Faculty: Department of English

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Benjamin L. Goluboff

Associate Professor of English

 

Specialization

American Literature

Education

PhD University of Pennsylvania
MA University of Pennsylvania
BA New York University

Courses Taught

English 204 Nineteenth-Century American Literature
English 206 American Environmental Literature
English 224 Literature of the Vietnam War
English 403 Emily Dickinson

Articles

“The Vietnam War: A Very Short History” in Approaches to Teaching the Work of Tim O’Brien. New York: Modern Language Association, 2010. Purchase the book on Amazon.com

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 (2004): 53-58.

‘If Madonna Be’: Emily Dickinson and Roman Catholicism,” New England Quarterly 73.3 (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 (1995): 14-25.

“Strategies of Allusion in Poetry of the Vietnam War,” Journal of American Culture 16.3 (1993): 15-19.

“Problems of the Picturesque: Nineteenth-Century American Travelers in Britain,” New Orleans Review 18.2 (1991): 5-16.

‘Latent Preparedness:’ Allusions in American Travel Literature on Britain,” American Studies 31.1 (1990): 65-82.

“Emerson’s English Traits: ‘The Mechanics of Conversation.’” American Transcendental Quarterly n.s. 3.2 (1989): 153-167.

Creative Works

“Games with the Poet,” Anobium volume 2, forthcoming 2012.

Campus Prairie: A Community Assesses its Landcape,” Cabinet Magazine 6 (Spring 2002).

“An Easter Monologue,” Jewish Currents 47.4 (1993): 27-31.

“Swimming with the Baby,” Ascent 17.2 (1993): 13-17.

“Night Reference,” Willow Review (Spring 1991): 35-42.

“His Portrait.” Whetstone 5 (Fall 1988): 72-7.

“Faculties,” Hayden’s Ferry Review 2 (Spring 1987).

Awards and Honors

Great Teacher Award, Lake Forest College

Phi Beta Kappa, New York University