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Contact Information
276 Bachelor Hall
Oxford Campus
513 529 7357
piepkh@muohio.edu
http://www.users.muohio.edu/piepkh
Karsten Piep
Titles
- Visiting Assistant Professor
Education
- Ph.D., Miami University, 2005
- M.A., English, University of Kentucky
- B.A., Education, University of Kentucky
Teaching Interests
- 19th and 20th century U.S. literature and culture
- College composition
Research Interests
- Reconstruction literature
- Literary realism and naturalism
- World War I literature
- Literary modernism
- Proletarian fiction
- U.S. labor history
- Critical theory
- Philosophy of history.
Selected Publications
- “War as Feminist Utopia in Dorothy Canfield Fisher’s Home Fires in France and Gertrude Atherton’s The White Morning,” Women’s Studies 34.2 (2005): 159-89.
- “Liberal Visions of Reconstruction: Lydia Maria Child’s A Romance of the Republic and George Washington Cable’s The Grandissimes,”Studies in American Fiction 31.2 (2003): 165-90.
- “Love’s Labor’s Regained: The Making of Companionate Marriages in Frank Norris’s The Pit,” Papers on Language and Literature 40.1 (2004): 28-56.
- “A Question of Politics, Economics or Both? The Neumann-Pollock Debate in Light of Marcuse’s State and Individual under National Socialism,” Cultural Logic 7 (2004).
- “A Tiger’s Leap Into the Past: On the ‘Historical,’ ‘Unhistorical,’ and ‘Suprahistorical’ in Walter Benjamin’s ‘Theses on the Philosophy of History’,” New German Review 20 (2005): 41-59.
- “Nothing New Under the Sun: Postsentimental Conflict in Harriet E. Wilson’s Our Nig,” Colloquy 11 (2006): 178-94.
Work in Progress
Karsten Piep is currently working on a book project, tentatively entitled Embattled Homefronts: Domestic Politics and the American Novel of World War I.