20th Century American Autobiography
- Travel Writing/Writing Travel
- Douglass and Melville
- Whitman and Dickinson
- Representing the American West
Selected Publications
"'Who Aint a Slave?' Moby-Dick and the Slave Narrative Tradition." Literature in the Early American Republic, forthcoming 2008.
"Americans in Europe: Henry James to the Present," in Alfred Bendixen, ed. The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing Cambridge University Press, 2007.
“'Surely Cora Was Not Forgotten’: Remembering Africa in the Leatherstocking Tales,” in Jeffrey Walker, ed., Reading Cooper, Teaching Cooper AMS Press, forthcoming 2007.
Henry Adams and the Need to Know, co-edited with Earl N. Harbert. Massachusetts Historical Society and University of Virginia Press, 2005
Epistolary Practices: Letter Writing in America before Telecommunications University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
The Literary Vocation of Henry Adams University of North Carolina Press, 1990.
Honors & Offices
- Corresponding Member, Massachusetts Historical Society
- Arts and Sciences Junior Faculty Research Award
- Modern Language Association Prize for Independent Scholars
Recent Conference Presentations
"'Who Aint a Slave?' Moby-Dick and the Slave Narrative Tradition," Melville/Conrad International Conference, Szczecin, Poland, August 2007.
"'Absolutely Alabaster Landscape': The Heart of James Baldwin's Europe," American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, May 2006.
"'Populous States and Rich Republics': Walt Whitman's Prophecy of an African America," University of Liège, March 2006.
"The Letter Home," American Literature Association Conference, Boston, May 2005.
"Somewhere in Archaic Time: Henry Adams's West," University of Paris IV (Sorbonne), March 2004.
Current Research & Projects
Current work explores representation of ethnicity in pre-1900 American literature, the genres of American travel writing, and the culture of 1960s/70s suburban life.
English Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Oklahoma State University
205 Morrill Hall
Stillwater, OK 74078
Phone: 405-744-9474
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