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607-431-4871
Department
English
Areas of Expertise

modern and contemporary American literature, literary and cultural theory, the utopian tradition in literature, modernism in the arts

Education
Ph.D., Duke University

Robert Seguin

Professor of English, Department Chair & Coordinator of Race & Ethnic Studies

Recent courses taught:

  • Utopia and Dystopia in Literature and Film
  • Beats, Bombs, and Burbs: the American 1950s
  • Masquerade and Disguise in American Literature
  • Contemporary Graphic Novel
  • The African-American Literary Tradition

Selected publications:

  • “Nature Is What Hurts.” Review essay. Electronic Book Review, 2016-02-07.
  • “From Class Imaginary to Cultural Revolution in Willa Cather.” Created Unequal: Class and the Making of American Literature. Andrew Lawson, ed. London: Routledge, 2014. 165-79.
  • “The American Novel: Twentieth Century.” Chapter of The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Novel. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
  • “Cosmic Upset: Cultural Revolution and the Contradictions of Zora Neale Hurston.” Modernism/Modernity 16:2 (April 2009), 229-254.
  • “Cultural Revolution, the Discourse of Intellectuals, and Other Folk Tales.”  On Jameson: From Postmodernism to Globalization, ed. Caren Irr and Ian Buchanan.  Albany: SUNY Press, 2005. 95-115.
  • Around Quitting Time: Work and Middle-Class Fantasy in American Fiction. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2001.

College service and professional affiliations:

  • Faculty Compensation and Budget Committee
  • Interdisciplinary Studies Committee
  • Utopian Studies Society
  • Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present