Steven Rosendale, PhD.

Associate Professor, English

Northern Arizona University

Department of English

128 Liberal Arts

Phone: (928) 523-5846

Email: Steven.Rosendale@nau.edu

 

 

 

Ph.D. English, Syracuse University, 1997.

M.A.  English, Syracuse University, 1992.

B.A.  English, University of Minnesota, 1990.

 

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Books:

 

1. Radical Relevance:  Essays Toward a Scholarship of the “Whole Left.”  Eds. Steven Rosendale and Laura Gray-Rosendale.  Albany:  SUNY Press, 2005.

 

2. Dictionary of Literary Biography 303:  American Radical and Reform Writers.  Ed. Steven Rosendale.  Boston:  Gale Research Press, 2004.

 

3. The Greening of Literary Scholarship.  Ed. Steven Rosendale.  Iowa City:  Iowa University Press, 2002. 

 

4. Political Moments in the Classroom: Embodying Difference.  Corporately authored with the Political Moments Study Group.  Edited by Margaret Himley, et. al. Boston: Boynton/Cook, 1997.

 

Book in Preparation

 

City Wilderness:  Political Ecology on the American Literary Left. 

 

 

Essays, Book Chapters, Review Articles:

 

1. “Introduction:  Toward a Scholarship of the ‘Whole Left’.”  Radical Relevance: Toward a Scholarship of the “Whole Left.”  Eds. Steven Rosendale and Laura Gray-Rosendale.  Albany:  SUNY Press, 2005.  vii-xix.

 

2. “Stephen Germic’s American Green:  Class Crisis, and the Deployment of Nature in Central Park Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment 9.2 (Winter, 2003). 140-1.

 

 

3. “Introduction:  Extending Ecocriticism.”  In The Greening of Literary Scholarship:  Essays on Literature, Theory, and the Environment.  Ed. Steven Rosendale.  Iowa City:  Iowa University Press, 2002. xiii-xxxii.

 

4. “In Search of Left Ecology's Usable Past -- The Jungle, Social Change, and the Class Character of Environmental Impairment.”  In The Greening of Literary Scholarship: Essays on Literature, Theory, and the Environment.  Iowa City:  Iowa University Press, 2002. 80-104.

 

5. “Granville Hicks.”  In Dictionary of Literary Biography 246:  Twentieth-Century Cultural Theorists.  Ed. Paul Hansom.  Boston:  Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2001.  197-207.  (An 8000 word essay and bibliography)

 

6. “Edward Casey’s The Fate of Place.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment  6.1 (Winter, 1999): 150-161.

 

7. “The Wilderness of Civilization:  The Proletarian City and Socialist Pastoralism in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle.” Genre 18 (1997), 69-95.

 

9. “Toward a Discussion of the Subject of Privilege/the Privileged Subject in the Classroom.” Political Moments in the Classroom.  Edited Margaret Himley, et. al.  Boston:  Boynton/Cook, 1997.  73-85.

 

10. “Responding to Student Texts.” Reflections in Writing (Issue 12; Spring 1993), 7-12.  Reprinted in Reflections in Writing: The Retrospective (Issue 17: Spring 1994).

 

 

Papers Presented at National and Regional Conferences:

 

1. “American Literature and Left Coalition.”  Annual Conference of the American Culture Association: Toronto, March 2002.

 

2. “Left Ecology's Literary Past – The Case of US Proletarian Culture.” Biannual National Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment: Flagstaff, June 2001.

 

3. “Recovering Robert Cantwell: American Criticism and the Relevance of Radicalism.” Annual Conference of the American Culture Association: New Orleans, April 2001.

 

4. “Revolutionary Symbolism and Environmental Discourse.” Western States Rhetoric Conference:  Provo, October 2000.

 

5. “Something Valid From the World of the Past:  Granville Hicks’ Sustainable Utopia in The First to Awaken.”  Annual Conference of the American Culture Association:  Philadelphia, April 2000.

 

6. “Writing Across the Curriculum in the NAU Freshman Colloquia.”  Panel: “WAC/WID in Theory and Practice. Western States Rhetoric Conference:  Tempe, October 1999.

 

7. “The Popular Frontiers of Left Modernism in America.”  Panel: “Modernism and Popular Culture.”  Modernist Society of America Conference: Pennsylvania State University, October 1999.

 

8. “A Glorious Fresh Adventure”:  Proletarian Literature’s Supplement of Revolution in the New Masses.”  Panel:  “Proletarian Literature: 1919-1939.”  Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association: San Francisco, December 1998.

 

 9. “Landscape, Literature, and the Left: Pastoral Structure in Mike Gold’s Jews Without Money.”  Panel:  “Literature and Politics in the 1930s.” Annual Conference of the American Culture Association: Orlando, April 1998.

 

10. “Topographical Metaphor and the Structure of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle.”  Panel:  “American Realism, 1870-1920.” Northeast Modern Language Association: Baltimore, April 1998.

 

11. “The Writing of Nature/ The Nature of Writing: ‘Ecocentric’ Perspectives from Robert Frost and Wallace Stevens.”  Panel: “Literary Landscapes: Environmental Echoes.” Northeast Modern Language Association: Philadelphia, April 1997.

 

12. “The Agency Aporia:  The Institutional Logic of Post-structuralist Theories of Agency.”  Interdisciplinary Conference on Subjectivity and Agency: SUNY Binghamton, March 1993.

 

13.  “Commenting Strategies for Student Papers in ‘Writing in the Disciplines’ Composition Courses.” Annual Writing Program Conference, Syracuse University.  September, 1992

 

 

 

 

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

 

Everett Helm Research Fellowship, University of Indiana’s Lilly Library, 2001.

 

Intramural Grant for Research, Northern Arizona University, 2000, 2001.

 

Outstanding Humanities Teaching Assistant of 1996-97, Syracuse University.

 

Certificate in University Teaching, FIPSE-PEW, Syracuse University, 1996.

 

Doctoral Fellowship, Syracuse University, 1995, 1997.

 

Research Fellowship, Syracuse University, 1994, 1996.