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ANDREW SCHEIBER
Professor, Department of English
University of St. Thomas
2115 Summit Avenue, Campus Mail # 333 JRC
Saint Paul, MN 55105
Phone: (651) 962-5611
Email: ajscheiber@stthomas.edu
EDUCATION Ph.D. (English): Michigan State University, 1982 AREAS OF SPECIAL INTEREST (TEACHING AND RESEARCH) American Literature since 1800; History of the Novel; Women in Literature; African-American Literature; Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Approaches to Literature; Literary Theory; Literature and Linguistics. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Professor of English, University of Saint Thomas, 2002-present. HONORS Co-recipient, Lilly Endowment Summer Course Development Stipend, 1990. CURRENT PROJECTS "Vehicles of Consciousness: Henry James in the Age of Darwin." Book manuscript, under consideration. "The Empire of Signs: Language, Authorship, and Civic Selfhood in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction." Book-length manuscript, in progress. "Downbound Train: Blues in African-American Literature Since the Black Arts Movement." Book-length manuscript, in progress. SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS (You may follow hyperlinks to texts of selected articles. Access to some journals is subscriber-only.) "The Folk, the School, the Marketplace: Locations of Culture in The Souls of Black Folk." In Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem: Rethinking African American Literature and Culture, 1880-1918. Edited by Caroline Gebhard and Barbara McCaskill. NYU Press, forthcoming. "Healing and the Blues: Charles Burnett's To Sleep With Anger." Connecticut Review, Fall 2004.. "Death, Transcendence, and the Blues in RL's Dream." Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies, April 2004. "'What Do You Say to Three Children?': The Ordeal of Innocence in The Turn of the Screw." Studies In Hawthorne & American Novel 10.1 (Summer 2003). "A Horror of Lucidity: The Flawed Crystal of The Golden Bowl." Henry James Studies 7-8 (2002-2003). Commissioned review of Subversive Voices: Eroticizing the Other In William Faulkner and Toni Morrison by Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber. Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies, December 2002. Commissioned review of The Turn of the Screw (Norton Critical Edition, 2nd Ed.), edited by Deborah Esch and Jonathan Warren, and The Turn of the Screw and What Maisie Knew: New Critical Essays, edited by Neil Cornwell and Maggie Malone. Henry James Review, Winter 2002. Commissioned Review of Parlor Radical: Rebecca Harding Davis and the Origins of American Social Realism by Jean Pfaelzer. Legacy, Winter 1998. "Mirrors and Menageries: Criticism, Ethnography, and Contemporary Literary Praxis." American Literary History, Spring 1996. "Mastery and Majesty: Subject, Object, and the Power of Authorship in Catharine Sedgwick's 'Cacoethes Scribendi.'" American Transcendental Quarterly, March 1996. "'An Unknown Infrastructure': Gender, Production, and Aesthetic Exchange in Rebecca Harding Davis's 'Life in the Iron-Mills.'" Legacy, Fall 1994. "Embedded Narratives of Science and Culture in James's Daisy Miller." College Literature, Fall 1994. Commissioned review of Wieland and Carwin the Biloquist, by Charles Brockden Brown, edited by Jay Fliegelman. The Eighteenth Century, Spring 1994. Commissioned review of Acts of Discovery: Visions of America in the Lewis and Clark Journals, by Albert Furtwangler. American Literature, Spring 1994. "Eros, Art, and Ideology in The Bostonians." Henry James Review 13.3 (Fall 1992). "'The arm lifted against me': Love, Terror, and the Construction of Gender in Wieland." Early American Literature, Fall 1991. "Sign, Seme, and the Psychological Character: Roland Barthes' S/Z and the Realistic Novel." Journal of Narrative Technique, Fall 1991. "The Widow and the Dynamo: Gender and Power in Henry Adams' Democracy." American Transcendental Quarterly, 4.4 (December 1990). "Public Power, Private Sentiment: Hawthorne and the Gender of Politics." American Transcendental Quarterly, Winter 1988. "'Between me and Myself': Writing as Strategy and Theme in Clarissa." Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Winter 1988. "Falkland's Story: Caleb Williams' Other Voice." Studies in the Novel, Fall 1985. FICTION PUBLICATIONS "Crowfoot, Texas: 1932" (novel excerpt). Red Cedar Review, Spring 1978. "Web" (novel excerpt). Red Cedar Review, Spring 1977. "Boden's Ground" (novella). Red Cedar Review, Fall 1973. CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS (You may follow hyperlinks to text of selected papers.) "Ellison and James on the Lower Frequency." American Literature Association, May 2004. "Memphis at Medium Distance: Confessions of a Yankee Son of Sam." Delta Blues Symposium X: The 1950's. Jonesboro, AK, March 2004. "Representing the Delta in the Blues Novel: The Example of J. J. Phillips' Mojo Hand." Delta Blues Symposium IX: What Is the Delta? Jonesboro, AK, March 2003. "A Sport of Nature: Henry James's The Bostonians." Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston, MA, March 2003. "Of Master and Man: Culture and Capital in the Post-Reconstruction South of Constance Fenimore Woolson and W. E. B. Du Bois." Constance Fenimore Woolson Society Conference, Asheville, NC, October 2002. "Death, Transcendence, and the Blues in RL’s Dream." Delta Blues Symposium VIII: The Sacred and the Secular, Jonesboro, AK, April 2002. "The Souls of [Southern] Black Folk: Region, Race, and Nation in W. E. B. Du Bois’ 1903 Masterpiece." Time of Transition III: New Representations of Regionalism, Minnesota State University at Mankato, April 2002. "Culture / Market / Consciousness: W. E. B. DuBois as Culture Theorist." Popular Culture Association, Philadelphia, PA, April 2001. "Healing and the Blues: Charles Burnett's To Sleep With Anger." International Narrative Conference, Houston TX, March 2001. "The Liberal Arts and Distance Learning: Henry Adams at Harvard." Keynote remarks for seminar "Critical Issues in Higher Education: The Liberal Arts in the Age of Distance Learning." Fellows Meeting of Society for Values in Higher Education," Colorado Springs, CO, August 2000. "Dreaming a Blue American Form: Blues Aesthetics in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man." African-American Literature Since 1950, Minnesota State University at Mankato, April 2000. "Regionalism in the National Imaginary." Midwest Modern Language Association, St. Louis, MO, November 1998. "Evolutionary Perspective in Henry James' 'A Day of Days.'" American Literature Association, San Diego, CA, May 1998 "Niagara and the Maiden: Art, Science, and Religion in Henry Adams' Esther." Modern Language Association, Toronto, December 1997. "Darwinism, Domestic Ideology, and The Bostonians." Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL, November 1997. "Rac[e]ing to Manhattan: Fitzgerald, Petry, and the Face of the City." Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL, November 1997. Convener and Chair for panel "American Literature After 1870: Writing as Work / Writing and Work." Midwest Modern Language Association, Minneapolis, MN, November 1996. "A History Written Backward: The Ideology of the Regional in James's The American." Constance Fenimore Woolson Society Conference, Mackinaw Island, MI, October 1996. "The Masques of Sentimentalism: (Mis)representation in Pink and White Tyranny." Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers Conference, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, June 1996. "Transcendental Morphology and the Art of the Novel: Time and Essence in the Writings of Henry James." International Conference on Narrative, Columbus, OH, April 1996. Respondent to panel "Henry James and Race." Midwest Modern Language Association, St. Louis, MO, November 1995. Respondent to panel "American Literature After 1870: Literature of Migration and Immigration." Midwest Modern Language Association, St. Louis, MO, November 1995. "Critical Whiteness and Black Literary Theory." Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 1994. "Desire and Anomie in The Turn of the Screw." Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 1994. "The Doctor's Order: Sex, Medicine, and Scientific History in Washington Square." Modern Language Association, Toronto, Ontario, December 1993. "The Scent of the Past: 'The Aspern Papers' and the Politics of Literary Archeology." Midwest Modern Language Association, Minneapolis, MN, November 1993. "Cool Rockin' Dada: Jazz and Ideology in the Writings of Josef Skvorecky." Colloquium on Modern Literature and Film, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, September 1993. "'What Do You Say to Three Children?' Anomie and the Ordeal of Innocence in The Turn of the Screw." Henry James Sesquicentennial Conference, New York, NY, June 1993. "Gender, Power, and Authorship in The Bostonians." Midwest Modern Language Association, St. Louis, MO, November 1992. "Embedded Narratives of Science and Culture in James' Daisy Miller." Midwest Modern Language Association, St. Louis, MO, November 1992. Also served as respondent to another paper on the panel. "Moby Dick and the Allegories of Authorship." Melville-Whitman Centenary Conference, Siena College, Albany, NY, October 1991. "Sign, Seme, and the Psychological Character: Some Thoughts on Roland Barthes' S/Z and the Realistic Novel." International Conference on Narrative, New Orleans, LA, April 1990. "Conflict and Narrative Method in 'My Old Man': Hemingway as Labovian Narrator." International Conference on Narrative, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, April 1989. INTERNAL PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS "Free Inquiry and Intellectual Eugenics in the [Catholic] University." Synergia: Newsletter of the Faculty Development Office at the University of St. Thomas, September 1999. "Ann Petry Signifies on F. Scott Fitzgerald." Presented to Freshman Honors English sections, October 1996 "UST and the Huckleberry Finn Effect." Synergia, October 1996. "Diversity, Decentering, and the Postmodern Campus." Synergia, April 1994. "The Crash Test Dummy of History: Henry Adams as Autobiographer." Presented to Honors Seminar on Autobiography, November 1992. "Culture of Paradox, Revisited: More Organizational Metaphors." Synergia, November 1991. WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS "The Liberal Arts in the Age of Distance Learning" (coordinator and keynote presenter). Fellows' Meeting, Society for Values in Higher Education, Colorado Springs, CO, August 2000. "Diversity in Higher Education: Threat or Promise?" Fellows' Meeting, Society for Values in Higher Education, Napierville, IL, August 1996. "Teaching Against Racism." University of St. Thomas Faculty Development Summer Seminar, St. Paul, MN, July 1996. "The Blues/Jazz Aesthetic." Penn State Summer Seminar in African-American Literature and Culture, College Park PA, June 1994. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND AFFILIATIONS Member, Modern Language Association (1984-present); National Council of Teachers of English (1984-94); Society for the Study of Narrative Literature (1988-present); Midwest Modern Language Association (1992-Present); Henry James Society (1993-present); Elected Member, Society for Values in Higher Education, 1992; Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society (1992-present); Henry Adams Society (1994-present). INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE (at University of St. Thomas) Director of Graduate Studies for English, 2003-present |