Department of English
207 Lind Hall
207 Church Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Phone: 612-625-3363

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Faculty

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Edward M. Griffin

Professor

Department of English
University of Minnesota
210E Lind Hall
207 Church Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
(612)625-4881
griffin@umn.edu

Special Interests

  • American literature (especially colonial) and American Studies
  • Use of early American history and literature by modern American writers
  • American religion
  • Teaching

 

Honors and Awards

  • Ruth Christie Distinguished Teaching Award, 2002
  • Academy of Distinguished Teachers, 2001
  • Award for Distinguished Contributions to Graduate and Professional Teaching, University of Minnesota, 2001
  • College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Teacher Award, University of Minnesota, 1998
  • MidAmerica American Studies Association: Elizabeth Kolmer Award for Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring in American Studies, 1999
  • Fellowships from Fulbright (Austria), Danforth Foundation, NEH, Bush Foundation

 

Background

  • Education
    • Stanford University, M.A., Ph.D.
    • University of San Francisco, B.S.

Publications

  • Books
    • Editor (with Ayers L. Bagley and Austin McLean), The Telling Image: Explorations in the Emblem. AMS Studies in the Emblem, No. 12. New York: AMS Press, 1996.
    • Old Brick: Charles Chauncy of Boston, 1705-1787. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1980.
    • Jonathan Edwards. University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers 97. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1971. Rpt. in American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies. Ed. Leonard Unger. New York: Scribner's, 1974.
  • Articles
    • "Dancing Around the Maypole, Ripping Up the Flag: The Merry Mount Caper and Issues in American History and Art." The Joseph M. Schwartz Memorial Essay, 2005. Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, LVII.3 (2005), 177-202.
    • "Hoops & Hurdles: The Unlikely Story of How I Learned How I Learn." University of Minnesota Center for Teaching and Learning, 2006. PDF at http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/img/assets/18007/griffin2.pdf
    • Review of Jeffrey A. Hammond, The American Puritan Elegy: A Literary and Cultural Study. Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000. In Early American Literature,36.2 (2001), 303-07.
    • Review of James D. Hartman, Providence Tales and the Birth of American Literature. In American Studies, 41.1 (2000), 175-6.
    • "The Melting Pot, Vegetable Soup, and the Martini Cocktail: Competing Explanations of U.S. Cultural Pluralism." The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought 39.2 (1998): 133-52.
    • "Cincinnatus and the 'Shaw Memorial': Monument as Emblem in Saint Gaudens, Dunbar, and Lowell." The Telling Image: Explorations in the Emblem. Eds. Ayers L. Bagley, Edward M. Griffin, Austin J. McClean. AMS Studies in the Emblem, No. 12. New York: AMS Press, 1996.
    • "William Alfred's Hogan's Goat: Power and Poetry in Brooklyn." Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies 19 (1994): 451-89.
    • "Patricia Hearst and Her Foremothers: The Captivity Fable in America." The Centennial Review 36.2 (1992): 311-26.
    • Other articles and reviews published in American Notes and Queries, American Studies, Early American Literature, Philological Quarterly, Eire-Ireland, Journal of Religion, Twentieth Century Literature, American Historical Review.

Teaching

  • Graduate seminars
    • American Literature, History, and Culture
    • The American Jeremiad
    • The First American Novels
    • Proseminar in Early American Literature
  • Undergraduate courses
    • Survey of American Poetry
    • The American Novel
    • Flannery O'Connor
  • Courses for undergraduate majors
    • Survey of American Literature to 1850
    • Shakespeare
    • Junior-Senior Seminar
  • General education courses
    • Introduction to American Literature