Timothy Libretti
English Department
CLS 2002, x5823
e-mail t-libretti@neiu.edu
Tim Libretti received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) in 1995. His
primary areas of research and specialization include 19th and 20th-century U.S. literature with
emphasis on Realism and Naturalism, the U.S. radical literary tradition, proletarian and working-class literatures, U.S. third world and ethnic literatures, Marxism and cultural studies, and
race/ethnicity theory. In the English Department at Northeastern Illinois University he teaches a
wide range of courses in U.S. literature and literary theory and criticism. He has published
essays and reviews on Chicano, Asian American, African American, and proletarian literatures as
well as on racial, ethnic, and third world studies and cultural studies in books and such journals
as MELUS, Amerasia Journal, Radical Teacher, and Against the Current. He is currently writing
a book titled "U.S. Literary History and Class Consciousness: Rethinking U.S. Third World and
Proletarian Literatures" and is also working on editing a collection of essays on left literary theory
and practice titled "Reimagining the Left: Cultural Resources for Contemporary Radical Practice."
Professor Libretti is on sabbatical for Spring term 2004.
Courses:
English 218 American Literature: Beginnings to 1865 (catalog description)
English 219 American Literature: 1865 to the Present (catalog description)
English 312 Colonial and Republican Literature (catalog description)
English 318 Radical Literature of the Great Depression Reconsidered (catalog description)
English 318 U.S. Literature Between the Wars (catalog description)
Enlgish 361 Development of the American Novel (catalog description)
English 379 Tweniteth Century Fiction II (catalog description)
English 381 African-American Literary Traditions (catalog description)
English 449 Ethnic Literature (catalog description)
English 449 The American Novel: U.S. Literature in Transition (catalog description)
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