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Home > Faculty Directory : Edward M. Griffin

Faculty

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

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