Deak Nabers
Assistant Professor of English
Office: 70
Brown St., Rm. 422
Phone: (401) 863-3266
Courses '09-'10
Sem I:
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ENGL 0450D -S01: The Simple Art of Murder -- CRN 14931
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ENGL 1511H -S01: Literature of the American Renaissance -- CRN 14975
Sem II:
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ENGL 0610H -S01: Cultures and Countercultures: The American Novel after World War II -- CRN 24948
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ENGL 1561E -S01: The Western -- CRN 25000
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Degrees
Ph.D. University of Oxford, 1996; Johns
Hopkins University, 1999
M.A. Johns Hopkins University, 1998
B.A. Princeton University, 1991
Research Interests
19th- and 20th-Century
American literature; literature and law.
Professional
Accomplishments
Author of Victory of Law: The
Fourteenth Amendment, The Civil War, and American Literature,
1852-1867 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006), and articles in
American Literary History, American Literature, Nineteenth Century Literature, Representations, and The Yale Journal of Criticism.

