John Stauffer
Professor of English and American Literature and Language
(Director of Undergraduate Studies)
Address:
Harvard University
Department of English and American Literature and Language
Barker Center 267
12 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.8440
Fax: 617.496.8737
Email: stauffer@fas.harvard.edu
Courses | Biography | Recent Publications | Curriculum Vitae
Courses
*American Civilization 201. Themes in the History of American Civilization
English 17x. 19th-Century American Novel
*English 90mt. Mark Twain and His World (New Course)
[Folklore and Mythology 143. Imagining Slavery]
Literature and Arts A-86. American Protest Literature from Tom Paine to Tupac
Biography
John Stauffer received his Ph.D. in American Studies at Yale University in 1999 and won the Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize for the best dissertation in American Studies from the American Studies Association. His first book, The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race (Harvard University Press, 2002), was the co-winner of the 2002 Frederick Douglass Book Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Institute; winner of the Avery Craven Book Prize from the OAH; and the Lincoln Prize runner-up. Other works include: Meteor of War: The John Brown Story (with Zoe Trodd, 2004) and Frederick Douglass' My Bondage and My Freedom (editor, 2003). He is currently writing a new book, Dreaming of Democracy: Interracial Friendships and American Race Relations.
Recent Publications
Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism, edited with Timothy P. McCarthy (The New Press, 2006).
Meteor of War: The John Brown Story , with Zoe Trodd (Brandywine Press, 2004)
Frederick Douglass' My Bondage and My Freedom , editor (Modern Library, 2003)
The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race (Harvard University Press, 2002)
Curriculum Vitae
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