Edward M. Griffin
Professor
Ph.D. English and American Literature, Stanford University, 1966
210E Lind Hall
(612)625-4881
griffin@umn.edu
Department Affiliations
English
Areas of Expertise
American literature; colonial literature; American studies; use of early American history and literature by modern American writers; American religion
Selected Publications
The Telling Image: Explorations in the Emblem. Ed. Edward M. Griffin, Ayers L. Bagley, Austin McLean. 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.
"Hoops & Hurdles: The Unlikely Story of How I Learned How I Learn." University of Minnesota Center for Teaching and Learning, 2006.
"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).
Rev. of The American Puritan Elegy: A Literary and Cultural Study by Jeffrey A. Hammond. Early American Literature 36.2 (2001).
Rev. of Providence Tales and the Birth of American Literature by James D. Hartman. American Studies, 41.1 (2000).
"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).
"Cincinnatus and the 'Shaw Memorial': Monument as Emblem
in Saint Gaudens, Dunbar, and Lowell." The Telling Image:
Explorations in the Emblem. Ed. Edward
M. Griffin, Ayers L. Bagley, Austin J. McClean. AMS Studies in the Emblem, No.
12. New York: AMS Press, 1996.
Graduate Courses
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
Survey of American Literature to 1850
Shakespeare
Introduction to American Literature