JOHN FUNCHION

Novel Nostalgias

THE AESTHETICS OF ANTAGONISM IN

NINETEENTH-CENTURY U.S. LITERATURE

About

I teach graduate and undergraduate courses in early American and nineteenth-century U.S. literature. Currently, I am completing a book about anti-federal politics and paramilitary historical romances in the early U.S. republic. I also belong to an interdisciplinary team of University of Miami researchers studying the spread of online extremist conspiracy theories. 
 

My first book is Novel Nostalgias (Ohio State, 2015). With Edward Watts and Keri Holt, I co-edited a collection of essays, Mapping Region in Early American Writing (Georgia, 2015). My work has also appeared in ESQ, Modernist Cultures, MLQ, Early American Literature, and The Henry James Review. I have essays forthcoming in Democracies in America (eds. Laski and Emerson; Oxford, 2021) and the Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Politics (ed. Kerkering; Cambridge, 2022).

I received my Ph.D. in Literatures in English from Brown University (2008), an M.A. in English from the University of Minnesota (2002), and a B.A. in English from Creighton University (2000).

FEATURED SCHOLARSHIP

Mapping Region in Early American Writing

"Seeing Changes: Emily Dickinson's Vibrant Regionalism"

"When Dorothy Became History: L. Frank Baum's Enduring Fantasy of Cosmopolitan Nostalgia"

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