John Pearson
Professor of English
John Pearson, Ph.D., is a professor of English specializing in American literature and literary nonfiction, especially autobiography. He teaches a variety of courses at all levels, from first-year seminars to graduate courses. Publications include The Prefaces of Henry James: Framing the Modern Reader and articles in Mosaic, Biography and in several collections of essays.
Education
- Ph.D., Boston University
- M.A., Boston University
- B.A., Eckerd College
Course Topics
- The Art of Madness
- The Cult of the Beautiful
- Autobiography
- Nineteenth-Century American Literature
- College Writing
- Writing and Rhetoric
- Reading Nonfiction
Research Interests
- Nineteenth century American literature, especially Henry James and Constance Fenimore Woolson
- Autobiography and autobiography theory
- Travel narrative
Publications
- The Prefaces of Henry James: Framing the Modern Reader, University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1997.
- "Repetition and Subversion in Henry James's The Turn of the Screw." In New Casebooks: The Turn of the Screw and What Maisie Knew. Ed. Neil Cornwell and Maggie Malone. London: Macmillan P; Boston: St. Martin's P; 1998. Reprint of "Repetition and Subversion in Henry James's The Turn of the Screw." The Henry James Review 13 (Fall 1992): 1-18
- "The Art of Self Creation: Henry James in the New York Edition Prefaces." In Fashioning the Self: Essays on Modern Novelists. Ed. Marysa DeMoor, Ed. (London: Palgrave P, 2004).
- "Henry James, Constance Fenimore Woolson, and the Fashioning of Southern Identity." In Witness to Reconstruction: Constance Fenimore Woolson and the Postbellum South, 1873-1894. Kathleen Diffley, Ed. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2011.
Faculty Expert
- American literature, 1800-1930
- Autobiography
- College Advising
Contact Information
- jpearson@stetson.edu
- Phone: 386-822-7725
- Fax: 386-822-7733
