English Faculty Joe Letter

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Ahearn,Barry Albrecht,Thomas Burke,Molly Codr,Dwight Cooley,Peter Desai,Gaurav Dinerstein,Joel Edmonds,Dale Elmwood,Victoria Foster,Ken Foy,Roslyn Gelley,Ora Goldman,Jonathan Johnson,T.R. Kaufmann,David Koritz,Amy Kuczynski,Michael Leland,Jacob Letter,Joe Lewis,Nghana Livingston,Judith Mark,Rebecca Morris,Paula Munkhoff,Richelle Nair,Supriya Oldman,Elizabeth Pizer,Donald Rothenberg,Molly Smith,Felipe Snare,Gerald Toulouse,Teresa Travis,Molly	Joe Letter Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow Norman Mayer Room 214 Telephone: (504) 314-2756 Fax: (504) 862-8958 E-mail: jletter@tulane.edu Joseph J. Letter received his MA from the University of New Orleans in 1995 and his PhD from Louisiana State University in 2006. He taught at the University of New Orleans from 1995 to 2000, and joined the faculty at Tulane in the fall of 2006. His dissertation “Reinscribing the Revolution: Genre and the Problem of National History in Early American Historical Novels” examines the cultural significance of the American Revolution in the literary forms of its successor generation. Currently, he is at work on a book manuscript, developed from his dissertation research, that addresses the role of the popular novel in democratic nationalism in nineteenth century US literary history. He is also currently developing an article for American Literary History that discusses allegory and typology in early American historical novels. Research interests include the uses of classical rhetoric in the composition classroom, literature of the War of 1812, early American nationalism, popular genres in the development of the novel, colonial and nineteenth-century American literatures, and also eighteenth-century British literature. Originally a native of Philadelphia, Dr. Letter has long since called New Orleans his home.