Title: Special Lecturer
Office: 134 O'Dowd Hall
Email: apap@oakland.edu
Degrees
B.A. Wayne State University
M.A. & Ph.D. New York University
Areas of Interest
- 18th- and 19th- Century American Literature and Culture
- Ethnic Literatures of the United States
- Transatlantic Literary Culture
- Cultural Geography
Publications
“(Ir)responsible Acts: The Transatlantic Dialogues of William Godwin and Charles Brockden Brown” in Transatlantic Sensations, ed. John
Barton and Jennifer Phegley (essay collection; Ashgate Press: 2012).
“Prospects for the Study of Washington Irving,” with Tracy Hoffman, in Resources for
American Literary Study 35 (2012).
“‘Let no man of us budge one step’: David Walker and the Rhetoric of African American Emplacement,” in
Early American Literature 46.2
(2011) http://muse.jhu.edu.huaryu.kl.oakland.edu/journals/early_american_literature/v046/46.2.apap.htm
“The Genius of Latitude: Daniel Webster and the Geographical Imagination in Early America,”
Journal of the Early Republic 30.2
(2010)http://muse.jhu.edu.huaryu.kl.oakland.edu/journals/journal_of_the_early_republic/v030/30.2.apap.html
“Caught Between Two Opinions: Africans, Europeans and Indians in Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative,” Comparative American
Studies 4.1 (2006).
Recent Courses
Winter 2013
- English 224: American Literature
- AMS 300: Topics in American Studies
Fall 2012
- English 224: American Literature
- AMS 300: Topics in American Studies
Summer I 2012
- English 111: Modern Literature
Winter 2012
- English 111: Modern Literature
- English 224: American Literature
Fall 2011
- English 224: American Literature
- Honors 202: Saints, Sinners, Sorcerers, and Slaves: Imagining the 17th Century in a Time of Crisis
Winter 2011
- English 224: American Literature