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Jason Berger to Teach at the U. in Fall 2009

February 16, 2009 by English

Jason Berger, currently of the University of Connecticut, has accepted the offer of a position in early American literature at the University of South Dakota.  He will begin teaching in fall 2009.

Berger's field of specialization is nineteenth-century American literature. His interests include American studies and critical theory (especially Lacanian psychoanalysis and Marxism). His dissertation is titled "Antebellum at Sea: United States Maritime Narratives and Constructions of Fantasy." One of his recent publications is "Killing Tom Coffin: Rethinking the Nationalist Narrative in James Fenimore Cooper's The Pilot." Early American Literature 44.3.

 



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