Contact Information:
156 Bartlett Hall
UMass
Amherst, MA 0l003
p: 413-545-2329
f: 413-545-3880
knoper@english.umass.edu
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Associate Professor and Associate Chair
Randall Knoper is associate professor of English. He received his B.A. in English from the University of Iowa (1977), and his M.A. in English (1981) and Ph.D. in English and American Studies (1986) from Indiana University. He previously taught at Lafayette College and has taught at the University of Massachusetts since 1990. He was director of American Studies from 1997-2000 and since 2000 has been director of undergraduate studies in English. He is the recipient of the Outstanding Teacher Award from the College of Humanities and Fine Arts and the university's Outstanding Academic Advisor Award, in addition to other awards, grants, and fellowships.
He is the author of Acting Naturally: Mark Twain in the Culture of Performance (1995) as well as essays on nineteenth-century American literture, literary theory, and the teaching of writing. His most recent publication is "American Literary Realism and Nervous 'Reflexion,'" American Literature (December 2002), which is part of his current book project on American literature and sciences of the brain and nervous system. His research and teaching interests include American Studies and interdisciplinarity, nineteenth and early twentieth-century American literature and culture, and the relations between the humanities and the sciences.
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