Academic Profile

Specializes in American Literature before 1865, American Studies, and New Historicism. Prof. Wallace is currently working on representations of race in the Early Republic (1820-1850).

Fall 2011 Courses

• EN400 - Colonial American Literature and Culture
• EN703 - Melville and His Era

Spring 2012 Courses

• EN082 - Literature and Society
• EN142 - American Literary History II

Publications (selected)

• Early Cooper and His Audience (1986).
• "The Black Sailor and The Red Rover,"in James Fenimore Cooper: His Country and His Art, No. 10 (1999).
• "Hawthorne and Stowe," in Hawthorne and Women: Engendering and Expanding the Hawthorne Tradition (1999).