Jeffrey Insko - Department of English

Associate Professor & Coordinator of American Studies Ph.D. University of Massachusetts
Areas of study Nineteenth-century U.S. literature and culture, American romanticism, literary history and historiography, literature and law I am currently completing a manuscript titled The Ever-Present Now: American Literary Historiography, 1809-57, which explores conceptions of historical and temporal experience in antebellum U.S. literature. Publications "The Prehistory of Posthistoricism," The Limits of Literary Historicism, Ed. Allen Dunn and Thomas Haddox, U of Tennessee Press (forthcoming) "Eye-Witness to History: The Anti-Narrative Aesthetic of Neal's Seventy-Six, John Neal and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, Eds. Edward Watts and David J. Carlson, Bucknell University Press, 2012. “Passing Current: Electricity, Magnetism, and Historical Transmission inThe Linwoods,” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 56;3 (2010): 293-326. \| Read (access required) “The Logic of Left Alone: The Pioneers and the Conditions of U.S. Privacy,” American Literature, (Dec. 2009): 659-85. \| Read (access required) “Diedrich Knickerbocker, Regular Bred Historian,” Early American Literature 43:3 (Fall 2008): 605-41. \| Read (access required) “All of us are Ahabs: Moby-Dick and Contemporary Public Discourse,”Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association (Fall 2007): 19-37. \| Read “Anachronistic Imaginings: Hope Leslie’s Challenge to Historicism,”American Literary History 16:2 (Summer 2004): 179-207. \| Read (access required) “Generational Canons,” Pedagogy 3:3 (Fall 2003): 341-58. \| Read (access required) “Art After Ahab” (Review of And God Created Great Whales, written and performed by Rinde Eckert). Postmodern Culture 12:1 (Sept. 2001): 13 paras. Online. \| Read

Associate Professor &
Coordinator of American Studies
Ph.D. University of Massachusetts

Areas of study

Nineteenth-century U.S. literature and culture, American romanticism, literary history and historiography, literature and law

I am currently completing a manuscript titled The Ever-Present Now: American Literary Historiography, 1809-57, which explores conceptions of historical and temporal experience in antebellum U.S. literature.

Publications

"The Prehistory of Posthistoricism," The Limits of Literary Historicism, Ed. Allen Dunn and Thomas Haddox, U of Tennessee Press (forthcoming)

"Eye-Witness to History: The Anti-Narrative Aesthetic of Neal's Seventy-Six, John Neal and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, Eds. Edward Watts and David J. Carlson, Bucknell University Press, 2012.

“Passing Current: Electricity, Magnetism, and Historical Transmission inThe Linwoods,” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 56;3 (2010): 293-326. | Read (access required)

“The Logic of Left Alone: The Pioneers and the Conditions of U.S. Privacy,” American Literature, (Dec. 2009): 659-85. | Read (access required)

“Diedrich Knickerbocker, Regular Bred Historian,” Early American Literature 43:3 (Fall 2008): 605-41. | Read (access required)

“All of us are Ahabs: Moby-Dick and Contemporary Public Discourse,”Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association (Fall 2007): 19-37. | Read

“Anachronistic Imaginings: Hope Leslie’s Challenge to Historicism,”American Literary History 16:2 (Summer 2004): 179-207. | Read (access required)

“Generational Canons,” Pedagogy 3:3 (Fall 2003): 341-58. | Read (access required)

“Art After Ahab” (Review of And God Created Great Whales, written and performed by Rinde Eckert). Postmodern Culture 12:1 (Sept. 2001): 13 paras. Online. | Read