Benjamin Friedlander
Professor of English
5752 Neville Hall, Room 405A
Orono, Maine 04469-5752 U.S.A.
Office Telephone: 207.581.3833
E-mail: friedlan@maine.edu
Office Hours – by appointment
Biography
Benjamin Friedlander joined our faculty in 1999. He was Coordinator of Graduate Studies from 2002 to 2005. His areas of expertise include Poetry and Poetics, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature, and Critical Theory. He is currently completing a book on Emily Dickinson and the Civil War. He is the author of Simulcast: Four Experiments in Criticism (U of Alabama P, 2004) and coeditor of Charles Olson’s Collected Prose (U of California P, 1997). In addition to his scholarly endeavors, he writes poetry. His most recent collection is A Knot Is Not a Tangle.
Courses Taught
Graduate
ENG 541 American Literature from Colonial to Romantic: The Rude Quarter Century, 1841-1866
ENG 549 Studies in Gender and Literature – Emily Dickinson
ENG 549 Studies in Gender and Literature: The Work of the “Poetess”
ENG 580 Topics in Poetry and Poetics – Poetry and Experience
Undergraduate
ENG 170 Foundations of Literary Analysis
ENG 242 American Literature Survey – Realism to the Present
ENG 405 Topics in Creative Writing – Workshop in Critical Prose
ENG 440 Major American Writers – Robert Creeley
ENG 443 The American Romantics
ENG 446 American Poetry
