American Literature
Workshop
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Hans Bertens, Netherlands Hans Bertens is professor of comparative literature and literary theory, and chair of the Department of Literature at Utrecht University. From 1986 to 1996 he was professor of American Studies at Utrecht University, as well as chair of the Department of Germanic Languages from 1986-1991. Professor Bertens´ research interest is postwar cultural change, with a focus on U.S. culture. He has published extensively in this area; his book The Idea of the Postmodern: A History was published by Routledge in 1995, and in 1997 he co-edited International Postmodernism: Theory and Literary Practice with Douwe Fokkema in the ICLA Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages series, published by Benjamins. Two books currently in preparation are Literature: The Basics and Blood on the Street: Contemporary American Crime Fiction, both of which will be published in 1999. Professor Bertens´ Ph.D. is in English. |
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Emory Elliott, USA Emory Elliott, professor of American Studies at the University of California, Riverside, is one of America´s most distinguished scholars in the field of American literature and literary history. Formerly a professor and chair of the Department of English at Princeton University where he was a faculty member for seventeen years, he has taught and conducted research at the University of California since 1989. His long list of publications includes books, reviews, and numerous articles on a wide variety of subjects including literary biography, American fiction, and ethnicity in American literature. His research interests have focused on postmodernism and multiculturalism, with emphasis on contemporary African-American literature. Winner of the American Book Award for 1989 for the Columbia Literary History of the United States, he also received the Distinguished American Specialist Award to Romania and Poland (1994). Professor Elliott served as a faculty member at Salzburg Seminar Session 242 on Contemporary American Literature (1985), and made a presentation at the American Studies Center workshop on The Literature of Ethnicity in 1995. His M.A. in English is from Bowling Green State University, and his Ph.D. in English from the University of Illinois. |
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Brigitte Scheer-Schäzler, Austria Brigitte Scheer-Schäzler is professor of American Studies and for twenty years head of the Department of American Studies, Innsbruck University. She was the first female Dean ever appointed at an Austrian university. Her research and teaching areas have included contemporary American literature, ethnic minorities especially Asian Americans and Jewish Americans, women´s studies, poetry, the novel, and short fiction. President of the Austrian Association for American Studies (1975-1976 and 1985-1986), she was also chairperson twice of the Austrian Fulbright Commission (1992/93 and 1996/97). She is the author of Saul Bellow (1972) and of Immigrant Stories – New Fiction by New Writers (1996), and Suffering in Literature (co-ed.), 1994, and Wanting America (ed.) 1995. Professor Scheer-Schäzler was a faculty member at two previous Salzburg Seminar sessions on contemporary American literature, first in 1977 and again in 1982. Her Ph.D. in German and English is from the University of Vienna, and her habilitation in American studies and in English literature after Shakespeare is from Salzburg University. |
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RESEARCH ASSISTANT Paulette Brown-Hinds, USA Lecturer in the Department of English, University of California, Riverside, responsible for freshman composition and critical thinking courses; developed and taught Caribbean literature course at California State University, San Bernadino. Recipient of numerous grants and fellowships. Research interests are centered on contemporaryAfrican-American literature with emphasis on Caribbean literature. Her publications include In the Spirit: Dance as Healing Ritual in Paule Marshall‘s ``Praisesong for the Widow´´ published in Religion and Literature, Special Issue of Black Spirituality, 1995. Received her M.A. in English literature from the University of California, Riverside, and in 1997 her Ph.D. in English literature with a dissertation entitled ‘Long-Memoried‘ Women: Memory and Migration in 20th Century Black Women‘s Narrative. |
OBSERVERS
Larry Keyes, currently conducting an assessment of the use of technology at the Salzburg Seminar.
FACULTY FAMILIES
Georgia Elliott
Kirby Hinds
The Salzburg Seminar
