Max Cavitch

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Fall 2012- Spring 2013	on leave

Spring 2012	Dangerous Writers

Fall 2011	Whitman and Williams: Contact, Utopia (graduate, with Bob Perelman)

other courses taught	American Fiction and Memory American Poetry American Short Fiction to 1900 Americans in Paris American Women Writers Atlanticisms (graduate proseminar) Art, Addiction, and Modernity Emily Dickinson at Large (Freshman Seminar) Forming and Reforming American Literature: 1820-1860 (graduate) Forms of Encounter Futures of American Poetry (graduate) Histories of Forgetting (graduate) Literature of the Americas to 1900 Memory of Slavery (MLA proseminar) Mourning and Sexuality in the English Elegy Mourning and Sexuality in the English Elegy (graduate) Mourning Literatures, Mourning Cultures Narrativism and Historical Poetics: The Nineteenth Century (graduate) Philadelphia Fire: Art and Politics in America from the Declaration of Independence to the MOVE Bombing (MLA proseminar) Poetry and Pace in the Early U.S. Slavery and the Literary Imagination Transatlantic Traffic: London, Philadelphia, and the World: 1666-1876 Transcendentalism in America Undergraduate Honors Seminar Worlds of English Poetry, 1660-1912