Amy Schrager Lang

Professor

Ph.D. 1980 (English and American Literature), Columbia University

Office: 410 Hall of Languages, 315-443-4159
Email: aslang@syr.edu

Interests: 19th and early 20th century American and African American fiction; U.S. cultural history; Colonial American literature; Cultures of Consumption; The Fiction of Social Reform; Class, Gender, Sexuality, and Race.

Awards and Fellowships
Books
Articles
Reviews

Awards and Fellowships

Emory University Teaching Fund Award for Course Development (with Professor Ellen Schattschneider), 2000

Nominee, Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Small Class, l999

Crystal Apple Awards for Teaching Excellence, Emory College University Research Committee Grant, Emory University, spring l998

"Mary Rowlandson," Dictionary of Literary Biography, DLB Editor's Award, l998

University Research Committee Grant, Emory University, l990-9l

Fellow, Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, l990-9l

Rockefeller Research Associate and Visiting Lecturer in History of Christianity, Harvard Divinity School, l985-86

American Association of University Women, Irene C. Cuneo Endowed Fellowship, l982-83

American Council of Learned Societies, Fellowship for Recent Recipients of the Ph.D., Fall, l982

Old Dominion Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Spring, l982

Whiting Fellowship, Columbia University, l976-77

Advanced Research Fellow, Columbia University, l975-76

President's Fellow, Columbia University, l972-73

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Books

The Syntax of Class: Writing Inequality in Nineteenth-Century America (Princeton University Press, 2003)

Prophetic Woman: Anne Hutchinson and the Problem of Dissent in the Literature of New England (Univ. of California Press, l987)

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Articles

"The Arts and The Sciences: A Response to John D'Arms," Academic Exchanges, September 2001

"Mary Rowlandson," Dictionary of Literary Biography, "American Women Prose Writers to 1820," eds. Carla Mulford (30 pages, l998)

"Frail Forms Fainting at the Door: Wealth and Poverty in Stephen Foster's "Hard Times" in Reading Country Music: Steel Guitars, Opry Stars, and Honky Tonk Bars, ed. Cecelia Tichi (Duke University Press, l997)

"Anne Hutchinson," A Companion to American Thought, eds. Richard Wightman Fox and James T. Kloppenberg (Blackwell, l995) 323-5.

"The Syntax of Class in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' The Silent Partner" in Rethinking Class, ed. Michael T. Gilmore and Wai-chee Dimock (Columbia University Press, l994)

"Class and the Strategies of Sympathy" in The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in Nineteenth-Century America, ed. Shirley Samuels (Oxford University Press, l992) 128-142.

" `A Loving League of Sisters': Class, Race, Gender, and Religion in Louisa May Alcott's Work" in Shaping New Vision: Gender and Values in American Culture (Harvard Women's Studies in Religion Series), eds. Clarissa W. Atkinson, Constance H. Buchanan, Margaret R. Miles, (University of Michigan Press, l987) 101-122.

"Slavery and Sentimentalism: The Strange Career of Augustine St. Clare," Women's Studies, vol. 12, no. l (February, l986) 31-55.

"`The Age of the First Person Singular': Emerson and Antinomianism," ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, vol. 29, no. 4 (l983) 170-83 (Reprinted in La Tentazione Antinomiana, Bulzone Editore, l99l).

"Emerson and the Law," Prospects: The Annual of American Cultural Studies, vol. 7, l982, 229-47.

"Antinomianism and the `Americanization' of Doctrine," New England Quarterly, vol. LIV, no.2 (June, l98l) 225-42.

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Reviews

Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Making It in America, Southern Changes, fall, 2001

John K. Wilson, The Myth of Political Correctness: The Conservative Attack on Higher Education, Contemporary Sociology, September l996, vol. 25, no. 5, 660.

David R. Holmes, Stalking the Academic Communist: Intellectual Freedom and the Firing of Alex Novikoff, New England Quarterly ,132-4.

Margaret O. Thickstun, Fictions of the Feminine: Puritan Doctrine and the Representation of Women, Modern Philology, May l991, vol. 88, no. 4, 440-42

Joan Burdick, Thoreau's Alternative History: Changing Perspective on Nature, Culture, and Language, American Literature, May l989, 291-2

Annette Kolodny, The Land Before Her: Fantasy and Experience of the American Frontiers, 1630-1860, Boston Review, May/June l984, vol. IX, no. 3, 32-3.

David S. Reynolds, Faith in Fiction: The Emergence of Religious Literature in America, Early American Literature, Spring l982, vol. XVII, no.1, 91-2

John F. Berens, Providence and Patriotism in Early America, 1640-1815, Historical Journal of Western Massachusetts, January, l980, vol. VIII, no.1, 67-8.

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