Joel Pfister - American Studies Program - Wesleyan University

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	Pfister, Joel Chair, English English Department 860.685.3603 Downey House 303 Kenan Professor of the Humanities English Department Professor of English English Department 860.685.3603 Downey House 303 Professor, American Studies American Studies Program 860.685.3603 Downey House 303 BA Columbia University MA University of Sussex MA University of London PHD Yale University
EMAIL:	jpfister@wesleyan.edu
WESLEYAN PO BOX:	English Department
COURSES TAUGHT THIS SEMESTER:	AMST331 - 01
RESEARCH INTERESTS:	Joel Pfister, Kenan Professor of the Humanities, has written THE PRODUCTION OF PERSONAL LIFE: CLASS, GENDER, AND THE PSYCHOLOGICAL IN HAWTHORNE'S FICTION (Stanford University Press, 1991); STAGING DEPTH: EUGENE O'NEILL AND THE POLITICS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL DISCOURSE (University of North Carolina Press, 1995); (co-editor of) INVENTING THE PSYCHOLOGICAL: TOWARD A CULTURAL HISTORY OF EMOTIONAL LIFE IN AMERICA (Yale University Press, 1997); INDIVIDUALITY INCORPORATED: INDIANS AND THE MULTICULTURAL MODERN (Duke University Press, 2004), CRITIQUE FOR WHAT? CULTURAL STUDIES, AMERICAN STUDIES, LEFT STUDIES (Paradigm Publishers, 2006) and THE YALE INDIAN: THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ROE CLOUD (Duke University Press, 2009). He teaches the core theory course, "Cultural Power and American Studies," in the American Studies Program as well as English courses in American literature and culture from the colonial period to the present. Professor Pfister has received several fellowships, such as an American Council of Learned Societies fellowship and a Rockefeller fellowship, and has lectured in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe as well as the United States and Canada. Recently he served as chair of the American Studies program and is now chair of the English department
OFFICE HOURS:	Fall 2009:Monday 1:30-3:30PM Location: 294 High St. (Downey House) Room #303