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Meet the Faculty
Michael Hobbs
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| Title: |
Professor
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| Office: |
Colden Hall 2860
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| Phone: |
660.562.1285 |
| Fax: |
660.562.1731 |
| Email: |
mhobbs@nwmissouri.edu |
| Joined Northwest in 1993
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Courses Taught
Graduate courses taught at
Northwest
- English 532 Hawthorne
and Melville
- English 561 The American Short
Story
- English 582 Contemporary
Poetry
- English 630 American
Transcendentalism
- English 634 The American Realists
- English 663 The American Novel
from 1920-1945
- English 664 The American Novel
Since 1945
- English 690 Methods of
Research in English
Special topics Graduate courses taught at Northwest
- English 525 Special Studies
(The American Comic Novel)
- English 621 Problems
in Scholarship (Twentieth-Century Poetry: Beauty in Ruins)
- English 621 Problems
in Scholarship (Imaginary or Real: The Great Divide in Twentieth-Century
Poetry)
- English 621 Problems in
Scholarship (Modern Poetry and the Long Poem)
Undergraduate courses taught at
Northwest
- English 111 Composition
- English 111 Composition
(Academy)
- English 112 Composition
- English 112 Composition
(Academy)
- English 220 Introduction to
Literature
- English 224 Multiethnic
Literature of the United States
- English 234 American
Literature: 1865 to the Present
- English 363 The American Novel
Education
- PhD in
English
- MA in
English
- BA in
English
Academic Interests
- Modern
American Poetry
- Native American
Literature
- Modernism
and Postmodernism
- Literary
Theory (Bakhtin, Derrida, Barthes, Baudrillard)
Scholarly Activity
Most
Recent Publications
- "Writing on
Hardscrabble: Walt McDonald's ‘Suddenly Fabulous Desert'" accepted for
publication in Southwestern American Literature. (Fall 2005)
- "‘An Orgy of Acquisition': Intellectual and
Commercial Ownership in The Professor's House." Teaching Cather 3 (Spring 2003): 4-7.
- "Walt McDonald's Beautiful Wasteland." The
Waltz He Was Born For: An Introduction to the Writing of Walt Mcdonald. Ed. by Janice Whittington and Andrew
Hudgins. Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech UP,
2002. 62-79.
Most
Recent Presentations
- "‘In the
Excitements of Silence': Outliving the Self in Falling Man." The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture
Since 1900 (Spring 2009).
- "West of the
Imagination: Walt McDonald's ‘Aesthetic du Mal.'" American Literature
Association Conference (Spring 2007).
- "Wallace
Stevens and Seamus Heaney: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Escapism." Twentieth Century Literature Conference
(Spring 2006).
- "‘A Tune
Beyond Us': Ideas of Evasion in Wallace Stevens and Mikhail Bakhtin." Twentieth
Century Literature Conference (Spring 2005)
