Darryl Hattenhauer, Associate Professor of American Studies, specializes in American literary history. He has held two Fulbrights; the first was in Denmark, and the second was in Sweden. He also received an NEH grant to attend the Institute on Realism at the University of California at Berkeley. His specialization is the historical development of non-realist genres. His publications include articles on Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Stephen Crane, Jack London, Charles Chesnutt, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner, Nathanael West, Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, James Baldwin, Saul Bellow, Cynthia Ozick, Kurt Vonnegut, and Leslie Marmon Silko. His book on Shirley Jackson appeared on SUNY Press, and his next book will be about James Purdy. He teaches American Literature Before 1865, American Literature Since 1865, The Short Story, Major American Novels, Science Fiction and Fantasy, American Gothic, The American Novel 1900-1960, The American Novel Since 1960, Western American Literature, American Cultural History Before 1865, American Cultural History Since 1865, and American Popular Music.
