Kent Bales
Professor
Ph.D. English, University of California at Berkeley, 1967
312 Lind Hall
612-625-4889
bales@umn.edu
Department Affiliations
English
Areas of Expertise
American literature (especially of the nineteenth-century); romanticisms; translators, immigrant and exiled writers; literature and the other arts (especially the visual arts)
Selected Publications
Editor (and contributor of a preface), Newer Voices: Graduate Student Essays from Minnesota on the Profession of English Studies. 1997.
"Walt Whitman's Daughter, or, Postcolonial Self-Transformation in the Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee."Daughters of Restlessness: Women's Literature at the End of the Millennium. Ed. Sabine Coelsch-Foisner, Gerhild Reisner, and Hanna Wallinger. Heidelberg: C. Winter Verlag, 1998.
"From Émigré to Ethnic: Form, Subject, and Audience in Emigrant Hungarian Writing." The European Emigrant Experience in the U. S. A., Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Austrian Association for American Studies. Ed. Walter Hölbling and Reinhold Wagnleitner. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1992.
"Assimilating Liliom: Carousel and the Making of Yet Another American." Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (1999).
Rev. of The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America's Great Lyricists, by Philip Furia. Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik (Spring 1992) 17:1.
Rev. of Cross-Examinations of Law and Literature: Cooper,
Hawthorne, Stowe, and Melville, by Brook Thomas. The Nathaniel Hawthorne
Review, 14:1 (Spring 1988).
Graduate Courses
Marriage and Divorce in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Introduction to Advanced Literary Theory
Problems in Literary History and Genre
Literary Uses of the Visual Arts in 19th Century America
Hawthorne
Thoreau's Aesthetic
Transcendentalism
Cather
Rewriting Hawthorne in the Late 20th Century
Undergraduate Courses
Introduction to American Literature
Literatures of the American Prairies
American Poetry to 1900
The American Novel to 1900
Introduction to Romantic Literature: 1789-1832
Introduction to Modern Fiction
Figures: Thoreau and Whitman