Kenneth M. Roemer My fascination with real and imagined alternative cultures continues.
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PhD University of Pennsylvania

Areas of Interest:

Utopian Literature
American Indian Literature
American Literature/Culture Studies

Reader-Response Criticism
Inventive Modeling (composition)

Selected Publications:

Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature. New York: Cambridge UP, 2005.

Utopian Audiences: How Readers Locate Nowhere. Amherst: U of Massachusetts Press, 2003.

Michibata de Deatta Nippon (A Sidewalker's Japan). Translated from the English by Hiro Ichikawa. Tokyo: Sairyusha, 2002.

Native American Writers of the United States, DLB vol. 175. ed.  Detroit: Gale, 1997.

"Contemporary American Indian Literature: The Centrality of Canons on the Margins," American Literary History 6 (1994).

The Obsolete Necessity: America in Utopian Writings, 1888-1900. Kent: Kent State University Press, 1976.

Electronic:

Covers, Titles, and Tables: The Formations of American Literary Canons

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Curriculum Vitae:

Short Version

Complete Version

Biography

(Selected) Present and Past Courses:

Spring 2007:

ENGL 3300: Build Your Own Utopia

ENGL 4317: 20th-Century American Fiction: Form, Race, and Apocalypse

ENGL 6339: Shaping Lives: American Indian Life Narratives

American Indian Literatures:

Contemporary American Indian Fiction (Graduate)

Contemporary American Indian Fiction (Undergraduate)

The Novels of Louise Erdrich

Native Fictions that Reconstruct American History

Introduction to American Indian Literatures

Inventive Modeling: Autobiography / Literary Writing

American Indian Life Narratives

Contemporary American Indian Novels & Film

Literature as Told, Written & Directed by American Indian Women

American Literature / American Indian Literature Comparative:

Ceremonial Sisters

From Gossip to Myth

Introduction to Textual Analysis and Interpretation

Comparing Selected "Native" Poetic Voices

Crossover Transformations

Reconstructive Encounters

Utopian Literature:

American Utopian Expressions

Build Your Own Utopia

Shapes of Utopia

American Literature:

Early American Literatures (Graduate)

Early American Literatures (Undergraduate)

Twentieth-Century American Fictions (Graduate)

Twentieth-Century American Fictions (Undergraduate)

Celebrating Identity Formations

Selected American Authors Before 190[1]: Melville, Twain, Chopin

Reconstructing the American Literary Renaissance

Writing Courses:

Inventive Modeling: Autobiography / Literary Writing

Critical Reading, Thinking, and Writing I