d. berton emerson - welcome!
(dbe)
 
 
This website provides details about my research and teaching interests along with course offerings and resources, both current and archived. My studies range broadly in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth century and draw upon a variety of disciplinary investments: literary aesthetics; critical theory; regionalisms/nationalisms/transnationalisms; post-colonial theory; global American souths; and material history (esp. book and print culture history). My essays and reviews have appeared in American Literature, ESQ: A Journal of 19th-Century American Literature and Culture, and Nineteenth-Century Literature, LA Review of Books, and Avidly.org. My current project, Local Rules: Misfit American Literature and its Alternative Democracies, 1828-1861, examines one set of misfits in U.S. literary history: prose fictions with greater investments in the local than canonical contemporaries best known for supplementing the idea of the nation. As a teacher, I strive to design mindful learning experiences and foster a dynamic environment promoting the open exchange of ideas. Students in my courses can expect a variety of methods and activities that spark lively engagement with texts and contexts.

current c.v. (updated 09/16)