John Stauffer
Professor of American Literature
email: stauffer@fas.harvard.edu
Phone: (617) 495-8440
Ph.D., Yale University 1999
at Harvard since 1999
Courses
“American Protest Literature,” “Nineteenth-Century American Novel,” “American Civil War,” “Ethnic-American Autobiography,” “Imagining Slavery,” “American Historical Novel,” “Douglass and Melville.”
Research Interests
Slavery and Abolition, Interracial Relations, Social Reform, Imagining the Civil War, photography as history.
Books in Progress
Interracial Friendships in American Culture
American Protest Literature
Reading African-American Photographs
Cultural Biography of Frederick Douglass
Millennial Vistas: New Essays on American Abolitionism (edited with Tim McCarthy)
The Problem of Evil: Slavery, Race, and the Ambiguities of American Reform (edited with Steven Mintz)
Previous Books
Meteor of War: The John Brown Story (with Zoe Trodd). Brandywine Press, 2004.
Frederick Douglass' My Bondage and My Freedom . The Modern Library, 2003.
The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race . Harvard University Press, 2002.
Selected Articles, 1997-2004
“Frederick Douglass and the Aesthetics of Freedom,” Raritan Review (2005), forthcoming.
“The Problem of Freedom in The Bondwoman's Narrative,” In Search of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays on
The Bondwoman's Narrative , eds. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Hollis Robbins (New York: Basic Books, 2004),
pp. 53-70.
“Popular Culture,” Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century , ed. Paul Finkelman (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001).
“Advent Among the Indians,” Antislavery Violence: Sectional, Racial and Cultural Conflict in Antebellum America (Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1999), pp. 236-273.
“Race and Contemporary Photography,” 21 st : The Journal of Contemporary Photography , Vol. 1 (1998).
“Daguerreotyping the National Soul: The Portraits of Southworth and Hawes, 1843-1860,” Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies , Vol. 22 (1997): 69-107.
Beyond Social Control: The Example of Gerrit Smith,” ATQ (American Transcendetal Quarterly) , 11:3 (September 1997): 233-259.
Link to curriculum vitae
Last Updated: August 17, 2007
