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FALL 2017: English 2130: American Literature--"What is an American?" English 4384: Senior Seminar--"'Savage Delight': Food and Eating in Literature and Popular Culture"
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Dr. Patrick M. Erben Professor of English Director of Graduate Studies Vice President, Society of Early Americanists
Department of English and Philosophy, University of West Georgia
perben@westga.edu Office: TLC 2239 Tel. 678-839-6144 Office Hours (Fall 2017): Tue/Thu 2-4pm & BY APPOINTMENT
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Scholarship and Research
A native of Germany, I attended Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and graduated with an M.A. in American Studies in 1997 and completed my Ph.D. at Emory University in 2003. During a two-year NEH fellowship at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture in Williamsburg, Virginia, I researched and wrote my first monograph, A Harmony of the Spirits: Translation and the Language of Community in Early Pennsylvania (University of North Carolina Press, 2012). A Harmony of the Spirits demonstrates that translation served as a practical tool and as a spiritual ideal for discovering and establishing links between seemingly incoherent languages, religious doctrines, genders, and ethnicities. My teaching interests lie in the multilingual beginnings of early American literature, language, and culture (colonial to 1865).
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Winner of the 2013 Dale Brown Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies |
Monograph:
A Harmony of the Spirits: Translation and the Language of
Community in Early Pennsylvania (published by
the University of North Carolina Press, for the Omohundro
Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg,
VA, 2012) Edition: A Francis Daniel Pastorius Reader (a selective edition, under advance contract with Pennsylvania State University Press). |
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English 3000-English Education
English 4003: American Romanticism
Radical Romanticisms
FALL 2016
Syllabus and Schedule (Updated Fall '16)
Slide Shows, Assignments, Discussion Questions
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English 4384: Senior Seminar
Savage Delight: Food and Eating in Literature and Popular Culture
Syllabus & Schedule (Fall 2017)
English 4385: Special Topics
The Un-virtuous Republic: Tropes of Transgression in the Early American Novel
Fall 2012
Reading and Discussion Questions
English 3000: Research and Methodology
Fall 2012
Syllabus and Schedule (Revised 8-28-12)
Reading and Discussion Questions
Close Reading-Assignment Description
Historical-Biographical Analysis
Research Paper, Assignment Description (revised 10-29-12)
Engl 4003-01W: Colonial and Early
American Literature
CONVERSATIONS ABOUT EARLY
AMERICAN LITERATURE
SPRING 2017
NEW: Syllabus and Schedule (Updated 1-10-17)
Reading, Discussion, and Writing Questions
Slideshows, Lectures, and Useful Websites on Early America
Assignment Description: Short Analytical Paper I (revised Spring 2017)
Detailed Assignment Description: Short Analytical Paper II (Two)
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Engl 2130: American Literature
What is an American?
Syllabus & Schedule Fall 2017
English 4109 Film as Literature
Early America at the Movies
spring 2016
Syllabus and Schedule, Revised 1-13-16
Assignment Description--Scene Analysis (Short Paper)
Assignment Description--Final Paper
Slide Shows and Instructor Lectures
Viewing and Discussion Questions
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English 2110-01: World Literature
The World Traveler's Guide to World Literature
Syllabus and Schedule (Updated Fall 2016)
Reading and Discussion Questions
Oral Presentation-Topics and Schedule
Oral Presentation-Assignment Description
Close Reading, Assignment Description (new deadline!)
Sample Paper 1 / Sample Paper 2
Midterm--Sample Structure, Final Exam--Sample Structure
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English 6110: Graduate Seminar in American Literature I
Beyond Babel: The Multilingual Literatures of Early America
Fall 2014
ENGL 2130: AMERICAN LITERATURE
SPRING 2017
Red Riding Hood in the New World: Fairytales in America-American Fairytales
Syllabus and Schedule (Revised 1-10-17)
Group Presentation--Detailed Assignment Description (1/17)
Short Analytical Paper--Detailed Assignment Description
Reading and Discussion Questions
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ENGLISH 6110-01: AMERICAN LITERATURE I
FALL 2010
Aching in the Archives: How Textual Scholarship Is Changing the Face of Early American Literature
Link to Engl 6110-Course Reserves
Engl 4125: Colonial and Early American Literature
Early America in Narrative, Art, and Film
Syllabus and Schedule, Spring 2012
Image Gallery (also: Slide Shows and Presentations)
Reading, Discussion, and Writing Questions
Engl 4384: Senior Seminar
Sacred Sex: Religion and Eroticism in Literature and Culture
Syllabus and Schedule--Spring 2012
Engl 4188: Individual Authors
The Many Faces of Benjamin Franklin
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Anne Bradstreet, Stained glass window, St. Botolph's Church, Boston, Lincolnshire, England |
Emily Dickinson, daguerreotype by Josiah Gilbert Holland, circa 1848. |
ENGLISH 4125-SPRING 2008
COLONIAL AND EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE:
Early American Poetry and Poetics: From Bradstreet to Dickinson and Beyond
Reading and Discussion Questions
Lectures and Oral Presentations
ENGLISH 2300-SPRING 2008
PRACTICAL CRITICISM: RESEARCH AND METHODOLOGY
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"O brave new world,
That has such people in it!" |
"Heathens! Savages! Ay, cannibals!" --Herman Melville, Typee
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Johann Valentin Haidt, Zinzendorf als Lehrer (ca. 1747)
English 6110 (Fall 07): Seminar in American Literature I
Pilgrims, Prophets, and Reformers: The Utopian Impulse
in Early American Literature and Culture
Reading and Discussion Questions
English 4106: Studies in Genre
Non-Fiction Prose
Syllabus and Schedule (12-20-11)
Group Presentation--Description and Schedule/Group Members
Short Analytical Paper--Assignment Description
Final (Research) Paper Description
