Dr. Michael Hobbs

Professor

Education

• PhD in English
• MA in English
• BA in English

Courses Taught

Graduate courses taught at Northwest

• English 532 Hawthorne and Melville
• English 561 The American Short Story
• English 582 Contemporary Poetry
• English 630 American Transcendentalism
• English 634 The American Realists
• English 663 The American Novel from 1920-1945
• English 664 The American Novel Since 1945
• English 690 Methods of Research in English

Special topics Graduate courses taught at Northwest

• English 525 Special Studies (The American Comic Novel)
• English 621 Problems in Scholarship (Twentieth-Century Poetry: Beauty in Ruins)
• English 621 Problems in Scholarship (Imaginary or Real: The Great Divide in Twentieth-Century Poetry)
• English 621 Problems in Scholarship (Modern Poetry and the Long Poem)

Undergraduate courses taught at Northwest

• English 111 Composition
• English 111 Composition (Academy)
• English 112 Composition
• English 112 Composition (Academy)
• English 220 Introduction to Literature
• English 224 Multiethnic Literature of the United States
• English 234 American Literature: 1865 to the Present
• English 363 The American Novel

Academic Interests

• Modern American Poetry
• Native American Literature
• Modernism and Postmodernism
• Literary Theory (Bakhtin, Derrida, Barthes, Baudrillard)

Scholarly Activity

Most Recent Publications

• "Writing on Hardscrabble: Walt McDonald's ‘Suddenly Fabulous Desert'" accepted for publication in Southwestern American Literature.  (Fall 2005)
• "‘An Orgy of Acquisition': Intellectual and Commercial Ownership in The Professor's House."  Teaching Cather 3 (Spring 2003): 4-7.
•  "Walt McDonald's Beautiful Wasteland." The Waltz He Was Born For: An Introduction to the Writing of Walt Mcdonald.  Ed. by Janice Whittington and Andrew Hudgins.  Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech UP, 2002.  62-79.

Most Recent Presentations

• "‘In the Excitements of Silence': Outliving the Self in Falling Man." The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900 (Spring 2009).
• "West of the Imagination: Walt McDonald's ‘Aesthetic du Mal.'" American Literature Association Conference (Spring 2007).
• "Wallace Stevens and Seamus Heaney: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Escapism."  Twentieth Century Literature Conference (Spring 2006).
• "‘A Tune Beyond Us': Ideas of Evasion in Wallace Stevens and Mikhail Bakhtin." Twentieth Century Literature Conference (Spring 2005).