Special Lecturer
134 O'Dowd Hall
apap@oakland.edu
Education
B.A. Wayne State University
M.A. & Ph.D. New York University
Areas of Interest
- 18th- and 19th- Century American Literature and Culture
- Ethnic Literatures of the United States
- Transatlantic Literary Culture
- Cultural Geography
Publications
“(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).
“Prospects for the Study of Washington Irving,” with Tracy Hoffman, in Resources for American Literary Study 35 (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 Narrativ," Comparative American Studies 4.1 (2006)
Recent Courses
Winter 2013
- English 224: American Literature
- AMS 300: Topics in American Studies
Fall 2012
- English 224: American Literature
- AMS 300: Topics in American Studies
Summer I 2012
- English 111: Modern Literature
Winter 2012
- English 111: Modern Literature
- English 224: American Literature
Fall 2011
- English 224: American Literature
- Honors 202: Saints, Sinners, Sorcerers, and Slaves: Imagining the 17th Century in a Time of Crisis
Winter 2011
- English 224: American Literature