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Jeffrey Walker
Professor
PhD, Pennsylvania State University
Areas of Interest & Expertise
- Early American Literature
- Nineteenth-Century American Literature
- American Studies
- Film
- Textual Editing
- Comedy
- Dickens
Recent Upper Division & Graduate Courses Taught
Graduate Courses:
- Remembering America: Narrative Voices of the Fifties
- Reading Culture, Reading Books: The Rise of the American Bestseller
- The History of the Book in Early America
- American Narrative and Film Comedy
- The Narrative and Techniques of Persuasion
Upper Division:
- Hollywood Romantic Comedy
- Readings in the American Experience
- History of American Film
- Shakespearean Comedy
- Early American Literature: Journeys into New Worlds
- Time, Travel, and the Nineteeth-Century American Narrative
- Murder Will Out: The Detective in Fiction
Selected Publications
Leather-Stocking Redux: Or, Old Tales, New Essays (AMS Press, 2010).
Reading Cooper, Teaching Cooper (AMS Press, 2007).
The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground, by James Fenimore Cooper. ed. with Lance Schachterle and James P. Elliott (AMS Press, 2002).
"Cooper and America: A Bibliographical Essay" in James Fenimore Cooper: A Historical Guide (Oxford UP, 2007)
Honors & Offices
- 2009 Elected to Membership, American Antiquarian Society
- Co-editor, Literature in the Early American Republic
- 2004 EGSA Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award,
- 1998 Phoenix Award for Outstanding Teaching Award
- Fulbright Senior Lectureships, Norway (1987), Belgium (1998)
- Editorial Board, The Cooper Edition
- Associate Editor, Seventeenth-Century News
- Senior Bibliographer, MLA International Bibliography
Recent Grants & Research Trips
- 2007 Oklahoma Humanities Council Research Grant
Recent Conference Presentations
“Cole and Cooper’s Landscape with Figures—On Canvas, on Paper.” American
Encounters: Thomas Cole and the Narrative Landscape, Exhibit and Panel
Discussion, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR. 5 August 2012.
"Reading Rose Budd; Or, Tough Sledding in Jack Tier." American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, CA, 27 May 2010.
"Selling Cooper, Selling Chicago; or, Selling Mohicans as Bestseller." American Literature Association Conference, Cambridge, MA. 22 May 2009.
"More Flotsam and Jetsam in Editing Fenimore Cooper." James Fenimore Cooper Conference, Cooperstown and Oneonta, NY. 10 July 2007.
"Re-Reading the Early Republic: From Crevecoeur to Cooper," Visiting Faculty, AAS Seminar on the History of the Book, June 2007.
"The Case of the Missing Corpus; Or, The Art of Literary Sleuthing," 2004 Babcock Lecture, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY
Current Research & Projects
My edition (in preparation) of the unpublished letters of James Fenimore
Cooper, a supplement to the six-volume Letters and
Journals (Harvard,
1960-1968) contains over one hundred newly discovered letters. I
am also working on a study of undergraduate literary culture in eighteenth-century
American colleges. Based almost entirely on student manuscripts,
this study will examine what undergraduates learned as collegians, what
they read, who they emulated, and why colleges tended to serve as
the training ground for most poets of the period. My other
chief interests include Hollywood romantic comedy and the films of the
classical Hollywood period, as well as the history of the book and the
ways in which novels were published in America and England in the nineteenth
century.
English Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Oklahoma State University
205 Morrill Hall
Stillwater, OK 74078
Phone: 405-744-9474
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