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Publications:
  • "Faulkner in Baghdad, Bush in Hadleyburg," American Literary History 18.4 (2006).

  • A Gravity’s Rainbow Companion, 2nd Edn, Revised and Expanded.  (Athens:  University of Georgia Press, 2006). 

  • Modern Medea:  A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder (New York:  Hill & Wang, 1998).

  • Fables of Subversion:  Satire & the American Novel, 1930-1980 (Athens:  University of Georgia Press, 1995).

Courses/Seminars:
  • “Reading Race” in U.S. Fictions and on William Faulkner
  • Surveys of American and African American Literature

Steven Weisenburger works in American literary and cultural history, especially the cultural history of race, from 1800 forward.  His research and teaching interests include United States history and fictions, narrative theory, African American literature, and the cultural history of racism and white supremacy in the United States, but he has also published and taught extensively on contemporary fiction and satire.  His current book project is White Sovereignty:  A Cultural History of United States White Supremacy, with chapters on novelists such as Thomas Dixon and William Faulkner, irruptions of racial violence in U.S. history, the history of “Scientific Racism,” and white supremacist ideology in U.S. legal discourse. 

   
Steven Weisenburger
Jacob and Frances Mossiker Chair in Humanities
Ph.D., University of Washington
 

 

Office: Dallas Hall Room 236
Office Hours: TTh 1-2
Phone: 214-768-2897
Email: sweisenb@smu.edu
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