Syllabi Alert!

It's been a while since I shared my syllabi here, so without further ado, here are my syllabi since my sabbatical in AY 2021-2022:

• American Identities (Fall 2023)
• Critical Reading (Spring 2024)
• Fantasy Fiction (Spring 2024)
• Introduction to Literary Studies (Fall 2022 and Spring 2023)
• Major Authors: Hawthorne after Morrison (Fall 2023)
• Science Fiction (Fall 2022)
• Survey of American Literature (Spring 2023)

This will be my last semester of my second one-year term as chair of the Fredonia University Senate, so I'll return to a full teaching load in Fall 2024 for the first time since Spring 2015 (I was chair of the Fredonia English Department for two three-year terms from Fall 2015-Spring 2021).  See my c.v. for all the details....

My Mid-Academic Year Plenary Address

Here's the link to my kickoff talk for the Spring 2024 semester (delayed about nine days by the double blizzard).  What you won't find in it is my reference to The Rolling Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want"—the last song to play on my commute—which I used at the beginning and end of the talk as you'd expect (and which set off a blizzard of Stones references by later speakers)!