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English Department
Nicholas Junkerman

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:

  • “‘Now, Dear Reader, I Was Restored’: Miracle, Autobiography, and Authority in Chloe Willey’s ‘Short Account’” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers (Forthcoming, Winter 2022)
  • “‘The Incomparable Curiosity of Every Feather!’: Cotton Mather’s Birds.” 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.
  • “Washington Allston’s Christ Healing the Sick: Disability, History Painting and Narrative Time”: Nineteenth-Century Contexts vol. 42, no. 3, 2020, pp. 313-334.
  • “‘Confined Unto a Low Chair’: Reading the Particulars of Disability in Cotton Mather’s Miracle Narratives.” Early American Literature vol. 52, no. 1, 2017, pp. 53-78.