John D. Kalb                     
GRADUATE PROGRAM DIRECTOR
 Associate Professor
 Department of English                                               
Fulton School of Liberal Arts
 Salisbury University
 Salisbury, Maryland 21801

Office: 350 Holloway Hall
Telephone: 410-543-6049
Toll Free: 1-888-543-0148
Fax: 410-548-2142
Email: jdkalb@salisbury.edu

Education  
bullet Ph.D. in English: Michigan State University, 1989
bullet M.A. in English: Michigan State University, 1985
bullet B.S. in Ed.: Central Michigan University, 1983

Dissertation "Articulated Selves: The Attainment of Identity and Personal Voice through Language and Story-Telling in Works by Twentieth Century American Authors"

Areas of Interest
 
bullet Native American Literature
bullet Ethnic American Literature
bullet Contemporary American Literature

Fall 2008 COURSES

bullet ENGL 102 Composition II
bullet ENGL 385 Ethnic Literature in America

RECENT COURSES and Sample syllabi
 
bullet ENGL 253 Short Story
bullet ENGL 384 Native American Literature
bullet ENGL 389 Topics in Native American Literature: Ojibwe/Chippewa Voices
bullet ENGL 389 Topics in Native American Literature: Native Autobiography and Non-Fiction
bullet ENGL 486 American Novel III--1945 to Present
bullet ENGL 4/588 Contemporary Trends in American Literature
bullet ENGL 510 Topics in Literature: Native American Literature

RECENT Conference Papers
 
bullet “How Useful and User-Friendly Is Treuer’s ‘User Manual’?”
bullet “So Say the Sisters: New Voices in Sister Nations“
bullet “Relocation and Dislocation in David Treuer’s Novel The Hiawatha”
bullet “Home Improvement and Power Tools: The Surrounded and The Things to Make Life Easy”
bullet “Sherman Alexie’s Unsolved Mystery in Indian Killers : Whodunit? Who Didn’t?"
bullet ”Silko, Hogan, and the Loss of the Landscape"
bullet "Counting Coup: James Welch and American Myths"

Other Interests

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