Jason Puskar, Assistant Professor

Office: Curtin Hall 585
Phone: 414-229-4517
e-mail: puskar@uwm.edu

Degree(s):

Ph.D., English and American Language and Literature, Harvard University, 2004
M.Phil, English Literature, 1997, University of Oxford

Teaching and Research Interests:

Late Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture
American Studies
History of Science
Philosophical Pragmatism
Literary Modernism

Current Project:

Underwriting the Accident: Narratives of American Chance, 1871-1935, a study of the relationship between American literature and the popularization of new thinking about probability, accident, and chance.

Selected Publications:

"Risking Ralph Ellison," Daedalus 138.2 (Spring 2009): 83-93.

"William Dean Howells and the Insurance of the Real," American Literary History (Spring, 2006).

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Department of English P.O. Box 413 UW-Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI 53201

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