| East Stroudsburg University |
Assistant Professor of English
Office: Stroud Hall 309 (Office N)
Office Phone #: 570-422-3315
E-mail: jhotz@po-box.esu.edu
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| Jeffrey Hotz specializes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature. He has scholarly interests in the major canonical works from the period as well as neglected or understudied works. His book Divergent Visions, Contested Spaces (2006) offers a multicultural study of representations of travel in the United States, in both fiction and non-fiction, covering a seventy-year period of early U.S. history, from 1783 – 1853. He is currently working on an edited collection of essays on major American writers’ final works from the mid-nineteenth century to the early-twentieth century. | |
| Education:
B.A. Georgetown University M.A. Georgetown University Ph.D. The George Washington University |
Primary Areas of Interests:
Colonial American Literature/Literature of the Early US African American Literature Travel Writing Native American Literature |
| Visit Viewpoints: An Online Journal of Undergraduate Literary Studies at East Stroudsburg University |
| English 103: Composition | |
| English 103: Composition | |
| English 264: American Literature I | |
| English 562: Topics in American Literature | |
| Publications:
Divergent Visions, Contested Spaces: The Early United States through the Lens of Travel. New York: Routledge, 2006. (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Series, with general editor William F. Cain). “Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Civil War During His Twilight Years: Deep Psychology and Cultural Complexity in the Unfinished Septimius Felton.” The CEA Critic: An Official Journal of the College English Association. 72.2 (Winter 2009): 51 - 75. [Co-authored with Dr. Allan Benn, Professor of English, East Stroudsburg University] “Writing Origins, Writing History: Personal Voice and Nation in David Cusick’s Sketches of the Ancient History of the Six Nations (1827).” EAPSU-Online: A Journal of Critical and Creative Work 6.1 (Fall 2009): 1 - 25. “Imagining a New West, a Midwest, in Caroline Kirkland’s A New Home: Who’ll Follow?” Midwestern Miscellany (accepted for forthcoming winter 2009 special edition: “The Midwest as Seen By Non-Midwestern Writers”). “Out of Bounds, in Reverse: Melville’s Redburn and the Painful Knowledge of the Atlantic Rim.” EAPSU Online: A Journal of Critical and Creative Work, fall 2008. |
| Current Projects:
“A Reconstructed Reading of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Limits of the Law: Frederick Douglass’s The Heroic Slave as Both Revision and Expansion.” “American Writers During Their Twilight Years: ‘Final’ Works from America's First Three Generations of Authors.” Book-length collection of essays under development with Dr. Brian Flota, visiting professor at Oklahoma State University. |
Last Update: September 5, 2010