Benjamin Friedlander
Benjamin Friedlander
Assistant Professor of English
5752 Neville Hall, Room 303
Orono, Maine 04469-5752
U.S.A.
Office Telephone: (207) 581-3838
E-mail: Ben.Friedlander@umit.maine.edu
***Office Hours for Spring 2009: Tuesdays from 10:45 to 12:00
and by appointment.***
Benjamin Friedlander
joined our faculty in 1999. He was Coordinator of Graduate Studies from 2002 to 2005. His areas
of expertise include Poetry and Poetics, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century
American Literature, and Critical Theory. He is currently completing a book on
Emily Dickinson and the Civil War. He is the author of
Simulcast: Four
Experiments in Criticism (U of Alabama P, 2004) and coeditor of
Charles Olson's
Collected Prose (U of California P, 1997). In addition to his
scholarly endeavors, he writes poetry. His most recent collection is
A Knot Is Not a Tangle.
Courses Taught
Spring 2009
ENG 440: Major American Writers - Robert Creeley
Fall 2008
ENG 549 Studies in Gender and Literature - Emily Dickinson
Spring 2008
ENG 580 Topics in Poetry and Poetics - Poetry and Experience
ENG 242 American Literature Survey - Realism to the Present
Fall 2007
ENG 405 Topics in Creative Writing - Workshop in Critical Prose
Spring 2007
Fall 2006
ENG 541 Early American Literature - Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Herman Melville
ENG 241 American Literature Survey Part 1
Spring 2005
ENG 429/HTY 398 Introduction to American Studies (Team-taught with Liam Riordan of the History Department) > Link to course website.
Fall 2004
ENG 570 Literary Theory > Link to course website.
ENG 241 American Literature Survey Part 1 > Link to course website.
Spring 2004
ENG 541 Early American Literature - Poetry
in an American Studies Context > Link to course website.
Fall 2003
ENG 470 Topics in Literary Theory and Criticism - An
Introduction to Trauma Theory
Spring 2003
ENG 649 Modern/Postmodern American Poetry - The 1940s > Link to course website.
Fall 2002
ENG 580 Topics in Poetry and Poetics (Sentimental
Poetics)
Spring 2002
ENG 449 Contemporary American Poetry
Fall 2001
ENG 241 American Literature Survey Part
1
ENG 101 College Composition