Tim O’Neil, MA student,
Early American Literature

BA Oklahoma State University

Areas of Interest & Expertise

• Colonial American Literature through the Nineteenth Century
• Colonial American History
• Cotton Mather
• Jonathan Edwards
• Nathaniel Hawthorne

Honors and Offices

• Jacob K. Javits Fellow – 2007-present
• OSU Creativity Initiative, Steering Committee Member – 2008-present
• OSU Freshman Research Scholars Program, Director – 2008-present

Conference Presentations

• OSU Representative for The Office of Scholar Development and Recognition
  Education, Innovation and Discovery: The Distinctive Promise of the American Research University, Hilton Washington D.C., November 2008.

• “Eden in the New England Wilderness: Milton’s Position in Hawthorne’s ‘Young Goodman Brown.’” Boundaries Crossed: English in the Age of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Tulsa, March 2008.

• "Advice for Applicants to the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship.”
  Getting It Right: A Workshop for New Advisors, National Association of Fellowships Advisors, University of Arkansas, July 2008.

Current Research/Articles in Progress

• I am currently preparing a critical edition of Cotton Mather’s letters to The Royal Society—collectively titled the “Curiosa Americana”—from the original 1723 manuscripts held by the American Antiquarian Society.  I am also working on an article that examines vision and utopian construction in Hawthorne’s The Blithedale Romance.   

Why OSU?

OSU is a vibrant collegial community of experienced, innovative scholars who are uniquely “knit together by this bond of love and live in the exercise of it.”

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