Special Lecturer
apap@oakland.edu
Christopher Apap’s area of expertise, broadly speaking, is the literature of the Americas in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; he has published and presented about a wide variety of different genres in that era, including novels, poetry, slave narratives, political speeches, geography textbooks, sermons and didactic tracts. Most recently, as a result of his work teaching across the curriculum at Oakland University, his work has ranged into contemporary American topics, including cultural geographies and ethical mapping, with a particular interest in ethnic literature in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Education
B.A. Wayne State University
M.A. & Ph.D. New York University
Publications
Books
The Genius of Place: The Geographic Imagination in the Early Republic (University of Massachusetts Press: 2016)
Articles and Chapters
“Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Sexy” and the Ethical Mapping of Subjectivity,” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 41.2 (2016)
“(Ir)responsible Acts: The Transatlantic Dialogues of William Godwin and Charles Brockden Brown” in Transatlantic Sensations, ed. John Barton and Jennifer Phegley (essay collection; Ashgate Press: 2012).
“‘Let no man of us budge one step’: David Walker and the Rhetoric of African American Emplacement,” in Early American Literature 46.2 (2011)
“The Genius of Latitude: Daniel Webster and the Geographical Imagination in Early America,” Journal of the Early Republic 30.2 (2010)
“Caught Between Two Opinions: Africans, Europeans and Indians in Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative," Comparative American Studies 4.1 (2006)
Selected Recent Courses
AMS 3000: The Western
AMS 3000: The Civil War in the American Imagination
ENG 1500: Literature of Ethnic America
ENG 1700: Modern/Contemporary Literature
ENG 1800: World Literature
ENG 2500: American Literature
ENG 3400: Early American Literature
ENG 3900: American Romance
H C 2020: Moby-Dick & American Culture
H C 2040: The Civil War in the American Imagination