Linda Simon

Professor

B.A., Queens College
Ph.D.,  Brandeis University

In France, Fall '09

Email: lsimon@skidmore.edu

Teaching and Research Interests:

• Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture
• Non-fiction Creative Writing
• Biography (as genre and craft)
• Interdisciplinary approaches to literary criticism

Courses Taught:

• EN 110: Introduction to Literary Studies
• EN 211: Fiction
• EN 281: Writing Arts Reviews
• EN 378: Travel Writing

Selected Publications:

• The Biography of Alice B. Toklas (Doubleday, 1977; U Nebraska P, 1991)
• Thornton Wilder: His World (Doubleday, 1979)
• Genuine Reality: A Life of William James (Harcourt, 1998; U Chicago P, 1999)
• Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-Ray (Harcourt, 2004; Harvest, 2005)
• The Critical Reception of Henry James: Creating a Master(Camden House, 2007)
• Edited Gertrude Stein Remembered (U Nebraska P, 1994)
• William James Remembered  (U Nebraska P, 1996)
• Also author of several college writing textbooks and essays and reviews in scholarly journals and popular periodicals.
• General Editor of the journal William James Studies
• Editor of the series Mind and American Literature (Camden House).