Degrees:
Ph.D., Yale Univ.
B.A., Univ. of Chicago
Ben Pokross’s research focuses on early and nineteenth-century American literature, Native American and Indigenous Studies, and print and media histories. His current book project, Writing History in the Nineteenth Century Great Lakes, examines the entwined development of Indigenous textual practices and settler historical writing. An article drawn from this project is forthcoming in J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists.
In his teaching, he tries to expand the canon of American literature not only by including underread authors but by challenging his students to think more broadly about what constitutes literature itself. He has taught at Yale University and the University of Tulsa. He maintains an interest in public humanities and community collaboration, having held positions at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site in Cambridge, MA. |