“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” –Gandhi

 

Jonathan Steinwand

 

Professor of English  

 

Concordia College

 

Office: Academy 304

Phone: 218/299-3720

E-mail: steinwan@cord.edu

 

On India Semester Abroad Fall 2008

On Sabbatical Leave Spring 2009

No Regular Office Hours

 

  


Fall 2008: Social Justice, Peace and Development: A Semester in India--come join me!!

Spring 2009: on sabbatical leave

Tentative Fall 2009 Courses:

English 112W: American English Language and Culture (for non-native speakers) or IWC 100: College Writing to Influence the Affairs of the World
English 336:  British Literature from the Restoration to Romanticism (1660-1830) MWF 10:30-11:40 a.m.
INQ 100: The Devil and All His Empty Promises: Satan in Literature

Tentative Spring 2010 2009 Courses (very tentative):

English 230: Introduction to Literary Scholarship TH 10:30-12:10 p.m.
English 160ERG: Global Literature and Human Experience
IWC 100: College Writing to Influence the Affairs of the World

Concordia Courses Taught:

Credo 233E: The Politics of South African Performance
Discourse 101,102,103 (Composition)
Discourse 101-102 (Composition for International Students)
Principia (Introduction to the Liberal Arts)
(Fall 2002 Syllabus)  
Global Studies 118: Global Studies II
Humanities 201D: Enlightenment
INQ 100: The Devil and All His Empty Promises: Satan in Literature
English 112: American English Language and Culture (for non-native speakers)
English 160E (formerly 221EM): Global Literature and Human Experience
English 221EM: Literature and Human Experience:  Global Connections
English 222E:  Literature and Human Experience:  The Western Tradition
English 223EM: Literature and Human Experience:  American Mosaic
English 230: Introduction to Literary Scholarship
English 315E:  The English Language, Historical and Analytical
English 336:  British Literature from the Restoration to Romanticism (1660-1830)
English 341:  Romanticism
English 380:  Truth and Reconciliation in South African Literature
English 410X: Nadine Gordimer
English 410X: Patricia Grace
English 421: The Gothic Tradition in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture
English 441X:  Criticism (Fall 2002 Syllabus)
English 451X: Paradise Re-Imagined: Post-colonial Perspectives on Pacific Islands Literature (with optional Exploration Seminar to Honolulu, Hawai'i)

Research Interests:

Pacific Islands Literature (including Hawaiian Literature)
South African Literature, History, Politics, and Culture
Indian Literature, History, Politics, and Culture
Post-colonial Approaches to Global Literature
Indigenous Cultures and Literatures of the World
Teaching Critical Theory to Undergraduates
Literary and Aesthetic Theory--Ancient, Modern, and Postmodern
Comparative Romanticisms
18th- and 19th-century English Literature in Global Context
The Gothic Tradition from Horace Walpole to Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Seven
Vampires
Representations of Satan in Literature and Popular Culture
Post-colonial Gothic Ecology
Post-colonial Ecologies in Literature
Castaway Literature
Popular Culture Studies
The History of Engenderment and the Cultural Consequences of Gender Bending
The Politics of Liberal Education in an Age of Disciplinary Experts

Projects:

Spring 2004 Exploration Seminar to Hawaii

    Re-Imagining Paradise Photo Journal

Hawaii Links
South African Links
What's going on in the local Literary Community?

Junior Great Books

EDUCATION

B.A. English, Classics; Philosophy, Religion, Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota, 1987
M.A. Philosophy, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1990
Ph.D. Comparative Literature with a Specialization in Theory, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1993
Dissertation: Mnemonic Images: The Gender of Modernity in Schiller, Friedrich Schlegel, Hölderlin, and Bettine Brentano-von Arnim

Curriculum Vitae

 

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