Russ Castronovo
American culture and literature
Professor, English and American studies College of Letters and Science Work: 608-263-7467 — Home and cell phones available upon request rcastronovo@wisc.edu Home page
Topics
- Political significance of American literature
- Relationship of literature to democracy
- Propaganda
- American studies
Achievements
- Editor, "The Oxford Handbook to 19th-Century American Literature" (forthcoming)
- Author, "Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in Global Era"
- Author, "Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States"
- Author, "Fathering the Nation: American Genealogies of Slavery and Freedom"
- Co-editor, "Materializing Democracy: Towards a Revitalized Cultural Politics"
- Jean Wall Bennett Professor, English and American studies