People
Faculty
Martha Schoolman
Titles
- Assistant Professor
Education
- Ph.D., English, University of Pennsylvania, 2005
- M.A., University of Texas at Austin
- B.A., University of Chicago
Teaching Interests
- U.S. literature before 1900
- Slavery and the novel
- U.S. women writers
- Literature of the Vietnam War
Research Interests
- Literature of the U.S. abolitionist movement
- Travel and geographic writing
Selected Publications
- “Emerson’s Doctrine of Hatred,” Arizona Quarterly 63.2 (Summer 2007), 1-26
- “White Flight: Maroon Communities and the Geography of Antislavery in Higginson and Stowe,” in Martin Brückner and Hsuan L. Hsu, eds., American Literary Geographies: Spatial Practice and Cultural Production, 1600-1900 (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2007), 259-278
Work in Progress
Professor Schoolman is working on a book about the geographic dimensions of U.S. literary abolitionism.