Faculty
Nicholas Junkerman
Associate Professor and Chair
Phone: 518-580-5161
Email: njunkerm@skidmore.edu
Office: Palamountain Hall 313
Education:
- B.A., Oberlin College
- Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
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 228: American Life Writing
- EN 229: Introduciton to Disability Studies
- EN 229: The Supernatural in America Literature
- EN 362: Captivity
- EN 375: Senior Seminar: Diability and American Literature
- SSP 100: Scribner Seminar: American Utopias
Publications:
- "Disability in the Early American Novel." In The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies. Ed. David Bolt. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
- 鈥溾�楴ow, Dear Reader, I Was Restored鈥�: Miracle, Autobiography, and Authority in Chloe Willey鈥檚 鈥楽hort Account鈥欌�� Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, 2022
- 鈥淲ashington Allston鈥檚 Christ Healing the Sick: Disability, History Painting and Narrative Time鈥�: Nineteenth-Century Contexts vol. 42, no. 3, 2020, pp. 313-334.
- 鈥溾�楥onfined Unto a Low Chair鈥�: Reading the Particulars of Disability in Cotton Mather鈥檚 Miracle Narratives.鈥� Early American Literature 52.1 (2017): 53-78.