Larry Carlson, Professor
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| - 19th- and 20th-century American literature - Emerson, Thoreau, and Transcendentalism - Modern poetry - The short story and the novel - The Jazz Age - The Lost Generation |
Office: 26 Glebe Street |
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Profile Dr. Carlson joined the English Department in 1979 after completing his Ph.D. at Penn State. He has taught thirty-nine different courses at the College of Charleston and has directed over fifty independent studies, tutorials, bachelor’s essays and M.A. theses, most of them in American literature. His primary teaching and research interests are in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, particularly Transcendentalism, The Lost Generation, and The Jazz Age. For a brief professional biography , see http://www.cofc.edu/AcademicAffairs/awards/bios/carlson.htm. |
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| Personal website: www.cofc.edu/~carlsonl/Carlson.html | ||
Recent Publications, Conference Presentations, and Work in Progress “The Inner Life of Fruitlands.” Lives Out of Letters: Essays on American Literary Biography, in Honor of Robert N. Hudspeth. Ed. Robert Habich. East Brunswick, NJ and London: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, 2004, pp. 93-113. Review of Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Bronte: Transatlantic Translations. American Literature 74 (March 2002): 151-152. “Hemingway and Walker Evans: Friendship, Modernism, and Social Conscience in the Cuba Exhibition.” College English Association. New Orleans, April 2007. “Orpheus at War: March as Fictional(ized) History.” American Literature Association. San Francisco, May 2006. “’Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely’: The Plain Speaker as a Friend of Universal Reform.” American Literature Association. Boston, May 2005. In progress: a comprehensive study of the radical Transcendentalist paper the Plain Speaker |
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