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Adam T Sonstegard
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Chair & Professor
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Dept: |
English |
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RT 1816 |
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216-687-6979 |
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A.SONSTEGARD@csuohio.edu
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Address: |
2121 Euclid Ave. RT 1816, Cleveland, OH 44115 |
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Education: |
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M.A., Literature & Writing, Washington University, 1996
Ph.D., American Literature, Washington University, 2002
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Brief Bio: |
| Adam Sonstegard came to Cleveland State in 2005. He teaches American Literature, adolescence in American Lit, memoir and autobiography, critical methods and introductions to graduate study. He has published on Henry James, Mark Twain, Charles Chesnutt, Sarah Jewett, George- Washington Cable, Hamlin Garland, Puck the humor magazine, original literary illustrations, and spaces where literary culture meets visual culture. He lives five minutes from campus, in Cleveland's vibrant, reinvigorating downtown. |
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Creative and Activities: |
| Amateur photography and photo-essays
Creative non-fiction and memoir |
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Research Interests: |
| American literature's mediation of, and mediation by, visual arts
American literature and photography
Original illustrations accompanying literary work in periodicals and special editions
LGBTQQIA+ literatures and histories |
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Teaching Areas: |
| American literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Representations of Adolescence in Literature
Verbal art in conjunction, or competition, with visual arts
Autobiography and Life-Writing as literary genres
Short fiction and serialized fiction in American Literature |
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