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Jeff Osborne
Associate Professor of English
Director, Racer Writing Center
"Every class is a mini-revolution in potential. The best moments in a semester are those when we hear the questions a text poses to us in the provocative way that texts speak, the moments when we—all involved—confront our own limitations and must seek out ways to overcome them. My goal in the courses I teach is to create a classroom environment in which the questions literature asks us can be heard in such a way that we can effectively respond to them.”
Highlighted Publications
“Constituting American Masculinity.” American Studies Journal 49.1-2 (Fall 2008).
“Benjamin Franklin and the Rhetoric of Virtuous Self-Fashioning.” Literature & History 17.2 (2008).
“American Antipathy and the Cruelties of Citizenship in Letters from an American Farmer.” Early American Literature 42.3 (2007).
Courses Taught
American Literature
ENG 105 Critical Reading, Writing, and Inquiry
Humanities
Literary Criticism and Theory
Literature & Philosophy
Awards and Distinctions
Board of Regents Award for Teaching Excellence, Spring 2009