Robert Nowatzki Associate Professor PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Office: Robert Bell 384 Phone: (765) 285-8476 E-mail: rnowatzki@bsu.edu

Areas of Specialization

African American literature, 19th c. American literature, utopian and dystopian literature

Publications

Recent Articles

• "'Blackin' up Is Us Doin' White Folks Doin Us': Blackface Minstrelsy and Racial Performance in Contemporary American Fiction and Film." LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory 18.2 (April-June 2007): 115-36.
• "Paddy Jumps Jim Crow: Irish-Americans and Blackface Minstrelsy." Eire-Ireland 41.3-4 (Fall/Winter 2006): 162-84.
• "'Our Only Truly National Poets': Blackface Minstrelsy, Cultural Nationalism, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature." ATQ 20.1 (March 2006): 361-7
• “Blurring the Color Line: Black Freedom, Passing, Abolitionism, and Irish Ethnicity in Frank J. Webb's The Garies and Their Friends.” Studies in American Fiction 33.1 (Spring 2005): 29-58.
• “Middle Passage to Freedom: Black Atlantic Consciousness in Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage and S. I. Martin’s Incomparable World.”  Ethnic Studies Review 26.1 (2003): 12-28.
• “Foul Lines and the Color Line: Baseball and Race at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Social Policy Perspectives 11.1 (Fall 2002): 82-88.
• "Sublime Patriots: Black Masculinity in Three African American Novels." Journal of Men's Studies 8.1 (Fall 1999): 59-72.

Reviews

• Review of Uncle Tom Mania: Slavery, Minstrelsy, and Transatlantic Culture in the 1850s by Sarah Meer. Journal of Southern History 72.4 (November 2006): 939-40.
• Review of Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century by Jane Rhodes. American Periodicals 12 (December 2002): 222-23.
• Review of Imagined Masculinities: Male Identity and Culture in the Modern Middle East by Mai Ghoussoub and Emma Sinclair-Webb. Middle Eastern Studies Association Review 35.2 (December 2001): 226-27.
• Review of Mandy Oxendine by Charles W. Chesnutt. African American Review 33.4 (Winter 1999): 24-25.

Courses

Graduate: Novels of the American South, Race in American Literature and Culture, African American Literature

Undergraduate: American Literature 1 & 2, African American Literature, Introduction to English Studies, Cultural Studies, Senior Seminar: Utopian Literature