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Dr. Patrick M. Erben
Associate Professor of English
Department of English and Philosophy, University of West Georgia
perben@westga.edu Office: TLC 2239 Tel. 678-839-6144
Office Hours (Spring 2013): ON RESEARCH LEAVE (No office hours) Please contact me by email.
Sigma Tau Delta Faculty Advisor (with Dr. Rebecca Harrison)
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Scholarship and Research
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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) Edition: A Francis Daniel Pastorius Reader (a selective edition, under advance contract with Pennsylvania State University Press). |
English 6110: Graduate Seminar in American Literature I
Beyond Babel: The Multilingual Literatures of Early America
Fall 2012
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 2130-25H: AMERICAN LITERATURE
FALL 2011
Red Riding Hood in the New World: Fairytales in America—American Fairytales
REVISED READING SCHEDULE (POSTED NOVEMBER 3, 2011)
Group Presentations--Schedule and Assignment List
Group Presentation--Detailed Assignment Description
Short Analytical Paper--Detailed Assignment Description
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Engl 2130-Fall 2010: American Literature
"What is an American?"
English 4109-01: Film as Literature
“Early America at the Movies”
FALL 2011
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 2-9-10)
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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Henry David Thoreau |
Mahatma Ghandi |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
English 5/4140-01W: American Romanticism
"Radical Romanticisms"
Summer 2012
Syllabus and Schedule (Summer 2012)
Slide Shows, Assignments, Discussion Questions
ENGLISH 1102:
ENGLISH COMPOSITION II
Syllabus and Course Information
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
