Distinguished Professor, English Department
(Ph.D., University of California, 1975)
tel.: (607) 777-2169
fax.: (607) 777-2501
e-mail: sstrehle@binghamton.edu
Areas of Interest
Contemporary fiction, American and global
Nation in literature
Postcolonial theory and literature
Women writers, feminism
American literature
Current Projects
Home and homeland in contemporary transnational women writers
Australian fiction
Books and Recent Articles
Transnational Women's Fiction: Unsettling Home and Homeland (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
"Chosen People: American Exceptionalism in Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Forthcoming
Doubled Plots: Romance and History, co-edited with Mary Paniccia Carden
Actualism: Fiction in the Quantum Universe
Essays on Edwidge Danticat, The Farming of Bones; Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres; Thomas Pynchon, Vineland; Margaret Atwood, "Age of Iron."
Recent Courses Taught
Fictions of Nation
Contesting American Identity
Multicultural Story
Contemporary Fiction
Contemporary Women Writers
Awards
Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1978
Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service
