Academics
Benjamin L. Goluboff
Associate Professor
English
Phone 847-735-5270
E-mail goluboff@lakeforest.edu
Web http://campus.lakeforest.edu/goluboff/
Specialization
American Literature
Education
Ph.D University of Pennsylvania
M.A. University of Pennsylvania
B.A. New York University
Courses Taught
English 204 Nineteenth-Century American Literature
English 206 American Nature Writing
English 224 Literature of the Vietnam War
English 403 Emily Dickinson
Articles
"Michael Heller in Theory and Practice," Notre Dame Review 22 (2006) 216-220.
"Tim O'Brien's Quang Ngai," American Notes and Queries, 17:2 (Spring
2004) 53-58.
"'If Madonna Be': Emily Dickinson and Roman Catholicism" New England Quarterly, 73:3 (September 2000), 355-385.
"The Carnival Artist in the Cuckoo's Nest," in The Viking Critical Edition of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ed. John Clark Pratt. New York: Penguin, 1996. Reprinted from Northwest Review, 29:3 1991, 109-122.
"'A Virtuoso's Collection:' Hawthorne, History, and the Wandering Jew," Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, 21: 1 (Spring) 1995, 14-25.
"Strategies of Allusion in Poetry of the Vietnam War," Journal of American Culture, 16:3 (Fall) 1993, 15-19.
"Problems of the Picturesque: Nineteenth-Century American Travelers in Britain," New Orleans Review, 18:2 (Summer) 1991, 5-16.
"'Latent Preparedness:' Allusions in American Travel Literature on Britain," American Studies, 31: 1 (Spring) 1990, 65-82.
"Emerson's English Traits: 'The Mechanics of Conversation.'" American Transcendental Quarterly, n.s. 3:2 (June) 1989, 153-167.
Creative Works
"Campus Prairie: A Community Assesses its Landcape," Cabinet Magazine, Issue 6, Spring 2002.
"An Easter Monologue," Jewish Currents, 47:4 (Spring) 1993, 27-31
"Swimming with the Baby," Ascent, 17:2 (Winter) 1993, 13-17
"Night Reference," Willow Review, (Spring) 1991, 35-42
"His Portrait." Whetstone, 5 (Fall) 1988, 72-77
"Faculties," Hayden's Ferry Review, 2 (Spring) 1987
Awards and Honors
Great Teacher Award, Lake Forest College
Phi Beta Kappa, New York University