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Hans A Ostrom

Professor of African American Studies and English
University of Puget Sound

I teach mainly African American literature and poetry-writing, but I have taught British literature, rhetoric, composition, fiction-writing, and a variety of other courses. I have published books and articles on British literature, American literature, African American studies, creative-writing, and writing pedagogy. I have also published poetry books and novels. I co-wrote Orwell's Politics and the English Language in the Age of Pseudocracy (Routledge) with William Haltom.

Subjects: English Language & Linguistics, Literature

Biography

For most of my career, I've taught at the University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, Washington), where I started a Writing Center and co-founded the African American Studies program. My teaching and academic publication have been in a spectrum of areas: British and American literature, composition, creative writing, rhetoric, and African American literature. I have also taught at the University of California, Davis; Johannes Gutenberg University (Germany), and Uppsala University (Sweden)--the latter as a Fulbright Senior Lecturer in American Studies.

Education

Areas of Research / Professional Expertise

African American literature, Modern and Contemporary British and American Poetry, British Romantic poetry, creative writing, rhetoric, writing-pedagogy. I have also published poetry and fiction.

Personal Interests

Reading philosophy (as an amateur), growing vegetables and flowers, fishing, traveling (including to Sweden, Germany, Turkey (Istanbul), and Sicily. I regularly visit the norther Sierra Nevada mountains in California, where I grew up

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