Nicholas Junkerman
Associate Professor & associate chair
B.A., Oberlin College
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Office: Palamountain 306
Phone: (518) 580-5161
Email: njunkerm@skidmore.edu
Teaching and Research Interests:
- Early American Literature
- American Religion
- Disability Studies
- Literature and the Supernatural
Courses Taught:
- EN 105: Utopia/Dystopia
- EN 110: Introduction to Literary Studies
- EN 226: Introduction to American Literature
- EN 229: Introduciton to Disability Studies
- EN 229: The Supernatural in America Literature
- EN 362: Captivity
- EN 375: Senior Seminar: Captivity
- SSP 100: Scribner Seminar: American Utopias
Publications:
- “‘Now, Dear Reader, I Was Restored’: Miracle, Autobiography, and Authority in Chloe Willey’s ‘Short Account’” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers (Forthcoming, Winter 2022)
- “‘The Incomparable Curiosity of Every Feather!’: Cotton Mather’s Birds.” Birds in Eighteenth-Century Literature: Reason, Emotion, and Ornithology, 1700-1840, edited by Brycchan Carey, Sayre Greenfield, and Anne Milne, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp. 231-246.
- “Washington Allston’s Christ Healing the Sick: Disability, History Painting and Narrative Time”: Nineteenth-Century Contexts vol. 42, no. 3, 2020, pp. 313-334.
- “‘Confined Unto a Low Chair’: Reading the Particulars of Disability in Cotton Mather’s Miracle Narratives.” Early American Literature vol. 52, no. 1, 2017, pp. 53-78.
