Timothy H. Scherman
English
Associate Chair, English Department; Audrey Reynolds Distinguished Professor
Phone:
(773) 442-5817
Email:
t-scherman@neiu.edu
Office Hours:
Spring 2025 Student Hours Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday: 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. Or by appointment via email (class times excepted) at t-scherman@neiu.edu
Country:
United States
Expertise
American Literature and Culture; Literary Theory and Criticism, Material Culture
ENGL 210: Literary Methods and Practice (WIP)
ENGL 218: Survey of American Literature, Beginnings to 1865
ENGL 219: Survey of American Literature: 1865 to present
ENGL 345: Practical Criticism
ENGL 368: American Realism
ENGL 372: American Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century
ENGL 378: Twentieth Century Fiction I
ENGL 410: Literary Methods and Practice
ENGL 430: Seminar on Literary Criticism and Theory
ENGL 484: Seminar on US Literature After the Cold War
ENGL 487: Material Culture
Research Interests
U.S. Literature and Culture; History of Authorship and Publishing; Women Writers of the 19th Century, Material Culture
Education
Ph.D. (American Literature) Duke University
Selected Publications
The Selected Works of Elizabeth Oakes Smith, edited and annotated, with an introduction, 3 vols (forthcoming, Mercer Press, 2023-2024)
2020 section editor and author, “Elizabeth Oakes Smith 1806-1893—American novelist essayist, lecturer, poet and short-story writer,” Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism vol 387, Layman Poupard Publishing, LLC: 95-177.
2020 “Poe, Pandemic and Underlying Conditions,” PopMatters, May 26, 2020: https://www.popmatters.com/poe-pandemic-and-underlying-conditions- 2646000879.html
2017 “Eluding the Authorities: Tom Waits in Postmodern Context,” PopMatters, January 9, 2017: https://www.popmatters.com/feature/tom-waits-eluding-the-authorities/
1993 "The Authority Effect: Poe and the Politics of Reputation in the Pre-Industry of American Publishing," Arizona Quarterly 49/3 (Fall 1993): 1-21.
1992 "Translating From Memory: Patrick Modiano in Postmodern Context," Studies inTwentieth-Century Literature 16/2 (summer 1992): 289-303.
Additional Information
Scherman is the founder and current president of The Elizabeth Oakes Smith Society (501(c)3).