Associate Professor, English Department
(Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 1986)
tel.: (607) 777-2534
fax.: (607) 777-2408
e-mail: jchurch@binghamton.edu
Areas of Interest
19th Century American Literature
Literature, Philosophy, and Psychology
Current Projects
A book on 18th and 19th century influences on modern cultural studies
Books and Recent Articles
"Excellent People': Naturalism, Egotism, and the Teaching of Crane's Maggie." In American Literary Naturalism (2007)
"A Problem of Conception and Creation in Hawthorne's 'The Artist of the Beautiful'" in The Nathaniel Hawthorne Review
"An Abuse of Art in Chopin's The Awakening" in American Literary Realism
" 'To Make Venus Vanish': Misogyny as Motive in Poe's 'Murders in the Rue Morgue'" in American Transcendental Quarterly
Transcendent Daughters in Jewett's Country of the Pointed Firs
"In Black and White: The Reader's Part in Chesnutt's 'Gray Wolf's Ha'nt" in American Transcendental Quarterly
"Reading, Writing, and the Risk of Entanglement in Crane's 'Octopush,'" in Studies in Short Fiction
"Romantic Flight in Jewett's 'White Heron'" Studies in American Fiction
Recent Courses Taught
19c American Transcendentalism and Asian Religions
Visions of Reality in 19c American Literature
Hawthorne and Twain
Existential Issues
American Literature to 1920
19th Century American Fiction
Literature & Psychology
Transcendentalism
