PAUL C. GUTJAHR

Associate Professor of English, American Studies, and Religious Studies

Paul C. Gutjahr
Department of English
Ballantine Hall
1020 E. Kirkwood Ave.
Bloomington, IN 47405-7103

E-mail:
Phone: 812/855-2147

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Ph.D. - American Studies, University of Iowa, 1996
M.A. - American Studies, University of Iowa, 1992
M.A. - English, Stanford University, 1985
B.A. - English and History, Stanford University, 1984, with honors

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REASEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS

American literature and culture, 1640-1860
History of the book in America
American religious and intellectual thought
Religious publishing
Literacy studies

An American Bible: A History of the Good Book in the United States, 1777-1880, Stanford University Press, 1999

Illuminating Letters: Essays on Typography and Literary Interpretation, co-edited with Megan Benton, University of Massachusetts Press, 2001

American Popular Literature of the Nineteenth Century, 1200-page anthology from Oxford University Press, 2001

The Last of the Mohicans, Broadview Press, 2009

Charles Hodge: Guardian of American Orthodoxy, Oxford University Press, 2011

The Book of Mormon: A Biography of a Book, Princeton University Press, 2012

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President's Arts and Humanities Initiative
Indiana University

Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, College of Arts and Sciences
Indiana University

Fellowship, Center for the Study of Religion
Princeton University

Pew Program in Religion and American History Faculty Fellowship
through Yale University

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Undergraduate Courses

L111 - American Best Sellers, 1790 - Present
L204 - Introduction to Fiction
H203 - Nineteenth-Century American Classics
H203 - American Detective Fiction
H203 - Banned Books in America
H203 - The American Social Protest Novel
L351 - American Literature, 1800-1865
L355 - American Fiction to 1900
W350 - Advanced Expository Writing
L384 - Studies in American Culture: American Dreams and Schemes
L390 - Children's Literature
L391 - Young Adult Literature
E302 - English Literatures 1600-1800
E303 - English Literatures 1800-1900

Graduate Courses

G603 - Introduction to American Studies
L632 - Readings in 19th-Century American Literature
L680 - Nineteenth-Century American Popular Literature
L680 - The Most Turbulent Decade: America in the 1840s
L680 - Melville, Moby-Dick and American Culture
L705 - The History of the Book in the United States
L779 - (Re)Forming America: The United States in the 1850s

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