Victor Strandberg Professor
Office Location: 315B Allen
Office Phone: 919-684-3976
Email Address: vhs@duke.edu
- Office Hours:
- Tuesdays 2:00 - 3:30pm and by appointment
- Education and Interests:
- Ph.D., Brown University
- American Literature
- Victor Strandberg has published The Poetic Vision of Robert Penn Warren (Kentucky, 1977), Religious Psychology in American Literature: The Relevance of William James (Studia Humanitatis, 1981), and A Faulkner Overview: Six Perspectives (Kennikat Press, 1981), together with numerous essays on American literature. His most recent book is Greek Mind/Jewish Soul: The Conflicted Art of Cynthia Ozick (University of Wisconsin Press, 1994). Every sabbatical year he has spent a semester abroad teaching American Literature, as a Fullbright professor at the Universities of Uppsala, Louvain, and Mannheim, and in spring 2001 in the Czech Republic. He has also taught at Kobe College in Japan and in Marrakech, Morocco.
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- "Robert Penn Warren." Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary. Ed. Flora, Joseph L., and Vogel, Amber. Louisiana State University Press, 2006.
- V. Strandberg. "T. S. Eliot Passes In Review: T. S. Eliot: The Contemporary Reviews,.". ed. Jewel Spears Brooker. The Sewanee ReviewAmerican Critical Archives: The Contemporary Reviews Summer 2005, Volume CXIII.3 (2005): lxxvi-lxxix. [abs]
- V. Strandberg. Review of Jay Parini, One Matchless Time: A Life of William Faulkner. November 14, 2004
- V.H. Strandberg. Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years. 2004 (Forthcoming in American Literature)
- V. Strandberg. T.S. Eliot: The Contemporary Reviews. ed. Jewel Spears Brooker. American Critical Archives 10 (2004): 600. (Forthcoming, Sewanee Review)
