Nicholas Junkerman
Associate Professor & associate chair
B.A., Oberlin College
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Office: Palamountain 306
Phone: (518) 580-5161
Email: njunkerm@skidmore.edu
Teaching and Research Interests:
- Early American Literature
- American Religion
- Disability Studies
- Literature and the Supernatural
Courses Taught:
- EN 105: Utopia/Dystopia
- EN 110: Introduction to Literary Studies
- EN 226: Introduction to American Literature
- EN 229: Introduciton to Disability Studies
- EN 229: The Supernatural in America Literature
- EN 362: Captivity
- EN 375: Senior Seminar: Captivity
- SSP 100: Scribner Seminar: American Utopias
Publications:
- 鈥溾�楴ow, Dear Reader, I Was Restored鈥�: Miracle, Autobiography, and Authority in Chloe Willey鈥檚 鈥楽hort Account鈥欌�� Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers (Forthcoming, Winter 2022)
- 鈥溾�楾he Incomparable Curiosity of Every Feather!鈥�: Cotton Mather鈥檚 Birds.鈥� Birds in Eighteenth-Century Literature: Reason, Emotion, and Ornithology, 1700-1840, edited by Brycchan Carey, Sayre Greenfield, and Anne Milne, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp. 231-246.
- 鈥淲ashington Allston鈥檚 Christ Healing the Sick: Disability, History Painting and Narrative Time鈥�: Nineteenth-Century Contexts vol. 42, no. 3, 2020, pp. 313-334.
- 鈥溾�楥onfined Unto a Low Chair鈥�: Reading the Particulars of Disability in Cotton Mather鈥檚 Miracle Narratives.鈥� Early American Literature vol. 52, no. 1, 2017, pp. 53-78.