Timothy H. Scherman
English Department
CLS 2001, x5817
e-mail t-scherman@neiu.edu

Professor Scherman received his Ph.D. from Duke University in 1992 with a concentration in 19th-Century American Literature. His essays and reviews have appeared in such journals as American Literature, Arizona Quarterly, Studies in 20th-Century Literature and Paideuma. Most recently he has published a long illustrated entry on Elizabeth Oakes Smith for the new Dictionary of Literary Biography volume covering American Women Prosewriters, 1820-1870. He is currently working on three projects, one a study of the concept of authorship in the nineteenth-century United States featuring those figures whose images appear at the head of this page, another an edition of the unpublished or unreprinted prose of Elizabeth Oakes Smith (that's her on the right), and the third an edition of Smith's novel, The Western Captive(1842).

At Northeastern Professor Scherman teaches American Literature and Literary Criticism and Theory at both undergraduate and graduate levels, including the following courses:

ENGL 102: Writing II (catalog description)
ENGL 218: American Literature, Beginnings to 1865(catalog description)
ENGL 219: American Literature, 1865 to the present (catalog description)
ENGL 313: The American Renaissance (catalog description)
ENGL 318M: Hawthorne, Melville, Poe
ENGL 318N: Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century
ENGL 318X: The Development of American Poetry
ENGL 345: Practical Criticism (catalog description)
ENGL 361: Development of the American Novel I (catalog description)
ENGL 368: American Realism (catalog description)
ENGL 430: Critical Theory (catalog description)
ENGL 449L: American Literary Classics, 1820-1860
(catalog description)