Research Interests for Victor H Strandberg

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.

Areas of Interest:

American Literature
20th Century Literature
Women's Literature
World Literature (Bible, Greek/Roman epic & drama, Hindu lit., European classics from Dante to Tolstoy in translation)
English Composition (Writing)
British Literature (Major authors from Chaucer to Yeats)
William James, T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren, John Updike, Cynthia Ozick, Joan Didion, Toni Morrison, Cormac McCarthy et. al.

Recent Publications

1. Review of Mark Twain and The Spiritual Crisis of His Age, edited by Paul J. Contino and Maire Mullins, Christianity and Literature, vol. 57 no. 2 (Winter, 2008), pp. 318-322
2. The Fiction of Reynolds Price, in Blackwell Encyclopedia of 20th Century AmericanFiction (2008)
3. Robert Penn Warren, in Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary, edited by Flora, Joseph L., and Vogel, Amber (2006), Louisiana State University Press
4. V. Strandberg, "T. S. Eliot Passes In Review: T. S. Eliot: The Contemporary Reviews,.", American Critical Archives: The Contemporary Reviews, edited by Jewel Spears Brooker, The Sewanee Review, vol. Summer 2005, Volume CXIII no. 3 (2005), pp. lxxvi-lxxix, Cambridge University Press [abs]
5. V. Strandberg, Review of Jay Parini, One Matchless Time: A Life of William Faulkner (November 14, 2004), pp. 496, HarperCollins